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The Old Testament

Lamentations
Genesis Ezekiel
Exodus Daniel
Leviticus Hosea
Numbers Joel
Deuteronomy Amos
Joshua Obadiah
Judges Jonah
Ruth Micah
1 Samuel Nahum
2 Samuel Habakkuk
1 Kings Zephaniah
2 Kings Haggai
1 Chronicles Zechariah
2 Chronicles Malachi
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
Jeremiah
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Matthew 1 John
Mark 2 John
Luke 3 John
John Jude
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Revelation
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis
Genesis
Chapter 1
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
1:3 And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.
1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good. And God divided the light from the
darkness.
1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was
evening and there was morning, one day.
1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide
the waters from the waters.
1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so.
1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was
morning, a second day.
1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together to one place, and
let the dry land appear. And it was so.
1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters he
called Seas. And God saw that it was good.
1:11 And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees
bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees
bearing fruit, with its seed in itself, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
1:13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from
the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:
1:15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth.
And it was so.
1:16 And God made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night. He made also the stars.
1:17 And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,
1:18 and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.
And God saw that it was good.
1:19 And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
1:20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds
fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
1:21 And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moves, with
which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God
saw that it was good.
1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the
seas, and let birds multiply upon the earth.
1:23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and
creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind. And it was so.
1:25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind,
and everything that creeps upon the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was
good.
1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heaven, and over the cattle,
and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
1:27 And God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him. Male
and female he created them.
1:28 And God blessed them: and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over
the birds of the heaven, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the
face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed. To you
it shall be for food:
1:30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heaven, and to everything
that creeps upon the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food.
And it was so.
1:31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And
there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Chapter 2
2:1 And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2:2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on
the seventh day from all his work which he had done.
2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because in it he had ceased from
all the work of creating which God had done.
2:4 These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in
the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven.
2:5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung
up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to
till the ground;
2:6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
2:7 And Yahweh God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
2:8 And Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there he put the man
whom he had formed.
2:9 And out of the ground Yahweh God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and
became four heads.
2:11 The name of the first is Pishon: that is the one which compasses the whole land of
Havilah, where there is gold;
2:12 and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
2:13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasses the whole
land of Cush.
2:14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is the one which goes in front of
Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
2:15 And Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and
to keep it.
2:16 And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you
may freely eat:
2:17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the
day that you eat of it you shall surely die.
2:18 And Yahweh God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him
a helper suitable to him.
2:19 And out of the ground Yahweh God formed every beast of the field, and every bird
of the heaven; and brought them to the man to see what he would call them: and
whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name of it.
2:20 And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heaven, and to every
beast of the field. But for man there was not found a helper suited to him.
2:21 And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and he
took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in the place of it.
2:22 And the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, he made into a woman,
and brought her to the man.
2:23 And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be
called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his
woman: and they shall be one flesh.
2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Chapter 3
3:1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Yahweh God had
made. And he said to the woman, Has God really said, You shall not eat of any tree of
the garden?
3:2 And the woman said to the serpent, Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:
3:3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall
not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.
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3:4 And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die:
3:5 for God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes shall be opened, and you
shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to
the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it,
and did eat. And she gave some also to her husband along with her, and he did eat.
3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and
they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
3:8 And they heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the
day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among
the trees of the garden.
3:9 And Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, Where are you?
3:10 And he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked;
and I hid myself.
3:11 And he said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree, of
which I commanded you that you should not eat?
3:12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the
tree, and then I ate.
3:13 And Yahweh God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the
woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and then I ate.
3:14 And Yahweh God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, cursed are you
above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and dust
shall you eat all the days of your life:
3:15 and I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her
seed: he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.
3:16 To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you
shall bring forth children. And your desire shall be your husband, and he shall rule over
you.
3:17 And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have
eaten of the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, cursed is
the land for your sake; in toil shall you eat from it all the days of your life;
3:18 thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the
field;
3:19 by the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to the ground; since out
of it you were taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
3:20 And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
3:21 And Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them.
3:22 And Yahweh God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and
evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live
for ever–
3:23 therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground
from where he was taken.
3:24 So he drove the man out; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden the
Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every direction, to guard the way of the
tree of life.
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Eve added to the words of God. God never said, "neither shall you touch it." But then again, Eve received
the commandment second-hand, through Adam. God told this commandment to Adam when he was alone;
Gen. 2:15,16. Eve was supposed to believe her husband.
Chapter 4
4:1 And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have
gotten a man with the help of Yahweh.
4:2 And again she bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was
a tiller of the ground.
4:3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought an offering to Yahweh of
the fruit of the ground.
4:4 And Abel, he also brought one, of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
And Yahweh had respect toward Abel and to his offering:
4:5 but toward Cain and to his offering he did not have respect. And Cain was very
angry, and his countenance fell.
4:6 And Yahweh said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why is your countenance
fallen?
4:7 If you do well, shall it not be lifted up? and if you do not do well, sin crouches at
the door: and its desire is you, but you must rule over it.2
4:8 And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field,
that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
4:9 And Yahweh said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I know not:
am I my brother's keeper?
4:10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood cries to me
from the ground.
4:11 And now cursed are you from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive
your brother's blood from your hand;
4:12 when you till the ground, it shall not anymore yield to you its strength; a fugitive
and a wanderer shall you be in the earth.
4:13 And Cain said to Yahweh, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
4:14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from your
face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come
to pass, that whosoever finds me will slay me.
4:15 And Yahweh said to him, Therefore whosoever slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken
on him sevenfold. And Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, lest anyone finding him
should attack him.
4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on
the east of Eden.
4:17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city,
and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
4:18 And to Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat
Methushael; and Methushael begat Lamech.
4:19 And Lamech took to himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the
name of the other Zillah.
4:20 And Adah bore Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.
4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp
and pipe.
4:22 And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass
and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
4:23 And Lamech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; You wives of
Lamech, hearken to my speech: For I have slain a man for wounding me, and a young
man for bruising me:
4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy-seven fold.
4:25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth. For,
said she, God has appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.
4:26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then
began men to call upon the name of Yahweh.
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Compare Genesis 3:16, that the woman's desire is for the man, but he shall rule over her. Same Hebrew
word for desire. Did you know you could be the object of Sin's longing?
Chapter 5
5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the
likeness of God made he him;
5:2 male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in
the day when they were created.
5:3 And Adam lived 130 years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and
called his name Seth:
5:4 and the days of Adam after he begat Seth were 800 years: and he begat sons and
daughters.
5:5 And all the days that Adam lived were 930 years: and he died.
5:6 And Seth lived 105 years, and begat Enosh:
5:7 and Seth lived after he begat Enosh 807 years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:8 and all the days of Seth were 912 years: and he died.
5:9 And Enosh lived 90 years, and begat Kenan.
5:10 and Enosh lived after he begat Kenan 815 years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:11 and all the days of Enosh were 905 years: and he died.
5:12 And Kenan lived 70 years, and begat Mahalalel:
5:13 and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel 840 years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:14 and all the days of Kenan were 910 years: and he died.
5:15 And Mahalalel lived 65 years, and begat Jared:
5:16 And Mahalalel lived after he begat Jared 830 years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:17 and all the days of Mahalalel were 895 years: and he died.
5:18 And Jared lived 162 years, and begat Enoch:
5:19 and Jared lived after he begat Enoch 800 years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:20 And all the days of Jared were 962 years: and he died.
5:21 And Enoch lived 65 years, and begat Methuselah:
5:22 and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah 300 years, and begat sons
and daughters:
5:23 and all the days of Enoch were 365 years:
5:24 and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
5:25 And Methuselah lived 187 years, and begat Lamech:
5:26 and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech 782 years, and begat sons and
daughters.
5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were 969 years: and he died.
5:28 And Lamech lived 182 years, and begat a son:
5:29 and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us in our work and in
the toil of our hands, toil because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed.
5:30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah 595 years, and begat sons and daughters:
5:31 And all the days of Lamech were 777 years: and he died.
5:32 And Noah was 500 years old: And Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Chapter 6
6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and
daughters were born to them,
6:2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took
themselves wives of all that they chose.
6:3 And Yahweh said, My spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is
flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.
6:4 The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of
God came to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them: the same were the
mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
6:5 And Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6:6 And Yahweh regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his
heart.
6:7 And Yahweh said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the
ground; both man, and beast, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; for I am sorry
that I have made them.
6:8 But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh.
6:9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his
generations: Noah walked with God.
6:10 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
6:11 And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
6:12 And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their
way upon the earth.
6:13 And God said to Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled
with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
6:14 Make you an ark of gopher wood; rooms shall you make in the ark, and shall pitch it
within and without with pitch.
6:15 And this is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, the
breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
6:16 A light shall you make to the ark, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward; and the
door of the ark shall you set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shall
you make it.
6:17 And I, behold, I am bringing the flood of waters upon this earth, to destroy all flesh,
in which is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.
6:18 But I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall come into the ark, you, and
your sons, and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shall you bring into the ark,
to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
6:20 Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing
of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
6:21 And take to yourselves of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it shall be
for food for you, and for them.
6:22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.
Chapter 7
7:1 And Yahweh said to Noah, Come you and all your house into the ark; for you have I
seen righteous before me in this generation.
7:2 Of every clean beast you shall take to you seven and seven, the male and his female;
and of the beasts that are not clean, two, the male and his female:
7:3 of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive
upon the face of all the earth.
7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty
nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the
ground.
7:5 And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
7:6 And Noah was 600 years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7:7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the
ark, because of the waters of the flood.
7:8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that
creeps upon the ground,
7:9 there went in two and two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded
Noah.
7:10 And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the
earth.
7:11 In the 600th year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the
month, on the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the
windows of heaven were opened.
7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of
Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
7:14 they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every
creeping thing that creeps upon the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every
bird of every sort.
7:15 And they went in to Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which the breath
of life is.
7:16 And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded
him: and Yahweh shut him in.
7:17 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bore up
the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.
7:18 And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went
upon the face of the waters.
7:19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that
were under the whole heaven were covered.
7:20 Fifteen cubits above did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
7:21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and
every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth, and every man:
7:22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry
land, died.
7:23 And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both
man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed
from the earth: and Noah alone was left, plus those who were with him in the ark.
7:24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.
Chapter 8
8:1 And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him
in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided;
8:2 the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain
from heaven was restrained;
8:3 and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of a hundred
and fifty days the waters decreased.
8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon
the mountains of Ararat.
8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the
first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
8:6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark
which he had made:
8:7 and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up
from off the earth.
8:8 And he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face
of the ground;
8:9 but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him to the ark;
for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: and he put forth his hand, and took
her, and brought her in to him into the ark.
8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
8:11 and the dove came in to him at eventide; and, lo, in her mouth an olive-leaf plucked
off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
8:12 And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not
again to him any more.
8:13 And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day
of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the
covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dried.
8:14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the
earth dry.
8:15 And God spoke to Noah, saying,
8:16 Go forth from the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with
you.
8:17 Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you of all flesh, both birds, and
cattle, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth; that they may breed
abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
8:18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:
8:19 every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatsoever moves upon the earth,
after their families, went forth out of the ark.
8:20 And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean beast, and of every
clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
8:21 And Yahweh smelled the sweet savor; and Yahweh said in his heart, I will not again
curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil
from his youth; neither will I again destroy any more everything living, as I have done.
8:22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and
winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Chapter 9
9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth.
9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and
upon every bird of the heavens; With all with which the ground teems, and all the fishes
of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.
9:3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; Just as the green herb, have I
now given you all things.
9:4 But flesh with the life of it, which is the blood of it, ye shall not eat.
9:5 And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; At the hand of every
beast will I require it. And at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother,
will I require the life of man.
9:6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: For in the image of God
made he man.
9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and
multiply therein.
9:8 And God spoke to Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
9:9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;
9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast
of the earth with you. Of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.
9:11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any
more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the
earth.
9:12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you
and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
9:13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me
and the earth.
9:14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be
seen in the cloud,
9:15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living
creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
9:16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the
everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the
earth.
9:17 And God said to Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established
between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
9:18 And the sons of Noah that went forth from the ark were Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.
9:19 These three were the sons of Noah: and from these was the whole earth overspread.
9:20 And Noah began to be a husbandman, and planted a vineyard:
9:21 and he drank of the wine, and was drunk. And he was uncovered within his tent.
9:22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two
brothers outside.
9:23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and
went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were
backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
9:24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him.
9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be to his brethren.
9:26 And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.
9:27 God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his
servant.
9:28 And Noah lived after the flood 350 years.
9:29 And all the days of Noah were 950 years: And he died.
Chapter 10
10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, namely, of Shem, Ham, and
Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood.
10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and
Meshech, and Tiras.
10:3 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
10:4 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
10:5 From these were the island and coastal peoples divided in their lands, every one
after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
10:6 And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.
10:7 And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca;
and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
10:8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
10:9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh: therefore it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty
hunter before Yahweh.
10:10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh,
in the land of Shinar.
10:11 Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and built Nineveh, and Rehoboth-ir,
and Calah,
10:12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah (the same is the great city).
10:13 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
10:14 and Pathrusim, and Casluhim, and Caphtorim (from which come the Philistines).
10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
10:16 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
10:17 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
10:18 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the
families of the Canaanite spread abroad.
10:19 And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, up to
Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, up to Lasha.
10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, in
their nations.
10:21 And to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to
him also were children born.
10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
10:23 And the sons of Aram: Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
10:24 And Arpachshad begat Shelah; and Shelah begat Eber.
10:25 And to Eber were born two sons: The name of the one was Peleg. For in his days
was the earth divided. And his brother's name was Joktan.
10:26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
10:27 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
10:28 and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
10:29 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
10:30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as you go toward Sephar, the mountain of the
east.
10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands,
after their nations.
10:32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations:
and from these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Chapter 11
11:1 And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of
Shinar; and they dwelt there.
11:3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.
And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
11:4 And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach to
heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the
whole earth.
11:5 And Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men
had built.
11:6 And Yahweh said, Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and
this is what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withheld from them, which they
purpose to do.
11:7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not
understand one another's speech.
11:8 So Yahweh scattered them abroad from there upon the face of all the earth: and they
left off building the city.
11:9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Yahweh did there confound the
language of all the earth: and from there did Yahweh scatter them abroad upon the face of
all the earth.
11:10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old, and begat
Arpachshad two years after the flood.
11:11 and Shem lived 500 years after he begat Arpachshad, and begat sons and
daughters.
11:12 And Arpachshad lived 35 years, and begat Shelah.
11:13 and Arpachshad lived after he begat Shelah 403 years, and begat sons and
daughters.
11:14 And Shelah lived 30 years, and begat Eber:
11:15 and Shelah lived after he begat Eber 403 years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:16 And Eber lived 34 years, and begat Peleg:
11:17 and Eber lived after he begat Peleg 430 years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:18 And Peleg lived 30 years, and begat Reu:
11:19 and Peleg lived after he begat Reu 209 years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:20 And Reu lived 32 years, and begat Serug:
11:21 and Reu lived after he begat Serug 207 years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:22 And Serug lived 30 years, and begat Nahor:
11:23 and Serug lived after he begat Nahor 200 years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:24 And Nahor lived 29 years, and begat Terah:
11:25 and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a 119 years, and begat sons and daughters.
11:26 And Terah lived 70 years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
And Haran begat Lot.
11:28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the
Chaldees.
11:29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: The name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and
the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the
father of Iscah.
11:30 And Sarai was barren; She had no child.
11:31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai
his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the
Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.
11:32 And the days of Terah were 205 years: and Terah died in Haran.
Chapter 12
12:1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and from your kindred,
and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you:
12:2 and I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name
great; such that you will be a blessing;
12:3 and I will bless them that bless you, and him that curses you will I curse: and in you
all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
12:4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him; and Lot went with him: and Abram
was 75 years old when he departed out of Haran.
12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance
that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to
go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
12:6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh.
And the Canaanite was then in the land.
12:7 And Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed I will give this land. And
there built he an altar to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
12:8 And he removed from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his
tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he built an altar to
Yahweh, and called upon the name of Yahweh.
12:9 And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn
there; for the famine was severe in the land.
12:11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to
Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a fair woman to look upon:
12:12 and it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see you, that they will say, This
is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save you alive.
12:13 Say, I pray you, you are my sister; that it may be well with me for your sake, and
that my soul may live because of you.
12:14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld
the woman that she was very fair.
12:15 And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman
was taken into Pharaoh's house.
12:16 And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses,
and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
12:17 And Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai,
Abram's wife.
12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that you have done to me?
why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
12:19 why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore
behold your wife, take her, and go your way.
12:20 And Pharaoh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way,
and his wife, and all that he had.
Chapter 13
13:1 And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with
him, into the South.
13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
13:3 And he went on his journeys from the South as far as Beth-el, to the place where his
tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Ai,
13:4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called
on the name of Yahweh.
13:5 And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
13:6 And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their
substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.
13:7 And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of
Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.
13:8 And Abram said to Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and
between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.
13:9 Is not the whole land before you? separate yourself, I pray you, from me. If you
will take the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you take the right hand, then I
will go to the left.
13:10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well
watered every where, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of
Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go toward Zoar.
13:11 So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they
separated themselves the one from the other.
13:12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the Plain, and
moved his tent as far as Sodom.
13:13 Now the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners against Yahweh exceedingly.
13:14 And Yahweh said to Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now
your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward
and westward:
13:15 for all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your seed for ever.
13:16 And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth: So that if a man can number the
dust of the earth, then may your seed also be numbered.
13:17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for to you
will I give it.
13:18 And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are
in Hebron, and built there an altar to Yahweh.
Chapter 14
14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar,
Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,
14:2 that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah,
Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is
Zoar).
14:3 All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).
14:4 Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
14:5 And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him,
and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in
Shaveh-kiriathaim,
14:6 and the Horites in their mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
14:7 And they returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and defeated all
the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.
14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of
Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar); and they set the
battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;
14:9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of
Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.
14:10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and
Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and they that remained fled to the mountain.
14:11 And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and
went their way.
14:12 And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and
departed.
14:13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew: now he dwelt
by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these
were confederate with Abram.
14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained
men, born in his house, 318, and pursued as far as Dan.
14:15 And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated
them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot, and his
goods, and the women also, and the people.
14:17 And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of
Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (the same is the
King's Valley).
14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of
God Most High.
14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of
heaven and earth:
14:20 and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.
And he gave him a tenth of all.
14:21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to
yourself.
14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God
Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
14:23 that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor anything that is yours, lest you
should say, I have made Abram rich:
14:24 save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that
went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.
Chapter 15
15:1 After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not,
Abram: I am your shield, and your exceedingly great reward.
15:2 And Abram said, O Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and
he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?
15:3 And Abram said, Behold, to me you have given no seed: and, lo, one born in my
house is my heir.
15:4 And, behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, This man shall not be your
heir; But he that shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be your heir.
15:5 And He brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number
the stars, if you be able to number them: and He said to him, So shall your seed be.
15:6 And he believed in Yahweh; and He reckoned it to him for righteousness.
15:7 And He said to him, I am Yahweh that brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to
give you this land to inherit it.
15:8 And he said, O Lord Yahweh, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
15:9 And He said to him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old,
and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.
15:10 And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over
against the other: but the birds divided he not.
15:11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror
of great darkness fell upon him.
15:13 And He said to Abram, Know of a surety that your seed shall be sojourners in a
land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred
years;
15:14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they
come out with great substance.
15:15 But you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.
15:16 And in the fourth generation they shall come here again; for the iniquity of the
Amorite is not yet full.
15:17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a
smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.
15:18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your seed have I
given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
15:19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,
15:20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,
15:21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
Chapter 16
16:1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children: and she had a handmaid, an
Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
16:2 And Sarai said to Abram, Behold now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing.
Go in, I pray you, to my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And
Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
16:3 And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had
dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.
16:4 And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had
conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
16:5 And Sarai said to Abram, My wrong be upon you: I gave my handmaid into your
bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Yahweh
judge between me and you.
16:6 But Abram said to Sarai, Behold, your maid is in your hand; do to her that which is
good in your eyes. And Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.
16:7 And the angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the
spring on the way to Shur.
16:8 And he said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, where did you come from? and where are
you going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.
16:9 And the angel of Yahweh said to her, Return to your mistress, and submit yourself
under her hands.
16:10 And the angel of Yahweh said to her, I will greatly multiply your seed, such that it
shall not be numbered for multitude.
16:11 And the angel of Yahweh said to her, Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a
son; and you shall call his name Ishmael, because Yahweh has heard your affliction.
16:12 And he shall be as a wild donkey among men; his hand shall be against every man,
and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.
16:13 And so she gave a name to Yahweh who had spoken to her: "You are a God that
sees." For she said, Surely here I have looked upon the back of him who sees me.
16:14 For which reason the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. Behold, it remains, between
Kadesh and Bered.
16:15 And Hagar bore Abram a son: and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar
bore, Ishmael.
16:16 And Abram was 86 years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
Chapter 17
17:1 And when Abram was 99 years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, I
am God Almighty; walk before me, and be perfect.
17:2 And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you
exceedingly.
17:3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
17:4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a
multitude of nations.
17:5 Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be
Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations I have made you.
17:6 And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations from you, and
kings shall come out of you.
17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you
throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your
seed after you.
17:8 And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, all
the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
17:9 And God said to Abraham, and as for you, you shall keep my covenant, you, and
your seed after you throughout their generations.
17:10 This is my covenant, which you and they shall keep, between me and you and your
seed who are after you: every male among you shall be circumcised.
17:11 And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins; and it shall be a token
of a covenant between me and you.
17:12 And he who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male
throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or purchased with money from
any foreigner who is not of your seed.
17:13 Both he who is born in your house and he who is purchased with your money, must
surely be circumcised. And thus my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant.
17:14 And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin,
that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.
17:15 And God said to Abraham, as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name
Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
17:16 And I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son from her: yes, I will bless
her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.
17:17 Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be
born to him who is 100 years old? and shall Sarah, who is 90 years old, bear?
17:18 And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before you!
17:19 And God said, No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son; and you shall call his
name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his
seed after him.
17:20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: behold, I have blessed him, and will make
him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget, and I
will make him a great nation.
17:21 But with Isaac will I establish my covenant, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this
set time in the next year.
17:22 Then God left off talking with him, and he went up from Abraham.
17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all
who were purchased with his money– every male among the men of Abraham's house–
and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very same day, as God had said to
him.
17:24 And Abraham was 99 years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his
foreskin.
17:25 And Ishmael his son was 13 years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his
foreskin.
17:26 During that same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
17:27 And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with
money from a foreigner, were circumcised along with him.
Chapter 18
18:1 And Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the
heat of the day;
18:2 and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him.
And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the
earth,
18:3 and said, My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, pass not away, I pray
you, from your servant:
18:4 let now a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the
tree:
18:5 and I will get a morsel of bread, and you strengthen your hearts. And after that you
shall pass on: forasmuch as ye are come to your servant. And they said, So do, as you
have said.
18:6 And Abraham hurried in to the tent toward Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly
three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.
18:7 And Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it to the
servant; and he made haste to dress it.
18:8 And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before
them. And he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
18:9 And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
18:10 And he said, I will certainly return to you when the season comes around; and, lo,
Sarah your wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind
him.
18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age, and it had ceased to be
with Sarah after the manner of women.
18:12 And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, after I am grown old shall I have this
pleasure, with my master being old as well?
18:13 And Yahweh said to Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I really bear a
child, who am old?
18:14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the
season comes around, and Sarah shall have a son.
18:15 Then Sarah denied it, saying, I did not laugh. For she was afraid. And he said,
On the contrary, you did laugh.
18:16 And the men rose up from there, and looked toward Sodom. And Abraham went
with them to bring them on the way.
18:17 And Yahweh said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing;
18:18 seeing that Abraham had surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the
nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
18:19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his
household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and
justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of
him.
18:20 And Yahweh said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because
their sin is very grievous;
18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the
cry of it, which has come to me; and if not, I will know.
18:22 And the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet
before Yahweh.
18:23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Will you consume the righteous with the
wicked?
18:24 Suppose there are fifty righteous persons within the city. Will you consume, and
not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous that are in there?
18:25 That be far from you to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked,
such that the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from you: shall not the Judge
of all the earth do right?
18:26 And Yahweh said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will
spare all the place for their sake.
18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to
the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes:
18:28 suppose there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: will you destroy all the city for
lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five.
18:29 And he spoke to him yet again, and said, Suppose there shall be forty found there.
And he said, I will not do it for the forty's sake.
18:30 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: suppose there shall
thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.
18:31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak to the Lord: suppose
there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty's
sake.
18:32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once:
suppose ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten's sake.
18:33 And Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had left off communing with Abraham:
and Abraham returned to his place.
Chapter 19
19:1 And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and
Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face to the earth;
19:2 and he said, Behold now, my lords, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant's house,
and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your way.
And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
19:3 And he urged them greatly; and they turned in to him, and entered into his house;
and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
19:4 But before they lay down, the men of the city, that is the men of Sodom, surrounded
the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
19:5 and they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that came in to you this
night? bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.
19:6 And Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door behind him.
19:7 And he said, I pray you, my brothers, do not so wickedly.
19:8 Behold now, I have two daughters that have not had sex with a man; let me, I pray
you, bring them out to you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only to these men
do nothing, forasmuch as they are come under the shelter of my roof.
19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came to sojourn, and he
will needs be a judge. Now we will deal with you worse than with them. And they
pressed hard upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.
19:10 But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut
to the door.
19:11 And they struck the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both
small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.
19:12 And the men said to Lot, Have you here any besides you? son-in-law, and your
sons, and your daughters, and whomsoever you have in the city, bring them out of the
place:
19:13 for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is become great before
Yahweh: and Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.
19:14 And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and
said, Up, get yourself out of this place; for Yahweh will destroy the city. But he seemed
to his sons-in-law as one that mocked.
19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, arise, take your
wife, and your two daughters that are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the
city.
19:16 But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his
wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they
brought him forth, and set him outside the city.
19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape
for your life; look not behind you, neither stay you in all the Plain; escape to the
mountain, lest you be consumed.
19:18 And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my lord:
19:19 behold now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified
your lovingkindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life; and I cannot escape
to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die:
19:20 behold now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape
there (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.
19:21 And he said to him, See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will
not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.
19:22 Make haste, escape there; for I cannot do anything till you be arrived there.
Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came to Zoar.
19:24 Then Yahweh rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from
Yahweh out of heaven;
19:25 and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities,
and that which grew upon the ground.
19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
19:27 And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before
Yahweh:
19:28 and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain,
and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God
remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he
overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.
19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters
with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two
daughters.
19:31 And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in
the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:
19:32 come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may
preserve seed of our father.
19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first-born went in, and
lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said to the younger, Behold,
I lay last night with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and you go in,
and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
19:35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and
lay with him; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
19:36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
19:37 And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of
the Moabites to this day.
19:38 And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is
the father of the children of Ammon to this day.
Chapter 20
20:1 And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the South, and dwelt
between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.
20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of
Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, you
are but a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's
wife.
20:4 Now Abimelech had not come near her. And he said, Lord, will you slay even a
righteous nation?
20:5 Said he not himself to me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is
my brother. In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this.
20:6 And God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart
you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I did
not allow you not to touch her.
20:7 Now therefore restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he shall pray for
you, and you shall live. And if you restore her not, know that you shall surely die, you,
and all that are yours.
20:8 And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all
these things in their ear. And the men were sore afraid.
20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us?
And in what way have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my
kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.
20:10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What saw you, that you have done this thing?
20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place.
And they will slay me for my wife's sake.
20:12 And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the
daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:
20:13 and it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I
said to her, This is your kindness which you shall show to me. At every place whither
we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
20:14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and
gave them to Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.
20:16 And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of
silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes of all who are with you. And in
respect of everyone, you are vindicated.
20:17 And Abraham prayed to God. And God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his
maid-servants. And they bore children.
20:18 For Yahweh had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because
of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Chapter 21
21:1 And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had
spoken.
21:2 And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of
which God had spoken to him.
21:3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born to him, whom Sarah bore to
him, Isaac.
21:4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had
commanded him.
21:5 And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him.
21:6 And Sarah said, God has caused me to laugh. Every one that hears will laugh with
me.
21:7 And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would give children
suck? For I have borne him a son in his old age.
21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day
that Isaac was weaned.
21:9 And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham,
mocking.
21:10 Wherefore she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son. For the son
of this handmaid shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
21:11 And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight on account of his son.
21:12 And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in your sight because of the lad,
and because of your handmaid. In all that Sarah says to you, hearken to her voice. For
in Isaac shall your seed be called.
21:13 And also from the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is your
seed.
21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water,
and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her
away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
21:15 And the water in the bottle was spent, and she placed the child under one of the
shrubs.
21:16 And she went, and sat herself down over opposite him a good way off, about a
bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over
opposite him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad. And the angel of God called to Hagar out of
heaven, and said to her, What ails you, Hagar? Fear not. For God has heard the voice
of the lad where he is.
21:18 Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great
nation.
21:19 And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went, and filled
the bottle with water, and gave the lad a drink.
21:20 And God was with the lad, and he grew. And he dwelt in the wilderness, and
became, as he grew up, an archer.
21:21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of
the land of Egypt.
21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host
spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.
21:23 Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor
with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to
you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned.
21:24 And Abraham said, I will swear.
21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which
Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
21:26 And Abimelech said, I know not who has done this thing. Neither did you tell
me, neither yet heard I of it, but today.
21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech. And they two
made a covenant.
21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.
21:29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which you
have set by themselves?
21:30 And he said, These seven ewe lambs shall you take of my hand, that it may be a
witness to me, that I have dug this well.
21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba. Because there they swore both of
them.
21:32 So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the
captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
21:33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name
of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
Chapter 22
22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did test Abraham, and said to him,
Abraham. And he said, Here am I.
22:2 And he said, Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go
into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the
mountains which I will tell you of.
22:3 And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of
his young men with him, and Isaac his son. And he split the wood for the burnt
offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.
22:4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
22:5 And Abraham said to his young men, Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad
will go yonder; and we will worship, and come back to you.
22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son.
And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. And they went both of them together.
22:7 And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father. And he said, Here am
I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood. But where is the lamb for a
burnt offering?
22:8 And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.
So they went both of them together.
22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of. And Abraham built the
altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar,
upon the wood.
22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
22:11 And the angel of Yahweh called to him out of heaven, and said, Abraham,
Abraham. And he said, Here I am.
22:12 And he said, Lay not your hand upon the lad, neither do anything to him. For
now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son,
from me.
22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught
in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up
for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh-jireh. As it is said to this
day, In the mount of Yahweh it shall be provided.
22:15 And the angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,
22:16 and said, By myself have I sworn, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing,
and have not withheld your son, your only son,
22:17 that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the
stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore. And your seed shall
possess the gate of his enemies.
22:18 And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. Because you have
obeyed my voice.
22:19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to
Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold,
Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor.
22:21 Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram.
22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah. These eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's
brother.
22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham,
and Tahash, and Maacah.
Chapter 23
23:1 And the life of Sarah was 127 years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.
23:2 And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. And
Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
23:3 And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth,
saying,
23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place
with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
23:6 Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our
graveyards bury your dead. None of us shall withhold from you his graveyard, so that
you may bury your dead.
23:7 And Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the
children of Heth.
23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead
out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
23:9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his
field. For the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a
burying-place.
23:10 Now Ephron was sitting in the midst of the children of Heth. And Ephron the
Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in
at the gate of his city, saying,
23:11 No, my lord, hear me. The field I give you, and the cave that is in it, I give it to
you. In the presence of the children of my people give I it to you. Bury your dead.
23:12 And Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
23:13 And he spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if
you will, I pray you, hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I
will bury my dead there.
23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,
23:15 My lord, listen to me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what
is that between me and you? Bury therefore your dead.
23:16 And Abraham listened to Ephron. And Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver
which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of
silver, current money with the merchant.
23:17 So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the
field, and the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all
the border of it round about, were made sure
23:18 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that
went in at the gate of his city.
23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of
Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
23:20 And the field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded by the children of Heth to
Abraham for a burying-place.
Chapter 24
24:1 And Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. And Yahweh had blessed
Abraham in all things.
24:2 And Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he
had, Put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh.
24:3 And I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth,
that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among
whom I dwell.
24:4 But you shall go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
24:5 And the servant said to him, Suppose the woman will not be willing to follow me to
this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from where you came?
24:6 And Abraham said to him, See to it that you take not my son there again.
24:7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land
of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To your seed will I
give this land, He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son
from there.
24:8 And if the woman be not willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my
oath. Only you shall not take my son there again.
24:9 And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to
him concerning this matter.
24:10 And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, having
all kinds of good things of his master's in his hand. And he arose, and went to
Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
24:11 And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the
time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
24:12 And he said, O Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, send me, I pray you,
good speed this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
24:13 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. And the daughters of the men of
the city are coming out to draw water.
24:14 And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down your
pitcher, I pray you, that I may drink, and she shall say, Drink, and I will give your camels
a drink also, let the same be she that you have appointed for your servant Isaac. And
thereby shall I know that you have shown kindness to my master.
24:15 And it came to pass, before he had finished speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came
out, (who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother)
with her pitcher upon her shoulder.
24:16 And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known
her. And she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
24:17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray you, a little
water from your pitcher.
24:18 And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hurried, and let down her pitcher upon her
hand, and gave him a drink.
24:19 And when she had done giving him a drink, she said, I will draw for your camels
also, until they have finished drinking.
24:20 And she hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran back to the well
to draw, and drew for all his camels.
24:21 And the man looked steadfastly upon her, holding his peace, to know whether
Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.
24:22 And it came to pass, as the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a
golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands, of ten shekels weight
of gold,
24:23 and said, Whose daughter are you? Tell me, I pray you. Is there room in your
father's house for us to lodge in?
24:24 And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she
bore to Nahor.
24:25 She said moreover to him, We have both straw and fodder enough, and room to
lodge in.
24:26 And the man bowed his head, and worshipped Yahweh.
24:27 And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not
forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has
led me in the way to the house of my master's brethren.
24:28 And the damsel ran, and told her mother's house according to these words.
24:29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out to the
man, to the spring.
24:30 And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister's
hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "Thus spoke the man
to me," that he came to the man. And, behold, he was standing by the camels at the
spring.
24:31 And he said, Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why are you standing outside?
For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.
24:32 And the man came into the house, and he ungirded the camels. And he provided
straw and fodder for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men that
were with him.
24:33 And there was set food before him to eat. But he said, I will not eat, until I have
told my errand. And he said, Speak on.
24:34 And he said, I am Abraham's servant.
24:35 And Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. And he is become great. And He
has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants,
and camels and donkeys.
24:36 And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old. And to
him has he given all that he has.
24:37 And my master made me swear, saying, You shall not take a wife for my son from
the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell.
24:38 But you shall go to my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my
son.
24:39 And I said to my master, Suppose the woman will not follow me.
24:40 And he said to me, Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and
prosper your way. And you shall take a wife for my son from my kindred, and from my
father's house.
24:41 Then shall you be clear from my oath, when you come to my kindred. And if
they give her not to you, you shall be clear from my oath.
24:42 And I came this day to the spring, and said, O Yahweh, the God of my master
Abraham, if only now you do prosper my way which I go.
24:43 Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. And let it come to pass, that the
maiden that comes forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray you, a little water
from your pitcher to drink,
24:44 and she shall say to me, 'Both you drink and I will also draw for your camels,' let
the same be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master's son.
24:45 And before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with
her pitcher on her shoulder. And she went down to the spring, and drew. And I said to
her, Let me drink, I pray you.
24:46 And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink,
and I will also give your camels a drink. So I drank, and she made the camels drink
also.
24:47 And I questioned her, and said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The
daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the ring on her
nose, and the bracelets on her arms.
24:48 And I bowed my head, and worshipped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of
my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to get my master's brother's
daughter for his son.
24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. And if not, tell
me. So that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from Yahweh.
We cannot speak to you bad or good.
24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's
wife, as Yahweh has spoken.
24:52 And it came to pass, that, when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed
himself down to the earth to Yahweh.
24:53 And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and
gave them to Rebekah. He gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
24:54 And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all
night. And they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away to my master.
24:55 And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at
the least ten. After that she shall go.
24:56 And he said to them, Hinder me not, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send
me away that I may go to my master.
24:57 And they said, We will call the damsel, and inquire at her mouth.
24:58 And they called Rebekah, and said to her, Will you go with this man? And she
said, I will go.
24:59 And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant,
and his men.
24:60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said to her, Our sister, may you be the mother of
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thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those that hate them.
24:61 And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed
the man. And the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
24:62 And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi. For he dwelt in the land of the
South.
24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide. And he lifted up his
eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.
24:64 And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she alighted from the
camel.
24:65 And she said to the servant, What man is this that walks in the field to meet us?
And the servant said, It is my master. And she took her veil, and covered herself.
24:66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
24:67 And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she
became his wife. And he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
Chapter 25
25:1 And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.
25:2 And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and
Shuah.
25:3 And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and
Letushim, and Leummim.
25:4 And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah.
All these were the children of Keturah.
25:5 And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac.
25:6 But to the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts. And he
sent them away from Isaac his son, while he still lived, eastward, to the east country.
25:7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, 175 years.
25:8 And Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of
years, and was gathered to his people.
25:9 And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of
Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,
25:10 The field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth. There was Abraham
buried, and Sarah his wife.
25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son.
And Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.
25:12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the
Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore to Abraham.
25:13 And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their
generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
25:14 and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
25:15 Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by
their encampments. Twelve princes according to their nations.
25:17 And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, 137 years. And he gave up the
ghost and died, and was gathered to his people.
25:18 And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur that is before Egypt, as you go toward
Assyria. He abode over against all his brethren.
25:19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begat Isaac.
25:20 And Isaac was 40 years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the
Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
25:21 And Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. And Yahweh
was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
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"Let your seed possess the gate of those that hate them" = "Let your descendants capture the cities of those
who hate them."
25:22 And the children struggled together within her. And she said, If it is this way,
why do I live? And she went to inquire of Yahweh.
25:23 And Yahweh said to her, Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples shall be
separated from your bowels. And the one people shall be stronger than the other people.
And the elder shall serve the younger.
25:24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her
womb.
25:25 And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment. And they called his
name Esau.
25:26 And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. And
his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was 60 years old when she bore them.
25:27 And the boys grew. And Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. And
Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.
25:28 Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate of his venison. And Rebekah loved Jacob.
25:29 And Jacob boiled pottage. And Esau came in from the field, and he was faint.
25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray you, with that same red pottage. For I
am faint. Therefore was his name called Edom.
25:31 And Jacob said, Sell me first your birthright.
25:32 And Esau said, Behold, I am about to die. And what good shall the birthright do
me?
25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me first. And he swore to him. And he sold his
birthright to Jacob.
25:34 And Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. And he did eat and drink, and
rose up, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.
Chapter 26
26:1 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of
Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
26:2 And Yahweh appeared to him, and said, Go not down into Egypt. Dwell in the
land which I shall tell you of.
26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to
your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to
Abraham your father.
26:4 And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all
these lands. And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
26:5 For the reason that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
26:7 And the men of the place asked him about his wife. And he said, She is my sister.
For he feared to say, My wife. Lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for
Rebekah. Because she was fair to look upon.
26:8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the
Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with
Rebekah his wife.
26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is definitely your wife. And
how is it you said, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die
because of her.
26:10 And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? One of the people might
easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.
26:11 And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife
shall surely be put to death.
26:12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold. And
Yahweh blessed him.
26:13 And the man became great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
26:14 And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household.
And the Philistines envied him.
26:15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his
father, the Philistines had plugged, and filled with earth.
26:16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us. For you are much mightier than
we are.
26:17 And Isaac departed there, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
26:18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of
Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham.
And he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
26:19 And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
26:20 And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours.
And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
26:21 And they dug another well, and they strove for that also. And he called the name
of it Sitnah.
26:22 And he removed from there, and dug another well. And for that they strove not.
And he called the name of it Rehoboth. And he said, For now Yahweh has made room
for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
26:23 And he went up from there to Beer-sheba.
26:24 And Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham
your father. Fear not, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for
my servant Abraham's sake.
26:25 And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of Yahweh, and pitched his
tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.
26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the
captain of his host.
26:27 And Isaac said to them, Why are ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent
me away from you?
26:28 And they said, We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. And we said, Let
there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant
with you,
26:29 that you will do us no hurt, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to
you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of
Yahweh.
26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
26:31 And they rose up early in the morning, and swore one to another. And Isaac sent
them away, and they departed from him in peace.
26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him
concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.
26:33 And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.
26:34 And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the
Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
26:35 And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.
Chapter 27
27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he
could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, My son. And he said to
him, Here am I.
27:2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death.
27:3 Now therefore take, I pray you, your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go
out to the field, and get me venison.
27:4 And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat. That
my soul may bless you before I die.
27:5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field
to hunt for venison, and to bring it.
27:6 And Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard your father speak to
Esau your brother, saying,
27:7 Bring me venison, and make me savory food, that I may eat, and bless you before
Yahweh before my death.
27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command you.
27:9 Go now to the flock, and fetch me from there two good kids of the goats. And I
will make them savory food for your father, such as he loves.
27:10 And you shall bring it to your father, that he may eat, so that he may bless you
before his death.
27:11 And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man,
and I am a smooth man.
27:12 My father perhaps will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver. And I shall
bring a curse upon myself, and not a blessing.
27:13 And his mother said to him, Upon me be your curse, my son. Only obey my
voice, and go fetch them for me.
27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother. And his mother made
savory food, such as his father loved.
27:15 And Rebekah took the finest garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her
in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son.
27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth
of his neck.
27:17 And she gave the savory food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand
of her son Jacob.
27:18 And he came to his father, and said, My father. And he said, Here am I. Who
are you, my son?
27:19 And Jacob said to his father, I am Esau your first-born; I have done according as
you bid me: arise, I pray you, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.
27:20 And Isaac said to his son, How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?
And he said, Because Yahweh your God sent me good speed.
27:21 And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray you, that I may feel you, my son,
whether you really are my son Esau or not.
27:22 And Jacob went near to Isaac his father. And he felt him, and said, The voice is
Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's
hands. So he blessed him.
27:24 And he said, are you really my son Esau? And he said, I am.
27:25 And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul
may bless you. And he brought it near to him, and he ate. And he brought him wine,
and he drank.
27:26 And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.
27:27 And he came near, and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his clothing, and
blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh
has blessed.
27:28 And God five you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty
of grain and new wine.
27:29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers,
and let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be every one that curses you, and
blessed be every one that blesses you.
27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob
was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came
in from his hunting.
27:31 And he also made savory food, and brought it to his father. And he said to his
father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me.
27:32 And Isaac his father said to him, Who are you? And he said, I am your son, your
first-born, Esau.
27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he that has taken
venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed
him? And he certainly shall be blessed.
27:34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and
bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.
27:35 And he said, Your brother came with guile, and has taken away your blessing.
27:36 And he said, Is he not rightly name Jacob? for he has supplanted me these two
times. He took away my birthright. And, behold, now he has taken away my blessing.
And he said, Have you not reserved a blessing for me?
27:37 And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him your lord, and all
his brethren have I given to him for servants. And with grain and new wine have I
sustained him. And what then shall I do for you, my son?
27:38 And Esau said to his father, Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me,
even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
27:39 And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth
shall be your dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above.
27:40 And by your sword shall you live, and you shall serve your brother. And it shall
come to pass, when you shall break loose, That you shall shake his yoke from off your
neck.
27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him.
And Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then will I
slay my brother Jacob.
27:42 And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and
called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, Behold, your brother Esau, as touching
you, is comforting himself, purposing to kill you.
27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. And arise, flee to Laban my brother to
Haran.
27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until your brother's fury turns away.
27:45 Until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets that which you have
done to him. Then I will send, and fetch you from there. Why should I be bereaved of
you both in one day?
27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of
Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of
the land, what good shall my life do me?
Chapter 28
28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said to him, You
shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
28:2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. And take
yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
28:3 And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you
may be a company of peoples.
28:4 And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you. That
you may inherit the land of your sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.
28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob. And he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, son of Bethuel
the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
28:6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to
take himself a wife from there. And that as he blessed him he gave him a charge,
saying, You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
28:7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram.
28:8 And Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father.
28:9 And Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the
daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
28:10 And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
28:11 And he came upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was
set. And he took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down
in that place to sleep.
28:12 And he dreamed. And behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it
reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
28:13 And, behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham
your father, and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and
to your seed.
28:14 And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the
west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in you and in your seed
shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
28:15 And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring
you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have
spoken to you of.
28:16 And Jacob awoke out of his sleep, and he said, Surely Yahweh is in this place.
And I knew it not.
28:17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! This is none other than the
house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under
his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
28:19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el. But the name of the city was Luz at
the first.
28:20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this
way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
28:21 so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,
28:22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house. And of all
that you shall give me I will surely give the tenth to you.
Chapter 29
29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.
29:2 And he looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying
there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. And the stone upon the well's
mouth was great.
29:3 And there all the flocks were gathered. And they rolled the stone from the well's
mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone back upon the well's mouth in its place.
29:4 And Jacob said to them, My brothers, where are you from? And they said, Of
Haran are we.
29:5 And he said to them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know
him.
29:6 And he said to them, Is it well with him? And they said, It is well. And, behold,
Rachel his daughter comes with the sheep.
29:7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be
gathered together. Water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the
stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep.
29:9 While he was yet speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep. For
she kept them.
29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's
brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the
stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.
29:11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
29:12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and Rebekah's son. And
she ran and told her father.
29:13 And it came to pass, when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he
ran to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And
he told Laban all these things.
29:14 And Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. And he abode with
him the space of a month.
29:15 And Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve
me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?
29:16 And Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of
the younger was Rachel.
29:17 And Leah's eyes were tender. But Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
29:18 And Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, I will serve you seven years for Rachel
your younger daughter.
29:19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to you, than give her to another man.
Abide with me.
29:20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few
days, for the love that he had toward her.
29:21 And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, so that I may
go in to her.
29:22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
29:23 And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her
to him. And he went in to her.
29:24 And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.
29:25 And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. And he said to
Laban, What is this you have done to me? Did not I serve with you for Rachel? Why
then have you deceived me?
29:26 And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-
born.
29:27 Fulfill the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service
which you shall serve with me yet seven other years.
29:28 And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. And he gave him Rachel his daughter
to wife.
29:29 And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid.
29:30 And he went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and
served with him yet seven other years.
29:31 And Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb. But Rachel was
barren.
29:32 And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben. For she
said, Because Yahweh has looked upon my affliction. For now my husband will love
me.
29:33 And she conceived again, and bore a son: and said, Because Yahweh has heard that
I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also. And she called his name Simeon.
29:34 And she conceived again, and bore a son. And said, Now this time will my
husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore was his name
called Levi.
29:35 And she conceived again, and bore a son. And she said, This time will I praise
Yahweh. Therefore she called his name Judah. And she left off bearing.
Chapter 30
30:1 And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and
she said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
30:2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, am I in the place of God,
who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?
30:3 And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her; that she may bear upon my
knees,4 and thus I also may obtain children by her.
30:4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in to her.
30:5 And Bilhah conceived, and bore Jacob a son.
30:6 And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given
me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
30:7 And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
30:8 And Rachel said, With wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister, and I have
prevailed. And she called his name Naphtali.
30:9 When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and
gave her to Jacob to wife.
30:10 And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a son.
30:11 And Leah said, Fortunate! and she called his name Gad.
30:12 And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bore Jacob a second son.
30:13 And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy: and she called
his name Asher.
30:14 And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field,
and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray you,
some of your son's mandrakes.
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That is, bear children for me as if they were my own.
30:15 And she said to her, Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband?
and would you take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Then he shall lie
with you tonight for your son's mandrakes.
30:16 And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and
said, You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes.
And he lay with her that night.
30:17 And God hearkened to Leah, and she conceived, and bore Jacob a fifth son.
30:18 And Leah said, God has given me my wages, because I gave my handmaid to my
husband: and she called his name Issachar.
30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bore a sixth son to Jacob.
30:20 And Leah said, God has endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband
dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.
30:21 And afterwards she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
30:22 And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
30:23 And she conceived, and bore a son: and said, God has taken away my reproach:
30:24 and she called his name Joseph, saying, Yahweh add to me another son.
30:25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, Send
me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
30:26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for
you know my service with which I have served you.
30:27 And Laban said to him, If now I have found favor in your eyes, tarry: for I have
divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.
30:28 And he said, Name me your wages, and I will give it.
30:29 And he said to him, You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have
fared with me.
30:30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased into a multitude;
and Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned: and now when shall I provide for my
own house also?
30:31 And he said, What shall I give you? And Jacob said, You shall not give me
anything: if you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
30:32 I will pass through all your flock today, removing from there every speckled and
spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among
the goats: and of such shall be my wages.
30:33 So shall my righteousness answer for me hereafter, when you shall come
concerning my pay that is before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among
the goats, and black among the sheep, that if found with me, shall be considered stolen.
30:34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to your word.
30:35 And he removed that day the he-goats that were ring streaked and spotted, and all
the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the
black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons;
30:36 and he set three days' journey between himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of
Laban's flocks.
30:37 And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree.
And he peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
30:38 And he set the rods which he had peeled over against the flocks in the gutters in the
watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink; and they conceived when they came to
drink.
30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ring
streaked, speckled, and spotted.
30:40 And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ring
streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put
them not to Laban's flock.
30:41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob
laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among
the rods;
30:42 but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's,
and the stronger Jacob's.
30:43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and
men-servants, and camels and asses.
Chapter 31
31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away all that was
our father's; and from that which was our father's has he gotten all this glory.
31:2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as
before.
31:3 And Yahweh said to Jacob, Return to the land of your fathers, and to your kindred;
and I will be with you.
31:4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flock,
31:5 and said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before;
but the God of my father has been with me.
31:6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
31:7 And your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God did not
allow him to hurt me.
31:8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be your wages; then all the flock bore speckled:
and if he said thus, The ring streaked shall be your wages; then all the flock bore ring
streaked.
31:9 Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceived, that I lifted up my eyes,
and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ring
streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
31:11 And the angel of God said to me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.
31:12 And he said, Lift up now your eyes, and see, all the he-goats which leap upon the
flock are ring streaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
31:13 I am the God of Beth-el, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to
me: now arise, go out from this land, and return to the land of your nativity.
31:14 And Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, Is there yet any portion or
inheritance for us in our father's house?
31:15 Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he has sold us, and has also quite
devoured our money.
31:16 For all the riches, which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our
children's: now then, whatsoever God has said to you, do.
31:17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;
31:18 and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance, which he had gathered, the
cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father to
the land of Canaan.
31:19 Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were
her father's.
31:20 And Jacob snuck away without the knowledge of Laban the Syrian, in that he did
not tell him that he fled.
31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set
his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
31:22 And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.
31:23 And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and
he overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
31:24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Take
heed to yourself that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
31:25 And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain:
and Laban with his brethren encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
31:26 And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done, that you have stolen away
unawares to me, and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword?
31:27 Why did you flee secretly, and steal away from me, and did not tell me, that I
might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;
31:28 and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now have you done
foolishly.
31:29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spoke to
me last night, saying, Take heed to yourself that you speak not to Jacob either good or
bad.
31:30 And now, sure, you had to go because you longed greatly for your father's house,
but why have you stolen my gods?
31:31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban, Because I was afraid: for I said, Lest you
should take your daughters from me by force.
31:32 With whomsoever you find your gods, he shall not live: before our brethren discern
you what is yours with me, and take it to you. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had
stolen them.
31:33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two
maid-servants; but did not find them. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into
Rachel's tent.
31:34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on
them. And Laban felt all around the tent, but did not find them.
31:35 And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before
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you; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the
teraphim.
31:36 And Jacob became angry, and chided Laban: and Jacob answered and said to
Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
31:37 Whereas you have felt about all my stuff, what have you found of all your
household stuff? Set it here before my brethren and your brethren, that they may judge
between us two.
31:38 These twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she-goats have not
miscarried their young, and the rams of your flocks I have not eaten.
31:39 That which was torn of beasts I brought not to you; I bore the loss of it; of my hand
did you require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
31:40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my
sleep fled from my eyes.
31:41 These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your
two daughters, and six years for your flock: and you have changed my wages ten times.
31:42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been
with me, surely now have you sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the
labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.
31:43 And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters are my daughters, and the
children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and
what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
31:44 And now come, let us make a covenant, I and you; and let it be for a witness
between me and you.
31:45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
31:46 And Jacob said to his kinsmen, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a
heap: and they did eat there by the heap.
31:47 And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
31:48 And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and you this day. Therefore
was the name of it called Galeed:
31:49 and Mizpah, for he said, Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent
one from another.
31:50 If you shall afflict my daughters, and if you shall take wives besides my daughters,
no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and you.
31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set
between me and you.
31:52 This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to
you, and that you shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge
between us. And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
31:54 And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread:
and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain.
31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and
blessed them: and Laban departed and returned to his place.
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That is, "I am having my period."
Chapter 32
32:1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
32:2 And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's encampment: and he called the
name of that place Mahanaim.
32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land of Seir, the
field of Edom.
32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say to my lord Esau: Thus says
your servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now:
32:5 and I have oxen, and asses, and flocks, and men-servants, and maid-servants: and I
have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.
32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and
moreover he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.
32:7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that
were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
32:8 and he said, If Esau comes to the one company, and attacks it, then the company
which is left shall escape.
32:9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O
Yahweh, who said to me, Return to your country, and to your kindred, and I will do you
good:
32:10 I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which
you have shown to your servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I
am become two camps.
32:11 Deliver me, I pray you, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I
fear him, that he might come and attack me, the mother with the children.
32:12 And you said, I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea,
which cannot be numbered for multitude.
32:13 And he lodged there that night, and took out of that he had with him a present for
Esau his brother:
32:14 two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
32:15 thirty milking camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty she-asses and
ten foals.
32:16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said
to his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space between drove and drove.
32:17 And he commanded the front one, saying, When Esau my brother meets you, and
asks you, saying, Whose are you? and where are you going? and whose are these
before you?
32:18 then you shall say They are your servant Jacob's; it is a present sent to my lord
Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us.
32:19 And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves,
saying, On this same manner shall ye speak to Esau, when ye find him;
32:20 and ye shall also say, Moreover, behold, your servant Jacob is behind us. For he
said, I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his
face; perhaps he will accept me.
32:21 So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the
camp.
32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his
eleven children, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there a man wrestled with him until the breaking of
the day.
32:25 And when that man saw that he was not prevailing against him, he touched the
hollow of Jacob's thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was strained, as he wrestled with
him.
32:26 And the man said, Let me go, for the day is breaking. And Jacob said, I will not
let you go, unless you bless me.
32:27 And he said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
32:28 And he said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel: for you have
striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.
32:29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray you, your name. And he said,
Why is it you are asking for my name? And he blessed him there.
32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to
face, and yet my life is preserved.
32:31 And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Penuel, and he limped upon his thigh.
32:32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the
hollow of the thigh, to this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the
sinew of the hip.
Chapter 33
33:1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with
him four hundred men. And he divided the children among Leah, and Rachel, and the
two handmaids.
33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children up front, and Leah and her children
after, and Rachel and Joseph farthest back.
33:3 And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven
times, until he came near to his brother.
33:4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him:
and they wept.
33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are
these with you? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given your
servant.
33:6 Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
33:7 And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came
Joseph near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
33:8 And he said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, To
find favor in the sight of my lord.
33:9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.
33:10 And Jacob said, No, I pray you, if now I have found favor in your sight, then
receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen your face, which is like seeing
the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
33:11 Take, I pray you, my gift that is brought to you; because God has dealt graciously
with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
33:12 And Esau said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go along with you.
33:13 And Jacob said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the
flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the
flocks will die.
33:14 Let my lord, I pray you, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently,
according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the
children, until I come to my lord to Seir.
33:15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the folk that are with me.
And he said, What calls for it? let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
33:17 But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his
cattle: that is why the name of the place is called Succoth.
33:18 And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan,
when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city.
33:19 And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, from the hand of
the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.
33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel.
Chapter 34
34:1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the
daughters of the land.
34:2 And Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her; And he
took her, and lay with her, and humiliated her.
34:3 And his soul cleaved to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and
spoke kindly to the damsel.
34:4 And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel for wife.
34:5 Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; and his sons were with his
cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they came.
34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to commune with him.
34:7 And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men
were shocked, and were very angry, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with
Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longs for
your daughter: I pray you, give her to him for a wife.
34:9 And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to
you.
34:10 And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye
therein, and get yourself possessions therein.
34:11 And Shechem said to her father and to her brethren, Let me find favor in your eyes,
and what ye shall say to me I will give.
34:12 Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say to
me: but give me the damsel for wife.
34:13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit, and
spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,
34:14 and said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is
uncircumcised; for that would be a reproach to us.
34:15 Only on this condition will we consent to you: if ye will be as we are, that every
male of you be circumcised;
34:16 then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and
we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
34:17 But if ye will not hearken to us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter,
and we will be gone.
34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
34:19 And the young man delayed not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's
daughter: and he was honored above all the house of his father.
34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and communed
with the men of their city, saying,
34:21 These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade
therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for
wives, and let us give them our daughters.
34:22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one
people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
34:23 Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us
consent to them, and they will dwell with us.
34:24 And to Hamor and to Shechem his son they hearkened, all who went out of the gate
of his city; and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
34:25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of
Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took each man his sword, and came upon the
city unawares, and slew all the males.
34:26 And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took
Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went forth.
34:27 The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had
defiled their sister.
34:28 They took their flocks and their herds and their asses, and that which was in the
city, and that which was in the field;
34:29 and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and
made a prey, even all that was in the house.
34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have troubled me, to make me odious to
the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in
number, they will gather themselves together against me and attack me; and I shall be
destroyed, I and my house.
34:31 And they said, Should he treat our sister like a prostitute?
Chapter 35
35:1 And God said to Jacob, arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an
altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.
35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the
foreign gods that are among you, and purify yourselves, and change your garments:
35:3 and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar to God, who
answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.
35:4 And they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings
which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
35:5 And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about
them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.
35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan (the same is Beth-el), he and
all the people that were with him.
35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God was
revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
35:8 And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the
oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.
35:9 And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed
him.
35:10 And God said to him, Your name is Jacob: your name shall not be called Jacob any
more, but Israel shall be your name. And he called his name Israel.
35:11 And God said to him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a
company of nations shall be from you, and kings shall come out of your loins;
35:12 and the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, to you I will give it, and to your
seed after you will I give the land.
35:13 And God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone:
and he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.
35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Beth-el.
35:16 And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was still some distance to come to
Ephrath: and Rachel went into labor, and she had hard labor.
35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, Fear
not; for now you shall have another son.
35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his
name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.
35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
35:20 And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave: the same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to
this day.
35:21 And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.
35:22 And it came to pass, while Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with
Bilhah his father's concubine: and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were
twelve:
35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah,
and Issachar, and Zebulun;
35:24 the sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;
35:25 and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Naphtali;
35:26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of
Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.
35:27 And Jacob came to Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron),
where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
35:28 And the days of Isaac were 180 years.
35:29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full
of days: and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
Chapter 36
36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau (the same is Edom).
36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the
Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
36:3 and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
36:4 And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel;
36:5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, that
were born to him in the land of Canaan.
36:6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his
house, and his cattle, and all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered
in the land of Canaan; and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
36:7 For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their
sojournings could not hold them both, because of their livestock.
36:8 And Esau dwelt in mount Seir. (Esau is the same as Edom.)
36:9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
36:10 these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau,
Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
36:11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
36:12 And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek:
these are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
36:13 And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these
were the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
36:14 And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of
Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bore to Esau Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.
36:15 These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau:
chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,
36:16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs that came of Eliphaz
in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.
36:17 And these are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief
Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs that came of Reuel in the land of Edom;
these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.
36:18 And these are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau's wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief
Korah: these are the chiefs that came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
36:19 These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs: the same is Edom.
36:20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal
and Zibeon and Anah,
36:21 and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the Horites, the
children of Seir in the land of Edom.
36:22 And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. And Lotan's sister was Timna.
36:23 And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and
Onam.
36:24 And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is Anah who found the
hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
36:25 And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah.
36:26 And these are the children of Dishon: Hemdan and Eshban and Ithran and Cheran.
36:27 These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan.
36:28 These are the children of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
36:29 These are the chiefs that came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief
Zibeon, chief Anah,
36:30 chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the
Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
36:31 And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any
king over the children of Israel.
36:32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
36:33 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the field
of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.
36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
36:37 And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.
36:38 And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
36:39 And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the
name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred,
the daughter of Me-zahab.
36:40 And these are the names of the chiefs that came of Esau, according to their
families, after their places, by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,
36:41 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
36:42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
36:43 chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these are the chiefs of Edom, according to their
habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.
Chapter 37
37:1 And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
37:2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding
the flock with his brothers; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of
Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them to their father.
37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than the rest of his children, because he was the son
of his old age: and he made for him a coat of many colors.
37:4 And his brothers saw that their father loved him more than the rest of his brothers;
and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him.
37:5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers: and they hated him even
more.
37:6 And he said to them, Listen, I pray you, to this dream which I have dreamed:
37:7 for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also
stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came in a circle around, and bowed down to my
sheaf.
37:8 And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or shall you indeed
have dominion over us? And they hated him all the more because of his dreams, and
because of his words.
37:9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, Behold, I
have dreamed yet a dream: and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed
down to me.
37:10 And he told it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him, and said
to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your
brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth?
37:11 And his brothers envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind.
37:12 And his brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.
37:13 And Israel said to Joseph, are not your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem?
Come, and I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.
37:14 And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well
with the flock; and bring word back to me. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron,
and he came to Shechem.
37:15 And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the
man asked him, saying, What are you looking for?
37:16 And he said, I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, I pray you, where it is they
are feeding the flock.
37:17 And the man said, They are departed from here; for I heard them say, Let us go to
Doesan. And Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Doesan.
37:18 And they saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired
against him to kill him.
37:19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer comes.
37:20 Come now therefore, and let us kill him, and throw him into one of the pits, and we
will say, a fierce animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what will become of his
dreams.
37:21 And Reuben heard it, and rescued him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take
his life.
37:22 And Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood; throw him into this pit that is in the
wilderness, but lay no hand upon him," so that he might deliver him out of their hand, to
restore him to his father.
37:23 And it came to pass, when Joseph was come to his brothers, that they stripped
Joseph of his coat, the coat of many colors that was on him;
37:24 and they took him, and threw him into the pit. And the pit was empty; there was
no water in it.
37:25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and,
behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing
spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
37:26 And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal
his blood?
37:27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for
he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers listened to him.
37:28 And there passed by Midianites, merchant men; and they drew and lifted up Joseph
out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they
took Joseph into Egypt.
37:29 And Reuben returned to the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he
tore his clothes.
37:30 And he returned to his brothers, and said, The child is not; and I, where shall I go?
37:31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a he-goat, and dipped the coat in the blood;
37:32 and they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said,
This have we found: see now whether it is your son's coat or not.
37:33 And he recognized it, and said, It is my son's coat: an evil beast has devoured him;
Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.
37:34 And Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his
son many days.
37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be
comforted; and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father
wept for him.
37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the
captain of the guard.
Chapter 38
38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and turned
in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua.
And he took her, and went in to her.
38:3 And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er.
38:4 And she conceived again, and bore a son; and she called his name Onan.
38:5 And she yet again bore a son, and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib,
when she bore him.
38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.
38:7 And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. And Yahweh put
him to death.
38:8 And Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a
husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother.
38:9 And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in
to his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, so that he not give seed to his
brother.
38:10 And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and he put him to
death also.
38:11 Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in your father's
house, till Shelah my son is grown up; for he said, I fear he also might die, like his
brothers. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
38:12 And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was
comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the
Adullamite.
38:13 And it was told to Tamar, as follows: Behold, your father-in-law goes up to
Timnah to shear his sheep.
38:14 And she put off from her the widow's garments, and covered herself with her veil,
and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she
saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not given to him to wife.
38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, because she had covered her
face.
38:16 And he turned to her by the way, and said, Come, I pray you, let me come in to
you: for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, What will you
give me, that you may come in to me?
38:17 And he said, I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Will
you give me a pledge, till you send it?
38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give you? And she said, Your signet and your
cord, and your staff that is in your hand. And he gave them to her, and came in to her,
and she conceived by him.
38:19 And she arose, and went away, and put off her veil from her, and put on her
widow's garments.
38:20 And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to
receive the pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not.
38:21 Then he asked the men of her place, saying, Where is the prostitute, that was at
Enaim by the wayside? And they said, There has been no prostitute here.
38:22 And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the
place said, There has been no prostitute here.
38:23 And Judah said, Let her keep it all, or we might be laughed at: behold, I sent this
kid, and you have not found her.
38:24 And it came to pass about three months afterward, that it was told Judah, as
follows: Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is
with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
38:25 When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, to
whom these belong, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray you, whose are these,
the signet, and the cords, and the staff.
38:26 And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She is more righteous than I, since I did
not give her to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no longer.
38:27 And it came to pass in the time of her labor, that, behold, twins were in her womb.
38:28 And it came to pass, when she was in labor, that one put out a hand: and the
midwife took and tied on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This one came out first.
38:29 And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out:
and she said, Why have you made a breach for yourself? Therefore his name was called
Perez.
38:30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread on his hand: and his
name was called Zerah.
Chapter 39
39:1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the
captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had
brought him down there.
39:2 And Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the
house of his master the Egyptian.
39:3 And his master saw that Yahweh was with him, and that Yahweh made all that he
did to prosper in his hand.
39:4 And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he ministered to him: and he made him
overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
39:5 And it came to pass from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over
all that he had, that Yahweh blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the
blessing of Yahweh was upon all that he had, in the house and in the field.
39:6 And he left all that he had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not anything that was with
him, except the bread which he ate. And Joseph was handsome, and well-favored.
39:7 And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon
Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
39:8 But he refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master knows not what is
with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand:
39:9 he is not greater in this house than I; neither has he withheld anything from me
except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin
against God?
39:10 And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he refused to listen to
her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
39:11 And it came to pass about this time, that he went into the house to do his work; and
there were none of the men of the house present inside.
39:12 And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in
her hand, and fled, and got himself out.
39:13 And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and
was fled forth,
39:14 that she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, See, he has
brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us: he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a
loud voice:
39:15 and it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left
his garment by me, and fled, and got himself out.
39:16 And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.
39:17 And she spoke to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant,
whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me:
39:18 and it came to pass, as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by
me, and fled out.
39:19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke
to him, saying, after this manner did your servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.
39:20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the
king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
39:21 But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in
the sight of the keeper of the prison.
39:22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were
in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
39:23 The keeper of the prison paid no attention to anything that was under his hand,
because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.
Chapter 40
40:1 And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his
baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.
40:2 And Pharaoh was angry against his two officers, against the chief of the butlers, and
against the chief of the bakers.
40:3 And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison,
the place where Joseph was bound.
40:4 And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he ministered to them:
and they continued a season in custody.
40:5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream, in one night, each
man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of
Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
40:6 And Joseph came in to them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were
sad.
40:7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in custody in his master's house,
saying, Why look ye so sad today?
40:8 And they said to him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can
interpret it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it to
me, I pray you.
40:9 And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold,
a vine was before me;
40:10 and in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and its
blossoms shot forth; and the clusters of it brought forth ripe grapes:
40:11 and Pharaoh's cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into
Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
40:12 And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three
days;
40:13 within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up your head, and restore you to your
office: and you shall give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when you
were his butler.
40:14 But have me in your remembrance when it shall be well with you, and show
kindness, I pray you, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this
house:
40:15 for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I
done nothing that they should put me in the dungeon.
40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also
was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head:
40:17 and in the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh; and
the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.
40:18 And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation of it: the three baskets are
three days;
40:19 within yet three days shall Pharaoh lift up your head from off you, and shall hang
you on a tree; and the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.
40:20 And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a
feast for all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the
chief baker among his servants.
40:21 And he restored the chief butler to his butlership again; and he gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand:
40:22 but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
40:23 Yet the chief butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Chapter 41
41:1 And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold,
he stood by the river.
41:2 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, well-favored and fat-
fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.
41:3 And, behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and
lean-fleshed, and stood by the other cattle upon the brink of the river.
41:4 And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed cattle ate up the seven well-favored and fat
cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.
41:5 And he slept and dreamed a second time: and, behold, seven ears of grain came up
on one stalk, rank and good.
41:6 And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.
41:7 And the thin ears swallowed up the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke,
and, behold, it was a dream.
41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and
called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them
his dream; but there was none that could interpret them to Pharaoh.
41:9 Then spoke the chief butler to Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:
41:10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the
captain of the guard, me and the chief baker:
41:11 and we dreamed a dream in the same night, I and he; we dreamed each man
according to the interpretation of his dream.
41:12 And there was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the
guard; and we told him, and he interpreted for us our dreams; to each man according to
his dream he did interpret.
41:13 And it came to pass, just as he interpreted to us, that is how it was: me he restored
to my office, and him he hanged.
41:14 Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the
dungeon: and he shaved himself, and changed his clothes, and came in to Pharaoh.
41:15 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can
interpret it: and I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret
it.
41:16 And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an
answer of peace.
41:17 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the
river:
41:18 and, behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat-fleshed and well-
favored: and they fed in the reed-grass:
41:19 and, behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and
lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:
41:20 and the lean and ill-favored cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle:
41:21 and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them;
but rather were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
41:22 And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and
good:
41:23 and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprang up
after them:
41:24 and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it to the magicians;
but there was no one that could declare it to me.
41:25 And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: what God is about to do
he has declared to Pharaoh.
41:26 The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the
dream is one.
41:27 And the seven lean and ill-favored cattle that came up after them are seven years,
and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of
famine.
41:28 That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh: what God is about to do, he has shown
to Pharaoh.
41:29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:
41:30 and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be
forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
41:31 and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which
follows; for it shall be very severe.
41:32 And for that reason the dream was doubled to Pharaoh, it is because the thing is
established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
41:33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out for a man discreet and wise, and set him over
the land of Egypt.
41:34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up one
fifth of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
41:35 And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain
under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them preserve it.
41:36 And the food shall be for a store for the land against the seven years of famine,
which shall be in the land of Egypt; so that the land not perish because of the famine.
41:37 And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
41:38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom
the spirit of God is?
41:39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Forasmuch as God has shown you all of this, there is
no one so discreet and wise as you.
41:40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word shall all my people be
ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than you.
41:41 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.
41:42 And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand,
and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain around his neck;
41:43 and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before
him, Bow the knee: and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
41:44 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his
hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
41:45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him for wife
Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of
Egypt.
41:46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.
And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of
Egypt.
41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt,
and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city,
laid he up in the same.
41:49 And Joseph laid up grain like the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off
counting; for it was without number.
41:50 And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath,
the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.
41:51 And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, said he, God has
made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God has made me fruitful in
the land of my affliction.
41:53 And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end.
41:54 And the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said: and there
was famine in all lands; but in the entire land of Egypt there was bread.
41:55 And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for
bread: and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do.
41:56 And the famine covered the whole face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the
store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians; and the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
41:57 And all countries came into Egypt, to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was
severe in all the earth.
Chapter 42
42:1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, Why are
you looking at each other?
42:2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: go down there, and
buy for us from there; so we may live, and not die.
42:3 And Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers; for he said, In
case harm befalls him.
42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the
land of Canaan.
42:6 And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was who sold to all the people of
the land. And Joseph's brothers came, and bowed down themselves to him with their
faces to the earth.
42:7 And Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but made himself a stranger
to them, and spoke roughly with them; and he said to them, Where are you coming from?
And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
42:8 And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.
42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them,
You are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
42:10 And they said to him, No, my lord, but to buy food are your servants come.
42:11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men, your servants are no spies.
42:12 And he said to them, No, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.
42:13 And they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the
land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
42:14 And Joseph said to them, That is it that I spoke to you, saying, You are spies:
42:15 By this ye shall be proven: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth from here,
unless your youngest brother comes here.
42:16 Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your
words may be proved, whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely
ye are spies.
42:17 And he put them all together into ward three days.
42:18 And Joseph said to them the third day, This do, and live: for I fear God:
42:19 if ye be true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison-house; but go
ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses:
42:20 and bring your youngest brother to me; so shall your words be verified, and ye
shall not die. And they did so.
42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that
we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is
this distress come upon us.
42:22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spoke I not to you, saying, Do not sin against
the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.
42:23 And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter
between them.
42:24 And he turned himself around away from them, and wept; then he returned to
them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their
eyes.
42:25 Then Joseph commanded to fill their vessels with grain, and to restore every man's
money into his sack, and to give them provisions for the way: and thus was it done to
them.
42:26 And they laded their asses with their grain, and departed there.
42:27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey provender in the lodging-
place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.
42:28 And he said to his brothers, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack:
and their heart failed them, and they turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this
that God has done to us?
42:29 And they came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had
befallen them, saying,
42:30 The man, the lord of the land, spoke roughly with us, and took us for spies of the
country.
42:31 And we said to him, We are true men; and we are no spies:
42:32 we are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day
with our father in the land of Canaan.
42:33 And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true
men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses,
and go your way;
42:34 and bring your youngest brother to me: then shall I know that ye are no spies, but
that ye are true men: so will I deliver you your brother, and ye shall traffic in the land.
42:35 And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of
money was in his sack: and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they
were afraid.
42:36 And Jacob their father said to them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is
not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
42:37 And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to
you: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to you again.
42:38 And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he
only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
Chapter 43
43:1 And the famine was sore in the land.
43:2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of
Egypt, their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.
43:3 And Judah spoke to him, saying, The man did solemnly protest to us, saying, You
shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
43:4 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food:
43:5 but if you will not send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, You shall
not see my face, except your brother be with you.
43:6 And Israel said, Why dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a
brother?
43:7 And they said, The man questioned us closely about ourselves, and concerning our
kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him
according to the tenor of these words: could we in any wise know that he would say,
Bring your brother down?
43:8 And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go;
that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shall you require him: if I bring him not to you,
and set him before you, then let me bear the blame for ever:
43:10 for except we had lingered, surely we had now returned a second time.
43:11 And their father Israel said to them, If it be so now, do this: take of the choice fruits
of the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little
honey, spices and myrrh, nuts, and almonds;
43:12 and take double money in your hand; and the money that was returned in the mouth
of your sacks carry again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
43:13 take also your brother, and arise, go again to the man:
43:14 and God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your
other brother and Benjamin. And if I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
43:15 And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and
Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
43:16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house,
Bring the men into the house, and slay, and make ready; for the men shall dine with me at
noon.
43:17 And the man did as Joseph asked; and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.
43:18 And the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they
said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought
in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bond slaves,
and our asses.
43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they spoke to him at the
door of the house,
43:20 and said, Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
43:21 and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks,
and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight:
and we have brought it again in our hand.
43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food: we know not
who put our money in our sacks.
43:23 And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, has
given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out to
them.
43:24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they
washed their feet. And he gave their asses provender.
43:25 And they made ready the present against Joseph's coming at noon: for they heard
that they should eat bread there.
43:26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their
hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to him to the earth.
43:27 And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of
whom ye spoke? Is he yet alive?
43:28 And they said, Your servant our father is well, he is yet alive. And they bowed
the head, and made obeisance.
43:29 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw Benjamin his brother, his mother's son, and said,
Is this your youngest brother, of whom ye spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious
to you, my son.
43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his heart yearned over his brother: and he sought
where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.
43:31 And he washed his face, and came out; and he refrained himself, and said, Set on
bread.
43:32 And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the
Egyptians, that did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat
bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
43:33 And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the youngest
according to his youth: and the men marvelled one with another.
43:34 And he took and sent messes to them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was
five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.
Chapter 44
44:1 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food,
as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.
44:2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his grain
money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
44:3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.
44:4 And when they were gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his
steward, Up, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have
ye rewarded evil for good?
44:5 Is not this that in which my lord drinks, and whereby he indeed divines? ye have
done evil in so doing.
44:6 And he overtook them, and he spoke to them these words.
44:7 And they said to him, Why speaks my lord such words as these? Far be it from
your servants that they should do such a thing.
44:8 Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again to you
out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of your lord's house silver or
gold?
44:9 With whomsoever of your servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my
lord's bondservants.
44:10 And he said, Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found
shall be my bondservant; and ye shall be blameless.
44:11 Then they hurried, and took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened
every man his sack.
44:12 And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left off at the youngest: and the cup
was found in Benjamin's sack.
44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his donkey, and returned to the
city.
44:14 And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he was yet there: and they
fell before him on the ground.
44:15 And Joseph said to them, What deed is this that ye have done? know ye not that
such a man as I can indeed divine?
44:16 And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? what shall we speak? or how
shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants: behold, we
are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.
44:17 And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup
is found, he shall be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.
44:18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh, my lord, let your servant, I pray you,
speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant; for you
are even as Pharaoh.
44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
44:20 And we said to my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a
little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves
him.
44:21 And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes upon
him.
44:22 And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his
father, his father would die.
44:23 And you said to your servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you,
ye shall see my face no more.
44:24 And it came to pass when we came up to your servant my father, we told him the
words of my lord.
44:25 And our father said, Go again, buy us a little food.
44:26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we
go down: for we may not see the man's face, expect our youngest brother be with us.
44:27 And your servant my father said to us, You know that my wife bore me two sons:
44:28 and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not
seen him since:
44:29 and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my
gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
44:30 Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us;
seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;
44:31 it will come to pass, when he sees that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and
your servants will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to
Sheol.
44:32 For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not
to you, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever.
44:33 Now therefore, let your servant, I pray you, abide instead of the lad a bondservant
to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brothers.
44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil
that shall come on my father.
Chapter 45
45:1 Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood before him; and
he proclaimed, Make every one go out from me. And there stood no one with him,
while Joseph made himself known to his brothers.
45:2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
45:3 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph; is my father still alive? And his
brothers could not answer him, so troubled were they at his presence.
45:4 And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came
near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
45:5 And now be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me here: for God
sent me before you to preserve life.
45:6 For these two years has the famine been in the land: and there are five more years, in
which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
45:7 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep
alive by a great deliverance.
45:8 So now it was not you that sent me here, but God: and he has made me a father to
Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
45:9 Hasten ye, and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph, God
has made me lord of all Egypt: come down to me, do not delay;
45:10 and you shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near to me, you, and
your children, and your children's children, and your flocks, and your herds, and all that
you have:
45:11 and there will I nourish you; for there are five years of famine to come; or you
might come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.
45:12 And, behold, your eyes are seeing, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is
my own mouth speaking to you.
45:13 And ye shall tell my father about all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have
seen: and ye shall hasten and bring my father down here.
45:14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon
his neck.
45:15 And he kissed all his brothers, and wept upon them: and after that his brothers
talked with him.
45:16 And the report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brothers have
come. And it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
45:17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, This do ye: load your animals,
and go, get yourself to the land of Canaan;
45:18 and take your father and your households, and come to me: and I will give you the
good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
45:19 Now you are commanded, this do ye: take yourselves wagons out of the land of
Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.
45:20 Also regard not your stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.
45:21 And the sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the
commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.
45:22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave
three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
45:23 And to his father he sent after this manner: ten asses loaded with the good things of
Egypt, and ten she-asses loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the
way.
45:24 So he sent his brothers away, and they departed: and he said to them, See that ye
fall not out by the way.
45:25 And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan to Jacob their
father.
45:26 And they told him as follows, Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of
Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not.
45:27 And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them: and when he
saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father
revived:
45:28 and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him
before I die.
Chapter 46
46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and
offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
46:2 And God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he
said, Here am I.
46:3 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for
there I will make of you a great nation:
46:4 I will go down with you into Egypt; and I will also surely bring you up again: and
Joseph shall put his hand upon your eyes.
46:5 And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father,
and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
46:6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of
Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:
46:7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all
his seed he brought with him into Egypt.
46:8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and
his sons: Reuben, Jacob's first-born.
46:9 And the sons of Reuben: Hanoch, and Pallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.
46:10 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and
Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
46:11 And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
46:12 And the sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Perez, and Zerah; but Er and
Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
46:13 And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron.
46:14 And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
46:15 These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his
daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
46:16 And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and
Areli.
46:17 And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their
sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.
46:18 These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these
she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
46:19 The sons of Rachel Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.
46:20 And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom
Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bore to him.
46:21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi,
and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.
46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
46:23 And the sons of Dan: Hushim.
46:24 And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and these
she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides
Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were 66;
46:27 and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: all the
souls of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were 70.
46:28 And he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen;
and they came into the land of Goshen.
46:29 And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to
Goshen; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a
good while.
46:30 And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, that you are
yet alive.
46:31 And Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, I will go up, and tell
Pharaoh, and will say to him, My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land
of Canaan, are come to me;
46:32 and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have
brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.
46:33 And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your
occupation?
46:34 that ye shall say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even
until now, both we, and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every
shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Chapter 47
47:1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brothers, and
their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan;
and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
47:2 And from among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
47:3 And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to
Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.
47:4 And they said to Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no
pasture for your servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now
therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
47:5 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers are come to
you:
47:6 the land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land make your father and your
brothers to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if you know any able men
among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
47:7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob
blessed Pharaoh.
47:8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of your life?
47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years:
few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the
days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the
land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had
commanded.
47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household,
with bread, according to their families.
47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the
land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
47:14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in
the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into
Pharaoh's house.
47:15 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan,
all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in your
presence? for our money is running out.
47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will pay you for your cattle, if money runs
out.
47:17 And they brought their cattle to Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange
for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them
with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.
47:18 And when that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him,
We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle
are my lord's; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
47:19 why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land
for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may
live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.
47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every
man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's.
47:21 And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of
Egypt even to the other end thereof.
47:22 Only the land of the priests bought he not: for the priests had a portion from
Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they sold not their
land.
47:23 Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land
for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
47:24 And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth to Pharaoh,
and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of
your households, and for food for your little ones.
47:25 And they said, You have saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord,
and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
47:26 And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh
should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's.
47:27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got them
possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the
years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years.
47:29 And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said
to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my
thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me: bury me not, I pray you, in Egypt;
47:30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in
their burying-place. And he said, I will do as you have said.
47:31 And he said, Swear to me: and he swore to him. And Israel bowed himself upon
the bed's head.
Chapter 48
48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that one said to Joseph, Behold, your father is
sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
48:2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, your son Joseph comes to you: and Israel
strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
48:3 And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of
Canaan, and blessed me,
48:4 and said to me, Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make
of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an
everlasting possession.
48:5 And now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to
you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, shall be
mine.
48:6 And your issue, that you beget after them, shall be yours; they shall be called after
the name of their brothers in their inheritance.
48:7 And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan
in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath: and I buried her there
in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
48:8 And Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?
48:9 And Joseph said to his father, They are my sons, whom God has given me here.
And he said, Bring them, I pray you, to me, and I will bless them.
48:10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought
them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
48:11 And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see your face: and, lo, God has let
me see your seed also.
48:12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees; and he bowed himself with
his face to the earth.
48:13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand,
and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him.
48:14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was
the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for
Manasseh was the first-born.
48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and
Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
48:16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be
named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a
multitude in the midst of the earth.
48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim,
it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to
Manasseh's head.
48:18 And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put your
right hand upon his head.
48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it. He also shall
become a people, and he also shall be great: Nevertheless his younger brother shall be
greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
48:20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In you will Israel bless, saying, God make
you as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
48:21 And Israel said to Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you
again to the land of your fathers.
48:22 Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took out of
the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Chapter 49
49:1 And Jacob called to his sons, and said: gather yourselves together, that I may tell
you that which shall befall you in the latter days.
49:2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And hearken to Israel your father.
49:3 Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The
pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power.
49:4 Boiling over as water, you shall not have the pre-eminence; Because you went up to
your father's bed; Then you defiled it: he went up to my couch.
49:5 Simeon and Levi are brothers; Weapons of violence are their swords.
49:6 O my soul, come not you into their council; To their assembly, my glory, be not you
united; For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they hocked an ox.
49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel: I will
divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
49:8 Judah, you shall your brothers praise: Your hand shall be on the neck of your
enemies; Your father's sons shall bow down before you.
49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, you are gone up: He stooped down,
he crouched as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
Until Shiloh come: And to him shall the obedience of the peoples be.
49:11 Binding his foal to the vine, and his donkey's colt to the choice vine; He has
washed his garments in wine, and his vesture in the blood of grapes:
49:12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
49:13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; And he shall be for a haven of ships;
And his border shall be upon Sidon.
49:14 Issachar is a strong donkey, Couching down between the sheepfolds:
49:15 And he saw a resting-place that it was good, and the land that it was pleasant; And
he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant under forced labor.
49:16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
49:17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels,
So that his rider falls backward.
49:18 I have waited for your salvation, O Yahweh.
49:19 Gad, a troop shall press upon him; But he shall press upon their heel.
49:20 Out of the Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
49:21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: He gives goodly words.
49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a fountain; His branches run over the
wall.
49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and persecute him:
49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong, By the
hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),
49:25 Even by the God of your father, who shall help you, and by the Almighty, who
shall bless you, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that crouches
beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
49:26 The blessings of your father Have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors
To the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on
the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brothers.
49:27 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf: In the morning she shall devour the prey, and at
evening he shall divide the spoil.
49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spoke to them
and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.
49:29 And he charged them, and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people: bury me
with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
49:30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of
Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of
a burying-place.
49:31 there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah
his wife; and there I buried Leah:
49:32 the field and the cave that is in it, which was purchased from the children of Heth.
49:33 And when Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the
bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered to his people.
Chapter 50
50:1 And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
50:2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the
physicians embalmed Israel.
50:3 And 40 days were fulfilled for him; for that is how the days of embalming are
fulfilled: and the Egyptians wept for him 70 days.
50:4 And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the house of
Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of
Pharaoh, saying,
50:5 My father made me swear, saying, See, I am dying: in my grave which I have dug
for me in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I
pray you, and bury my father, and I will come again.
50:6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury your father, according as he made you swear.
50:7 And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him all the servants of Pharaoh
went up, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
50:8 and all the house of Joseph, and his brothers, and his father's house: only their little
ones, and their flocks and their herds they left in the land of Goshen.
50:9 And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great
company.
50:10 And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and
there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for
his father seven days.
50:11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the
floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: therefore the name
of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
50:12 And his sons did to him according as he commanded them:
50:13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the
field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought along with the field, for a possession of a
burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
50:14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brothers and all who went up with him
to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
50:15 And when Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be
that Joseph will hate us, and will fully repay us all the evil which we did to him.
50:16 And they sent a message to Joseph, saying, Your father commanded before he
died, saying,
50:17 This ye shall say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you now, the transgression of your
brothers, and their sin, what harm they did to you. So now, we pray you, forgive the
transgression of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they
spoke to him.
50:18 And his brothers also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we
are your servants.
50:19 And Joseph said to them, Fear not: am I in the place of God?
50:20 Though ye meant evil against me, yet God meant it for good, to bring to pass what
it is this day, to save many people alive.
50:21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will provide for you, and your little ones. And he
comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.
50:22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph lived 110 years.
50:23 And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of
Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees. 6
50:24 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and
bring you up out of this land to the land which he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob.
50:25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you,
and ye shall carry up my bones from here.
50:26 So Joseph died, being 110 years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a
coffin in Egypt.
End of Genesis
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That is, counted as his own.
The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus
Exodus
Chapter 1
1:1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and
his household came with Jacob):
1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
1:4 Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: and Joseph
was in Egypt already.
1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and
grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
1:8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.
1:9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and
mightier than we:
1:10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that,
when there falls out any war, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against
us, and get themselves up out of the land.
1:11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens.
And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.
1:12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread
abroad. And the Egyptians were grieved because of the children of Israel.
1:13 And they made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:
1:14 and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all
manner of service in the field, all their service, in which they made them serve with rigor.
1:15 And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one
was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
1:16 and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see
them upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then
she shall live.
1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them,
but saved the male children alive.
1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, Why have ye done
this thing, and have saved the male children alive?
1:19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the
Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered before the midwife is come to
them.
1:20 And God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and grew very
mighty.
1:21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them
households.
1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into
the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.
Chapter 2
2:1 And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
2:2 And the woman conceived, and bore a son: and when she saw him that he was a
goodly child, she hid him three months.
2:3 And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of papyrus reeds,
and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds
by the river's brink.
2:4 And his sister stood afar off, to find out what would be done to him.
2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens
walked along by the riverside; and she saw the ark among the reeds, and sent her
handmaid to fetch it.
2:6 And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the baby cried. And she had
compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.
2:7 Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call for you a nurse of the
Hebrew women, so she may nurse the child for you?
2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child's
mother.
2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I
will give you your wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her
son. And she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.
2:11 And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out to
his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one
of his brethren.
2:12 And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no one, he
struck down the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
2:13 And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving
together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Why do you strike your fellow?
2:14 And he said, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill
me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.
2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled
from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and
filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped
them, and watered their flock.
2:18 And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so
soon today?
2:19 And they said, an Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and
moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.
2:20 And he said to his daughters, and where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man?
Call him, that he may eat bread.
2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his
daughter.
2:22 And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a
sojourner in a foreign land.
2:23 And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died:
and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry
came up to God by reason of the bondage.
2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham,
with Isaac, and with Jacob.
2:25 And God saw the children of Israel, and God took knowledge of them.
Chapter 3
3:1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian:
and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, to
Horeb.
3:2 And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a
bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not
consumed.
3:3 And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not
burnt.
3:4 And when Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the midst
of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
3:5 And he said, Draw not near to here: put off your shoes from off your feet, for the
place whereon you stand is holy ground.
3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon
God.
3:7 And Yahweh said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt,
and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
3:8 and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring
them up out of that land to a good land and a large, to a land flowing with milk and
honey; to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite,
and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
3:9 And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come to me: moreover I have
seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring forth my
people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
3:11 And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should
bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
3:12 And he said, Certainly I will be with you; and this shall be the token to you, that I
have sent you: when you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God
upon this mountain.
3:13 And Moses said to God, Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say
to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you; and they shall say to me, What is
his name? What shall I say to them?
3:14 And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shall you say to the
children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.
3:15 And God said moreover to Moses, Thus shall you say to the children of Israel,
Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all
generations.
3:16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, Yahweh, the God of
your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, I
have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
3:17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
3:18 And they shall hearken to your voice: and you shall come, you and the elders of
Israel, to the king of Egypt, and ye shall say to him, Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews,
has met with us: and now let us go, we pray you, three days' journey into the wilderness,
that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
3:19 And I know that the king of Egypt will not give you leave to go, no, not by a mighty
hand.
3:20 And I will put forth my hand, and strike Egypt with all my wonders which I will do
in the midst of it: and after that he will let you go.
3:21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to
pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty.
3:22 But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, and of her that sojourns in her house,
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons,
and upon your daughters; and ye shall despoil the Egyptians.
Chapter 4
4:1 And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken to
my voice; for they will say, Yahweh has not appeared to you.
4:2 And Yahweh said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, a rod.
4:3 And he said, Cast in on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a
serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
4:4 And Yahweh said to Moses, Put forth your hand, and take it by the tail: (and he put
forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand:)
4:5 That they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.
4:6 And Yahweh said furthermore to him, Put now your hand into your bosom. And he
put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as
white as snow.
4:7 And he said, Put your hand into your bosom again. (And he put his hand into his
bosom again; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned back like his
other flesh.)
4:8 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe you, nor listen to the voice of the
first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
4:9 And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe even these two signs, nor listen to
your voice, that you shall take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and
the water which you take out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
4:10 And Moses said to Yahweh, Oh, Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor
since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
4:11 And Yahweh said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes a man
mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh?
4:12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall
speak.
4:13 And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray you, by the hand of him whom you will send.
4:14 And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is there not
Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he is
coming forth to meet you: and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
4:15 And you shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth: and I will be with your
mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
4:16 And he shall be your spokesman to the people; and it shall come to pass, that he
shall be to you a mouth, and you shall be to him as God.
4:17 And you shall take in your hand this rod, with which you shall do the signs.
4:18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me
go, I pray you, and return to my brethren that are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet
alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
4:19 And Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are
dead that sought your life.
4:20 And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon a donkey, and he returned
to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.
4:21 And Yahweh said to Moses, When you go back into Egypt, see that you do before
Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your hand: but I will harden his heart and he
will not let the people go.
4:22 And you shall say to Pharaoh, Thus says Yahweh, Israel is my son, my first-born:
4:23 and I have said to you, Let my son go, that he may serve me; and you have refused
to let him go: behold, I will slay your son, your first-born.
4:24 And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that Yahweh met him, and
sought to kill him.
4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet;
and she said, A bloody husband you surely are to me.
4:26 Therefore Yahweh left him alone. Then she said, a bloody husband are you,
because of the circumcision.
4:27 And Yahweh said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went,
and met him in the mountain of God, and kissed him.
4:28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all
the signs with which he had charged him.
4:29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of
Israel:
4:30 and Aaron spoke all the words which Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and did the
signs in the sight of the people.
4:31 And the people believed: and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children
of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and
worshipped.
Chapter 5
5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, Thus says Yahweh, the
God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.
5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go?
I know not Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
5:3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us: let us go, we pray you, three
days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, lest he fall upon us
with pestilence, or with the sword.
5:4 And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, release the people
from their tasks? get yourselves to your burdens.
5:5 And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them
rest from their burdens.
5:6 And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their
officers, saying,
5:7 You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as up until now: let them go
and gather straw for themselves.
5:8 And the number of the bricks, which they did make until now, ye shall lay upon
them; ye shall not diminish anything about it: for they are lazy; that is why they are
crying, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
5:9 Let heavier work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not
regard lying words.
5:10 And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the
people, saying, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
5:11 Go yourselves, get yourselves straw where ye can find it: for nothing of your work
shall be diminished.
5:12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather
stubble for straw.
5:13 And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as
when there was straw.
5:14 And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over
them, were beaten, and demanded, Why have ye not fulfilled your task both yesterday
and today, in making brick as previously?
5:15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, Why
are you dealing with your servants in this way?
5:16 There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and,
behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.
5:17 But he said, You are lazy, ye are lazy: that is why ye say, Let us go and sacrifice to
Yahweh.
5:18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye
deliver the number of bricks.
5:19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in an evil situation,
when it was said, You shall not diminish anything from your bricks, your daily tasks.
5:20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from
Pharaoh:
5:21 and they said to them, Yahweh look upon you, and judge: because ye have made our
savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a
sword in their hand to slay us.
5:22 And Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, Lord, why have you dealt ill with this
people? why is it that you have sent me?
5:23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has dealt ill with this people;
neither have you delivered your people at all.
Chapter 6
6:1 And Yahweh said to Moses, Now shall you see what I will do to Pharaoh: for by a
strong hand shall he let them go, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.
6:2 And God spoke to Moses, and said to him, I am Yahweh:
6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name
Yahweh I was not known to them.
6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan,
the land of their sojournings, in which they sojourned.
6:5 And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the
Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.
6:6 Wherefore say to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from
under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will
redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
6:7 and I will take you to myself for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall
know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians.
6:8 And I will bring you in to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Yahweh.
6:9 And Moses spoke so to the children of Israel: but they did not listen to Moses for
anguish of spirit and because of cruel bondage.
6:10 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
6:11 Go in, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of his
land.
6:12 And Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not
listened to me; how then shall Pharaoh listen to me, I who am of uncircumcised lips?
6:13 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge for the children
of Israel, and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt.
6:14 These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the first-born of
Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.
6:15 And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and
Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman; these are the families of Simeon.
6:16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon,
and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven
years.
6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.
6:18 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years
of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years.
6:19 And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites
according to their generations.
6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron
and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years.
6:21 And the sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
6:22 And the sons of Uzziel: Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.
6:23 And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon,
to wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
6:24 And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of
the Korahites.
6:25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she
bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according
to their families.
6:26 These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Yahweh said, Bring out the children of
Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.
6:27 These are they that spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of
Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.
6:28 And it came to pass on the day when Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,
6:29 that Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, I am Yahweh: speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt
all that I speak to you.
6:30 And Moses said before Yahweh, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall
Pharaoh hearken to me?
Chapter 7
7:1 And Yahweh said to Moses, See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron
your brother shall be your prophet.
7:2 You shall speak all that I command you; and Aaron your brother shall speak to
Pharaoh, that he must let the children of Israel go out of his land.
7:3 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land
of Egypt.
7:4 But Pharaoh will not listen to you, and then I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring
forth my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt, by great
judgments.
7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I stretch forth my hand upon
Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
7:6 And Moses and Aaron did so; as Yahweh commanded them, that they did.
7:7 And Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron 83 years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
7:8 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,
7:9 When Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Show a miracle; then you shall say to
Aaron, Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, and it will become a serpent.
7:10 And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had
commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it
became a serpent.
7:11 Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers: and they also, the
magicians of Egypt, performed in like manner with their enchantments.
7:12 For every man of them cast down his rod, and they became serpents. But, aaron's
rod swallowed up their rods.
7:13 Yet Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them; as Yahweh had
said.
7:14 And Yahweh said to Moses, Pharaoh's heart is stubborn, he refuses to let the people
go.
7:15 Get you to Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand
by the river's brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take
in your hand.
7:16 And you shall say to him, Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you,
saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, so far
you have not listened.
7:17 Thus says Yahweh, In this you shall know that I am Yahweh: behold, I will strike
with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be
turned to blood.
7:18 And the fish that are in the river shall die, and the river shall become foul; and the
Egyptians shall loathe to drink water from the river.
7:19 And Yahweh said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your rod, and stretch out your hand
over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and
over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood
throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.
7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and
struck the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his
servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
7:21 And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians
could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.
7:22 And the magicians of Egypt did in like manner with their enchantments: and
Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
7:23 And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.
7:24 And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they could
not drink of the water of the river.
7:25 And seven days were fulfilled, after that Yahweh had smitten the river.
Chapter 8
8:1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and say to him, Thus says Yahweh,
Let my people go, that they may serve me.
8:2 And if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will strike all your territory with frogs:
8:3 and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house,
and into your bedchamber, and upon your bed, and into the house of your servants, and
upon your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading-troughs:
8:4 and the frogs shall come up both upon you, and upon your people, and upon all your
servants.
8:5 And Yahweh said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch forth your hand with your rod over
the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land
of Egypt.
8:6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up,
and covered the land of Egypt.
8:7 And the magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, and brought up frogs
upon the land of Egypt.
8:8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat Yahweh, that he take
away the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may
sacrifice to Yahweh.
8:9 And Moses said to Pharaoh, Have you this glory over me: against what time shall I
entreat for you, and for your servants, and for your people, that the frogs be destroyed
from you and your houses, and remain in the river only?
8:10 And he said, against tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to your word; that
you may know that there is none like to Yahweh our God.
8:11 And the frogs shall depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants,
and from your people; they shall remain in the river only.
8:12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried to Yahweh
concerning the frogs which he had brought upon Pharaoh.
8:13 And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the
houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.
8:14 And they gathered them together in heaps; and the land stank.
8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened
not to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
8:16 And Yahweh said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your rod, and strike the dust
of the earth, that is may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
8:17 And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and struck the dust
of the earth, and there were lice upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth
became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
8:18 And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could
not: and there were lice upon man, and upon beast.
8:19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh's heart
was hardened, and he hearkened not to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
8:20 And Yahweh said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh;
lo, he comes forth to the water; and say to him, Thus says Yahweh, Let my people go,
that they may serve me.
8:21 Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon you,
and upon they servants, and upon your people, and into your houses: and the houses of
the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground whereon they are.
8:22 And I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that
no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst
of the earth.
8:23 And I will put a division between my people and your people: by tomorrow shall
this sign be.
8:24 And Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of
Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted
by reason of the swarms of flies.
8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God
in the land.
8:26 And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the
Egyptians to Yahweh our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians
before their eyes, and will they not stone us?
8:27 We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our
God, as he shall command us.
8:28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the
wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: entreat for me.
8:29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from you, and I will entreat Yahweh that the
swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people,
tomorrow: only let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more in not letting the people go to
sacrifice to Yahweh.
8:30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Yahweh.
8:31 And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of
flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained not one.
8:32 And Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.
Chapter 9
9:1 Then Yahweh said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the
God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
9:2 For if you refuse to let them go, and will hold them still,
9:3 behold, the hand of Yahweh is upon your cattle which are in the field, upon the
horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks: there shall
be a very grievous murrain.
9:4 And Yahweh shall make a distinction between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of
Egypt; and there shall nothing die of all that belongs to the children of Israel.
9:5 And Yahweh appointed a set time, saying, Tomorrow Yahweh shall do this thing in
the land.
9:6 And Yahweh did that thing on the morrow; and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the
cattle of the children of Israel died not one.
9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not so much as one of the cattle of the
Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was stubborn, and he did not let the people go.
9:8 And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the
furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.
9:9 And it shall become small dust over all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking
forth with sores upon man and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt.
9:10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled
it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with sores upon man and upon
beast.
9:11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils
were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.
9:12 And Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not to them, as
Yahweh had spoken to Moses.
9:13 And Yahweh said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh,
and say to him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they
may serve me.
9:14 For I will this time send all my plagues upon your heart, and upon your servants,
and upon your people; that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
9:15 For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten you and your people with pestilence,
and you had been cut off from the earth:
9:16 but in very deed for this cause have I made you to stand, to show you my power, and
that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
9:17 You are still exalting yourself against my people, that you will not let them go?
9:18 Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as
has not been in Egypt since the day it was founded even until now.
9:19 Now therefore send, hasten in your cattle and all that you have in the field; for every
man and beast that shall be found in the field, and shall not be brought home, the hail
shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
9:20 He that feared the word of Yahweh among the servants of Pharaoh made his
servants and his cattle flee into the houses.
9:21 And he that regarded not the word of Yahweh left his servants and his cattle in the
field.
9:22 And Yahweh said to Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, that there may
be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the
field, throughout the land of Egypt.
9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Yahweh sent thunder and
hail, and fire ran down to the earth; and Yahweh rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
9:24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been
in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
9:25 And the hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both
man and beast; and the hail struck every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the
field.
9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.
9:27 And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned
this time: Yahweh is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.
9:28 Entreat Yahweh; for there has been enough of these mighty thunderings and hail;
and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.
9:29 And Moses said to him, as soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my
hands to Yahweh; the thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you
may know that the earth is Yahweh's.
9:30 But as for you and your servants, I know that ye will not yet fear Yahweh God.
9:31 And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax
was in bloom.
9:32 But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten: for they were not grown up.
9:33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands to
Yahweh: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
9:34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he
sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
9:35 And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the children of Israel go,
as Yahweh had spoken by Moses.
Chapter 10
10:1 And Yahweh said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the
heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them,
10:2 and that you may tell in the ears of your son, and of your son's son, what things I
have wrought upon Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may
know that I am Yahweh.
10:3 And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, the
God of the Hebrews, How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? let my
people go, that they may serve me.
10:4 Else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow will I bring locusts into
your border:
10:5 and they shall cover the face of the earth, so that one shall not be able to see the
earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remains to you from
the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field:
10:6 and your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses
of all the Egyptians; as neither your fathers nor your fathers' fathers have seen, since the
day that they were upon the earth to this day. And he turned, and went out from
Pharaoh.
10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this man be a snare to us? let
the men go, that they may serve Yahweh their God: do you not yet know that Egypt is
destroyed?
10:8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh: and he said to them, Go,
serve Yahweh your God; but who are they that shall go?
10:9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and
with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a
feast to Yahweh.
10:10 And he said to them, So be Yahweh with you, as I will let you go, and your little
ones: look to it; for evil is before you.
10:11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what ye desire.
And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
10:12 And Yahweh said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the
locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land,
even all that the hail has left.
10:13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh brought an
east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east
wind brought the locusts.
10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of
Egypt; very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither
after them shall be such.
10:15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and
they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left:
and there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of the field, through all the
land of Egypt.
10:16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned
against Yahweh your God, and against you.
10:17 Now therefore forgive, I pray you, my sin only this once, and entreat Yahweh your
God, that he may take away from me this death only.
10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Yahweh.
10:19 And Yahweh turned an exceedingly strong west wind, which took up the locusts,
and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.
10:20 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
10:21 And Yahweh said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may
be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
10:22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness
in all the land of Egypt three days;
10:23 they saw not one another, neither rose any one from his place for three days: but all
the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
10:24 And Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, Go ye, serve Yahweh; only let your flocks
and your herds be stayed: let your little ones also go with you.
10:25 And Moses said, You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings,
that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.
10:26 Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind: for thereof
must we take to serve Yahweh our God; and we know not with what we must serve
Yahweh, until we come there.
10:27 But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
10:28 And Pharaoh said to him, Get you from me, take heed to yourself, see my face no
more; for in the day you see my face you shall die.
10:29 And Moses said, You have spoken well. I will see your face again no more.
Chapter 11
11:1 And Yahweh said to Moses, Yet one plague more will I bring upon Pharaoh, and
upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go from here: when he shall let you go, he shall
surely thrust you out from here altogether.
11:2 Speak now in the ears of the people, and let them ask every man of his neighbor, and
every woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
11:3 And Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the
man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants, and in
the sight of the people.
11:4 And Moses said, Thus says Yahweh, about midnight will I go out into the midst of
Egypt:
11:5 and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh
that sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill;
and all the first-born of cattle.
11:6 And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has not
been, nor shall be any more.
11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against
man or beast: that ye may know how that Yahweh makes a distinction between the
Egyptians and Israel.
11:8 And all these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to
me, saying, Get you out, and all the people that follow you: and after that I will go out.
And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
11:9 And Yahweh said to Moses, Pharaoh will not hearken to you; that my wonders may
be multiplied in the land of Egypt.
11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and Yahweh
hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.
Chapter 12
12:1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
12:2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the
year to you.
12:3 Speak ye to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they
shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a
household:
12:4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next to
his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating
ye shall make your count for the lamb.
12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the
sheep, or from the goats:
12:6 and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole
assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.7
12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel,
upon the houses in which they shall eat it.
12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with
bitter herbs they shall eat it.
12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its
legs and with the inwards thereof.
12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it
until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
12:11 And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your
staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.
12:12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike down all the
first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I
will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.
12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I
see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you,
when I strike the land of Egypt.
12:14 And this day shall be to you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to Yahweh:
throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away
leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the
seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
12:16 And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day
a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man
must eat, that only may be done by you.
12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I
brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day
throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever.
12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, ye shall eat
unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eats that
which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is
a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.
12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened
bread.
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Literally, "between the two evenings"
12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Draw out, and take
you lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and
strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you
shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
12:23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike down the Egyptians; and when he sees the
blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will
not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever.
12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye are come to the land which Yahweh will give
you, according as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service.
12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean ye by
this service?
12:27 that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the
houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our
houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
12:28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and
Aaron, so did they.
12:29 And it came to pass at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive
that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians;
and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one
dead.
12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, go forth from
among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as ye have
said.
12:32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me
also.
12:33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in
haste; for they said, We are all dead men.
12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs
being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of
the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment.
12:36 And Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let
them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.
12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred
thousand on foot that were men, besides children.
12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very
much cattle.
12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of
Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry,
neither had they prepared for themselves any victuals.
12:40 Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty
years.
12:41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame
day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.
12:42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of
Egypt: this is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel
throughout their generations.
12:43 And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: there
shall no foreigner be allowed to eat of it;
12:44 but every man's servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him,
then shall he eat of it.
12:45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad
out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone of it.
12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and will keep the Passover to
Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he
shall be as one that is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
12:49 The same law shall be for him that is home-born, and for the stranger that sojourns
among you.
12:50 This all the children of Israel did; as Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so
they did.
12:51 And it came to pass that very same day, that Yahweh did bring the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt by their multitudes.
Chapter 13
13:2 Sanctify to me all the first-born, whatsoever opens the womb among the children of
Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
13:3 And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from
Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out
from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
13:4 This day ye go forth in the month Abib.
13:5 And it shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the
Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers
to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this
month.
13:6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to
Yahweh.
13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall no
leavened bread be seen with you, neither shall there be leaven seen with you, in all your
borders.
13:8 And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, It is because of that which Yahweh
did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.
13:9 And it shall be for a sign to you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your
eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand has Yahweh
brought you out of Egypt.
13:10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
13:11 And it shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he
swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it to you,
13:12 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstling
which you have that comes of a beast; the males shall be Yahweh's.
13:13 And every firstling of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not
redeem it, then you shall break its neck: and all the first-born of man among your sons
shall you redeem.
13:14 And it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this?
that you shall say to him, By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from
the house of bondage:
13:15 and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh slew all the
first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast:
therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn
of my sons I redeem.
13:16 And it shall be for a sign upon your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes: for
by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt.
13:17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by
the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest
peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
13:18 but God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the
children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
13:19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had sternly sworn the
children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away
from here with you.
13:20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of
the wilderness.
13:21 And Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way,
and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:
13:22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not from before
the people.
Chapter 14
14:2 Tell the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth,
between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the
sea.
14:3 And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the
wilderness has shut them in.
14:4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get me
honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host: and the Egyptians shall know that I am
Yahweh. And they did so.
14:5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled: and the heart of Pharaoh
and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, What is this we have
done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
14:6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:
14:7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains
over all of them.
14:8 And Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the
children of Israel: for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.
14:9 And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and
his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth,
before Baal-zephon.
14:10 And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and,
behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were sore afraid: and the
children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.
14:11 And they said to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us
away to die in the wilderness? why have you dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of
Egypt?
14:12 Is not this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we
may serve the Egyptians? For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we
should die in the wilderness.
14:13 And Moses said to the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of
Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today,
ye shall see them again no more for ever.
14:14 Yahweh will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
14:15 And Yahweh said to Moses, Why are you crying to me? Tell the children of
Israel that they should go forward.
14:16 And lift you up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and
the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.
14:17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after
them: and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and
upon his horsemen.
14:18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten me honor
upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
14:19 And the angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, removed and went
behind them; and the pillar of cloud removed from before them, and stood behind them:
14:20 and it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the
cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one came not near the other all
the night.
14:21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Yahweh caused the sea to go
back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were
divided.
14:22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and
the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
14:23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all
Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
14:24 And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked forth upon the host
of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the
Egyptians.
14:25 And he took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the
Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for Yahweh fights for them against the
Egyptians.
14:26 And Yahweh said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the waters
may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.
14:27 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its
strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Yahweh
overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
14:28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the
host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of
them.
14:29 But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the
waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
14:30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw
the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore.
14:31 And Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did upon the Egyptians, and the
people feared Yahweh: and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.
Chapter 15
15:1 Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to Yahweh, and spoke, saying,
I will sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider has he
thrown into the sea.
15:2 Yahweh is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: This is my God,
and I will praise him; My father's God, and I will exalt him.
15:3 Yahweh is a man of war: Yahweh is his name.
15:4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host has he cast into the sea; And his chosen captains are
sunk in the Red Sea.
15:5 The deeps cover them: They went down into the depths like a stone.
15:6 Your right hand, O Yahweh, is glorious in power, Your right hand, O Yahweh,
dashes in pieces the enemy.
15:7 And in the greatness of your Excellency you overthrow them that rise up against
you: You send forth your wrath, it consumes them as stubble.
15:8 And with the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, The floods stood
upright as a heap; The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.
15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall
be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
15:10 You blew with your wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty
waters.
15:11 Who is like to you, O Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in
holiness, Fearful in praises, doing wonders?
15:12 You stretched out your right hand, The earth swallowed them.
15:13 You in your lovingkindness have led the people that you have redeemed: You have
guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
15:14 The peoples have heard, they tremble: Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of
Philistia.
15:15 Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling
takes hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.
15:16 Terror and dread falls upon them; By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a
stone; Till your people pass over, O Yahweh, Till the people pass over that you have
purchased.
15:17 You will bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, The
place, O Yahweh, which you have made for you to dwell in, The sanctuary, O Lord,
which your hands have established.
15:18 Yahweh shall reign for ever and ever.
15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the
sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel
walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.
15:20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and
all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
15:21 And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously;
The horse and his rider has he thrown into the sea.
15:22 And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the
wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
15:23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for
they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.
15:24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
15:25 An he cried to Yahweh; And Yahweh showed him a tree, and he cast it into the
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waters, and the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an
ordinance, and there he proved them;
15:26 and he said, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of Yahweh your God, and
will do that which is right in his eyes, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep
all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you, which I have put upon the
Egyptians: for I am Yahweh who heals you.
15:27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and 70 palm-trees:
and they encamped there by the waters.
Chapter 16
16:1 And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of
Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth
day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
16:2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
against Aaron in the wilderness:
16:3 and the children of Israel said to them, Would that we had died by the hand of
Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, when we did eat bread to the
full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with
hunger.
16:4 Then said Yahweh to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the
people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may prove them, whether
they will walk in my law, or not.
16:5 And it shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they
bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.
16:6 And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, at even, then ye shall know
that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt;
16:7 and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of Yahweh; for that he hears your
murmurings against Yahweh. And what are we, that ye murmur against us?
16:8 And Moses said, This shall be, when Yahweh shall give you in the evening flesh to
eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that Yahweh hears your murmurings which
ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but
against Yahweh.
16:9 And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come
near before Yahweh; for he has heard your murmurings.
16:10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of
Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of Yahweh appeared
in the cloud.
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That is, made drinkable.
16:12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak to them, saying, at
even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread: and ye shall
know that I am Yahweh your God.
16:13 And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in
the morning the dew lay round about the camp.
16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a
fine flake-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.
16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? For
they knew not what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which Yahweh has
given you to eat.
16:16 This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, Gather ye of it every man
according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall ye
take it, every man for them that are in his tent.
16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.
16:18 And when they measured it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over,
and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.
16:19 And Moses said to them, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
16:20 Notwithstanding they hearkened not to Moses; but some of them left of it until the
morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was angry with them.
16:21 And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating: and
when the sun became hot, it melted.
16:22 And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two
omers for each one: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
16:23 And he said to them, This is that which Yahweh has spoken, Tomorrow is a solemn
rest, a holy sabbath to Yahweh: bake that which ye will bake, and boil that which ye will
boil; and all that remains over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
16:24 And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses instructed: and it did not become
foul, neither was there any worm therein.
16:25 And Moses said, Eat that today; for today is a sabbath to Yahweh: today ye shall
not find it in the field.
16:26 Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it there shall be
none.
16:27 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to
gather, and they found none.
16:28 And Yahweh said to Moses, How long do you refuse to keep my commandments
and my laws?
16:29 See, for that Yahweh has given you the sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth
day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place
on the seventh day.
16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
16:31 And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander
seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
16:32 And Moses said, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, Let an omerful
of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed
you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
16:33 And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay
it up before Yahweh, to be kept throughout your generations.
16:34 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be
kept.
16:35 And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land
inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
Chapter 17
17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of
Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Yahweh, and encamped in
Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
17:2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may
drink. And Moses said to them, Why strive ye with me? Why do ye tempt Yahweh?
17:3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses,
and said, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our
cattle with thirst?
17:4 And Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, What shall I do to this people? They are
almost ready to stone me.
17:5 And Yahweh said to Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with you some of
the elders of Israel. And your rod, with which you struck the river, take it in your hand,
and go.
17:6 Behold, I will stand before you there upon the rock in Horeb; and you shall strike
the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did
so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
17:7 And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of
the children of Israel, and because they tempted Yahweh, saying, Is Yahweh among us,
or not?
17:8 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
17:9 And Moses said to Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek:
tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.
17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses,
Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
17:11 And it came to pass, that as long as Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed; and
when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
17:12 But Moses' hands became heavy; so they took a stone, and put it under him, and he
sat on it, and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the
other side. And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
17:14 And Yahweh said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in
the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven.
17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh-nissi;
17:16 And he said, Yahweh has sworn: Yahweh will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation.
Chapter 18
18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard about all that God had
done for Moses, and for Israel his people, how Yahweh had brought Israel out of Egypt.
18:2 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her
away,
18:3 and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have
been a sojourner in a foreign land:
18:4 and the name of the other was Eliezer; for he said, The God of my father was my
help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.
18:5 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the
wilderness where he was encamped, at the mount of God:
18:6 and he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law Jethro, am come to you, and your wife,
and her two sons with her.
18:7 And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him:
and they asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
18:8 And Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to the
Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how
Yahweh delivered them.
18:9 And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Yahweh had done to Israel, in that he
had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.
18:10 And Jethro said, Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the
hand of the Egyptians.
18:11 I know now that Yahweh is greater than all other gods; indeed, witness the matter
in which they dealt proudly against the people.
18:12 And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and
Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before
God.
18:13 And it came to pass the next day, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the
people stood about Moses from the morning to the evening.
18:14 And when Moses' father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is
this thing that you are doing to the people? Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the
people are standing around you from morning until evening?
18:15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to inquire of
God.
18:16 When they have a matter, they come to me; and I judge between a man and his
neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.
18:17 And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that you are doing is not good.
18:18 You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you: for the thing
is too heavy for you; you are not able to perform it yourself alone.
18:19 Take heed now to my voice, I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You
be for the people to God-ward, and you bring the causes to God.
18:20 And you shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and show them the way in
which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
18:21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men
of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such men over them, to be rulers of thousands,
rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
18:22 and let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that all the important
cases they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves: so shall
it be easier for you, and thus they shall bear it with you.
18:23 If you shall do this thing, and God commands you so, then you shall be able to
endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.
18:24 So Moses did take heed to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had
said.
18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people,
rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
18:26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard cases they brought to Moses,
but every small matter they judged themselves.
18:27 And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land.
Chapter 19
19:1 In the third month after the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of
Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
19:2 And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of
Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.
19:3 And Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him out of the mountain, saying,
Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:
19:4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings,
and brought you to myself.
19:5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye
shall be my own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
19:6 and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words
which you shall speak to the children of Israel.
19:7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all
these words which Yahweh commanded him.
19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, all that Yahweh has spoken we will
do. And Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.
19:9 And Yahweh said to Moses, Lo, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may
hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you for ever. And Moses told the
words of the people to Yahweh.
19:10 And Yahweh said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and
tomorrow, and let them wash their garments,
19:11 and be ready against the third day; for the third day Yahweh will come down in the
sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
19:12 And you shall set bounds to the people round about, saying, Take heed to
yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whoever touches
the mountain shall be surely put to death:
19:13 no hand shall touch him, without surely being stoned, or shot through; whether it is
beast or man, he shall not live: when the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the
mountain.
19:14 And Moses went down from the mount to the people, and sanctified the people;
and they washed their garments.
19:15 And he said to the people, Be ready against the third day: come not near a woman.
19:16 And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were
thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain, and the voice of a trumpet
exceedingly loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled.
19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood
at the foot of the mountain.
19:18 And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Yahweh descended upon it in
fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount
quaked greatly.
19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and
God answered him by a voice.
19:20 And Yahweh came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Yahweh
called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
19:21 And Yahweh said to Moses, Go down, admonish the people, before they break
through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
19:22 And let the priests also, that come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest
Yahweh break forth upon them.
19:23 And Moses said to Yahweh, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for you
charged us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.
19:24 And Yahweh said to him, Go, get yourself down; and you shall come up, you, and
Aaron with you: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up to
Yahweh, lest he break forth upon them.
19:25 So Moses went down to the people, and told them.
Chapter 20
20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying,
20:2 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of bondage.
20:3 You shall have no other gods before me.
20:4 You shall not make for yourselves a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that
is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them, for I Yahweh your God
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and
upon the fourth generation of those who hate me,
20:6 and showing lovingkindness to thousands of them that love me and keep my
commandments.
20:7 You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain; for Yahweh will not hold
him guiltless that takes his name in vain.
20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
20:9 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
20:10 but the seventh day is a sabbath to Yahweh your God: in it you shall not do any
work, you, neither your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your maid-servant,
nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates:
20:11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and
rested the seventh day: therefore Yahweh blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
20:12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which
Yahweh your God is giving you.
20:13 You shall not murder.
20:14 You shall not commit adultery.
20:15 You shall not steal.
20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
20:17 You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's
wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything
that is your neighbor's.
20:18 And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of
the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and
stood afar off.
20:19 And they said to Moses, Speak with us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak
with us, lest we die.
20:20 And Moses said to the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and so that
his fear may be before you, that ye sin not.
20:21 And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where
God was.
20:22 And Yahweh said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, You
yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
20:23 You shall not make other gods with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not
make to you.
20:24 An altar of earth you shall make to me, and shall sacrifice upon it your burnt
offerings, and your peace offerings, your sheep, and your oxen: in every place where I
record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
20:25 And if you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if
you lift up your tool upon it, you have polluted it.
20:26 Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not uncovered
upon it.
Chapter 21
21:1 Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
21:2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go
out free for nothing.
21:3 If he comes in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife
shall go out with him.
21:4 If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her
children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
21:5 But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I
will not go out free:
21:6 then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door, or to the
door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him
for ever.
21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-
servants do.
21:8 If she pleases not her master, who has espoused her to himself, then shall he let her
be redeemed: to sell her to a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he has dealt
deceitfully with her.
21:9 And if he espouse her to his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of
daughters.
21:10 If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall
he not diminish.
21:11 And if he do not these three things to her, then shall she go out for nothing, without
money.
21:12 He who strikes a man, such that he dies, shall surely be put to death.
21:13 And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint
you a place whither he shall flee.
21:14 And if a man should come premeditatedly upon his neighbor, to slay him with
guile; you shall take him from away from my altar, that he may die.
21:15 And he who strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
21:16 And he who steals a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall
surely be put to death.
21:17 And he who curses his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
21:18 And if men fight, and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and the
other does not die but takes to his bed;
21:19 if he should rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he who struck
him is acquitted: provided he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be
thoroughly healed.
21:20 And if a man strikes his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he dies under his
hand; he shall surely be punished.
21:21 Notwithstanding, if the slave continues a day or two, he shall not be punished: for
he is his living.
21:22 And if men are fighting, and hurt a woman with child, such that her fruit departs,
and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman's husband shall
lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
21:23 But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life,
21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
21:25 burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.
21:26 And if a man strikes the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, and destroys it;
he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.
21:27 And if he knocks out his man-servant's tooth, or his maid-servant's tooth, he shall
let him go free for his tooth's sake.
21:28 And if an ox should gore a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be surely stoned,
and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be acquitted.
21:29 But if the ox was in the habit to gore in times past, and it has been testified to its
owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the ox shall be
stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.
21:30 Should there be imposed upon him a ransom, then he shall give for the redemption
of his life whatsoever is imposed upon him.
21:31 Whether it has gored a son, or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment
shall it be done to him.
21:32 If the ox should gore a man-servant or a maid-servant, there shall be given to their
master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
21:33 And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not cover it, and an ox
or a donkey fall therein,
21:34 the owner of the pit shall make it good; he shall give money to its owner, and the
dead beast shall be his.
21:35 And if one man's ox should hurt another's, such that it dies, then they shall sell the
live ox, and divide the price of it: and the dead one also they shall divide.
21:36 Or if it be known that the ox was in the habit to gore in times past, and its owner
hats not kept it in, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own.
Chapter 22
22:1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for
an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
22:2 If the thief should be found breaking in, and be struck such that he dies, there shall
be no bloodguilt for that one striking;
22:3 but should the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. The thief
shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
22:4 If the theft be found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or donkey, or sheep, he shall
pay double.
22:5 If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and
it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field,
and from the best of his own vineyard.
22:6 If fire should break out, and catch in thorns, such that the shocks of grain, or the
standing grain, or the field are consumed; the one that kindled the fire shall surely make
restitution.
22:7 If a man shall entrust to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of
the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double.
22:8 If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to be
seen whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor's goods.
22:9 For every matter of adverse possession, whether it be for ox, for donkey, for sheep,
for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, about which one person says, This is it, the
cause of both parties shall come before God. He whom God shall convict shall pay
double to his neighbor.
22:10 If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to
keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
22:11 the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, whether he has not put his hand to
his neighbor's goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make
restitution.
22:12 But if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution to the owner thereof.
22:13 If it be torn in pieces, let him bring it for witness: he shall not make good that
which was torn.
22:14 And if a man borrow anything of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner
thereof not being with it, he shall surely make restitution.
22:15 If the owner thereof is with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it
came for its hire.
22:16 And if a man entices a virgin that is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely
pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
22:17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the
dowry of virgins.
22:18 You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
22:19 Whosoever lies with a beast shall surely be put to death.
22:20 He that sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.
22:21 And a sojourner shall you not wrong, neither shall you oppress him: for ye were
sojourners in the land of Egypt.
22:22 You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
22:23 If you afflict them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;
22:24 and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives
shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
22:25 If you lend money to any of my people with you that is poor, you shall not be to
him as a creditor; neither shall ye lay upon him interest.
22:26 If you at all take your neighbor's garment to pledge, you shall restore it to him
before the sun goes down:
22:27 for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. In what shall he sleep?
And it shall come to pass, when he cries to me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
22:28 You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
22:29 You shall not delay to offer of your harvest, and of the outflow of your presses.
The first-born of your sons shall you give to me.
22:30 Likewise shall you do with your oxen, and with your sheep: seven days it shall be
with its dam; on the eighth day you shall give it me.
22:31 And ye shall be holy men to me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn by
beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
Chapter 23
23:1 You shall not take up a false report: put not your hand with the wicked to be an
unrighteous witness.
23:2 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to turn
aside after a multitude to wrest justice:
23:3 neither shall you favor a poor man in his cause.
23:4 If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it
back to him again.
23:5 If you see the donkey of him that hates you lying under his burden, you shall forbear
to leave him, you shall surely release it with him.
23:6 You shall not wrest the justice due to your poor in his cause.
23:7 Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay you not: for I
will not justify the wicked.
23:8 And you shall take no bribe: for a bribe blinds them that have sight, and perverts the
words of the righteous.
23:9 And a sojourner shall you not oppress: for ye know the heart of a sojourner, seeing
ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
23:10 And six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in the increase thereof:
23:11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow; so that the poor of your
people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner you
shall deal with your vineyard, and with your olive yard.
23:12 Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest; that your
ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the sojourner, may
be refreshed.
23:13 And in all things that I have said to you take ye heed: and make no mention of the
name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of your mouth.
23:14 Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year.
23:15 The feast of unleavened bread shall you keep: seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came
out from Egypt); and none shall appear before me empty:
23:16 and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field:
and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of
the field.
23:17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
23:18 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the
fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.
23:19 The first of the first-fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh
your God. You shall not boil a kid in it mother's milk.
23:20 Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into
the place which I have prepared.
23:21 Take ye heed before him, and hearken to his voice; provoke him not; for he will
not pardon your transgression: for my name is in him.
23:22 But if you shall indeed hearken to his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be
an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
23:23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, and the Hittite,
and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: and I will cut them off.
23:24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but
you shall utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.
23:25 And ye shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread, and your
water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of you.
23:26 There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in your land: the number of your
days I will fulfill.
23:27 I will send my terror before you, and will discomfit all the people to whom you
shall come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
23:28 And I will send the hornet before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
23:29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become
desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against you.
23:30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you are increased, and
inherit the land.
23:31 And I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and
from the wilderness to the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your
hand: and you shall drive them out before you.
23:32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
23:33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you
serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.
Chapter 24
24:1 And he said to Moses, Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and
seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off:
24:2 and Moses alone shall come near to Yahweh; but they shall not come near; neither
shall the people go up with him.
24:3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the
ordinances: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, all the words which
Yahweh has spoken will we do.
24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and
built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
24:5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt offerings, and
sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Yahweh.
24:6 And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he
sprinkled on the altar.
24:7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and
they said, all that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.
24:8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the
blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.
24:9 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel.
24:10 And they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved
work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.
24:11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: and they beheld
God, and did eat and drink.
24:12 And Yahweh said to Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and stay there: and I
will give you the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have
written, that you may teach them.
24:13 And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister: and Moses went up into the mount of
God.
24:14 And he said to the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again to you: and,
behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: whosoever has a cause, let him come near to them.
24:15 And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.
24:16 And the glory of Yahweh abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six
days: and the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
24:17 And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like devouring fire on the top of
the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
24:18 And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and
Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Chapter 25
25:2 Tell the children of Israel to take for me an offering: of every man whose heart
makes him willing ye shall take my offering.
25:3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them: gold, and silver, and brass,
25:4 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
25:5 and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood,
25:6 oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
25:7 onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
25:8 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.
25:9 According to all that I show you, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all
the furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it.
25:10 And they shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half shall be the
length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height
thereof.
25:11 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, within and without shall you overlay it,
and shall make upon it a crown of gold round about.
25:12 And you shall cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four feet thereof;
and two rings shall be on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
25:13 And you shall make staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
25:14 And you shall put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, with which to
bear the ark.
25:15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.
25:16 And you shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.
25:17 And you shall make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the
length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
25:18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shall you make them, at
the two ends of the mercy-seat.
25:19 And make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end: of one piece
with the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof.
25:20 And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat
with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of
the cherubim be.
25:21 And you shall put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark you shall put
the testimony that I shall give you.
25:22 And there I will meet with you, and I will commune with you from above the
mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of
all things which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.
25:23 And you shall make a table of acacia wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof,
and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
25:24 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round
about.
25:25 And you shall make to it a border of a handbreadth round about; and you shall
make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
25:26 And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners
that are on the four feet thereof.
25:27 Close by the border shall the rings be, for places for the staves to bear the table.
25:28 And you shall make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the
table may be borne with them.
25:29 And you shall make the dishes thereof, and the spoons thereof, and the flagons
thereof, and the bowls thereof, with which to pour out: of pure gold shall you make them.
25:30 And you shall set upon the table showbread before me always.
25:31 And you shall make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the
candlestick be made, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall
be of one piece with it.
25:32 And there shall be six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the
candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the
other side thereof:
25:33 three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three
cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six
branches going out of the candlestick:
25:34 and in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the buds thereof, and
the flowers thereof;
25:35 and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches
of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six
branches going out of the candlestick.
25:36 Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one
beaten work of pure gold.
25:37 And you shall make the lamps thereof, seven: and they shall light the lamps
thereof, to give light over against it.
25:38 And the snuffers thereof, and the snuff dishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
25:39 Of a talent of pure gold shall it be made, with all these vessels.
25:40 And see that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown you in the
mount.
Chapter 26
26:1 Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and
blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall you
make them.
26:2 The length of each curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each
curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
26:3 Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains
shall be coupled one to another.
26:4 And you shall make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the
selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shall you make in the edge of the curtain that is
outmost in the second coupling.
26:5 Fifty loops shall you make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shall you make in the
edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling; the loops shall be opposite one to
another.
26:6 And you shall make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with
the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be one whole.
26:7 And you shall make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven
curtains shall you make them.
26:8 The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four
cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
26:9 And you shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves,
and shall double over the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tent.
26:10 And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the
coupling, and fifty loops upon the edge of the curtain which is outmost in the second
coupling.
26:11 And you shall make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and
couple the tent together, that it may be one.
26:12 And the overhanging part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain
that remains, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.
26:13 And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains
in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this
side and on that side, to cover it.
26:14 And you shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering
of sealskins above.
26:15 And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.
26:16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each
board.
26:17 Two tenons shall there be in each board, joined one to another: thus shall you make
for all the boards of the tabernacle.
26:18 And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side
southward.
26:19 And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets
under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two
tenons.
26:20 And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, twenty boards,
26:21 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets
under another board.
26:22 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward you shall make six boards.
26:23 And two boards shall you make for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part.
26:24 And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire to the top
thereof to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
26:25 And there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two
sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
26:26 And you shall make bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of the one side of the
tabernacle,
26:27 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the
boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the hinder part westward.
26:28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall pass through from end to end.
26:29 And you shall overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places
for the bars: and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
26:30 And you shall rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which has
been shown you in the mount.
26:31 And you shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen:
with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made.
26:32 And you shall hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks
shall be of gold, upon four sockets of silver.
26:33 And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring in there within the
veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall separate to you between the holy place
and the most holy.
26:34 And you shall put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy
place.
26:35 And you shall set the table without the veil, and the candlestick over against the
table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and you shall put the table on the
north side.
26:36 And you shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.
26:37 And you shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with
gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
Chapter 27
27:1 And you shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad;
the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.
27:2 And you shall make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof; the horns thereof
shall be of one piece with it: and you shall overlay it with brass.
27:3 And you shall make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins,
and its flesh-hooks, and its fire pans: all the vessels thereof you shall make of brass.
27:4 And you shall make for it a grating of network of brass: and upon the net shall you
make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof.
27:5 And you shall put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach
halfway up the altar.
27:6 And you shall make staves for the altar, staves of acacia wood, and overlay them
with brass.
27:7 And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the
two sides of the altar, in bearing it.
27:8 Hollow with planks shall you make it: as it has been shown you in the mount, so
shall they make it.
27:9 And you shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there
shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side:
27:10 and the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks
of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
27:11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings a hundred cubits
long, and the pillars thereof twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the
pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
27:12 And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits;
their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
27:13 And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
27:14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three,
and their sockets three.
27:15 And for the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and
their sockets three.
27:16 And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and
their sockets four.
27:17 All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of
silver, and their sockets of brass.
27:18 The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where,
and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
27:19 All the instruments of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins
thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
27:20 And you shall command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil
beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
27:21 In the tent of meeting, without the veil which is before the testimony, Aaron and
his sons shall keep it in order from evening to morning before Yahweh: it shall be a
statue for ever throughout their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
Chapter 28
28:1 And bring you near to you Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among
the children of Israel, that he may minister to me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab
and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.
28:2 And you shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, for glory and for beauty.
28:3 And you shall speak to all that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of
wisdom, that they make Aaron's garments to sanctify him, that he may minister to me in
the priest's office.
28:4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and
a robe, and a coat of checker work, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy
garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest's
office.
28:5 And they shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the
fine linen.
28:6 And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined
linen, the work of the skilful workman.
28:7 It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends thereof, that it may be
joined together.
28:8 And the skillfully woven band, which is upon it, with which to gird it on, shall be
like the work thereof and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen.
28:9 And you shall take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of
Israel:
28:10 six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the
other stone, according to their birth.
28:11 With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shall you
engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall make
them to be inclosed in settings of gold.
28:12 And you shall put the two stones upon the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be
stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before
Yahweh upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
28:13 And you shall make settings of gold,
28:14 and two chains of pure gold; like cords shall you make them, of wreathen work:
and you shall put the wreathen chains on the settings.
28:15 And you shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skilful workman;
like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen, shall you make it.
28:16 Foursquare it shall be and double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the
breadth thereof.
28:17 And you shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius,
topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;
28:18 and the second row an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
28:19 and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an ameyourst;
28:20 and the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be inclosed in gold
in their settings.
28:21 And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve,
according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his
name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
28:22 And you shall make upon the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of
pure gold.
28:23 And you shall make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shall put the two
rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
28:24 And you shall put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of
the breastplate.
28:25 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains you shall put on the two
settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod in the forepart thereof.
28:26 And you shall make two rings of gold, and you shall put them upon the two ends of
the breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which is toward the side of the ephod inward.
28:27 And you shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder-
pieces of the ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof,
above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
28:28 And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof to the rings of the ephod
with a lace of blue, that it may be upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that
the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.
28:29 And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of
judgment upon his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before
Yahweh continually.
28:30 And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and
they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goes in before Yahweh: and Aaron shall bear
the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before Yahweh continually.
28:31 And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.
28:32 And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of
woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it be not
rent.
28:33 And upon the skirts of it you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and
of scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:
28:34 a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts
of the robe round about.
28:35 And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and the sound thereof shall be heard when
he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he die not.
28:36 And you shall make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a
signet, HOLY TO YAHWEH.
28:37 And you shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the
forefront of the mitre it shall be.
28:38 And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy
things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be
always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.
28:39 And you shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a
mitre of fine linen, and you shall make a girdle, the work of the embroiderer.
28:40 And for Aaron's sons you shall make coats, and you shall make for them girdles,
and head-tires shall you make for them, for glory and for beauty.
28:41 And you shall put them upon Aaron your brother, and upon his sons with him, and
shall anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to me
in the priest's office.
28:42 And you shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from
the loins even to the thighs they shall reach:
28:43 And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in to the tent of
meeting, or when they come near to the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear
not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever to him and to his seed after him.
Chapter 29
29:1 And this is the thing that you shall do to them to hallow them, to minister to me in
the priest's office: take one young bullock and two rams without blemish,
29:2 and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers
unleavened anointed with oil: of fine wheaten flour shall you make them.
29:3 And you shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the
bullock and the two rams.
29:4 And Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall
wash them with water.
29:5 And you shall take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the
ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the skillfully woven band of
the ephod;
29:6 and you shall set the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.
29:7 Then shall you take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
29:8 And you shall bring his sons, and put coats upon them.
29:9 And you shall gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind head-tires on
them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate
Aaron and his sons.
29:10 And you shall bring the bullock before the tent of meeting: and Aaron and his sons
shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock.
29:11 And you shall kill the bullock before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting.
29:12 And you shall take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar
with your finger; and you shall pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.
29:13 And you shall take all the fat that covers the inwards, and the lobe upon the liver,
and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.
29:14 But the flesh of the bullock, and its skin, and it dung, shall you burn with fire
without the camp: it is a sin offering.
29:15 You shall also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon
the head of the ram.
29:16 And you shall slay the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it round
about upon the altar.
29:17 And you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put
them with its pieces, and with its head.
29:18 And you shall burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering to Yahweh;
it is a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
29:19 And you shall take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands
upon the head of the ram.
29:20 Then shall you kill the ram, and take of its blood, and put it upon the tip of the right
ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their
right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar
round about.
29:21 And you shall take of the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and
sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon the garments
of his sons with him: and he shall be hallowed, and his garments, and his sons, and his
sons' garments with him.
29:22 Also you shall take of the ram the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the
inwards, and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and
the right thigh (for it is a ram of consecration),
29:23 and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket
of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh.
29:24 And you shall put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his
sons, and shall wave them for a wave-offering before Yahweh.
29:25 And you shall take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar upon the
burnt offering, for a sweet savor before Yahweh: it is an offering made by fire to
Yahweh.
29:26 And you shall take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a
wave-offering before Yahweh: and it shall be your portion.
29:27 And you shall sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the heave-
offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of
that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:
29:28 and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion for ever from the children of
Israel; for it is a portion set aside: and it shall be a portion set aside from the children of
Israel of the sacrifices of their peace offerings, even their portion set aside to Yahweh.
29:29 And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in
them, and to be consecrated in them.
29:30 Seven days shall the son that is priest in his stead put them on, when he comes into
the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
29:31 And you shall take the ram of consecration, and boil its flesh in a holy place.
29:32 And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the
basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.
29:33 And they shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and
to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.
29:34 And if anything of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remains to the
morning, then you shall burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is
holy.
29:35 And thus shall you do to Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have
commanded you: seven days shall you consecrate them.
29:36 And every day shall you offer the bullock of sin offering for atonement: and you
shall cleanse the altar, when you make atonement for it; and you shall anoint it, to
sanctify it.
29:37 Seven days you shall make atonement for the altar, and sanctify it: and the altar
shall be most holy; whatsoever touches the altar shall be holy.
29:38 Now this is that which you shall offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old day by
day continually.
29:39 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning; and the other lamb you shall offer at
even:
29:40 and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth
part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.
29:41 And the other lamb you shall offer at even, and shall do thereto according to the
meal offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet
savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
29:42 It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the
tent of meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
29:43 And there I will meet with the children of Israel; and the Tent shall be sanctified by
my glory.
29:44 And I will sanctify the tent of meeting, and the altar: Aaron also and his sons will I
sanctify, to minister to me in the priest's office.
29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
29:46 And they shall know that I am Yahweh their God, that brought them forth out of
the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Yahweh their God.
Chapter 30
30:1 And you shall make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood shall you make it.
30:2 A cubit shall be the length of it, and a cubit the breadth of it; foursquare shall it be;
and two cubits shall be the height of it: its horns shall be of one piece with it.
30:3 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, and the sides of it round about,
and the horns of it; and you shall make to it a crown of gold round about.
30:4 And two golden rings shall you make for it under its crown; upon its two ribs, upon
the two sides of it shall you make them; and they shall be for places for staves with which
to bear it.
30:5 And you shall make the staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.
30:6 And you shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the
mercy-seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
30:7 And Aaron shall burn upon it incense of sweet spices: every morning, when he
dresses the lamps, he shall burn it.
30:8 And when Aaron lights the lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense
before Yahweh throughout your generations.
30:9 You shall offer no strange incense upon it, nor burnt offering, nor meal offering; and
ye shall pour no drink offering upon it.
30:10 And Aaron shall make atonement upon the horns of it once in the year; with the
blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year shall he make atonement for it
throughout your generations: it is most holy to Yahweh.
30:12 When you take the sum of the children of Israel, according to those that are
numbered of them, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul to Yahweh, when
you number them; that there be no plague among them, when you number them.
30:13 This they shall give, every one that passes over to them that are numbered, half a
shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs;) half a shekel for an
offering to Yahweh.
30:14 Every one that passes over to them that are numbered, from twenty years old and
upward, shall give the offering of Yahweh.
30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less, than the half shekel,
when they give the offering of Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.
30:16 And you shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall
appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children
of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls.
30:18 You shall also make a laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, whereat to
wash. And you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put
water therein.
30:19 And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:
30:20 when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not;
or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to
Yahweh.
30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, so that they die not: and it shall be a
statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.
30:22 Moreover Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
30:23 Take you also to you the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and
of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two
hundred and fifty,
30:24 and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin.
30:25 And you shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the are of
the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.
30:26 And you shall anoint with it the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony,
30:27 and the table and all the vessels thereof, and the candlestick and the vessels thereof,
and the altar of incense,
30:28 and the altar of burnt offering with all the vessels thereof, and the laver and the
base thereof.
30:29 And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever touches them
shall be holy.
30:30 And you shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister
to me in the priest's office.
30:31 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing
oil to me throughout your generations.
30:32 Upon the flesh of man shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any like it,
according to the composition thereof: it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.
30:33 Whosoever compounds any like it, or whosoever puts any of it upon a stranger, he
shall be cut off from his people.
30:34 And Yahweh said to Moses, Take to you sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and
galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight;
30:35 and you shall make of it incense, a perfume after the are of the perfumer, seasoned
with salt, pure and holy:
30:36 and you shall beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the
tent of meeting, where I will meet with you: it shall be to you most holy.
30:37 And the incense which you shall make, according to the composition thereof ye
shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for Yahweh.
30:38 Whosoever shall make like to that, to smell thereof, he shall be cut off from his
people.
Chapter 31
31:2 See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of
Judah:
31:3 and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in
knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
31:4 to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
31:5 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of
workmanship.
31:6 And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the
tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they
may make all that I have commanded you:
31:7 the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat that is
thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent,
31:8 and the table and its vessels, and the pure candlestick with all its vessels, and the
altar of incense,
31:9 and the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its base,
31:10 and the finely wrought garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and
the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,
31:11 and the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according
to all that I have commanded you shall they do.
31:13 Speak you also to the children of Israel, saying, Verily ye shall keep my sabbaths:
for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I
am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
31:14 You shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you: every one that profanes
it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut
off from among his people.
31:15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest,
holy to Yahweh: whosoever does any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to
death.
31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath
throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days Yahweh
made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
31:18 And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon
mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of
God.
Chapter 32
32:1 And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, the
people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, Up, make us gods, which
shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
32:2 And Aaron said to them, Break off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your
wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me.
32:3 And all the people broke off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought
them to Aaron.
32:4 And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a
molten calf: and they said, These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the
land of Egypt.
32:5 And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation,
and said, Tomorrow shall be a feast to Yahweh.
32:6 And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought
peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
32:7 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, Go, get yourself down; for your people, that you
brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:
32:8 they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have
made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said,
These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
32:9 And Yahweh said to Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked
people:
32:10 now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may grow hot against them, and that I
may consume them: and I will make of you a great nation.
32:11 And Moses besought Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, why does your wrath
grow hot against your people, that you have brought forth out of the land of Egypt with
great power and with a mighty hand?
32:12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them forth, to slay
them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from your
fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against your people.
32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your
own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this
land that I have spoken of will I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
32:14 And Yahweh repented of the evil which he said he would do to his people.
32:15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with the two tables of the
testimony in his hand; tables that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on
the other were they written.
32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God,
graven upon the tables.
32:17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses,
There is a noise of war in the camp.
32:18 And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice
of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I hear.
32:19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and
the dancing: and Moses' anger became hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and
broke them beneath the mount.
32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to
powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
32:21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did this people to you, that you have brought a
great sin upon them?
32:22 And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord grow hot: you know the people, that
they are set on evil.
32:23 For they said to me, Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses,
the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
32:24 And I said to them, Whosoever has any gold, let them break it off: so they gave it
me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
32:25 And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose, (for Aaron had let them
loose for a derision among their enemies,)
32:26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoso is on Yahweh's side, let
him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him.
32:27 And he said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Put ye every man his
sword upon his thigh, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay
every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.
32:28 And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the
people that day about three thousand men.
32:29 And Moses said, Consecrate yourselves today to Yahweh, yes, every man against
his son, and against his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
32:30 And it came to pass the next day, that Moses said to the people, You have sinned a
great sin: and now I will go up to Yahweh; perhaps I shall make atonement for your sin.
32:31 And Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin,
and have made themselves gods of gold.
32:32 But now, please forgive their sin- but if not, let it be me, I pray you, who you blot
out of your book which you have written.
32:33 And Yahweh said to Moses, Whosoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out
of my book.
32:34 And now go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you: behold,
my angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin
upon them.
32:35 And Yahweh attacked the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.
Chapter 33
33:1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you
have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to
Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, To your seed will I give it:
33:2 and I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
33:3 to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for
you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way.
33:4 And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on
him his ornaments.
33:5 And Yahweh said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked
people; if I go up into the midst of you for one moment, I shall consume you: therefore
now put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what to do to you.
33:6 And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments from mount Horeb
onward.
33:7 Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off from the
camp; and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that every one that
sought Yahweh went out to the tent of meeting, which was without the camp.
33:8 And it came to pass, when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up,
and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the
Tent.
33:9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud
descended, and stood at the door of the Tent: and Yahweh spoke with Moses.
33:10 And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent: and all the
people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door.
33:11 And Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he
turned again into the camp: but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man,
departed not out of the Tent.
33:12 And Moses said to Yahweh, See, you say to me, Bring up this people: and you
have not let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, I know you by
name, and you have also found favor in my sight.
33:13 Now therefore, I pray you, if I have found favor in your sight, show me now your
ways, that I may know you, to the end that I may find favor in your sight: and consider
that this nation is your people.
33:14 And he said, My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest.
33:15 And he said to him, If your presence go not with me, carry us not up from here.
33:16 For in what way now shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and
your people? is it not in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people,
from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?
33:17 And Yahweh said to Moses, I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you
have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.
33:18 And he said, Show me, I pray you, your glory.
33:19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the
name of Yahweh before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will
show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
33:20 And he said, You can not see my face; for man shall not see me and live.
33:21 and Yahweh said, Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand upon the
rock:
33:22 and it shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of
the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by:
33:23 and I will take away my hand, and you shall see my back; but my face shall not be
seen.
Chapter 34
34:1 And Yahweh said to Moses, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first: and I will
write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which you broke.
34:2 And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to mount Sinai, and
present yourself there to me on the top of the mount.
34:3 And no man shall come up with you; neither let any man be seen throughout all the
mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
34:4 And he hewed two tables of stone like to the first; and Moses rose up early in the
morning, and went up to mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his
hand two tables of stone.
34:5 And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the
name of Yahweh.
34:6 And Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, Yahweh, Yahweh, a God
merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth,
34:7 keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin;
and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
34:8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
34:9 And he said, If now I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray
you, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our
sin, and take us for your inheritance.
34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels,
such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people
among which you are shall see the work of Yahweh; for it is a terrible thing that I do with
you.
34:11 Observe you that which I command you this day: behold, I drive out before you the
Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the
Jebusite.
34:12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land
whither you go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:
34:13 but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut
down their Asherim;
34:14 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a
jealous God:
34:15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot
after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;
34:16 and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the harlot
after their gods, and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.
34:17 You shall make you no molten gods.
34:18 The feast of unleavened bread shall you keep. Seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in
the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
34:19 All that opens the womb is mine; and all your cattle that is male, the firstlings of
cow and sheep.
34:20 And the firstling of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not
redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the first-born of your sons you shall
redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
34:21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and
in harvest you shall rest.
34:22 And you shall observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest,
and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
34:23 Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord Yahweh, the
God of Israel.
34:24 For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your borders: neither shall any
man desire your land, when you go up to appear before Yahweh your God three times in
the year.
34:25 You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the
sacrifice of the feast of the Passover be left to the morning.
34:26 The first of the first-fruits of your ground you shall bring to the house of Yahweh
your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
34:27 And Yahweh said to Moses, Write you these words: for after the tenor of these
words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.
34:28 And he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread,
nor drank water. And he wrote upon the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten
commandments.
34:29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables
of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses knew
not that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
34:30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his
face shone; and they were afraid to come near him.
34:31 And Moses called to them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation
returned to him: and Moses spoke to them.
34:32 And afterward all the children of Israel came near: and he gave them in
commandment all that Yahweh had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
34:33 And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.
34:34 But when Moses went in before Yahweh to speak with him, he took the veil off,
until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was
commanded.
34:35 And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face
shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Chapter 35
35:1 And Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to
them, These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that ye should do them.
35:2 Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day,
a sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whosoever does any work therein shall be put to
death.
35:3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
35:4 And Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the
thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,
35:5 Take ye from among you an offering to Yahweh; whosoever is of a willing heart, let
him bring it, Yahweh's offering: gold, and silver, and brass,
35:6 and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,
35:7 and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood,
35:8 and oil for the light, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
35:9 and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
35:10 And let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that Yahweh has
commanded:
35:11 the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its
pillars, and its sockets;
35:12 the ark, and the staves thereof, the mercy-seat, and the veil of the screen;
35:13 the table, and its staves, and all its vessels, and the showbread;
35:14 the candlestick also for the light, and its vessels, and its lamps, and the oil for the
light;
35:15 and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense,
and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
35:16 the altar of burnt offering, with its grating of brass, it staves, and all its vessels, the
laver and its base;
35:17 the hangings of the court, the pillars thereof, and their sockets, and the screen for
the gate of the court;
35:18 the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords;
35:19 the finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments
for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office.
35:20 And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of
Moses.
35:21 And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his
spirit made willing, and brought Yahweh's offering, for the work of the tent of meeting,
and for all the service thereof, and for the holy garments.
35:22 And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and
brought brooches, and ear-rings, and signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even
every man that offered an offering of gold to Yahweh.
35:23 And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen,
and goats' hair, and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, brought them.
35:24 Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Yahweh's offering;
and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought
it.
35:25 And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought
that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.
35:26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats' hair.
35:27 And the rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod, and
for the breastplate;
35:28 and the spice, and the oil; for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet
incense.
35:29 The children of Israel brought a freewill-offering to Yahweh; every man and
woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all the work, which Yahweh had
commanded to be made by Moses.
35:30 And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
35:31 And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in
knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
35:32 and to devise skilful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
35:33 and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner
of skilful workmanship.
35:34 And he has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of
Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.
35:35 Them has he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of workmanship, of
the engraver, and of the skilful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple,
in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any workmanship,
and of those that devise skilful works.
Chapter 36
36:1 And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh
has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of
the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded.
36:2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart
Yahweh had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come to the work
to do it:
36:3 and they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought
for the work of the service of the sanctuary, with which to make it. And they brought
yet to him freewill-offerings every morning.
36:4 And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man
from his work which they wrought.
36:5 And they spoke to Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the
service of the work which Yahweh commanded to make.
36:6 And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the
camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the
sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
36:7 For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
36:8 And all the wise-hearted men among them that wrought the work made the
tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with
cherubim, the work of the skilful workman, Bezalel made them.
36:9 The length of each curtain was eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of each
curtain four cubits: all the curtains had one measure.
36:10 And he coupled five curtains one to another: and the other five curtains he coupled
one to another.
36:11 And he made loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in
the coupling: likewise he made in the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the second
coupling.
36:12 Fifty loops made he in the one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the
curtain that was in the second coupling: the loops were opposite one to another.
36:13 And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the
clasps: so the tabernacle was one.
36:14 And he made curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains
he made them.
36:15 The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each
curtain: the eleven curtains had one measure.
36:16 And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.
36:17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the
coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which was outmost in the
second coupling.
36:18 And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
36:19 And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of
sealskins above.
36:20 And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up.
36:21 Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each
board.
36:22 Each board had two tenons, joined one to another: thus did he make for all the
boards of the tabernacle.
36:23 And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side
southward.
36:24 And he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under
one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
36:25 And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty
boards,
36:26 and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets
under another board.
36:27 And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.
36:28 And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part.
36:29 And they were double beneath; and in like manner they were entire to the top
thereof to one ring: thus he did to both of them in the two corners.
36:30 And there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under
every board two sockets.
36:31 And he made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the
tabernacle,
36:32 and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the
boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.
36:33 And he made the middle bar to pass through in the midst of the boards from the
one end to the other.
36:34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for
the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
36:35 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with
cherubim, the work of the skilful workman, made he it.
36:36 And he made thereto four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold: their
hooks were of gold; And he cast for them four sockets of silver.
36:37 And he made a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer;
36:38 and the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their capitals and their
fillets with gold; and their five sockets were of brass.
Chapter 37
37:1 And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it,
and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:
37:2 and he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it
round about.
37:3 And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet thereof; even two rings on the
one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.
37:4 And he made staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
37:5 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
37:6 And he made a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length
thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
37:7 And he made two cherubim of gold; of beaten work made he them, at the two ends
of the mercy-seat;
37:8 one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end: of one piece with the
mercy-seat made he the cherubim at the two ends thereof.
37:9 And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their
wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy-seat were the faces of the
cherubim.
37:10 And he made the table of acacia wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a
cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
37:11 and he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.
37:12 And he made to it a border of a handbreadth round about, and made a golden
crown to the border thereof round about.
37:13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that were
on the four feet thereof.
37:14 Close by the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
37:15 And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the
table.
37:16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, the dishes thereof, and the
spoons thereof, and the bowls thereof, and the flagons thereof, with which to pour out, of
pure gold.
37:17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick,
even its base, and its shaft; its cups, it bulbs, and its flowers, were of one piece with it:
37:18 and there were six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the
candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the
other side thereof:
37:19 three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a bulb and a flower, and
three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a bulb and a flower: so for the
six branches going out of the candlestick.
37:20 And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the bulbs
thereof, and the flowers thereof;
37:21 and a bulb under two branches of one piece with it, and a bulb under two branches
of one piece with it, and a bulb under two branches of one piece with it, for the six
branches going out of it.
37:22 Their bulbs and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole of it was one
beaten work of pure gold.
37:23 And he made the lamps thereof, seven, and the snuffers thereof, and the
snuffdishes thereof, of pure gold.
37:24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
37:25 And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit was the length thereof,
and a cubit the breadth thereof, foursquare; and two cubits was the height thereof; the
horns thereof were of one piece with it.
37:26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round
about, and the horns of it: and he made to it a crown of gold round about.
37:27 And he made for it two golden rings under the crown thereof, upon the two ribs
thereof, upon the two sides of it, for places for staves with which to bear it.
37:28 And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
37:29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the
are of the perfumer.
Chapter 38
38:1 And he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood: five cubits was the length
thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof, foursquare; and three cubits the height
thereof.
38:2 And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of
one piece with it: and he overlaid it with brass.
38:3 And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, the
flesh-hooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
38:4 And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it
beneath, reaching halfway up.
38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be places for the
staves.
38:6 And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.
38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to bear it; he
made it hollow with planks.
38:8 And he made the laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, of the mirrors of the
ministering women that ministered at the door of the tent of meeting.
38:9 And he made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were
of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;
38:10 their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars
and their fillets were of silver.
38:11 And for the north side a hundred cubits, their pillars twenty, and their sockets
twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
38:12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their
sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
38:14 The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and
their sockets three;
38:15 and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were
hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
38:16 All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
38:17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their
fillets, of silver; and the overlaying of their capitals, of silver; and all the pillars of the
court were filleted with silver.
38:18 And the screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue,
and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the
height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
38:19 And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver,
and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
38:20 And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
38:21 This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the
testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the
service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.
38:22 And Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that
Yahweh commanded Moses.
38:23 And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver,
and a skilful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in
fine linen.
38:24 All the gold that was used for the work in all the work of the sanctuary, even the
gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels,
after the shekel of the sanctuary.
38:25 And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred
talents, and a thousand seven hundred and 75 shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
38:26 a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one
that passed over to them that were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six
hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.
38:27 And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and
the sockets of the veil; a hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
38:28 And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the
pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
38:29 And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four
hundred shekels.
38:30 And with it he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, and the brazen
altar, and the brazen grating for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
38:31 and the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the gate of the court,
and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.
Chapter 39
39:1 And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made finely wrought garments, for
ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
39:2 And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
39:3 And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the
blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful
workman.
39:4 They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it joined
together.
39:5 And the skilfully woven band, that was upon it, with which to gird it on, was of the
same piece and like the work thereof; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
39:6 And they wrought the onyx stones, inclosed in settings of gold, graven with the
engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.
39:7 And he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for
the children of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
39:8 And he made the breastplate, the work of the skilful workman, like the work of the
ephod; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
39:9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof,
and a span the breadth thereof, being double.
39:10 And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was
the first row;
39:11 and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;
39:12 and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an ameyourst;
39:13 and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jaspar: they were inclosed in inclosings
of gold in their settings.
39:14 And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve,
according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his
name, for the twelve tribes.
39:15 And they made upon the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of pure
gold.
39:16 And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on
the two ends of the breastplate.
39:17 And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the
breastplate.
39:18 And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains they put on the two settings,
and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof.
39:19 And they made two rings of gold, and put them upon the two ends of the
breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.
39:20 And they made two rings of gold, and put them on the two shoulder-pieces of the
ephod underneath, in the forepart thereof, close by the coupling thereof, above the
skilfully woven band of the ephod.
39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by the rings thereof to the rings of the ephod with
a lace of blue, that it might be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the
breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
39:23 And the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a
binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.
39:24 And they made upon the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and twined linen.
39:25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates
upon the skirts of the robe round about, between the pomegranates;
39:26 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, upon the skirts of the robe
round about, to minister in; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
39:27 And they made the coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
39:28 and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen
breeches of fine twined linen,
39:29 and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of
the embroiderer; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a
writing, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO YAHWEH.
39:31 And they tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above; as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
39:32 Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting: and the
children of Israel did according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses; so did they.
39:33 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps,
its boards, it bars, and its pillars, and it sockets;
39:34 and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of sealskins, and the veil
of the screen;
39:35 the ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy-seat;
39:36 the table, all the vessels thereof, and the showbread;
39:37 the pure candlestick, the lamps thereof, even the lamps to be set in order, and all
the vessels thereof, and the oil for the light;
39:38 and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen
for the door of the Tent;
39:39 the brazen altar, and its grating of brass, its staves, and all its vessels, the laver and
its base;
39:40 the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of
the court, the cords thereof, and the pins thereof, and all the instruments of the service of
the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;
39:41 the finely wrought garments for ministering in the holy place, and the holy
garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's
office.
39:42 According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all
the work.
39:43 And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it; as Yahweh had
commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.
Chapter 40
40:2 On the first day of the first month shall you rear up the tabernacle of the tent of
meeting.
40:3 And you shall put therein the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with
the veil.
40:4 And you shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are upon it; and you
shall bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
40:5 And you shall set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and
put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
40:6 And you shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the
tent of meeting.
40:7 And you shall set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shall put
water therein.
40:8 And you shall set up the court round about, and hang up the screen of the gate of the
court.
40:9 And you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is
therein, and shall hallow it, and all the furniture thereof: and it shall be holy.
40:10 And you shall anoint the altar of burnt offering, and all its vessels, and sanctify the
altar: and the altar shall be most holy.
40:11 And you shall anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.
40:12 And you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall
wash them with water.
40:13 And you shall put upon Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and
sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
40:14 And you shall bring his sons, and put coats upon them;
40:15 and you shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to
me in the priest's office: and their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood
throughout their generations.
40:16 Thus did Moses: according to all that Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
40:17 And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the
month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
40:18 And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards
thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up its pillars.
40:19 And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above
upon it; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
40:20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and
put the mercy-seat above upon the ark:
40:21 and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and
screened the ark of the testimony; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
40:22 And he put the table in the tent of meeting, upon the side of the tabernacle
northward, without the veil.
40:23 And he set the bread in order upon it before Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded
Moses.
40:24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting, over against the table, on the side
of the tabernacle southward.
40:25 And he lighted the lamps before Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
40:26 And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil:
40:27 and he burnt upon it incense of sweet spices; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
40:28 And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.
40:29 And he set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of
meeting, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meal offering; as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
40:30 And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water
therein, with which to wash.
40:31 And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat;
40:32 when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near to the altar, they
washed; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
40:33 And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the
screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
40:34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the
tabernacle.
40:35 And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of meeting, because the cloud
remained above it, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle.
40:36 And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel
went onward, throughout all their journeys:
40:37 but if the cloud was not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was
taken up.
40:38 For the cloud of Yahweh was upon the tabernacle by day, and there was fire
therein by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
End of Exodus
The Third Book of Moses, Called Leviticus
Leviticus
Chapter 1
1:1 And Yahweh called to Moses, and spoke to him out of the tent of meeting, saying,
1:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When any man of you offers an
oblation to Yahweh, ye shall offer your oblation of the cattle, even of the herd and of the
flock.
1:3 If his oblation is a burnt offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish:
he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before
Yahweh.
1:4 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted
for him to make atonement for him.
1:5 And he shall kill the bullock before Yahweh: and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall
present the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is at the door of
the tent of meeting.
1:6 And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into its pieces.
1:7 And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay wood in order
upon the fire;
1:8 and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat, in order upon
the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
1:9 but its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water: and the priest shall burn the
whole on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to
Yahweh.
1:10 And if his oblation be of the flock, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt offering;
he shall offer it a male without blemish.
1:11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before Yahweh: and Aaron's
sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood upon the altar round about.
1:12 And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat; and the priest shall lay
them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:
1:13 but the inwards and the legs shall he wash with water; and the priest shall offer the
whole, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savor to Yahweh.
1:14 And if his oblation to Yahweh be a burnt offering of birds, then he shall offer his
oblation of turtle-doves, or of young pigeons.
1:15 And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the
altar; and the blood thereof shall be drained out on the side of the altar;
1:16 and he shall take away its crop with the filth thereof, and cast it beside the altar on
the east part, in the place of the ashes:
1:17 and he shall rend it by the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder; and the
priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt
offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
Chapter 2
2:1 And when any one offers an oblation of a meal offering to Yahweh, his oblation shall
be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense upon it:
2:2 and he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests; and he shall take thereout his handful
of the fine flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the
priest shall burn it as the memorial thereof upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a
sweet savor to Yahweh:
2:3 and that which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing
most holy of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
2:4 And when you offer an oblation of a meal offering baked in the oven, it shall be
unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.
2:5 And if your oblation be a meal offering of the baking-pan, it shall be of fine flour
unleavened, mingled with oil.
2:6 You shall part it in pieces, and pour oil upon it: it is a meal offering.
2:7 And if your oblation be a meal offering of the frying-pan, it shall be made of fine
flour with oil.
2:8 And you shall bring the meal offering that is made of these things to Yahweh: and it
shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar.
2:9 And the priest shall take up from the meal offering the memorial thereof, and shall
burn it upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
2:10 And that which is left of the meal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing
most holy of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire.
2:11 No meal offering, which ye shall offer to Yahweh, shall be made with leaven; for ye
shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
2:12 As an oblation of first–fruits ye shall offer them to Yahweh: but they shall not come
up for a sweet savor on the altar.
2:13 And every oblation of your meal offering shall you season with salt; neither shall
you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your meal offering:
with all your oblations you shall offer salt.
2:14 And if you offer a meal offering of first-fruits to Yahweh, you shall offer for the
meal offering of your first-fruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised grain of the
fresh ear.
2:15 And you shall put oil upon it, and lay frankincense upon it: it is a meal offering.
2:16 And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the bruised grain thereof, and
part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire to
Yahweh.
Chapter 3
3:1 And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offerings; if he offer of the herd, whether
male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before Yahweh.
3:2 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation, and kill it at the door of the
tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round
about.
3:3 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to
Yahweh; the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
3:4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the lobe
upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away.
3:5 And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt offering, which is upon the
wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
3:6 And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh be of the flock; male
or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
3:7 If he offers a lamb for his oblation, then shall he offer it before Yahweh;
3:8 and he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation, and kill it before the tent of
meeting: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
3:9 And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to
Yahweh; the fat thereof, the fat tail entire, he shall take away hard by the backbone; and
the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
3:10 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the
lobe upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away.
3:11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire
to Yahweh.
3:12 And if his oblation be a goat, then he shall offer it before Yahweh:
3:13 and he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tent of meeting;
and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.
3:14 And he shall offer thereof his oblation, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh; the
fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
3:15 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the
lobe upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away.
3:16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by
fire, for a sweet savor; all the fat is Yahweh's.
3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that
ye shall eat neither fat nor blood.
Chapter 4
4:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If any one shall sin unwittingly, in any of the
things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them:
4:3 if the anointed priest shall sin so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for
his sin, which he has sinned, a young bullock without blemish to Yahweh for a sin
offering.
4:4 And he shall bring the bullock to the door of the tent of meeting before Yahweh; and
he shall lay his hand upon the head of the bullock, and kill the bullock before Yahweh.
4:5 And the anointed priest shall take of the blood of the bullock, and bring it to the tent
of meeting:
4:6 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times
before Yahweh, before the veil of the sanctuary.
4:7 And the priest shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense
before Yahweh, which is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood of the bullock shall he
pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering, which is at the door of the tent of
meeting.
4:8 And all the fat of the bullock of the sin offering he shall take off from it; the fat that
covers the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
4:9 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the lobe
upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away,
4:10 as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall
burn them upon the altar of burnt offering.
4:11 And the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its
inwards, and its dung,
4:12 even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp to a clean place, where
the ashes are poured out, and burn it on wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out
shall it be burnt.
4:13 And if the whole congregation of Israel err, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the
assembly, and they have done any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be
done, and are guilty;
4:14 when the sin in which they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a
young bullock for a sin offering, and bring it before the tent of meeting.
4:15 And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock
before Yahweh; and the bullock shall be killed before Yahweh.
4:16 And the anointed priest shall bring of the blood of the bullock to the tent of meeting:
4:17 and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before
Yahweh, before the veil.
4:18 And he shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before Yahweh,
that is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood shall he pour out at the base of the altar of
burnt offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.
4:19 And all the fat thereof shall he take off from it, and burn it upon the altar.
4:20 Thus shall he do with the bullock; as he did with the bullock of the sin offering, so
shall he do with this; and the priest shall make atonement for them, and they shall be
forgiven.
4:21 And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn it as he burned the
first bullock: it is the sin offering for the assembly.
4:22 When a ruler sins, and does unwittingly any one of all the things which Yahweh his
God has commanded not to be done, and is guilty;
4:23 if his sin, in which he has sinned, be made known to him, he shall bring for his
oblation a goat, a male without blemish.
4:24 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where
they kill the burnt offering before Yahweh: it is a sin offering.
4:25 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it
upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the blood thereof shall he pour out at the
base of the altar of burnt offering.
4:26 And all the fat thereof shall he burn upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace
offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin, and he shall
be forgiven.
4:27 And if any one of the common people sin unwittingly, in doing any of the things
which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and be guilty;
4:28 if his sin, which he has sinned, be made known to him, then he shall bring for his
oblation a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has sinned.
4:29 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and kill the sin offering
in the place of burnt offering.
4:30 And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the
horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the blood thereof shall he pour out at the base
of the altar.
4:31 And all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat is taken away from off the
sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor to
Yahweh; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.
4:32 And if he bring a lamb as his oblation for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female
without blemish.
4:33 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and kill it for a sin
offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.
4:34 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it
upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and all the blood thereof shall he pour out at
the base of the altar:
4:35 and all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from
the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them on the altar, upon the
offerings of Yahweh made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him as
touching his sin that he has sinned, and he shall be forgiven.
Chapter 5
5:1 And if any one sin, in that he hears the voice of adjuration, he being a witness,
whether he has seen or known, if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
5:2 Or if any one touch any unclean thing, whether it be the carcass of an unclean beast,
or the carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and it be hidden
from him, and he be unclean, then he shall be guilty.
5:3 Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be with which he
is unclean, and it be hid from him; when he knows of it, then he shall be guilty.
5:4 Or if any one swear rashly with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that
a man shall utter rashly with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knows of it, then
he shall be guilty in one of these things.
5:5 And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess
that manner in which he has sinned:
5:6 and he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned, a
female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin offering; and the priest shall make
atonement for him as concerning his sin.
5:7 And if his means suffice not for a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass offering for
that manner in which he has sinned, two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to Yahweh;
one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.
5:8 And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering
first, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it asunder:
5:9 and he shall sprinkle of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the
rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar: it is a sin offering.
5:10 And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the ordinance; and
the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin which he has sinned, and he
shall be forgiven.
5:11 But if his means suffice not for two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he shall
bring his oblation for that manner in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of
fine flour for a sin offering: he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any
frankincense upon it; for it is a sin offering.
5:12 And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the
memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, upon the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: it
is a sin offering.
5:13 And the priest shall make atonement for him as touching his sin that he has sinned in
any of these things, and he shall be forgiven: and the remnant shall be the priest's, as the
meal offering.
5:15 If any one commit a trespass, and sin unwittingly, in the holy things of Yahweh;
then he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish out of the
flock, according to your estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary,
for a trespass offering:
5:16 and he shall make restitution for that which he has done amiss in the holy thing, and
shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make
atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and he shall be forgiven.
5:17 And if any one sin, and do any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to
be done; though he knew it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
5:18 And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to your
estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for
him concerning the thing in which he erred unwittingly and knew it not, and he shall be
forgiven.
5:19 It is a trespass offering: he is certainly guilty before Yahweh.
Chapter 6
6:2 If any one sin, and commit a trespass against Yahweh, and deal falsely with his
neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or have oppressed his
neighbor,
6:3 or have found that which was lost, and deal falsely therein, and swear to a lie; in any
of all these things that a man does, sinning therein;
6:4 then it shall be, if he has sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took
by robbery, or the thing which he has gotten by oppression, or the deposit which was
committed to him, or the lost thing which he found,
6:5 or any thing about which he has sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in full, and
shall add the fifth part more thereto: to him to whom it belongs shall he give it, in the day
of his being found guilty.
6:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, a ram without blemish out of the
flock, according to your estimation, for a trespass offering, to the priest:
6:7 and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh; and he shall be forgiven
concerning whatsoever he does so as to be guilty thereby.
6:9 Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt
offering shall be on the hearth upon the altar all night to the morning; and the fire of the
altar shall be kept burning upon it.
6:10 And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put
upon his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes whereto the fire has consumed the burnt
offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
6:11 And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the
ashes without the camp to a clean place.
6:12 And the fire upon the altar shall be kept burning upon it, it shall not go out; and the
priest shall burn wood on it every morning: and he shall lay the burnt offering in order
upon it, and shall burn upon it the fat of the peace offerings.
6:13 Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually; it shall not go out.
6:14 And this is the law of the meal offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before
Yahweh, before the altar.
6:15 And he shall take from it his handful, of the fine flour of the meal offering, and of
the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meal offering, and shall burn it
upon the altar for a sweet savor, as the memorial thereof, to Yahweh.
6:16 And that which is left thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: it shall be eaten without
leaven in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.
6:17 It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their portion of my offerings
made by fire; it is most holy, as the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.
6:18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as his portion for ever
throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: whosoever
touches them shall be holy.
6:20 This is the oblation of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer to Yahweh in
the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering
perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half thereof in the evening.
6:21 On a baking-pan it shall be made with oil; when it is soaked, you shall bring it in: in
baked pieces shall you offer the meal offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh.
6:22 And the anointed priest that shall be in his stead from among his sons shall offer it:
by a statute for ever it shall be wholly burnt to Yahweh.
6:23 And every meal offering of the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.
6:25 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: in the
place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before Yahweh: it
is most holy.
6:26 The priest that offers it for sin shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the
court of the tent of meeting.
6:27 Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when there is sprinkled
of the blood thereof upon any garment, you shall wash that whereon it was sprinkled in a
holy place.
6:28 But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it be boiled in a
brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
6:29 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.
6:30 And no sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to
make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt with fire.
Chapter 7
7:1 And this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.
7:2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering; and
the blood thereof shall he sprinkle upon the altar round about.
7:3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the
inwards,
7:4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the lobe
upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away;
7:5 and the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire to Yahweh:
it is a trespass offering.
7:6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in a holy place: it is
most holy.
7:7 As is the sin offering, so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them: the priest
that makes atonement with it, he shall have it.
7:8 And the priest that offers any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to
himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has offered.
7:9 And every meal offering that is baked in the oven, and all that is dressed in the
frying-pan, and on the baking-pan, shall be the priest's that offers it.
7:10 And every meal offering, mingled with oil, or dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have,
one as well as another.
7:11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to
Yahweh.
7:12 If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of
thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with
oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour soaked.
7:13 With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his oblation with the sacrifice of his
peace offerings for thanksgiving.
7:14 And of it he shall offer one out of each oblation for a heave-offering to Yahweh; it
shall be the priest's that sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.
7:15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten
on the day of his oblation; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.
7:16 But if the sacrifice of his oblation is a vow, or a freewill-offering, it shall be eaten on
the day that he offers his sacrifice; and on the morrow that which remains of it shall be
eaten:
7:17 but that which remains of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt
with fire.
7:18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten on the third
day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed to him that offers it: it shall be an
abomination, and the soul that eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
7:19 And the flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with
fire. And as for the flesh, every one that is clean shall eat thereof:
7:20 but the soul that eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain to
Yahweh, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
7:21 And when any one shall touch any unclean thing, the uncleanness of man, or an
unclean beast, or any unclean abomination, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace
offerings, which pertain to Yahweh, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
7:23 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, You shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.
7:24 And the fat of that which dies of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of beasts,
may be used for any other service; but ye shall in no wise eat of it.
7:25 For whosoever eats the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire
to Yahweh, even the soul that eats it shall be cut off from his people.
7:26 And ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of bird or of beast, in any of your
dwellings.
7:27 Whosoever it be that eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.
7:29 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, He that offers the sacrifice of his peace
offerings to Yahweh shall bring his oblation to Yahweh out of the sacrifice of his peace
offerings:
7:30 his own hands shall bring the offerings of Yahweh made by fire; the fat with the
breast shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before Yahweh.
7:31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and
his sons'.
7:32 And the right thigh shall ye give to the priest for a heave-offering out of the
sacrifices of your peace offerings.
7:33 He among the sons of Aaron that offers the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat,
shall have the right thigh for a portion.
7:34 For the wave-breast and the heave-thigh have I taken of the children of Israel out of
the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his
sons as their portion for ever from the children of Israel.
7:35 This is the anointing-portion of Aaron, and the anointing-portion of his sons, out of
the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister to
Yahweh in the priest's office;
7:36 which Yahweh commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that
he anointed them. It is their portion for ever throughout their generations.
7:37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meal offering, and of the sin offering,
and of the trespass offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace
offerings;
7:38 which Yahweh commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded
the children of Israel to offer their oblations to Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai.
Chapter 8
8:2 Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the
bullock of the sin offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread;
8:3 and assemble you all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting.
8:4 And Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and the congregation was assembled at
the door of the tent of meeting.
8:5 And Moses said to the congregation, This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded
to be done.
8:6 And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.
8:7 And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with
the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the skillfully woven band
of the ephod, and bound it to him with it.
8:8 And he placed the breastplate upon him: and in the breastplate he put the Urim and
the Thummim.
8:9 And he set the mitre upon his head; and upon the mitre, in front, did he set the golden
plate, the holy crown; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
8:10 And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was
therein, and sanctified them.
8:11 And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its
vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them.
8:12 And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify
him.
8:13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and clothed them with coats, and girded them
with girdles, and bound head-tires upon them; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
8:14 And he brought the bullock of the sin offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their
hands upon the head of the bullock of the sin offering.
8:15 And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar
round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of
the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.
8:16 And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the lobe of the liver, and the
two kidneys, and their fat; and Moses burned it upon the altar.
8:17 But the bullock, and its skin, and its flesh, and its dung, he burnt with fire without
the camp; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
8:18 And he presented the ram of the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their
hands upon the head of the ram.
8:19 And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
8:20 And he cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the
fat.
8:21 And he washed the inwards and the legs with water; and Moses burnt the whole ram
upon the altar: it was a burnt offering for a sweet savor: it was an offering made by fire to
Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
8:22 And he presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons
laid their hands upon the head of the ram.
8:23 And he slew it; and Moses took of the blood thereof, and put it upon the tip of
Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his
right foot.
8:24 And he brought Aaron's sons; and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right
ear, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot: and
Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
8:25 And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and
the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh:
8:26 and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Yahweh, he took one
unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat,
and upon the right thigh:
8:27 and he put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and
waved them for a wave-offering before Yahweh.
8:28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the
burnt offering: they were a consecration for a sweet savor: it was an offering made by fire
to Yahweh.
8:29 And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave-offering before Yahweh: it was
Moses' portion of the ram of consecration; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
8:30 And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and
sprinkled it upon Aaron, upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons'
garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons'
garments with him.
8:31 And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tent of
meeting: and there eat it and the bread that is in the basket of consecration, as I
commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
8:32 And that which remains of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
8:33 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the
days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.
8:34 As has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for
you.
8:35 And at the door of the tent of meeting shall ye abide day and night seven days, and
keep the charge of Yahweh, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
8:36 And Aaron and his sons did all the things which Yahweh commanded by Moses.
Chapter 9
9:1 And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the
elders of Israel;
9:2 and he said to Aaron, Take you a calf of the herd for a sin offering, and a ram for a
burnt offering, without blemish, and offer them before Yahweh.
9:3 And to the children of Israel you shall speak, saying, Take ye a he-goat for a sin
offering; and a calf and a lamb, both a year old, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
9:4 and an ox and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before Yahweh; and a meal
offering mingled with oil: for today Yahweh appears to you.
9:5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tent of meeting: and all
the congregation drew near and stood before Yahweh.
9:6 And Moses said, This is the thing which Yahweh commanded that ye should do: and
the glory of Yahweh shall appear to you.
9:7 And Moses said to Aaron, Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and
your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the
oblation of the people, and make atonement for them; as Yahweh commanded.
9:8 So Aaron drew near to the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for
himself.
9:9 And the sons of Aaron presented the blood to him; and he dipped his finger in the
blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the
altar:
9:10 but the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe from the liver of the sin offering, he burnt
upon the altar; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
9:11 And the flesh and the skin he burnt with fire without the camp.
9:12 And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, and he
sprinkled it upon the altar round about.
9:13 And they delivered the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head: and he
burnt them upon the altar.
9:14 And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on
the altar.
9:15 And he presented the people's oblation, and took the goat of the sin offering which
was for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.
9:16 And he presented the burnt offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.
9:17 And he presented the meal offering, and filled his hand from it, and burnt it upon the
altar, besides the burnt offering of the morning.
9:18 He slew also the ox and the ram, the sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the
people: and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar
round about,
9:19 and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the inwards,
and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver:
9:20 and they put the fat upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar:
9:21 and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before Yahweh;
as Moses commanded.
9:22 And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came
down from offering the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings.
9:23 And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and came out, and blessed the
people: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the people.
9:24 And there came forth fire from before Yahweh, and consumed upon the altar the
burnt offering and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their
faces.
Chapter 10
10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire
therein, and laid incense upon it, and offered strange fire before Yahweh, which he had
not commanded them.
10:2 And there came forth fire from before Yahweh, and devoured them, and they died
before Yahweh.
10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that Yahweh spoke, saying, I will be sanctified
in them that come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held
his peace.
10:4 And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and
said to them, Draw near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.
10:5 So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had
said.
10:6 And Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, Let not the hair of
your heads go loose, neither rend your clothes; that ye die not, and that he be not angry
with all the congregation: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the
burning which Yahweh has kindled.
10:7 And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest ye die; for the
anointing oil of Yahweh is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
10:8 And Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying,
10:9 Drink neither wine nor strong drink, neither you, nor your sons with you, when ye
go into the tent of meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute for ever throughout
your generations:
10:10 and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between
the unclean and the clean;
10:11 and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Yahweh has
spoken to them by Moses.
10:12 And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons that were left,
Take the meal offering that remains of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and eat it
without leaven beside the altar; for it is most holy;
10:13 and ye shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your portion, and your sons' portion,
of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: for so I am commanded.
10:14 And the wave-breast and the heave-thigh shall ye eat in a clean place, you, and
your sons, and your daughters with you: for they are given as your portion, and your sons'
portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace offerings of the children of Israel.
10:15 The heave-thigh and the wave-breast shall they bring with the offerings made by
fire of the fat, to wave it for a wave-offering before Yahweh: and it shall be yours, and
your sons' with you, as a portion for ever; as Yahweh has commanded.
10:16 And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt:
and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying,
10:17 Why have ye not eaten the sin offering in the place of the sanctuary, seeing it is
most holy, and he has given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make
atonement for them before Yahweh?
10:18 Behold, the blood of it was not brought into the sanctuary within: ye should
certainly have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded.
10:19 And Aaron spoke to Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering
and their burnt offering before Yahweh; and there have befallen me such things as these:
and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been well-pleasing in the sight of
Yahweh?
10:20 And when Moses heard that, it was well-pleasing in his sight.
Chapter 11
11:1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,
11:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat
among all the beasts that are on the earth.
11:3 Whatsoever parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, and chews the cud, among the
beasts, that may ye eat.
11:4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that part
the hoof: the camel, because he chews the cud but parts not the hoof, he is unclean to
you.
11:5 And the Coney, because he chews the cud but parts not the hoof, he is unclean to
you.
11:6 And the hare, because she chews the cud but parts not the hoof, she is unclean to
you.
11:7 And the swine, because he parts the hoof, and is cloven-footed, but chews not the
cud, he is unclean to you.
11:8 Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are
unclean to you.
11:9 These may ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever has fins and scales in the
waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that may ye eat.
11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move
in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an
abomination to you,
11:11 and they shall be an abomination to you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, and their
carcasses ye shall have in abomination.
11:12 Whatever has neither fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
11:13 And these ye shall have in abomination among the birds; they shall not be eaten,
they are an abomination: the eagle, and the giver-eagle, and the osprey,
11:14 and the kite, and the falcon after its kind,
11:15 every raven after its kind,
11:16 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind,
11:17 and the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
11:18 and the horned owl, and the pelican, and the vulture,
11:19 and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
11:20 All winged creeping things that go upon all fours are an abomination to you.
11:21 Yet these may ye eat of all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, which
have legs above their feet, with which to leap upon the earth.
11:22 Even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its
kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.
11:23 But all winged creeping things, which have four feet, are an abomination to you.
11:24 And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever touches the carcass of them
shall be unclean until the even;
11:25 And whosoever bears anything of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and
be unclean until the even.
11:26 Every beast which parts the hoof, and is not cloven-footed, nor chews the cud, is
unclean to you: every one that touches them shall be unclean.
11:27 And whatsoever goes upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are
unclean to you: whoso touches their carcass shall be unclean until the even.
11:28 And he that bears the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until
the even: they are unclean to you.
11:29 And these are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep
upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind,
11:30 and the gecko, and the land-crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand-lizard, and the
chameleon.
11:31 These are they which are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever does
touch them, when they are dead, shall be unclean until the even.
11:32 And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, does fall, it shall be
unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel
it be, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until
the even; then shall it be clean.
11:33 And every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, whatsoever is in it shall be
unclean, and it ye shall break.
11:34 All food in it which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean;
and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
11:35 And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falls shall be unclean;
whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall
be unclean to you.
11:36 Nevertheless a fountain or a pit in which is a gathering of water shall be clean: but
that which touches their carcass shall be unclean.
11:37 And if anything of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it
is clean.
11:38 But if water be put upon the seed, and anything of their carcass fall upon it, it is
unclean to you.
11:39 And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that touches the carcass thereof shall
be unclean until the even.
11:40 And he that eats of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the
even: he also that bears the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the
even.
11:41 And every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth is an abomination; it shall not
be eaten.
11:42 Whatsoever goes upon the belly, and whatsoever goes upon all fours, or
whatsoever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye
shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
11:43 You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creeps,
neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
11:44 For I am Yahweh your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am
holy. Neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moves
upon the earth.
11:45 For I am Yahweh that brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God.
Ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
11:46 This is the law of the beast, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves
in the waters, and of every creature that creeps upon the earth;
11:47 to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living
thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.
Chapter 12
12:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a woman conceive seed, and bear a man-
child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness
shall she be unclean.
12:3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
12:4 And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall
touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be
fulfilled.
12:5 But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her
impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying 66 days.
12:6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she
shall bring a lamb a year old for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove,
for a sin offering, to the door of the tent of meeting, to the priest:
12:7 and he shall offer it before Yahweh, and make atonement for her; and she shall be
cleansed from the fountain of her blood. This is the law for her that bears, whether a
male or a female.
12:8 And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two turtle-doves, or two
young pigeons; the one for a burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest
shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.
Chapter 13
13:2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, or a scab, or a bright spot,
and it become in the skin of his flesh the plague of leprosy, then he shall be brought to
Aaron the priest, or to one of his sons the priests:
13:3 and the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and if the hair in the
plague be turned white, and the appearance of the plague be deeper than the skin of his
flesh, it is the plague of leprosy; and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him
unclean.
13:4 And if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and the appearance thereof be
not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white, then the priest shall
shut up him that has the plague seven days:
13:5 and the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if in his eyes the
plague be at a stay, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him
up seven days more:
13:6 and the priest shall look on him again the seventh day; and, behold, if the plague be
dim, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean: it
is a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
13:7 But if the scab spread abroad in the skin, after that he has shown himself to the
priest for his cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again:
13:8 and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the scab be spread in the skin, then the
priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is leprosy.
13:9 When the plague of leprosy is in a man, then he shall be brought to the priest;
13:10 and the priest shall look; and, behold, if there be a white rising in the skin, and it
have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising,
13:11 it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him
unclean: he shall not shut him up, for he is unclean.
13:12 And if the leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of
him that has the plague from his head even to his feet, as far as appears to the priest;
13:13 then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he
shall pronounce him clean that has the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.
13:14 But whensoever raw flesh appears in him, he shall be unclean.
13:15 And the priest shall look on the raw flesh, and pronounce him unclean: the raw
flesh is unclean: it is leprosy.
13:16 Or if the raw flesh turn back, and be changed to white, then he shall come to the
priest;
13:17 and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the plague be turned into white,
then the priest shall pronounce him clean that has the plague: he is clean.
13:18 And when the flesh has in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,
13:19 and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white,
then it shall be shown to the priest;
13:20 and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be lower than the
skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it
is the plague of leprosy, it has broken out in the boil.
13:21 But if the priest looks on it, and, behold, there are no white hairs in it, and it is not
lower than the skin, but is dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
13:22 And if it spreads abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it
is a plague.
13:23 But if the bright spot stay in its place, and be not spread, it is the scar of the boil;
and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
13:24 Or when the flesh has in the skin thereof a burning by fire, and the quick flesh of
the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white;
13:25 then the priest shall look upon it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot is turned
white, and the appearance thereof is deeper than the skin; it is leprosy, it has broken out
in the burning: and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
13:26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there is no white hair in the bright spot, and
it is no lower than the skin, but is dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
13:27 and the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: if it is spread abroad in the skin,
then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
13:28 And if the bright spot stays in its place, and is not spread in the skin, but is dim; it
is the rising of the burning, and the priest shall pronounce him clean: for it is the scar of
the burning.
13:29 And when a man or woman has a plague upon the head or upon the beard,
13:30 then the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the appearance thereof is
deeper than the skin, and there is in it yellow thin hair, then the priest shall pronounce
him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
13:31 And if the priest looks on the plague of the scall, and, behold, the appearance
thereof is not deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall
shut up him that has the plague of the scall seven days:
13:32 And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the scall
is not spread, and there is in it no yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall is not
deeper than the skin,
13:33 then he shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up
him that has the scall seven days more:
13:34 and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall; and, behold, if the scall is
not spread in the skin, and the appearance thereof is not deeper than the skin; then the
priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.
13:35 But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing,
13:36 then the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the scall is spread in the skin, the
priest shall not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.
13:37 But if in his eyes the scall is at a stay, and black hair is grown up in it; the scall is
healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
13:38 And when a man or a woman has in the skin of the flesh bright spots, even white
bright spots;
13:39 then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh
are of a dull white, it is a tetter, it has broken out in the skin; he is clean.
13:40 And if a man's hair is fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
13:41 And if his hair is fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; yet
is he clean.
13:42 But if there is in the bald head, or the bald forehead, a reddish-white plague; it is
leprosy breaking out in his bald head, or his bald forehead.
13:43 Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague is
reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the
skin of the flesh;
13:44 he is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall surely pronounce him unclean;
his plague is in his head.
13:45 And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his
head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
13:46 All the days in which the plague is in him he shall be unclean; he is unclean: he
shall dwell alone. Outside the camp shall his dwelling be.
13:47 The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment,
or a linen garment;
13:48 whether it be in warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in
anything made of skin;
13:49 if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or
in the woof, or in anything of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be shown to the
priest.
13:50 And the priest shall look upon the plague, and shut up that which has the plague
seven days:
13:51 and he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the
garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever service skin is used
for; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.
13:52 And he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in woollen or in
linen, or anything of skin, in which the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be
burnt in the fire.
13:53 And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment,
either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;
13:54 then the priest shall command that they wash the thing in which the plague is, and
he shall shut it up seven days more:
13:55 and the priest shall look, after that the plague is washed; and, behold, if the plague
have not changed its color, and the plague be not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in
the fire: it is a fret, whether the bareness be within or without.
13:56 And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be dim after the washing thereof,
then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the
woof:
13:57 and if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in
anything of skin, it is breaking out: you shall burn that in which the plague is with fire.
13:58 And the garment, either the warp, or the woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be,
which you shall wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the
second time, and shall be clean.
13:59 This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in
the warp, or the woof, or anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it
unclean.
Chapter 14
14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought to
the priest:
14:3 and the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look; and, behold, if
the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper,
14:4 then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two living clean
birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:
14:5 And the priest shall command to kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over
running water.
14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the
hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over
the running water:
14:7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times,
and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let go the living bird into the open field.
14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and
bathe himself in water; and he shall be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp,
but shall dwell outside his tent seven days.
14:9 And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and
his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his
clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
14:10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one ewe-
lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal
offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
14:11 And the priest that cleanses him shall set the man that is to be cleansed, and those
things, before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting.
14:12 And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a trespass offering,
and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering before Yahweh:
14:13 and he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the
burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary: for as the sin offering is the priest's, so is the
trespass offering: it is most holy:
14:14 and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall
put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his
right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
14:15 And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left
hand;
14:16 and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall
sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh:
14:17 and of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the
right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the
great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering:
14:18 and the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him
that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh.
14:19 And the priest shall offer the sin offering, and make atonement for him that is to be
cleansed because of his uncleanness: and afterward he shall kill the burnt offering;
14:20 and the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meal offering upon the altar:
and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.
14:21 And if he be poor, and cannot get so much, then he shall take one he-lamb for a
trespass offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and one tenth part of an ephah
of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering, and a log of oil;
14:22 and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one
shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.
14:23 And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the
door of the tent of meeting, before Yahweh:
14:24 and the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering, and the log of oil, and the
priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before Yahweh.
14:25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering; and the priest shall take of the
blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be
cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.
14:26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
14:27 and the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left
hand seven times before Yahweh:
14:28 and the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of
him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of
his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:
14:29 and the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him
that is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Yahweh.
14:30 And he shall offer one of the turtle-doves, or of the young pigeons, such as he is
able to get,
14:31 even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
offering, with the meal offering: and the priest shall make atonement for him that is to be
cleansed before Yahweh.
14:32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, who is not able to get that
which pertains to his cleansing.
14:34 When ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession,
and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;
14:35 then he that owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, There seems to
me to be as it were a plague in the house.
14:36 And the priest shall command that they empty the house, before the priest goes in
to see the plague, that all that is in the house be not made unclean: and afterward the
priest shall go in to see the house:
14:37 and he shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the
house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than
the wall;
14:38 then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the
house seven days.
14:39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the
plague be spread in the walls of the house;
14:40 then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is,
and cast them into an unclean place without the city:
14:41 and he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour
out the mortar, that they scrape off, without the city into an unclean place:
14:42 and they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he
shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
14:43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he has taken
out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered;
14:44 then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the
house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.
14:45 And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all
the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean
place.
14:46 Moreover he that goes into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean
until the even.
14:47 And he that lies in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eats in the house
shall wash his clothes.
14:48 And if the priest shall come in, and look, and, behold, the plague has not spread in
the house, after the house was plastered; then the priest shall pronounce the house clean,
because the plague is healed.
14:49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop:
14:50 and he shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water:
14:51 and he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living
bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle
the house seven times:
14:52 and he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running
water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with
the scarlet:
14:53 but he shall let got the living bird out of the city into the open field: so shall he
make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.
14:54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scall,
14:55 and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house,
14:56 and for a rising, and for a scab, and for a bright spot;
14:57 to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.
Chapter 15
15:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When any man has an issue out of
his flesh, because of his issue he is unclean.
15:3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or
his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.
15:4 Every bed whereon he that has the issue lies shall be unclean; and everything
whereon he sits shall be unclean.
15:5 And whosoever touches his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
and be unclean until the even.
15:6 And he that sits on anything whereon he that has the issue sat shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:7 And he that touches the flesh of him that has the issue shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:8 And if he that has the issue spit upon him that is clean, then he shall wash his
clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:9 And what saddle soever he that has the issue rides upon shall be unclean.
15:10 And whosoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the
even: and he that bears those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
15:11 And whomsoever he that has the issue touches, without having rinsed his hands in
water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the
even.
15:12 And the earthen vessel, which he that has the issue touches, shall be broken; and
every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.
15:13 And when he that has an issue is cleansed of his issue, then he shall number to
himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in
running water, and shall be clean.
15:14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons,
and come before Yahweh to the door of the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest:
15:15 and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh for his issue.
15:16 And if any man's seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall bathe all his
flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:17 And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be
washed with water, and be unclean until the even.
15:18 The woman also with whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both
bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:19 And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in
her impurity seven days: and whosoever touches her shall be unclean until the even.
15:20 And everything that she lies upon in her impurity shall be unclean: everything also
that she sits upon shall be unclean.
15:21 And whosoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water,
15:22 And whosoever touches anything that she sits upon shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:23 And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he
shall be unclean until the even.
15:24 And if any man lie with her, and her impurity be upon him, he shall be unclean
seven days; and every bed whereon he lies shall be unclean.
15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days not in the time of her
impurity, or if she have an issue beyond the time of her impurity; all the days of the issue
of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her impurity: she is unclean.
15:26 Every bed on which she lies all the days of her issue shall be to her as the bed of
her impurity: and everything on which she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her
impurity.
15:27 And whosoever touches those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
15:28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and
after that she shall be clean.
15:29 And on the eighth day she shall take to her two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons,
and bring them to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting.
15:30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt
offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh for the issue of her
uncleanness.
15:31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die
not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.
15:32 This is the law of him that has an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goes
from him, so that he is unclean thereby;
15:33 and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of him that has an issue, of the man,
and of the woman, and of him that lies with her that is unclean.
Chapter 16
16:1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they
drew near before Yahweh, and died;
16:2 and Yahweh said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother, that he come not at all
times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark; that
he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat.
16:3 Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin
offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
16:4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his
flesh, and shall be girded with the linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be
attired: they are the holy garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on.
16:5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two he-goats for a sin
offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
16:6 And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and
make atonement for himself, and for his house.
16:7 And he shall take the two goats, and set them before Yahweh at the door of the tent
of meeting.
16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for Yahweh, and the other lot
for Azazel.
16:9 And Aaron shall present the goat upon which the lot fell for Yahweh, and offer him
for a sin offering.
16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before Yahweh, to
make atonement for him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness.
16:11 And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and
shall make atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin
offering which is for himself:
16:12 and he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the altar before Yahweh, and
his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
16:13 and he shall put the incense upon the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the
incense may cover the mercy-seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
16:14 and he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon
the mercy-seat on the east; and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with
his finger seven times.
16:15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his
blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and
sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat, and before the mercy-seat:
16:16 and he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleannesses of
the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, even all their sins: and so shall
he do for the tent of meeting, that dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
16:17 And there shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he goes in to make
atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made atonement for himself,
and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
16:18 And he shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh, and make atonement for it,
and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the
horns of the altar round about.
16:19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse
it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel.
16:20 And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place, and the tent of
meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat:
16:21 and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over
him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions, even all their
sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the
hand of a man that is in readiness into the wilderness:
16:22 and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities to a solitary land: and he shall
let go the goat in the wilderness.
16:23 And Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen
garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
16:24 and he shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and
come forth, and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make
atonement for himself and for the people.
16:25 And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar.
16:26 And he that lets go the goat for Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in
water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
16:27 And the bullock of the sin offering, and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood
was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be carried forth without the
camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
16:28 And he that burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp.
16:29 And it shall be a statute for ever to you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of
the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or
the stranger that sojourns among you:
16:30 for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins
shall ye be clean before Yahweh.
16:31 It is a sabbath of solemn rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute
for ever.
16:32 And the priest, who shall be anointed and who shall be consecrated to be priest in
his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the
holy garments:
16:33 and he shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary; and he shall make atonement
for the tent of meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and
for all the people of the assembly.
16:34 And this shall be an everlasting statute to you, to make atonement for the children
of Israel because of all their sins once in the year. And he did as Yahweh commanded
Moses.
Chapter 17
17:2 Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them:
This is the thing which Yahweh has commanded, saying,
17:3 What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in
the camp, or that kills it without the camp,
17:4 and has not brought it to the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an oblation to
Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be imputed to that man; he has
shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
17:5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice
in the open field, even that they may bring them to Yahweh, to the door of the tent of
meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace offerings to Yahweh.
17:6 And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of Yahweh at the door of the
tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet savor to Yahweh.
17:7 And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the he-goats, after which they
play the harlot. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.
17:8 And you shall say to them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the
strangers that sojourn among them, that offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,
17:9 and brings it not to the door of the tent of meeting, to sacrifice it to Yahweh; that
man shall be cut off from his people.
17:10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn
among them, that eats any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eats
blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to
make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the
life.
17:12 Therefore I said to the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither
shall any stranger that sojourns among you eat blood.
17:13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that
sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten; he shall
pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
17:14 For as to the life of all flesh, the blood of it is all one with the life of it: therefore I
said to the children of Israel, You shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh; for the life of
all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eats it shall be cut off.
17:15 And every soul that eats that which dies of itself, or that which is torn of beasts,
whether he be home-born or a sojourner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in
water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
17:16 But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.
Chapter 18
18:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, I am Yahweh your God.
18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt, in which ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after
the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do; neither shall ye
walk in their statutes.
18:4 My ordinances shall ye do, and my statutes shall ye keep, to walk therein: I am
Yahweh your God.
18:5 You shall therefore keep my statutes, and my ordinances; which if a man do, he
shall live in them: I am Yahweh.
18:6 None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover their
nakedness: I am Yahweh.
18:7 The nakedness of your father, even the nakedness of your mother, shall you not
uncover: she is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
18:8 The nakedness of your father's wife shall you not uncover: it is your father's
nakedness.
18:9 The nakedness of your sister, the daughter of your father, or the daughter of your
mother, whether born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness you shall not
uncover.
18:10 The nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their
nakedness you shall not uncover: for theirs is your own nakedness.
18:11 The nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, begotten of your father, she is your
sister, you shall not uncover her nakedness.
18:12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister: she is your father's near
kinswoman.
18:13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister: for she is your
mother's near kinswoman.
18:14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, you shall not
approach to his wife: she is your aunt.
18:15 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son's
wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.
18:16 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's
nakedness.
18:17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; you shall not
take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are
near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
18:18 And you shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her
nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.
18:19 And you shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is
impure by her uncleanness.
18:20 And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with
her.
18:21 And you shall not give any of your seed to make them pass through the fire to
Molech; neither shall you profane the name of your God: I am Yahweh.
18:22 You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
18:23 And you shall not lie with any beast to defile yourself with it; neither shall any
woman stand before a beast, to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are
defiled which I cast out from before you;
18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land
vomits out her inhabitants.
18:26 You therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of
these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourns among you;
18:27 (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you,
and the land is defiled);
18:28 that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation
that was before you.
18:29 For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them
shall be cut off from among their people.
18:30 Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practice not any of these abominable
customs, which were practiced before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am
Yahweh your God.
Chapter 19
19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be
holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.
19:3 You shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths:
I am Yahweh your God.
19:4 Turn ye not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Yahweh your God.
19:5 And when ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, ye shall offer it that ye
may be accepted.
19:6 It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if anything remain
until the third day, it shall be burnt with fire.
19:7 And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is an abomination; it shall not be
accepted:
19:8 but every one that eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy
thing of Yahweh: and that soul shall be cut off from his people.
19:9 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of
your field, neither shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest.
19:10 And you shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen fruit of
your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Yahweh your
God.
19:11 You shall not steal; neither shall ye deal falsely, nor lie one to another.
19:12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God: I
am Yahweh.
19:13 You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant
shall not abide with you all night until the morning.
19:14 You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but you
shall fear your God: I am Yahweh.
19:15 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: you shall not respect the person of
the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shall you judge your
neighbor.
19:16 You shall not go up and down as a talebearer among your people: neither shall you
stand against the blood of your neighbor: I am Yahweh.
19:17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall surely rebuke your
neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
19:18 You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your
people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am Yahweh.
19:19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle gender with a diverse
kind: you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon
you a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.
19:20 And whosoever lies carnally with a woman that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a
husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; they shall be punished; they
shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
19:21 And he shall bring his trespass offering to Yahweh, to the door of the tent of
meeting, even a ram for a trespass offering.
19:22 And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering
before Yahweh for his sin which he has sinned: and the sin which he has sinned shall be
forgiven him.
19:23 And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees
for food, then ye shall consider their fruit as their uncircumcision: three years shall they
be as uncircumcised to you; it shall not be eaten.
19:24 But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy, for giving praise to
Yahweh.
19:25 And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield to you the
increase thereof: I am Yahweh your God.
19:26 You shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor
practice divination.
19:27 You shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shall you mar the corners of
your beard.
19:28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks
upon you: I am Yahweh.
19:29 Profane not your daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and
the land become full of wickedness.
19:30 You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
19:31 Turn ye not to them that have familiar spirits, nor to the wizards; seek them not
out, to be defiled by them: I am Yahweh your God.
19:32 You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of the old man, and you
shall fear your God: I am Yahweh.
19:33 And if a stranger sojourns with you in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.
19:34 The stranger that sojourns with you shall be to you as the home-born among you,
and you shall love him as yourself; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt: I am
Yahweh your God.
19:35 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or
of quantity.
19:36 Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Yahweh
your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
19:37 And ye shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them: I am
Yahweh.
Chapter 20
20:2 Moreover, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of
Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that gives of his seed to Molech; he shall
surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
20:3 I also will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people;
because he has given of his seed to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my
holy name.
20:4 And if the people at the land do at all hide their eyes from that man, when he gives
of his seed to Molech, and put him not to death;
20:5 then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off,
and all that play the harlot after him, to play the harlot with Molech, from among their
people.
20:6 And the soul that turns to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards, to play
the harlot after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from
among his people.
20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am Yahweh your God.
20:8 And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
20:9 For every one that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has
cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
20:10 And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, even he that commits
adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to
death.
20:11 And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness:
both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
20:12 And if a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to
death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
20:13 And if a man lies with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed
abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with
fire, both he and they; so that there be no wickedness among you.
20:15 And if a man lies with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the
beast.
20:16 And if a woman approaches to any beast, and lies down for it, you shall kill the
woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter,
and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be
cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he has uncovered his sister's nakedness;
he shall bear his iniquity.
20:18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her
nakedness; he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her
blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
20:19 And you shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your
father's sister; for he has made naked his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
20:20 And if a man shall lie with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's
nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
20:21 And if a man shall take his brother's wife, it is impurity: he has uncovered his
brother's nakedness; they shall be childless.
20:22 You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them; so
that the land, to which I bring you to dwell therein, does not vomit you out.
20:23 And ye shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before
you: for they did all these things, and that is why I abhorred them.
20:24 But I have said to you, You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to
possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am Yahweh your God, who has
separated you from the peoples.
20:25 You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean,
and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls
abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I
have separated from you as unclean.
20:26 And ye shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from
the peoples, that ye should be mine.
20:27 A man also or a woman that has a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be
put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.
Chapter 21
21:1 And Yahweh said to Moses, Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to
them, There shall none defile himself for the dead among his people;
21:2 except for his kin, that is near to him, for his mother, and for his father, and for his
son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
21:3 and for his sister a virgin, that is near to him, that has had no husband; for her he
may defile himself.
21:4 He shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
21:5 They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner
of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
21:6 They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for the
offerings of Yahweh made by fire, the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they
shall be holy.
21:7 They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a
woman put away from her husband: for he is holy to his God.
21:8 You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God: he shall be
holy to you: for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.
21:9 And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she
profanes her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
21:10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing
oil is poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not let the hair of his
head go loose, nor tear his clothes;
21:11 neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his
mother;
21:12 neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for
the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am Yahweh.
21:13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
21:14 A widow, or one divorced, or a profane woman, a harlot, these shall he not take:
but a virgin of his own people shall he take to wife.
21:15 And he shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Yahweh who
sanctifies him.
21:17 Speak to Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of your seed throughout their
generations that has a blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.
21:18 For whatsoever man he be that has a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man,
or a lame, or he that has a flat nose, or anything superfluous,
21:19 or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,
21:20 or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that has a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or
scabbed, or has his stones broken;
21:21 no man of the seed of Aaron the priest, that has a blemish, shall come near to offer
the offerings of Yahweh made by fire: he has a blemish; he shall not come near to offer
the bread of his God.
21:22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:
21:23 only he shall not go in to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a
blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
21:24 So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.
Chapter 22
22:2 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things
of the children of Israel, which they hallow to me, and that they profane not my holy
name: I am Yahweh.
22:3 Say to them, Whosoever he be of all your seed throughout your generations, that
approaches to the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow to Yahweh, having his
uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from before me: I am Yahweh.
22:4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or has an issue; he shall not eat of
the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso touches anything that is unclean by the
dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;
22:5 or whosoever touches any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a
man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he has;
22:6 the soul that touches any such shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the
holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water.
22:7 And when the sun is down, he shall be clean; and afterward he shall eat of the holy
things, because it is his bread.
22:8 That which dies of itself, or is torn by beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself with
it: I am Yahweh.
22:9 They shall therefore keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die therein, if they
profane it: I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
22:10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or a hired
servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
22:11 But if a priest buys any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it; and such
as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.
22:12 And if a priest's daughter be married to a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-
offering of the holy things.
22:13 But if a priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be
returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's bread: but there
shall no stranger eat of it.
22:14 And if a man eats of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part
thereof to it, and shall give to the priest the holy thing.
22:15 And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they
offer to Yahweh,
22:16 and so cause them to bear the iniquity that brings guilt, when they eat their holy
things: for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
22:18 Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them,
Whosoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, that offers his
oblation, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill-offerings, which they
offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering;
22:19 that ye may be accepted, ye shall offer a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of
the sheep, or of the goats.
22:20 But whatsoever has a blemish, that is something ye shall not offer: for it shall not
be acceptable for you.
22:21 And whosoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a
vow, or for a freewill-offering, from the herd or from the flock, it must be perfect to be
accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.
22:22 Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not
offer these to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar to Yahweh.
22:23 Either a bullock or a lamb that has anything superfluous or lacking in his parts, that
may you offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
22:24 That which has its stones bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut, ye shall not offer to
Yahweh; neither shall ye do thus in your land.
22:25 Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of
these; because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them: they shall not be
accepted for you.
22:27 When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days
under the dam; and from the eighth day and then onward it shall be accepted for the
oblation of an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
22:28 And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day.
22:29 And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, ye shall sacrifice it
that ye may be accepted.
22:30 On the same day it shall be eaten; ye shall leave none of it until the morning: I am
Yahweh.
22:31 Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am Yahweh.
22:32 And ye shall not profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children
of Israel: I am Yahweh who hallows you,
22:33 who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am Yahweh.
Chapter 23
23:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, The set feasts of Yahweh, which ye
shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.
23:3 Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a
holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work: it is a sabbath to Yahweh in all your
dwellings.
23:4 These are the set feasts of Yahweh, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim
in their appointed season.
23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Yahweh's passover.
23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to
Yahweh: seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread.
23:7 In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.
23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days: in the seventh day
is a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
23:10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye are come into the land
which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the
first-fruits of your harvest to the priest:
23:11 and he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you: on the morrow
after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
23:12 And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish a
year old for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
23:13 And the meal offering thereof shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour
mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a sweet savor; and the drink
offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame
day, until ye have brought the oblation of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout
your generations in all your dwellings.
23:15 And ye shall count to you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye
brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall there be complete:
23:16 even to the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye
shall offer a new meal offering to Yahweh.
23:17 You shall bring out of your habitations two wave-loaves of two tenth parts of an
ephah: they shall be of fine flour, they shall be baken with leaven, for first-fruits to
Yahweh.
23:18 And ye shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, and
one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their
meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor
to Yahweh.
23:19 And ye shall offer one he-goat for a sin offering, and two he-lambs a year old for a
sacrifice of peace offerings.
23:20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first-fruits for a wave-offering
before Yahweh, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.
23:21 And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy
convocation to you; ye shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your
dwellings throughout your generations.
23:22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of
your field, neither shall you gather the gleaning of your harvest: you shall leave them for
the poor, and for the sojourner: I am Yahweh your God.
23:24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the
month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy
convocation.
23:25 You shall do no servile work; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to
Yahweh.
23:27 Furthermore, on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it
shall be a holy convocation to you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall offer an
offering made by fire to Yahweh.
23:28 And ye shall do no manner of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement,
to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day; he shall be cut
off from his people.
23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that does any manner of work in that same day, that soul
will I destroy from among his people.
23:31 You shall do no manner of work: it is a statute for ever throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
23:32 It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the
ninth day of the month at even, from even to even, shall ye keep your sabbath.
23:34 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is
the feast of tabernacles for seven days to Yahweh.
23:35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.
23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh: on the eighth day
shall be a holy convocation to you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire to
Yahweh: it is a solemn assembly; ye shall do no servile work.
23:37 These are the set feasts of Yahweh, which ye shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal
offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;
23:38 besides the sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows,
and besides all your freewill-offerings, which ye give to Yahweh.
23:39 Furthermore, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in
the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall
be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-
trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before
Yahweh your God seven days.
23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year: it is a statute for ever
throughout your generations; ye shall keep it in the seventh month.
23:42 You shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in
booths;
23:43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in
booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yahweh your God.
23:44 And Moses declared to the children of Israel the set feasts of Yahweh.
Chapter 24
24:2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring to you pure olive oil beaten for the
light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
24:3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron keep it in order
from evening to morning before Yahweh continually: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations.
24:4 He shall keep in order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before Yahweh
continually.
24:5 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an
ephah shall be in one cake.
24:6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before
Yahweh.
24:7 And you shall put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be to the bread for a
memorial, even an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
24:8 Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually; it is on the
behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
24:9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place: for it is
most holy to him of the offerings of Yahweh made by fire by a perpetual statute.
24:10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out
among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel
strove together in the camp:
24:11 and the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they
brought him to Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of
the tribe of Dan.
24:12 And they put him in ward, that it might be declared to them at the mouth of
Yahweh.
24:14 Bring forth him that has cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay
their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
24:15 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curses his God
shall bear his sin.
24:16 And he that blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all
the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the sojourner, as the home-born, when
he blasphemes the name of Yahweh, shall be put to death.
24:17 And he that strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
24:18 And he that strikes a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.
24:19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to
him:
24:20 breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has caused a blemish in a man,
so shall it be rendered to him.
24:21 And he that kills a beast shall make it good: and he that kills a man shall be put to
death.
24:22 You shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born:
for I am Yahweh your God.
24:23 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him that had
cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as
Yahweh commanded Moses.
Chapter 25
25:1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
25:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land which I
give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath to Yahweh.
25:3 Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and
gather in the fruits thereof;
25:4 but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath to
Yahweh: you shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.
25:5 That which grows of itself of your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your
undressed vine you shall not gather: it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
25:6 And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for you, and for your servant
and for your maid, and for your hired servant and for your stranger, who sojourn with
you.
25:7 And for your cattle, and for the beasts that are in your land, shall all the increase
thereof be for food.
25:8 And you shall number seven sabbaths of years to you, seven times seven years; and
there shall be to you the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.
25:9 Then shall you send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month;
in the day of atonement shall ye send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.
25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all
the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee to you; and ye shall return every man to his
possession, and ye shall return every man to his family.
25:11 A jubilee shall that fiftieth year be to you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which
grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of the undressed vines.
25:12 For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy to you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the
field.
25:13 In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man to his possession.
25:14 And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy of your neighbor's hand, ye shall
not wrong one another.
25:15 According to the number of years after the jubilee you shall buy of your neighbor,
and according to the number of years of the crops he shall sell to you.
25:16 According to the multitude of the years you shall increase the price of it, and
according to the fewness of the years you shall diminish the price of it; for the number of
the crops he sells to you.
25:17 And ye shall not wrong one another; but you shall fear your God: for I am Yahweh
your God.
25:18 Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my ordinances and do them; and ye
shall dwell in the land in safety.
25:19 And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in
safety.
25:20 And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not
sow, nor gather in our increase;
25:21 then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth
fruit for the three years.
25:22 And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth
year, until its fruits come in, ye shall eat the old store.
25:23 And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for ye are
strangers and sojourners with me.
25:24 And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
25:25 If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possession, then shall his
kinsman that is next to him come, and shall redeem that which his brother has sold.
25:26 And if a man has no one to redeem it, and he becomes rich and finds sufficient to
redeem it;
25:27 then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus to the
man to whom he sold it; and he shall return to his possession.
25:28 But if he be not able to get it back for himself, then that which he has sold shall
remain in the hand of him that has bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it
shall go out, and he shall return to his possession.
25:29 And if a man sells a dwelling-house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within
a whole year after it is sold; for a full year shall he have the right of redemption.
25:30 And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in
the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him that bought it, throughout his
generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.
25:31 But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be
reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in
the jubilee.
25:32 Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession,
may the Levites redeem at any time.
25:33 And if one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold, and the city of his
possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their
possession among the children of Israel.
25:34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual
possession.
25:35 And if your brother becomes poor, and his hand fail with you; then you shall
uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with you.
25:36 Take you no interest from him or increase, but fear your God; that your brother
may live with you.
25:37 You shall not give him your money upon interest, nor give him your victuals for
increase.
25:38 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give
you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.
25:39 And if your brother becomes poor with you, and sells himself to you; you shall not
make him to serve as a bond-servant.
25:40 As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you
to the year of jubilee:
25:41 then shall he go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his
own family, and to the possession of his fathers shall he return.
25:42 For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall
not be sold as bondmen.
25:43 You shall not rule over him with rigor, but shall fear your God.
25:44 And as for your bondmen, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have; of the
nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that sojourn among you, of them shall ye
buy, and of their families that are with you, which they have begotten in your land: and
they shall be your possession.
25:46 And ye shall make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a
possession; of them shall ye take your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the
children of Israel ye shall not rule, one over another, with rigor.
25:47 And if a stranger or sojourner among you becomes rich, and your brother becomes
poor beside him, and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you, or to the stock of
the stranger's family;
25:48 after that he is sold he may be redeemed: one of his brethren may redeem him;
25:49 or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is near of kin to him of
his family may redeem him; or if he becomes rich, he may redeem himself.
25:50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to
him to the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of
years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.
25:51 If there be yet many years, according to them he shall give back the price of his
redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
25:52 And if there remain but few years to the year of jubilee, then he shall reckon with
him; according to his years shall he give back the price of his redemption.
25:53 As a servant hired year by year shall he be with him: he shall not rule with rigor
over him in your sight.
25:54 And if he be not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of
jubilee, he, and his children with him.
25:55 For to me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought
forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Yahweh your God.
Chapter 26
26:1 You shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar,
neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh
your God.
26:2 You shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahweh.
26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
26:4 then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and
the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
26:5 And your threshing shall reach to the vintage, and the vintage shall reach to the
sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
26:6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you
afraid: and I will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land, neither shall the sword go
through your land.
26:7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
26:8 And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten
thousand; and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
26:9 And I will have respect to you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will
establish my covenant with you.
26:10 And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old because of the
new.
26:11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you.
26:12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
26:13 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye
should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go
upright.
26:14 But if ye will not hearken to me, and will not do all these commandments;
26:15 and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor my ordinances, so that ye
will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
26:16 I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and
fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your
seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
26:17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be smitten before your enemies:
they that hate you shall rule over you; and ye shall flee when none pursues you.
26:18 And if ye will not yet for these things hearken to me, then I will chastise you seven
times more for your sins.
26:19 And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and
your earth as brass;
26:20 and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase,
neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
26:21 And if ye walk contrary to me, and will not hearken to me, I will bring seven times
more plagues upon you according to your sins.
26:22 And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your
children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall
become desolate.
26:23 And if by these things ye will not be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;
26:24 then will I also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for
your sins.
26:25 And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute the vengeance of the
covenant; and ye shall be gathered together within your cities: and I will send the
pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26:26 When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven,
and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
26:27 And if ye will not for all this hearken to me, but walk contrary to me;
26:28 then I will walk contrary to you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times
for your sins.
26:29 And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your
dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.
26:31 And I will make your cities a waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation,
and I will not smell the savor of your sweet odors.
26:32 And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall
be astonished at it.
26:33 And you will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you:
and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
26:34 Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and ye are in your
enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.
26:35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your
sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
26:36 And as for them that are left of you, I will send a faintness into their heart in the
lands of their enemies: and the sound of a driven leaf shall chase them; and they shall
flee, as one flees from the sword; and they shall fall when none pursues.
26:37 And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none
pursues: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
26:38 And ye shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you
up.
26:39 And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies'
lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
26:40 And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their
trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to
me,
26:41 I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies: if
then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of
their iniquity;
26:42 then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac,
and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
26:43 The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lies
desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because,
even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
26:44 And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject
them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with
them; for I am Yahweh their God;
26:45 but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought
forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am
Yahweh.
26:46 These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which Yahweh made between him
and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by Moses.
Chapter 27
27:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When a man shall accomplish a
vow, the persons shall be for Yahweh by your estimation.
27:3 And your estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even to sixty years
old, even your estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
27:4 And if it be a female, then your estimation shall be thirty shekels.
27:5 And if it be from five years old even to twenty years old, then your estimation shall
be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
27:6 And if it be from a month old even to five years old, then your estimation shall be of
the male five shekels of silver, and for the female your estimation shall be three shekels
of silver.
27:7 And if it be from sixty years old and upward; if it be a male, then your estimation
shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
27:8 But if he be poorer than your estimation, then he shall be set before the priest, and
the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him that vowed shall the priest value
him.
27:9 And if it be a beast, whereof men offer an oblation to Yahweh, all that any man
gives of such to Yahweh shall be holy.
27:10 He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he
shall at all change beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be
holy.
27:11 And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer an oblation to Yahweh,
then he shall set the beast before the priest;
27:12 and the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as you the priest value it, so
shall it be.
27:13 But if he will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part thereof to your
estimation.
27:14 And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy to Yahweh, then the priest
shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.
27:15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of
the money of your estimation to it, and it shall be his.
27:16 And if a man shall sanctify to Yahweh part of the field of his possession, then your
estimation shall be according to the sowing thereof: the sowing of a homer of barley shall
be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
27:17 If he sanctify his field from the year of jubilee, according to your estimation it shall
stand.
27:18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon to him the
money according to the years that remain to the year of jubilee; and an abatement shall be
made from your estimation.
27:19 And if he that sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth
part of the money of your estimation to it, and it shall be assured to him.
27:20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it
shall not be redeemed any more:
27:21 but the field, when it goes out in the jubilee, shall be holy to Yahweh, as a field
devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's.
27:22 And if he sanctify to Yahweh a field which he has bought, which is not of the field
of his possession;
27:23 then the priest shall reckon to him the worth of your estimation to the year of
jubilee: and he shall give your estimation in that day, as a holy thing to Yahweh.
27:24 In the year of jubilee the field shall return to him of whom it was bought, even to
him to whom the possession of the land belongs.
27:25 And all your estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty
gerahs shall be the shekel.
27:26 Only the firstling among beasts, which is made a firstling to Yahweh, no man shall
sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's.
27:27 And if it be of an unclean beast, then he shall ransom it according to your
estimation, and shall add to it the fifth part thereof: or if it be not redeemed, then it shall
be sold according to your estimation.
27:28 Notwithstanding, no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to Yahweh of all that
he has, whether of man or beast, or of the field of his possession, shall be sold or
redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy to Yahweh.
27:29 No one devoted, that shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he
shall surely be put to death.
27:30 And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the
tree, is Yahweh's: it is holy to Yahweh.
27:31 And if a man will redeem anything of his tithe, he shall add to it the fifth part
thereof.
27:32 And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatsoever passes under the rod, the tenth
shall be holy to Yahweh.
27:33 He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he
change it at all, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy; it shall not be
redeemed.
27:34 These are the commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children
of Israel in mount Sinai.
End of Leviticus
The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers
Numbers
Chapter 1
1:1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the
first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of
Egypt, saying,
1:2 Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by
their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, by their polls;
1:3 from twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, you
and Aaron shall number them by their hosts.
1:4 And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers' house.
1:5 And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you. Of Reuben: Elizur the
son of Shedeur.
1:6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
1:7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
1:8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.
1:9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon.
1:10 Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of
Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
1:11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni.
1:12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
1:13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
1:14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
1:15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.
1:16 These are they that were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their
fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
1:17 And Moses and Aaron took these men that are mentioned by name:
1:18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second
month; and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
1:19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.
1:20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by their families,
by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male
from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
1:21 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were 46,500.
1:22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers'
houses, those that were numbered thereof, according to the number of the names, by their
polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
1:23 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were 59,300.
1:24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were
able to go forth to war;
1:25 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were 45,650.
1:26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
1:27 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were 74,600.
1:28 Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers'
houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that
were able to go forth to war;
1:29 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were 54,400.
1:30 Of the children of Zebulun, their generations, by their families, by their fathers'
1:31 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were 57,400.
1:32 Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, their generations, by
their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
1:33 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Ephraim, were 45,500.
1:34 Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers'
1:35 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were 32,200.
1:36 Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers'
1:37 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were 35,400.
1:38 Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
1:39 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were 62,700.
1:40 Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers'
1:41 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were 41,500.
1:42 Of the children of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers'
1:43 those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Naphtali, were 53,400.
1:44 These are they that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the
princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.
1:45 So all they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses,
from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;
1:46 even all they that were numbered were 603,550.
1:47 But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.
1:48 For Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
1:49 Only the tribe of Levi you shall not number, neither shall you take the sum of them
among the children of Israel;
1:50 but appoint you the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the
furniture thereof, and over all that belongs to it: they shall carry the tabernacle, and all its
furniture; and they shall minister to it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.
1:51 And when the tabernacle sets forward, the Levites shall take it down; and when the
tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that comes near
shall be put to death.
1:52 And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and
every man by his own standard, according to their hosts.
1:53 But the Levites shall encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there
be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the
charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.
1:54 This is what the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded
Moses, so they did.
Chapter 2
2:2 The children of Israel shall encamp every man by his own standard, with the ensigns
of their fathers' houses: over against the tent of meeting shall they encamp round about.
2:3 And those that encamp on the east side toward the sunrising shall be they of the
standard of the camp of Judah, according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of
Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
2:4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were 74,600.
2:5 And those that encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the
children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.
2:6 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and
four hundred.
2:7 And the tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the
son of Helon.
2:8 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand
and four hundred.
2:9 All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred thousand and eighty
thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set
forth first.
2:10 On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their
hosts: and the prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.
2:11 And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were forty and six thousand and
five hundred.
2:12 And those that encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the prince of
the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
2:13 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand
and three hundred.
2:14 And the tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son
of Reuel.
2:15 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand
and six hundred and fifty.
2:16 All that were numbered of the camp of Reuben were a hundred thousand and fifty
and one thousand and four hundred and fifty, according to their hosts. And they shall
set forth second.
2:17 Then the tent of meeting shall set forward, with the camp of the Levites in the midst
of the camps: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their
standards.
2:18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their
hosts: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
2:19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five
hundred.
2:20 And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of
Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
2:21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand
and two hundred.
2:22 And the tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be
Abidan the son of Gideoni.
2:23 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand
and four hundred.
2:24 All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred thousand and eight
thousand and a hundred, according to their hosts. And they shall set forth third.
2:25 On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan according to their hosts:
and the prince of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
2:26 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were 62,700.
2:27 And those that encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the
children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.
2:28 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand
and five hundred.
2:29 And the tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira
the son of Enan.
2:30 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand
and four hundred.
2:31 All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a hundred thousand and fifty and
seven thousand and six hundred. They shall set forth hindmost by their standards.
2:32 These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses:
all that were numbered of the camps according to their hosts were six hundred thousand
and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
2:33 But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
2:34 Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so
they encamped by their standards, and so they set forward, every one by their families,
according to their fathers' houses.
Chapter 3
3:1 Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Yahweh spoke
with Moses in mount Sinai.
3:2 And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu,
Eleazar, and Ithamar.
3:3 These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, whom he
consecrated to minister in the priest's office.
3:4 And Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh, when they offered strange fire before
Yahweh, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar
ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.
3:6 Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may
minister to him.
3:7 And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the
tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.
3:8 And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the
children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.
3:9 And you shall give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons: they are wholly given to him
on the behalf of the children of Israel.
3:10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood: and
the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.
3:12 And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of
all the first-born that opens the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall
be mine:
3:13 for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of
Egypt I hallowed to me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast; mine they shall be:
I am Yahweh.
3:14 And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, saying,
3:15 Number the children of Levi by their fathers' houses, by their families: every male
from a month old and upward shall you number them.
3:16 And Moses numbered them according to the word of Yahweh, as he was
commanded.
3:17 And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.
3:18 And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.
3:19 And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
3:20 And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families
of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.
3:21 Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimeites: these
are the families of the Gershonites.
3:22 Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a
month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and
five hundred.
3:23 The families of the Gershonites shall encamp behind the tabernacle westward.
3:24 And the prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of
Lael.
3:25 And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting shall be the tabernacle,
and the Tent, the covering thereof, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,
3:26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by
the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
3:27 And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izharites, and
the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the
Kohathites.
3:28 According to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, there were
eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
3:29 The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle
southward.
3:30 And the prince of the fathers' house of the families of the Kohathites shall be
Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.
3:31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars,
and the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all the
service thereof.
3:32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be prince of the princes of the Levites,
and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.
3:33 Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are
the families of Merari.
3:34 And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males,
from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
3:35 And the prince of the fathers' house of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of
Abihail: they shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle northward.
3:36 And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle,
and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the
instruments thereof, and all the service thereof,
3:37 and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their
cords.
3:38 And those that encamp before the tabernacle eastward, before the tent of meeting
toward the sunrising, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the
sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that comes near shall
be put to death.
3:39 All that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered at the
commandment of Yahweh, by their families, all the males from a month old and upward,
were twenty and two thousand.
3:40 And Yahweh said to Moses, Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel
from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
3:41 And you shall take the Levites for me (I am Yahweh) instead of all the first-born
among the children of Israel; and the cattle of the Levites instead of all the firstlings
among the cattle of the children of Israel:
3:42 and Moses numbered, as Yahweh commanded him, all the first-born among the
children of Israel.
3:43 And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a month old
and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were 22,273.
3:45 Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the
cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Yahweh.
3:46 And for the redemption of the 273 of the first-born of the children of Israel, that are
over and above the number of the Levites,
3:47 you shall take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shall
you take them (the shekel is twenty gerahs):
3:48 and you shall give the money, with which the odd number of them is redeemed, to
Aaron and to his sons.
3:49 And Moses took the redemption-money from them that were over and above them
that were redeemed by the Levites;
3:50 from the first-born of the children of Israel took the the money, 1,365 shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary:
3:51 and Moses gave the redemption-money to Aaron and to his sons, according to the
word of Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Chapter 4
4:2 Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families,
by their fathers' houses,
4:3 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter upon the
service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
4:4 This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, about the most holy
things:
4:5 when the camp sets forward, aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down
the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it,
4:6 and shall put upon it a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue,
and shall put in the staves thereof.
4:7 And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put upon it the
dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls and the cups with which to pour out; and the
continual bread shall be upon it:
4:8 and they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering
of sealskin, and shall put in the staves thereof.
4:9 And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and its
lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, with which
they minister to it:
4:10 and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and
shall put it upon the frame.
4:11 And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a
covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves thereof:
4:12 and they shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the
sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of sealskin,
and shall put them on the frame.
4:13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth upon it:
4:14 and they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, with which they minister about it,
the firepans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar;
and they shall spread upon it a covering of sealskin, and put in the staves thereof.
4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all
the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp is set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath
shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things
are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.
4:16 And the charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light,
and the sweet incense, and the continual meal offering, and the anointing oil, the charge
of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, the sanctuary, and the furniture thereof.
4:18 Cut ye not off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
4:19 but thus do to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach to the most
holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and
to his burden;
4:20 but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.
4:22 Take the sum of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers' houses, by their families;
4:23 from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old shall you number them; all that
enter in to wait upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.
4:24 This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing
burdens:
4:25 they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering,
and the covering of sealskin that is above upon it, and the screen for the door of the tent
of meeting,
4:26 and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court,
which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the
instruments of their service, and whatsoever shall be done with them: therein shall they
serve.
4:27 At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the
Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye shall appoint to them in
charge all their burden.
4:28 This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of
meeting: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
4:29 As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers'
houses;
4:30 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old shall you number them,
every one that enters upon the service, to do the work of the tent of meeting.
4:31 And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of
meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the
sockets thereof,
4:32 and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their
cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall appoint
the instruments of the charge of their burden.
4:33 This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their
service, in the tent of meeting, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
4:34 And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the
Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers' houses,
4:35 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entered upon
the service, for work in the tent of meeting:
4:36 and those that were numbered of them by their families were 2,750.
4:37 These are they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that did
serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the
commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
4:38 And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their
fathers' houses,
the service, for work in the tent of meeting,
4:40 even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
were 2,630.
4:41 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all that
did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the
commandment of Yahweh.
4:42 And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, by their
families, by their fathers' houses,
the service, for work in the tent of meeting,
4:44 even those that were numbered of them by their families, were 3,200.
4:45 These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom
Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
4:46 All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the
princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers' houses,
4:47 from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that entered in to
do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,
4:48 even those that were numbered of them, were 8,580.
4:49 According to the commandment of Yahweh they were numbered by Moses, every
one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of
him, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Chapter 5
5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every
one that has an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead:
5:3 both male and female ye shall put out, outside of the camp ye shall put them; that
they defile not their camp, in the midst of which I dwell.
5:4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them outside the camp. As Yahweh spoke
to Moses, so the children of Israel did.
5:6 Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men
commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul shall be guilty;
5:7 then he shall confess his sin which he has done: and he shall make restitution for his
guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part thereof, and give it to him in respect of whom he
has been guilty.
5:8 But if the man have no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the guilt, the
restitution for guilt which is made to Yahweh shall be the priest's; besides the ram of the
atonement, by which atonement shall be made for him.
5:9 And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they
present to the priest, shall be his.
5:10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man gives the priest,
it shall be his.
5:12 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, If any man's wife goes aside, and
commits a trespass against him,
5:13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hid from the eyes of her husband, and kept
close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she is not caught in the
act;
5:14 and the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he is jealous for his wife, and she is
defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes upon him, and he becomes jealous for his wife,
and she is not defiled:
5:15 then shall the man bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her oblation for her,
one tenth of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense on
it; for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to
remembrance.
5:16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Yahweh:
5:17 and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the
floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.
5:18 And the priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's
head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal
offering of jealousy: and the priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that
causes the curse.
5:19 And the priest shall cause her to swear, and shall say to the woman, If no man has
lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband,
may you be free from this water of bitterness that causes the curse.
5:20 But if you have gone aside, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and
some man has lain with you other than your husband:
5:21 then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the
priest shall say to the woman, May Yahweh make you a curse and an oath among your
people, when Yahweh causes your thigh fall away, and your body to swell;
5:22 and this water that causes the curse shall go into your bowels, and make your body
swell, and your thigh fall away. And the woman shall say, amen, amen.
5:23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the
water of bitterness:
5:24 and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causes the curse; and
the water that causes the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.
5:25 And the priest shall take the meal offering of jealousy out of the woman's hand, and
shall wave the meal offering before Yahweh, and bring it to the altar:
5:26 and the priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as the memorial thereof, and
burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
5:27 And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that if she is
defiled, and has committed a trespass against her husband, the water that causes the curse
shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall
away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
5:28 And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall
conceive seed.
5:29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes aside, and is
defiled;
5:30 or when the spirit of jealousy comes upon a man, and he is jealous for his wife; then
shall he set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.
5:31 And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.
Chapter 6
6:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When either a man or woman makes
a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to Yahweh,
6:3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar of
wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat either
fresh grapes or dried.
6:4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made from the grape-vine,
from the seeds even to the husk.
6:5 All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come upon his head: until the
days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh, he shall be holy; he shall let
the locks of the hair of his head grow long.
6:6 All the days that he separates himself to Yahweh he shall not come near to a dead
body.
6:7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or
for his sister, when they die; because his separation to God is upon his head.
6:8 All the days of his separation he is holy to Yahweh.
6:9 And if any man dies very suddenly beside him, and he defiles the head of his
separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day
shall he shave it.
6:10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the
priest, to the door of the tent of meeting:
6:11 and the priest shall offer one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering,
and make atonement for him, for that he sinned by reason of the dead, and shall hallow
his head that same day.
6:12 And he shall separate to Yahweh the days of his separation, and shall bring a he-
lamb a year old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his
separation was defiled.
6:13 And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he
shall be brought to the door of the tent of meeting:
6:14 and he shall offer his oblation to Yahweh, one he-lamb a year old without blemish
for a burnt offering, and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and
one ram without blemish for peace offerings,
6:15 and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and
unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.
6:16 And the priest shall present them before Yahweh, and shall offer his sin offering,
and his burnt offering:
6:17 and he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the
basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also the meal offering thereof, and the
drink offering thereof.
6:18 And the Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tent of
meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which
is under the sacrifice of peace offerings.
6:19 And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake
out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the
Nazirite, after he has shaven the head of his separation;
6:20 and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before Yahweh; this is holy for
the priest, together with the wave-breast and heave-thigh: and after that the Nazirite may
drink wine.
6:21 This is the law of the Nazirite who vows, and of his oblation to Yahweh for his
separation, besides that which he is able to get: according to his vow which he vows, so
he must do after the law of his separation.
6:23 Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of
Israel: ye shall say to them,
6:24 Yahweh bless you, and keep you:
6:25 Yahweh make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you:
6:26 Yahweh lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
6:27 So shall they put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.
Chapter 7
7:1 And it came to pass on the day that Moses had made an end of setting up the
tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, and all the furniture thereof, and the altar
and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them and sanctified them;
7:2 that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, offered. These were the
princes of the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered:
7:3 and they brought their oblation before Yahweh, six covered wagons, and twelve
oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented
them before the tabernacle.
7:5 Take it of them, that they may be used in doing the service of the tent of meeting; and
you shall give them to the Levites, to every man according to his service.
7:6 And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them to the Levites.
7:7 Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon, according to their service:
7:8 and four wagons and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their
service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
7:9 But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary
belonged to them; they bore it upon their shoulders.
7:10 And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar in the day that it was anointed,
even the princes offered their oblation before the altar.
7:11 And Yahweh said to Moses, They shall offer their oblation, each prince on his day,
for the dedication of the altar.
7:12 And he that offered his oblation the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab,
of the tribe of Judah:
7:13 and his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty
shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of
them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;
7:14 one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;
7:15 one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
7:16 one male of the goats for a sin offering;
7:17 and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
7:18 On the second day Nethanel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:
7:19 he offered for his oblation one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and
thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both
of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering;
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Nethanel the son of Zuar.
7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun.:
7:25 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Eliab the son of Helon.
7:30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben:
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
7:36 On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon:
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
7:42 On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad:
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
7:48 On the seventh day Elishama the son of Ammihud, prince of the children of
Ephraim:
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Elishama the son of Ammihud.
7:54 On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
7:60 On the ninth day Abidan the son of Gideoni, prince of the children of Benjamin:
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Abidan the son of Gideoni.
7:66 On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan:
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
7:72 On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher:
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Pagiel the son of Ochran.
7:78 On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali:
7:79 his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred a thirty
lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Ahira the son of Enan.
7:84 This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes
of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden spoons;
7:85 each silver platter weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all
the silver of the vessels two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary;
7:86 the twelve golden spoons, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the
shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons a hundred and twenty shekels;
7:87 all the oxen for the burnt offering twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the he-lambs a
year old twelve, and their meal offering; and the males of the goats for a sin offering
twelve;
7:88 and all the oxen for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty and four bullocks, the
rams sixty, the he-goats sixty, the he-lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication of
the altar, after that it was anointed.
7:89 And when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with him, then he heard the
Voice speaking to him from above the mercy-seat that was upon the ark of the testimony,
from between the two cherubim: and he spoke to him.
Chapter 8
8:2 Speak to Aaron, and say to him, When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give
light in front of the candlestick.
8:3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof so as to give light in front of the
candlestick, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
8:4 And this was the work of the candlestick, beaten work of gold; to the base thereof,
and to the flowers thereof, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh
had shown Moses, so he made the candlestick.
8:6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.
8:7 And thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of expiation upon
them, and let them cause a razor to pass over all their flesh, and let them wash their
clothes, and cleanse themselves.
8:8 Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil;
and another young bullock shall you take for a sin offering.
8:9 And you shall present the Levites before the tent of meeting: and you shall assemble
the whole congregation of the children of Israel:
8:10 and you shall present the Levites before Yahweh. And the children of Israel shall
lay their hands upon the Levites:
8:11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave-offering, on the behalf
of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.
8:12 And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and offer you
the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, to Yahweh, to make
atonement for the Levites.
8:13 And you shall set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a
wave-offering to Yahweh.
8:14 Thus shall you separate the Levites from among the children of Israel; and the
Levites shall be mine.
8:15 And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting: and
you shall cleanse them, and offer them for a wave-offering.
8:16 For they are wholly given to me from among the children of Israel; instead of all
that opens the womb, even the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them to
me.
8:17 For all the first-born among the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on
the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
8:18 And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of
Israel.
8:19 And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the
children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to
make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of
Israel, when the children of Israel come near to the sanctuary.
8:20 Thus did Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the
Levites: according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses touching the Levites, so did the
children of Israel to them.
8:21 And the Levites purified themselves from sin, and they washed their clothes: and
Aaron offered them for a wave-offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for
them to cleanse them.
8:22 And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tent of meeting before
Aaron, and before his sons: as Yahweh had commanded Moses concerning the Levites,
so did they to them.
8:24 This is that which belongs to the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward
they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting:
8:25 and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall
serve no more,
8:26 but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and
shall do no service. Thus shall you do to the Levites touching their charges.
Chapter 9
9:1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the
second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
9:2 Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.
9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in its appointed season:
according to all the statutes of it, and according to all the ordinances thereof, shall ye
keep it.
9:4 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.
9:5 And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at
even, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so did
the children of Israel.
9:6 And there were certain men, who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man,
so that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and
before Aaron on that day:
9:7 and those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man: why
are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of Yahweh in its appointed season
among the children of Israel?
9:8 And Moses said to them, Stay ye, that I may hear what Yahweh will command
concerning you.
9:10 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations
shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep
the passover to Yahweh.
9:11 In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs:
9:12 they shall leave none of it to the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to all
the statute of the passover they shall keep it.
9:13 But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbears to keep the passover,
that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he offered not the oblation of Yahweh
in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
9:14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover to Yahweh;
according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall
he do: ye shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born in the
land.
9:15 And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle,
even the tent of the testimony: and at even it was upon the tabernacle as it were the
appearance of fire, until morning.
9:16 So it was alway: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
9:17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the
children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of
Israel encamped.
9:18 At the commandment of Yahweh the children of Israel journeyed, and at the
commandment of Yahweh they encamped: as long as the cloud abode upon the
tabernacle they remained encamped.
9:19 And when the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of
Israel kept the charge of Yahweh, and journeyed not.
9:20 And sometimes the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; then according to the
commandment of Yahweh they remained encamped, and according to the commandment
of Yahweh they journeyed.
9:21 And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was
taken up in the morning, they journeyed: or if it continued by day and by night, when the
cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
9:22 Whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the
tabernacle, remaining above it, the children of Israel remained encamped, and journeyed
not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
9:23 At the commandment of Yahweh they encamped, and at the commandment of
Yahweh they journeyed: they kept the charge of Yahweh, at the commandment of
Yahweh by Moses.
Chapter 10
10:2 Make you two trumpets of silver; of beaten work shall you make them: and you
shall use them for the calling of the congregation, and for the journeying of the camps.
10:3 And when they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you
at the door of the tent of meeting.
10:4 And if they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall
gather themselves to you.
10:5 And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall take their
journey.
10:6 And when ye blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side
shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
10:7 But when the assembly is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not
sound an alarm.
10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you
for a statute for ever throughout your generations.
10:9 And when ye go to war in your land against the adversary that oppresses you, then
ye shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before Yahweh
your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
10:10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of
your months, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices
of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am
Yahweh your God.
10:11 And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day
of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.
10:12 And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the
wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.
10:13 And they first took their journey according to the commandment of Yahweh by
Moses.
10:14 And in the first place the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward
according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
10:15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethanel the son of
Zuar.
10:16 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of
Helon.
10:17 And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of
Merari, who bore the tabernacle, set forward.
10:18 And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts: and
over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
10:19 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of
Zurishaddai.
10:20 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
10:21 And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: and the others did set up the
tabernacle against their coming.
10:22 And the standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to
their hosts: and over his host was Elishama the son of Ammihud.
10:23 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of
Pedahzur.
10:24 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of
Gideoni.
10:25 And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all
the camps, set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.
10:26 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of
Ochran.
10:27 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of
Enan.
10:28 Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their hosts; and
they set forward.
10:29 And Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law,
We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, I will give it you: come you with
us, and we will do you good; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.
10:30 And he said to him, I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my
kindred.
10:31 And he said, Leave us not, I pray you; since you know how we should encamp in
the wilderness, and you shall be to us instead of eyes.
10:32 And it shall be, if you indeed go with us, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh
shall do to us, the same we will do to you.
10:33 And they set forward from the mount of Yahweh three days' journey; and the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh went before them three days' journey, to seek out a resting-
place for them.
10:34 And the cloud of Yahweh was over them by day, when they set forward from the
camp.
10:35 And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, O
Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered; and let them that hate you flee before you.
10:36 And when it rested, he said, Return, O Yahweh, to the ten thousands of the
thousands of Israel.
Chapter 11
11:1 And the people were as murmurers, speaking evil in the ears of Yahweh: and when
Yahweh heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Yahweh burnt among them, and
devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
11:2 And the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
11:3 And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Yahweh burnt
among them.
11:4 And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children
of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and
the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
11:6 but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look upon.
11:7 And the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the
appearance of bdellium.
11:8 The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars,
and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
11:9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
11:10 And Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the
door of his tent: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled greatly; and Moses was
displeased.
11:11 And Moses said to Yahweh, Why have you dealt ill with your servant? and why
have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people upon me?
11:12 Have I conceived all this people? have I brought them forth, that you should say
to me, Carry them in your bosom, as a nursing-father carries the sucking child, to the land
which you swore to their fathers?
11:13 From where should I get flesh to give to all this people? for they weep to me,
saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.
11:15 And if you deal thus with me, kill me, I pray you, out of hand, if I have found favor
in your sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.
11:16 And Yahweh said to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the elders of Israel,
whom you know to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them to
the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with you.
11:17 And I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit which is
upon you, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with
you, that you bear it not yourself alone.
11:18 And say you to the people, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, and ye shall eat
flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore Yahweh will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
11:19 You shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty
days,
11:20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome to you;
because that ye have rejected Yahweh who is among you, and have wept before him,
saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
11:21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand
footmen; and you have said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month.
11:22 Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to be enough them? or shall all the fish
of the sea be gathered together for them, to be enough for them?
11:23 And Yahweh said to Moses, Is Yahweh's hand become short? now you shall see
whether my word shall come to pass to you or not.
11:24 And Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered
seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.
11:25 And Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that
was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the
Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did not keep on doing so.
11:26 But there remained two men in the camp, the name of one was Eldad, and the name
of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were
appointed, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.
11:27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do
prophesy in the camp.
11:28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses, one of his chosen men,
answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
11:29 And Moses said to him, are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh's
people were prophets, so that Yahweh would put his Spirit upon them!
11:30 And Moses got himself into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.
11:31 And there went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from the sea, and let
them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on one side, and a day's journey on the other
side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth.
11:32 And the people rose up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and
gathered the quails. He that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them
all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
11:33 While the flesh was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of
Yahweh was kindled against the people, and Yahweh smote the people with a very great
plague.
11:34 And the name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried
the people that lusted.
11:35 From Kibrothhattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth; and they abode at
Hazeroth.
Chapter 12
12:1 And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom
he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.
12:2 And they said, Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? has he not spoken
also with us? And Yahweh heard it.
12:3 Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all the men that were upon the face
of the earth.
12:4 And Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, and to Aaron, and to Miriam, Come out ye
three to the tent of meeting. And they three came out.
12:5 And Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and
called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Yahweh will
make myself known to him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream.
12:7 My servant Moses is not so; he is faithful in all my house:
12:8 with him will I speak face to face, even plainly, and not in dark speeches; and the
form of Yahweh shall he behold. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my
servant, against Moses?
12:9 And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against them; and he departed.
12:10 And the cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as
white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
12:11 And Aaron said to Moses, Oh, my lord, lay not punishment, I pray you, of our sin
upon us, for the fact that we have done foolishly, and for the fact that we have sinned.
12:12 Let her not, I pray, appear as one dead, like when he comes out of his mother's
womb, of whom the flesh looks half consumed.
12:13 And Moses did cry to Yahweh, saying, Heal her, O God, I beseech you.
12:14 And Yahweh said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be
ashamed seven days? Let her be locked out of the camp for seven days, and after that
she shall be brought in again.
12:15 So Miriam was locked out of the camp for seven days: and the people journeyed
not till Miriam was brought in again.
12:16 And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the
wilderness of Paran.
Chapter 13
13:2 Send some men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the
children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a prince
among them.
13:3 And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment
of Yahweh: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
13:4 And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.
13:5 Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
13:6 Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
13:7 Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
13:8 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.
13:9 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
13:10 Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.
13:11 Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.
13:12 Of the tribe of Dan, ammiel the son of Gemalli.
13:13 Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
13:14 Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.
13:15 Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.
13:16 These are the names of the men that Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses
named Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Get you up
this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country:
13:18 and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell in it, whether they are strong
or weak, whether they are few or many;
13:19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities
they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
13:20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood in it, or not.
And be ye of good courage, and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was
the time of the first-ripe grapes.
13:21 So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the
entrance of Hamath.
13:22 And they went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and
Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before
Zoan in Egypt.)
13:23 And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one
cluster of grapes, and they bore it upon a staff between two; they brought also of the
pomegranates, and of the figs.
13:24 That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the
children of Israel cut down from there.
13:25 And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.
13:26 And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the
children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them,
and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
13:27 And they told him, and said, We went to the land to which you sent us; and surely
it flows with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
13:28 But the people that dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, and
very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
13:29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the
Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the
side of the Jordan.
13:30 And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and
possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.
13:31 But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the
people; for they are stronger than we are.
13:32 And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the
children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land
that eats up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great
stature.
13:33 And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of Anak, who come of the Nephilim: and
we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Chapter 14
14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that
night.
14:2 And all the children of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron: and the
whole congregation said to them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would
that we had died in this wilderness!
14:3 And why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and
our little ones will be a prey: would it not be better for us to return into Egypt?
14:4 And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.
14:5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the
congregation of the children of Israel.
14:6 And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of them that
spied out the land, rent their clothes:
14:7 and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land,
which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land.
14:8 If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land
which flows with milk and honey.
14:9 Only do not rebel against Yahweh, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they
are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Yahweh is with us: do not
fear them.
14:10 But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of
Yahweh appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Israel.
14:11 And Yahweh said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how
long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?
14:12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a
nation greater and mightier than they.
14:13 And Moses said to Yahweh, Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up
this people in your might from among them;
14:14 and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you O
Yahweh are in the midst of this people; for you O Yahweh are seen face to face, and your
cloud stands over them, and you go before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a
pillar of fire by night.
14:15 Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations that have heard the
fame of you will speak, saying,
14:16 It is because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he
swore to them, that he has slain them in the wilderness.
14:17 And now, I pray you, let the power of the Lord be great, according as you have
spoken, saying,
14:18 Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and
transgression; but will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
14:19 Pardon, I pray you, the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your
lovingkindness, and according as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until
now.
14:20 And Yahweh said, I have pardoned according to your word:
14:21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of
Yahweh;
14:22 because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in
Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not
hearkened to my voice,
14:23 surely they shall not see the land which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any of
those who despised me see it:
14:24 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me
fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.
14:25 Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: tomorrow turn ye, and
go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
14:27 How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that grumble against me? I
have heard the grumblings of the children of Israel, which they grumble against me.
14:28 Say to them, as I live, says Yahweh, surely as ye have spoken in my ears, so will I
do to you:
14:29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you,
according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have grumbled
against me,
14:30 surely ye shall not come into the land about which I swore that I would make you
dwell in except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
14:31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they
shall experience the land that ye have rejected.
14:32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.
14:33 And your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear
your whoredoms, until your dead bodies be consumed in the wilderness.
14:34 After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for
every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my
alienation.
14:35 I, Yahweh, have spoken, surely this will I do to all this evil congregation, that are
gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they
shall die.
14:36 And the men, whom Moses had sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made
all the congregation to grumble against him, by bringing up an evil report against the
land,
14:37 even those men that brought up an evil report of the land, they died by the plague
before Yahweh.
14:38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of
those men that went to spy out the land.
14:39 And Moses told these words to all the children of Israel: and the people mourned
greatly.
14:40 And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain,
saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up to the place which Yahweh has promised: for we
have sinned.
14:41 And Moses said, Why now do ye transgress the commandment of Yahweh, seeing
it shall not prosper?
14:42 Do not go up, for Yahweh is not among you; so that ye are not smitten down
before your enemies.
14:43 For there the Amalekite and the Canaanite are before you, and ye shall fall by the
sword: because ye are turned back from following Yahweh, therefore Yahweh will not be
with you.
14:44 But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain: nevertheless the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
14:45 Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who dwelt in that mountain,
and smote them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
Chapter 15
15:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye are come into the land of
your habitations, which I give to you,
15:3 and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to
accomplish a vow, or as a freewill-offering, or in your set feasts, to make a sweet savor to
Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock;
15:4 then shall he that offers his oblation offer to Yahweh a meal offering of a tenth part
of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of oil:
15:5 and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the
burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
15:6 Or for a ram, you shall prepare for a meal offering two tenth parts of an ephah of
fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil:
15:7 and for the drink offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet
savor to Yahweh.
15:8 And when you prepare a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice, to
accomplish a vow, or for peace offerings to Yahweh;
15:9 then shall he offer with the bullock a meal offering of three tenth parts of an ephah
of fine flour mingled with half a hin of oil:
15:10 and you shall offer for the drink offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
15:11 Thus shall it be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs,
or of the kids.
15:12 According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one
according to their number.
15:13 All that are home-born shall do these things after this manner, in offering an
offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
15:14 And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever may be among you throughout
your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh; as
ye do, so he shall do.
15:15 For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger that
sojourns with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations: as ye are, so shall the
sojourner be before Yahweh.
15:16 One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourns with
you.
15:18 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land
whither I bring you,
15:19 then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up a heave-
offering to Yahweh.
15:20 Of the first of your dough ye shall offer up a cake for a heave-offering: as the
heave-offering of the threshing-floor, so shall ye heave it.
15:21 Of the first of your dough ye shall give to Yahweh a heave-offering throughout
your generations.
15:22 And when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Yahweh
has spoken to Moses,
15:23 even all that Yahweh has commanded you by Moses, from the day that Yahweh
gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;
15:24 then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the
congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering,
for a sweet savor to Yahweh, with the meal offering thereof, and the drink offering
thereof, according to the ordinance, and one he-goat for a sin offering.
15:25 And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of
Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their
oblation, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for
their error:
15:26 and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger
that sojourns among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.
15:27 And if one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat a year old for a sin
offering.
15:28 And the priest shall make atonement for the soul that errs, when he sins
unwittingly, before Yahweh, to make atonement for him; and he shall be forgiven.
15:29 You shall have one law for him that does anything unwittingly, for him that is
home-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourns among them.
15:30 But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a
sojourner, the same blasphemes Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from among his
people.
15:31 Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken his commandment,
that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering
sticks upon the sabbath day.
15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to
all the congregation.
15:34 And they put him in ward, because it had not been declared what should be done to
him.
15:35 And Yahweh said to Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the
congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
15:36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him to death
with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
15:38 Speak to the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the
borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe
of each border a cord of blue:
15:39 and it shall be to you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the
commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and
your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;
15:40 that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
15:41 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God:
I am Yahweh your God.
Chapter 16
16:1 Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and
Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men:
16:2 and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred
and fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;
16:3 and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said
to them, You take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of
them, and Yahweh is among them: why then lift ye up yourselves above the assembly of
Yahweh?
16:4 And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face:
16:5 and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, In the morning Yahweh will
show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him
whom he shall choose will he cause to come near to him.
16:6 This do: take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
16:7 and put fire in them, and put incense upon them before Yahweh tomorrow: and it
shall be that the man whom Yahweh does choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much
upon you, ye sons of Levi.
16:8 And Moses said to Korah, Hear now, ye sons of Levi:
16:9 seems it but a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the
congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of
Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
16:10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brethren the sons of Levi with you?
and seek ye the priesthood also?
16:11 Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against Yahweh: and
Aaron, what is he that ye murmur against him?
16:12 And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, We
will not come up:
16:13 is it too a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk
and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you also must make yourself also a prince
over us?
16:14 Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor
given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? we
will not come up.
16:15 And Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, Respect not you their offering: I
have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.
16:16 And Moses said to Korah, Be you and all your company before Yahweh, you, and
they, and Aaron, tomorrow:
16:17 and take ye every man his censer, and put incense upon them, and bring ye before
Yahweh every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each
his censer.
16:18 And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense upon it,
and stood at the door of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.
16:19 And Korah assembled all the congregation against them to the door of the tent of
meeting: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the congregation.
16:21 Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a
moment.
16:22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh,
shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?
16:24 Speak to the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram.
16:25 And Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel
followed him.
16:26 And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of
these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
16:27 So they gat them up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every
side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their
wives, and their sons, and their little ones.
16:28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these
works; for I have not done them of my own mind.
16:29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the
visitation of all men; then Yahweh has not sent me.
16:30 But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow
them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall
understand that these men have despised Yahweh.
16:31 And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground
clave asunder that was under them;
16:32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and
all the men that appertained to Korah, and all their goods.
16:33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth
closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly.
16:34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said,
Lest the earth swallow us up.
16:35 And fire came forth from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men
that offered the incense.
16:37 Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the
burning, and scatter you the fire yonder; for they are holy,
16:38 even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made
beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Yahweh; therefore
they are holy; and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.
16:39 And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers, which they that were burnt had
offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar,
16:40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, that is not of
the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he be not as Korah,
and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
16:41 But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against
Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of Yahweh.
16:42 And it came to pass, when the congregation was assembled against Moses and
against Aaron, that they looked toward the tent of meeting: and, behold, the cloud
covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared.
16:43 And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.
16:45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
And they fell upon their faces.
16:46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take they censer, and put fire therein from off the altar,
and lay incense upon it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for
them: for there is wrath gone out from Yahweh; the plague is begun.
16:47 And Aaron took it as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly; and,
behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on the incense, and made
atonement for the people.
16:48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
16:49 Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred,
besides them that died about the matter of Korah.
16:50 And Aaron returned to Moses to the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague
was stayed.
Chapter 17
17:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and take of them rods, one for each fathers' house, of
all their princes according to their fathers' houses, twelve rods: write you every man's
name upon his rod.
17:3 And you shall write Aaron's name upon the rod of Levi; for there shall be one rod
for each head of their fathers' houses.
17:4 And you shall lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet
with you.
17:5 And it shall come to pass, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud:
and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they
murmur against you.
17:6 And Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and all their princes gave him rods, for
each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of
Aaron was among their rods.
17:7 And Moses laid up the rods before Yahweh in the tent of the testimony.
17:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony;
and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and
produced blossoms, and bore ripe almonds.
17:9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel:
and they looked, and took every man his rod.
17:10 And Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be
kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their
murmurings against me, that they die not.
17:11 Thus did Moses: as Yahweh commanded him, so did he.
17:12 And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are
undone, we are all undone.
17:13 Every one that comes near, that comes near to the tabernacle of Yahweh, dies: shall
we perish all of us?
Chapter 18
18:1 And Yahweh said to Aaron, You and your sons and your fathers' house with you
shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the
iniquity of your priesthood.
18:2 And your brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring you near
with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with
you shall be before the tent of the testimony.
18:3 And they shall keep your charge, and the charge of all the Tent: only they shall not
come near to the vessels of the sanctuary and to the altar, that they die not, neither they,
nor ye.
18:4 And they shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all
the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.
18:5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there
be wrath no more upon the children of Israel.
18:6 And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of
Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the tent of meeting.
18:7 And you and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the
altar, and for that within the veil; and ye shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service
of gift: and the stranger that comes near shall be put to death.
18:8 And Yahweh spoke to Aaron, and I, behold, I have given you the charge of my
heave-offerings, even all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; to you have I given
them by reason of the anointing, and to your sons, as a portion for ever.
18:9 This shall be yours of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of
theirs, even every meal offering of theirs, and every sin offering of theirs, and every
trespass offering of theirs, which they shall render to me, shall be most holy for you and
for your sons.
18:10 As the most holy things shall you eat thereof; every male shall eat thereof: it shall
be holy to you.
18:11 And this is yours: the heave-offering of their gift, even all the wave-offerings of the
children of Israel; I have given them to you, and to your sons and to your daughters with
you, as a portion for ever; every one that is clean in your house shall eat thereof.
18:12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first-
fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them.
18:13 The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to Yahweh, shall be
yours; every one that is clean in your house shall eat thereof.
18:14 Everything devoted in Israel shall be yours.
18:15 Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to Yahweh, both of
man and beast shall be yours: nevertheless the first-born of man shall you surely redeem,
and the firstling of unclean beasts shall you redeem.
18:16 And those that are to be redeemed of them from a month old shall you redeem,
according to your estimation, for the money of five shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary (the same is twenty gerahs).
18:17 But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, you
shall not redeem; they are holy: you shall sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shall
burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor to Yahweh.
18:18 And the flesh of them shall be yours, as the wave-breast and as the right thigh, it
shall be yours.
18:19 All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer to
Yahweh, have I given you, and your sons and your daughters with you, as a portion for
ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before Yahweh to you and to your seed with you.
18:20 And Yahweh said to Aaron, You shall have no inheritance in their land, neither
shall you have any portion among them: I am your portion and your inheritance among
18:21 And to the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an
inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of
meeting.
18:22 And from now on the children of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting, lest
they bear sin, and die.
18:23 But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their
iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations; and among the children
of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
18:24 For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a heave-offering to
Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance: therefore I have said to them,
among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
18:26 Moreover you shall speak to the Levites, and say to them, When ye take of the
children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then
ye shall offer up a heave-offering of it for Yahweh, a tithe of the tithe.
18:27 And your heave-offering shall be reckoned to you, as though it were the grain of
the threshing-floor, and as the fulness of the winepress.
18:28 Thus ye also shall offer a heave-offering to Yahweh of all your tithes, which ye
receive of the children of Israel; and thereof ye shall give Yahweh's heave-offering to
Aaron the priest.
18:29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of Yahweh, of all the best
thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
18:30 Therefore you shall say to them, When ye heave the best thereof from it, then it
shall be reckoned to the Levites as the increase of the threshing-floor, and as the increase
of the wine-press.
18:31 And ye shall eat it in every place, ye and your households: for it is your reward in
return for your service in the tent of meeting.
18:32 And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best
thereof: and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.
Chapter 19
19:2 This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded, saying, Speak to the
children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish,
and upon which never came yoke.
19:3 And ye shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the
camp, and one shall slay her before his face:
19:4 and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood
toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.
19:5 And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood,
with her dung, shall he burn:
19:6 and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the
midst of the burning of the heifer.
19:7 Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and
afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
19:8 And he that burns her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water,
and shall be unclean until the even.
19:9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up
without the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children
of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.
19:10 And he that gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean
until the even: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger that sojourns
among them, for a statute for ever.
19:11 He that touches the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:
19:12 the same shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he
shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not
be clean.
19:13 Whosoever touches a dead person, the body of a man that has died, and purifies not
himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel:
because the water for impurity was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his
uncleanness is yet upon him.
19:14 This is the law when a man dies in a tent: every one that comes into the tent, and
every one that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
19:15 And every open vessel, which has no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
19:16 And whosoever in the open field touches one that is slain with a sword, or a dead
body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
19:17 And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering;
and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
19:18 and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon
the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that
touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:
19:19 and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the
seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes,
and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.
19:20 But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be
cut off from the midst of the assembly, because he has defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh:
the water for impurity has not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.
19:21 And it shall be a perpetual statute to them: and he that sprinkles the water for
impurity shall wash his clothes, and he that touches the water for impurity shall be
unclean until even.
19:22 And whatsoever the unclean person touches shall be unclean; and the soul that
touches it shall be unclean until even.
Chapter 20
20:1 And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of
Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was
buried there.
20:2 And there was no water for the congregation: and they assembled themselves
together against Moses and against Aaron.
20:3 And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying, Would that we had died when
our brethren died before Yahweh!
20:4 And why have ye brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we
should die there, we and our beasts?
20:5 And why have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place?
it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water
to drink.
20:6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the
tent of meeting, and fell upon their faces: and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them.
20:8 Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and
speak ye to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth
to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their cattle drink.
20:9 And Moses took the rod from before Yahweh, as he commanded him.
20:10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said
to them, Hear now, ye rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock?
20:11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice: and water
came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.
20:12 And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed not in me, to sanctify
me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the
land which I have given them.
20:13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with
Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
20:14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says your
brother Israel, You know all the travail that has befallen us:
20:15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the
Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:
20:16 and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought
us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your
border.
20:17 Let us pass, I pray you, through your land: we will not pass through field or
through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the
king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have
passed your border.
20:18 And Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the
sword against you.
20:19 And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway; and if we
drink of your water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price thereof: let me only,
without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.
20:20 And he said, You shall not pass through. And Edom came out against him with
much people, and with a strong hand.
20:21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: therefore Israel
turned away from him.
20:22 And they journeyed from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole
congregation, came to mount Hor.
20:23 And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the border of the land of
Edom, saying,
20:24 Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I
have given to the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the waters of
Meribah.
20:25 Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to mount Hor;
20:26 and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron
shall be gathered to his people, and shall die there.
20:27 And Moses did as Yahweh commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the
sight of all the congregation.
20:28 And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and
Aaron died there on the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the
mount.
20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron
thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
Chapter 21
21:1 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel
came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them
captive.
21:2 And Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people
into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
21:3 And Yahweh hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and
they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called
Hormah.
21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land
of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
21:5 And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have ye brought us up
out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and
our soul loathes this light bread.
21:6 And Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and
much people of Israel died.
21:7 And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken
against Yahweh, and against you; pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from
us. And Moses prayed for the people.
21:8 And Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard:
and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
21:9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard: and it came to
pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he
lived.
21:10 And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.
21:11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness
which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
21:12 From there they journeyed, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
21:13 From there they journeyed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is
in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the
border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
21:14 Wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, Vaheb in Suphah, and the
valleys of the Arnon,
21:15 And the slope of the valleys That inclines toward the dwelling of Ar, and leans
upon the border of Moab.
21:16 And from there they journeyed to Beer: that is the well whereof Yahweh said to
Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
21:17 Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well; sing ye to it:
21:18 The well, which the princes dug, Which the nobles of the people delved, With the
scepter, and with their staves. And from the wilderness they journeyed to Mattanah;
21:19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah,
which looks down upon the desert.
21:21 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
21:22 Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard;
we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we
have passed your border.
21:23 And Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered
all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz;
and he fought against Israel.
21:24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the
Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of
Ammon was strong.
21:25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in
Heshbon, and in all the towns thereof.
21:26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought
against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the
Arnon.
21:27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come ye to Heshbon; Let the city of
Sihon be built and established:
21:28 For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: It has devoured
Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
21:29 Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh: He has given his sons
as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, To Sihon king of the Amorites.
21:30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, and we have laid waste
even to Nophah, Which reaches to medeba.
21:31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
21:32 And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and drove out
the Amorites that were there.
21:33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan
went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
21:34 And Yahweh said to Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into your hand,
and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the
Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.
21:35 So they smote him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him
remaining: and they possessed his land.
Chapter 22
22:1 And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond
the Jordan at Jericho.
22:2 And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
22:3 And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was
distressed because of the children of Israel.
22:4 And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is
round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor
was king of Moab at that time.
22:5 And he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River,
to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people
come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over
against me.
22:6 Come now therefore, I pray you, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for
me. Perhaps I shall prevail in attacking them, and drive them out of the land; for I know
that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.
22:7 And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of
divination in their hand; and they came to Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
22:8 And he said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring back word to you, as
Yahweh shall speak to me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
22:9 And God came to Balaam, and said, What men are these with you?
22:10 And Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent to me,
saying,
22:11 Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the face of the earth: now,
come curse them for me; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall
drive them out.
22:12 And God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the
people; for they are blessed.
22:13 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of Balak, Get you into
your land; for Yahweh refuses to give me leave to go with you.
22:14 And the princes of Moab rose up, and they went to Balak, and said, Balaam refuses
to come with us.
22:15 And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.
22:16 And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, Let
nothing, I pray you, hinder you from coming to me:
22:17 for I will promote you to very great honor, and whatsoever you say to me I will do:
come therefore, I pray you, curse this people for me.
22:18 And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me
his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do
less or more.
22:19 Now therefore, I pray you, wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh
will speak to me more.
22:20 And God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men are come to call
you, rise up, go with them; but only the word which I speak to you, that shall you do.
22:21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and went with the
princes of Moab.
22:22 And God's anger was kindled because he went; and the angel of Yahweh placed
himself in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his donkey,
and his two servants were with him.
22:23 And the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword
drawn in his hand; and the donkey turned aside out of the way, and went into the field:
and Balaam struck the donkey, to turn it into the way.
22:24 Then the angel of Yahweh stood in a narrow path between the vineyards, a wall
being on this side, and a wall on that side.
22:25 And the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and it thrust itself toward the wall, and
crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck it again.
22:26 And the angel of Yahweh went further, and stood in a narrow place, where there
was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
22:27 And the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and it lay down under Balaam: and
Balaam's anger was kindled, and he struck the donkey with his staff.
22:28 And Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and it said to Balaam, What have I
done to you, that you have struck me these three times?
22:29 And Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a
sword in my hand, for now I would kill you.
22:30 And the donkey said to Balaam, am I not your donkey, upon which you have
ridden all your life long up until this day? Was I ever in the habit to do this to you?
and he said, No.
22:31 Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh
standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on
his face.
22:32 And the angel of Yahweh said to him, Why have you struck your donkey these
three times? behold, I am come forth as an adversary, because your way is perverse
before me:
22:33 and the donkey saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless it had
turned aside from me, surely now I would have even slain you, and saved it alive.
22:34 And Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, I have sinned; for I knew not that you
stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displeases you, I will get me back again.
22:35 And the angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, Go with the men; but only the word that
I shall speak to you, that you shall speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
22:36 And when Balak heard that Balaam was arrived, he went out to meet him toward
the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the
border.
22:37 And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? Why did
you not come to me? am I not able indeed to promote you to honor?
22:38 And Balaam said to Balak, Lo, I am come to you: have I now any power at all to
speak anything? the word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.
22:39 And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.
22:40 And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that
were with him.
22:41 And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up
into the high places of Baal; and he saw from there the utmost part of the people.
Chapter 23
23:1 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven
bullocks and seven rams.
23:2 And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar
a bullock and a ram.
23:3 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure
Yahweh will come to meet me; and whatsoever he shows me I will tell you. And he
went to a bare height.
23:4 And God met Balaam: and he said to him, I have prepared the seven altars, and I
have offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
23:5 And Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus you
shall speak.
23:6 And he returned to him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all
the princes of Moab.
23:7 And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram has Balak brought me, The king of
Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse for me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.
23:8 How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom
Yahweh has not defied?
23:9 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a
people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
23:10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die
the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!
23:11 And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my
enemies, and, behold, you have blessed them altogether.
23:12 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts
in my mouth?
23:13 And Balak said to him, Come, I pray you, with me to another place, from where
you may see them; you shall see but the utmost part of them, and shall not see them all:
and curse them for me from there.
23:14 And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven
altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.
23:15 And he said to Balak, Stand here by your burnt offering, while I meet Yahweh over
there.
23:16 And Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak,
and thus you shall speak.
23:17 And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt offering, and the princes
of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, What has Yahweh spoken?
23:18 And he took up his parable, and said, Rise up, Balak, and hear; Listen to me, you
son of Zippor:
23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent:
Has he said something, to not do it? Or has he spoken, only to not make it good?
23:20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: And he has blessed, and I cannot
reverse it.
23:21 He has not beheld iniquity in Jacob; Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel:
Yahweh his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
23:22 God brings them forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.
23:23 Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with
Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!
23:24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, and as a lion does he lift himself up: He
shall not lie down until he eats of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
23:25 And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.
23:26 But Balaam answered and said to Balak, Did I not inform you, saying: All that
Yahweh speaks, that I must do?
23:27 And Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place;
peradventure it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.
23:28 And Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down upon the desert.
23:29 And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven
bullocks and seven rams.
23:30 And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every
altar.
Chapter 24
24:1 And when Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he went not, as at the
other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
24:2 And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to their tribes;
and the Spirit of God came upon him.
24:3 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man
whose eye was closed says;
24:4 He says, who hears the words of God, Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling
down, and having his eyes open:
24:5 How attractive are your tents, O Jacob, Your encampments, O Israel!
24:6 As valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh
has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.
24:7 Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his
king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
24:8 God brings him forth out of Egypt; He has as it were the strength of the wild ox: He
shall eat up the nations his adversaries, and shall break their bones in pieces, and strike
them through with his arrows.
24:9 He crouched, he lay down as a lion, and as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?
Blessed be every one that blesses you, and cursed be every one that curses you.
24:10 And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together;
and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have
altogether blessed them these three times.
24:11 Therefore now flee to your place: I thought to promote you to great honor; but, lo,
Yahweh has kept you back from honor.
24:12 And Balaam said to Balak, Did I not also inform your messengers that you sent to
me, saying,
24:13 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the
word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that
will I speak?
24:14 And now, behold, I go to my people: come, and I will warn you what this people
shall do to your people in the latter days.
24:15 And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor says, and the man
whose eye was closed says;
24:16 He says, who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High,
Who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
24:17 I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near: There shall come forth a star out
of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel, and shall strike through the corners of
Moab, and break down all the sons of tumult.
24:18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession, those who were
his enemies; While Israel does valiantly.
24:19 And out of Jacob someone shall have dominion, and shall destroy the remnant
from the city.
24:20 And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, amalek was the first
of the nations; But his latter end shall come to destruction.
24:21 And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is your
dwelling-place, and your nest is set in the rock.
24:22 Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry you away a captive.
24:23 And he took up his parable, and said, alas, who shall live when God does this?
24:24 But ships shall come from the coast of Kittim, and they shall afflict Asshur, and
shall afflict Eber; And he also shall come to destruction.
24:25 And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his
way.
Chapter 25
25:1 And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the
daughters of Moab:
25:2 for they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and
bowed down to their gods.
25:3 And Israel joined himself to Baal-peor: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled
against Israel.
25:4 And Yahweh said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to
Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.
25:5 And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined
themselves to Baal-peor.
25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brethren a
Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the
children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the tent of meeting.
25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose
up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand;
25:8 and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them
through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed
from the children of Israel.
25:9 And those that died by the plague were 24,000.
25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my wrath
away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so
that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
25:12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace:
25:13 and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting
priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of
Israel.
25:14 Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite
woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.
25:15 And the name of the Midianite woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of
Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers' house in Midian.
25:17 Harass the Midianites, and strike them down;
25:18 for they harass you with their wiles, with which they have beguiled you in the
matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the prince of Midian, their
sister, who was slain on the day of the plague in the matter of Peor.
Chapter 26
26:1 And it came to pass after the plague, that Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the
son of Aaron the priest, saying,
26:2 Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old
and upward, by their fathers' houses, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel.
26:3 And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the
Jordan at Jericho, saying,
26:4 Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as Yahweh
commanded Moses and the children of Israel, that came forth out of the land of Egypt.
26:5 Reuben, the first-born of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the
Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
26:6 of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.
26:7 These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were
43,730.
26:8 And the sons of Pallu: Eliab.
26:9 And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan
and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against
Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Yahweh,
26:10 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when
that company died; what time the fire devoured 250 men, and they became a sign.
26:11 Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah died not.
26:12 The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites;
of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;
26:13 of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
26:14 These are the families of the Simeonites, 22,200.
26:15 The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of
Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;
26:16 of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;
26:17 of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.
26:18 These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of
them, 40,500.
26:19 The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
26:20 And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the
Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
26:21 And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the
family of the Hamulites.
26:22 These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them,
76,500.
26:23 The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of
Puvah, the family of the Punites;
26:24 of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
26:25 These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them,
64,300.
26:26 The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of
Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
26:27 These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of
them, 60,500.
26:28 The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.
26:29 The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir begat
Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.
26:30 These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the
family of the Helekites;
26:31 and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the
Shechemites;
26:32 and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the
Hepherites.
26:33 And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of
the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
26:34 These are the families of Manasseh; and they that were numbered of them were
52,700.
26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the
Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the
Tahanites.
26:36 And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.
26:37 These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were
numbered of them, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
26:38 The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of
Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;
26:39 of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the
Huphamites.
26:40 And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites; of
Naaman, the family of the Naamites.
26:41 These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and they that were numbered of
them were 45,600.
26:42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the
Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
26:43 All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them,
were 64,400.
26:44 The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi,
the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.
26:45 Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the
family of the Malchielites.
26:46 And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.
26:47 These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered
of them, 53,400.
26:48 The sons of Naphtali after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites;
of Guni, the family of the Gunites;
26:49 of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
26:50 These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and they that were
numbered of them were 45,400.
26:51 These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel, 601,730.
26:53 To these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of
names.
26:54 To the more you shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give
the less inheritance: to every one according to those that were numbered of him shall his
inheritance be given.
26:55 Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the
tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
26:56 According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the
fewer.
26:57 And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of
Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of
Merari, the family of the Merarites.
26:58 These are the families of Levi: the family of the Libnites, the family of the
Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the
Korahites. And Kohath begat Amram.
26:59 And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born
to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
26:60 And to Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
26:61 And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Yahweh.
26:62 And they that were numbered of them were 23,000, every male from a month old
and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was
no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
26:63 These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who
numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
26:64 But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and
Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
26:65 For Yahweh had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there
was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Chapter 27
27:1 Then drew near the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead,
the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph;
and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and
Tirzah.
27:2 And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes
and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,
27:3 Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the company of them that
gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah: but he died in his
own sin; and he had no sons.
27:4 Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because
he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brethren of our father.
27:5 And Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.
27:7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: you shall surely give them a possession of
an inheritance among their father's brethren; and you shall cause the inheritance of their
father to pass to them.
27:8 And you shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, If a man dies, and has no son,
then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass to his daughter.
27:9 And if he has no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance to his brethren.
27:10 And if he has no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance to his father's brethren.
27:11 And if his father has no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance to his kinsman
that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be to the children of
Israel a statute and ordinance, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
27:12 And Yahweh said to Moses, Get you up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold
the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
27:13 And when you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as Aaron
your brother was gathered;
27:14 because ye rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the
congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of
Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)
27:15 And Moses spoke to Yahweh, saying,
27:16 Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the
congregation,
27:17 who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may
lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Yahweh be not as
sheep which have no shepherd.
27:18 And Yahweh said to Moses, Take you Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is
the Spirit, and lay your hand upon him;
27:19 and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him
a charge in their sight.
27:20 And you shall put of your honor upon him, that all the congregation of the children
of Israel may obey.
27:21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the
judgment of the Urim before Yahweh: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they
shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.
27:22 And Moses did as Yahweh commanded him; and he took Joshua, and set him
before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:
27:23 and he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as Yahweh spoke by
Moses.
Chapter 28
28:2 Command the children of Israel, and say to them, My oblation, my food for my
offerings made by fire, of a sweet savor to me, shall ye observe to offer to me in their due
season.
28:3 And you shall say to them, This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer to
Yahweh: he-lambs a year old without blemish, two day by day, for a continual burnt
offering.
28:4 The one lamb shall you offer in the morning, and the other lamb shall you offer at
even;
28:5 and the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with the
fourth part of a hin of beaten oil.
28:6 It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savor,
an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
28:7 And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb: in
the holy place shall you pour out a drink offering of strong drink to Yahweh.
28:8 And the other lamb shall you offer at even: as the meal offering of the morning, and
as the drink offering thereof, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor
to Yahweh.
28:9 And on the sabbath day two he-lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth
parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and the drink
offering thereof:
28:10 this is the burnt offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and
the drink offering thereof.
28:11 And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh:
two young bullocks, and one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;
28:12 and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil,
for each bullock; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil,
for the one ram;
28:13 and a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for
a burnt offering of a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
28:14 And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bullock, and the third part
of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of
every month throughout the months of the year.
28:15 And one he-goat for a sin offering to Yahweh; it shall be offered besides the
continual burnt offering, and the drink offering thereof.
28:16 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Yahweh's passover.
28:17 And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven days shall unleavened
bread be eaten.
28:18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work;
28:19 but ye shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young
bullocks, and one ram, and seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be to you without
blemish;
28:20 and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil: three tenth parts shall ye offer
for a bullock, and two tenth parts for the ram;
28:21 a tenth part shall you offer for every lamb of the seven lambs;
28:22 and one he-goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
28:23 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a
continual burnt offering.
28:24 After this manner ye shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made
by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt
offering, and the drink offering thereof.
28:25 And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile
work.
28:26 Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in
your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work;
28:27 but ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: two young
bullocks, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old;
28:28 and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for each
bullock, two tenth parts for the one ram,
28:29 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
28:30 one he-goat, to make atonement for you.
28:31 Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal offering thereof, ye shall offer
them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink offerings.
Chapter 29
29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy
convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.
29:2 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savor to Yahweh: one young bullock,
one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;
29:3 and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock,
two tenth parts for the ram,
29:4 and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;
29:5 and one he-goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;
29:6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal offering thereof, and the
continual burnt offering and the meal offering thereof, and their drink offerings,
according to their ordinance, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
29:7 And on the tenth day of this seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; and ye
shall afflict your souls: ye shall do no manner of work;
29:8 but ye shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a sweet savor: one young bullock,
one ram, seven he-lambs a year old; they shall be to you without blemish;
29:9 and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock,
two tenth parts for the one ram,
29:10 a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs:
29:11 one he-goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the
continual burnt offering, and the meal offering thereof, and their drink offerings.
29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; ye
shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days:
29:13 and ye shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to
Yahweh; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old; they shall be
without blemish;
29:14 and their meal offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for every
bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams,
29:15 and a tenth part for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
29:16 and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal
offering thereof, and the drink offering thereof.
29:17 And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen
he-lambs a year old without blemish;
29:18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and
for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
29:19 and one he-goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the
meal offering thereof, and their drink offerings.
29:20 And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old
without blemish;
29:22 and one he-goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the
meal offering thereof, and the drink offering thereof.
29:23 And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without
blemish;
29:24 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for
the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
29:25 and one he-goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal
29:26 And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without
blemish;
29:28 and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the
29:29 And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old
without blemish;
offering thereof, and the drink offerings thereof.
29:32 And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old
without blemish;
29:35 On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work;
29:36 but ye shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to
Yahweh: one bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;
29:37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the
lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:
29:38 and one he-goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the
29:39 These ye shall offer to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your
freewill-offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your
drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
29:40 And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded
Moses.
Chapter 30
30:1 And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is
the thing which Yahweh has commanded.
30:2 When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond,
he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
30:3 Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in
her father's house, in her youth,
30:4 and her father hears her vow, and her bond with which she has bound her soul, and
her father holds his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond with which
she has bound her soul shall stand.
30:5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her
bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and Yahweh will forgive her,
because her father disallowed her.
30:6 And if she be married to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash
utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,
30:7 and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that he hears it; then her
vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound her soul shall stand.
30:8 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void
her vow which is upon her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound
her soul: and Yahweh will forgive her.
30:9 But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, even everything with which she
has bound her soul, shall stand against her.
30:10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an
oath,
30:11 and her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not; then all
her vows shall stand, and every bond with which she bound her soul shall stand.
30:12 But if her husband made them null and void in the day that he heard them, then
whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her
soul, shall not stand: her husband has made them void; and Yahweh will forgive her.
30:13 Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it,
or her husband may make it void.
30:14 But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day, then he
establishes all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he has established them,
because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.
30:15 But if he shall make them null and void after that he has heard them, then he shall
bear her iniquity.
30:16 These are the statutes, which Yahweh commanded Moses, between a man and his
wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father's house.
Chapter 31
31:2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shall you be gathered to
your people.
31:3 And Moses spoke to the people, saying, arm ye men from among you for the war,
that they may go against Midian, to execute Yahweh's vengeance on Midian.
31:4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.
31:5 So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe,
twelve thousand armed for war.
31:6 And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the
son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for
the alarm in his hand.
31:7 And they warred against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses; and they slew
every male.
31:8 And they slew the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and
Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew
with the sword.
31:9 And the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones;
and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.
31:10 And all their cities in the places in which they dwelt, and all their encampments,
they burnt with fire.
31:11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of beast.
31:12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, to Moses, and to Eleazar
the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of
Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
31:13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went
forth to meet them without the camp.
31:14 And Moses was angry with the officers of the host, the captains of thousands and
the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
31:15 And Moses said to them, Have ye saved all the women alive?
31:16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to
commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the
congregation of Yahweh.
31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that has
known man by lying with him.
31:18 But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep
alive for yourselves.
31:19 And encamp ye without the camp seven days: whosoever has killed any person,
and whosoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the
seventh day, ye and your captives.
31:20 And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats' hair,
and all things made of wood, ye shall purify yourselves.
31:21 And Eleazar the priest said to the men of war that went to the battle, This is the
statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded Moses:
31:22 as for the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
31:23 everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the fire, and it shall
be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that abides
not the fire ye shall make to go through the water.
31:24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean; and
afterward ye shall come into the camp.
31:26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, you, and
Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the congregation;
31:27 and divide the prey into two parts: between the men skilled in war, that went out to
battle, and all the congregation.
31:28 And levy a tribute to Yahweh of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of
five hundred, both of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the flocks:
31:29 take it of their half, and give it to Eleazar the priest, for Yahweh's heave-offering.
31:30 And of the children of Israel's half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of
the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, even of all the cattle, and give
them to the Levites, that keep the charge of the tabernacle of Yahweh.
31:31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
31:32 Now the prey, over and above the booty which the men of war took, was 675,000
sheep,
31:33 and 72,000 oxen,
31:34 and 71,000 asses,
31:35 and 32,000 persons in all, of the women that had not known man by lying with
him.
31:36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number
337,500 sheep:
31:37 and Yahweh's tribute of the sheep was 675.
31:38 And the oxen were 36,000; of which Yahweh's tribute was 72.
31:39 And the asses were 30,500; of which Yahweh's tribute was 61.
31:40 And the persons were 16,000; of whom Yahweh's tribute was 32 persons.
31:41 And Moses gave the tribute, which was Yahweh's heave-offering, to Eleazar the
priest, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
31:42 And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided off from the men that
warred
31:43 (now the congregation's half was 337,500 sheep,
31:44 and 36,000 oxen,
31:45 and 30,500 asses,
31:46 and 16,000 persons),
31:47 even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both
of man and of beast, and gave them to the Levites, that kept the charge of the tabernacle
of Yahweh; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
31:48 And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the captains of
thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near to Moses;
31:49 and they said to Moses, Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war that
are under our charge, and there lacks not one man of us.
31:50 And we have brought Yahweh's oblation, what every man has gotten, of jewels of
gold, ankle-chains, and bracelets, signet-rings, ear-rings, and armlets, to make atonement
for our souls before Yahweh.
31:51 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
31:52 And all the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to Yahweh, of the
captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels.
31:53 (For the men of war had taken booty, every man for himself.)
31:54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of
hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel
before Yahweh.
Chapter 32
32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of
cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place
was a place for cattle;
32:2 the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to
Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam,
and Nebo, and Beon,
32:4 the land which Yahweh smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle;
and your servants have cattle.
32:5 And they said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your
servants for a possession; bring us not over the Jordan.
32:6 And Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your
brethren go to the war, and shall ye sit here?
32:7 And why discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the
land which Yahweh has given them?
32:8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged
the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had
given them.
32:10 And Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,
32:11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and
upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because
they have not wholly followed me:
32:12 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because
they have wholly followed Yahweh.
32:13 And Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and
fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of
Yahweh, was consumed.
32:14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to
augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
32:15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness;
and ye will destroy all this people.
32:16 And they came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle,
and cities for our little ones:
32:17 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we
have brought them to their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities
because of the inhabitants of the land.
32:18 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every
man his inheritance.
32:19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward;
because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.
32:20 And Moses said to them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will arm yourselves to go
before Yahweh to the war,
32:21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has
driven out his enemies from before him,
32:22 and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward ye shall return, and be
guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a
possession before Yahweh.
32:23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your
sin will find you out.
32:24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has
proceeded out of your mouth.
32:25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your
servants will do as my lord commands.
32:26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities
of Gilead;
32:27 but your servants will pass over, every man that is armed for war, before Yahweh
to battle, as my lord says.
32:28 So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son
of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.
32:29 And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will
pass with you over the Jordan, every man that is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the
land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a
possession:
32:30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among
you in the land of Canaan.
32:31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, as Yahweh
has said to your servants, so will we do.
32:32 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the
possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.
32:33 And Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of
Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king
of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities
thereof with their borders, even the cities of the land round about.
32:34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
32:35 and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,
32:36 and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
32:37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,
32:38 and Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they
gave other names to the cities which they built.
32:39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and
dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
32:40 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
32:41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them
Havvoth-jair.
32:42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah,
after his own name.
Chapter 33
33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land
of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
33:2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment
of Yahweh: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
33:3 And they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first
month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand
in the sight of all the Egyptians,
33:4 while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom Yahweh had smitten
among them: upon their gods also Yahweh executed judgments.
33:5 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.
33:6 And they journeyed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of
the wilderness.
33:7 And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is before
Baal-zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.
33:8 And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea
into the wilderness: and they went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and
encamped in Marah.
33:9 And they journeyed from Marah, and came to Elim: and in Elim were twelve springs
of water, and 70 palm-trees; and they encamped there.
33:10 And they journeyed from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
33:11 And they journeyed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
33:12 And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
33:13 And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
33:14 And they journeyed from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water
for the people to drink.
33:15 And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
33:16 And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth-
hattaavah.
33:17 And they journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth.
33:18 And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.
33:19 And they journeyed from Rithmah, and encamped in Rimmon-perez.
33:20 And they journeyed from Rimmon-perez, and encamped in Libnah.
33:21 And they journeyed from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.
33:22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and encamped in Kehelathah.
33:23 And they journeyed from Kehelathah, and encamped in mount Shepher.
33:24 And they journeyed from mount Shepher, and encamped in Haradah.
33:25 And they journeyed from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.
33:26 And they journeyed from Makheloth, and encamped in Tahath.
33:27 And they journeyed from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.
33:28 And they journeyed from Terah, and encamped in Mithkah.
33:29 And they journeyed from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.
33:30 And they journeyed from Hashmonah, and encamped in Moseroth.
33:31 And they journeyed from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene-jaakan.
33:32 And they journeyed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped in Hor-haggidgad.
33:33 And they journeyed from Hor-haggidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.
33:34 And they journeyed from Jotbathah, and encamped in Abronah.
33:35 And they journeyed from Abronah, and encamped in Ezion-geber.
33:36 And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the
same is Kadesh).
33:37 And they journeyed from Kadesh, and encamped in mount Hor, in the edge of the
land of Edom.
33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh,
and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of
Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
33:39 And Aaron was a hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount
Hor.
33:40 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan,
heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
33:41 And they journeyed from mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.
33:42 And they journeyed from Zalmonah, and encamped in Punon.
33:43 And they journeyed from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.
33:44 And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the border of
Moab.
33:45 And they journeyed from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon-gad.
33:46 And they journeyed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
33:47 And they journeyed from Almon-diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of
Abarim, before Nebo.
33:48 And they journeyed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of
Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
33:49 And they encamped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth even to Abel-shittim in the
plains of Moab.
33:50 And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,
saying,
33:51 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye pass over the Jordan into
the land of Canaan,
33:52 then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy
all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high
places:
33:53 and ye shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for to you have I given
the land to possess it.
33:54 And ye shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the more ye shall
give the more inheritance, and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance:
wheresoever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your
fathers shall ye inherit.
33:55 But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall
those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and
they shall vex you in the land in which ye dwell.
33:56 And it shall come to pass, that, as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you.
Chapter 34
34:2 Command the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye come into the land of
Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan
according to the borders thereof),
34:3 then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of
Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;
34:4 and your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass
along to Zin; and the goings out thereof shall be southward of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall
go forth to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon;
34:5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and the goings
out thereof shall be at the sea.
34:6 And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this
shall be your west border.
34:7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you
mount Hor;
34:8 from mount Hor ye shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of
the border shall be at Zedad;
34:9 and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at
Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.
34:10 And ye shall mark out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham;
34:11 and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and
the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
34:12 and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at
the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.
34:13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye
shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the
half-tribe;
34:14 for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the
tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-
tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:
34:15 the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan
at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
34:17 These are the names of the men that shall divide the land to you for inheritance:
Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
34:18 And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.
34:19 And these are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of
Jephunneh.
34:20 And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.
34:21 Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
34:22 And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.
34:23 Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh a prince,
Hanniel the son of Ephod.
34:24 And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
34:25 And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
34:26 And of the tribe of the children of Issachar a prince, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
34:27 And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, ahihud the son of Shelomi.
34:28 And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali a prince, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.
34:29 These are they whom Yahweh commanded to divide the inheritance to the children
of Israel in the land of Canaan.
Chapter 35
35:1 And Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
35:2 Command the children of Israel, that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of
their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall ye
give to the Levites.
35:3 And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle,
and for their substance, and for all their beasts.
35:4 And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give to the Levites, shall be from the
wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.
35:5 And ye shall measure without the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for
the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the
north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the
suburbs of the cities.
35:6 And the cities which ye shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of
refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee to: and besides them ye shall give
forty-two cities.
35:7 All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities; them shall
ye give with their suburbs.
35:8 And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of
Israel, from the many ye shall take many; and from the few ye shall take few: every one
according to his inheritance which he inherits shall give of his cities to the Levites.
35:10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When ye pass over the Jordan into
the land of Canaan,
35:11 then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer
that kills any person unwittingly may flee there.
35:12 And the cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die
not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment.
35:13 And the cities which ye shall give shall be for you six cities of refuge.
35:14 You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the
land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.
35:15 For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them,
shall these six cities be for refuge; that every one that kills any person unwittingly may
flee there.
35:16 But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer:
the murderer shall surely be put to death.
35:17 And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died,
he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
35:18 Or if he smote him with a weapon of wood in the hand, whereby a man may die,
and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
35:19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him,
he shall put him to death.
35:20 And if he thrust him out of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, such that he died,
35:21 or in enmity struck him with his hand, such that he died; he that struck him shall
surely be put to death; he is a murderer: the avenger of blood shall put the murderer to
death, when he meets him.
35:22 But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without
lying in wait,
35:23 or with any stone, whereby a man may die, without seeing him, and cast it upon
him, such that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;
35:24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood
according to these ordinances;
35:25 and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of
blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled:
and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the
holy oil.
35:26 But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the border of his city of refuge,
whither he flees,
35:27 and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the
avenger of blood slay the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,
35:28 because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high
priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his
possession.
35:29 And these things shall be for a statute and ordinance to you throughout your
generations in all your dwellings.
35:30 Whoso kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but
one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
35:31 Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death;
but he shall surely be put to death.
35:32 And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he may
come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and
no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood
of him that shed it.
35:34 And you shall not defile the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell:
for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.
Chapter 36
36:1 And the heads of the fathers' houses of the family of the children of Gilead, the son
of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and
spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers' houses of the
children of Israel:
36:2 and they said, Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to
the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of
Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
36:3 And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel,
then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be
added to the inheritance of the tribe whereto they shall belong: so will it be taken away
from the lot of our inheritance.
36:4 And when the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be
added to the inheritance of the tribe whereto they shall belong: so will their inheritance be
taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
36:5 And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Yahweh,
saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.
36:6 This is the thing which Yahweh commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad,
saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of
their father shall they be married.
36:7 So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the
children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
36:8 And every daughter, that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of
Israel, shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of
Israel may possess every man the inheritance of his fathers.
36:9 So shall no inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; for the tribes of the
children of Israel shall cleave every one to his own inheritance.
36:10 Even as Yahweh commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:
36:11 for Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of
Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.
36:12 They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and
their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.
36:13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by
Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
End of Numbers
The Fifth Book of Moses, called Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy
Chapter 1
1:1 These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the
wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and
Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.
1:2 It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.
1:3 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the
month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Yahweh had given
him in commandment to them;
1:4 after he had smitten Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and Og
the king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth, at Edrei.
1:5 Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare this law, saying,
1:6 Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have dwelt long enough in this
mountain:
1:7 turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and to all
the places neighboring it, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the
South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great
river, the river Euphrates.
1:8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which Yahweh
swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their
seed after them.
1:9 And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
1:10 Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of
heaven for multitude.
1:11 Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as ye are, and
bless you, as he has promised you!
1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I
will make them heads over you.
1:14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good for us to
do.
1:15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over
you, captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains
of tens, and officers, according to your tribes.
1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your
brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner that is
with him.
1:17 You shall not respect persons in judgment; ye shall hear the small and the great
alike; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause
that is too hard for you ye shall bring to me, and I will hear it.
1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.
1:19 And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible
wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our
God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.
1:20 And I said to you, You are come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which Yahweh
our God gives to us.
1:21 Behold, Yahweh your God has set the land before you: go up, take possession, as
Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has spoken to you; fear not, neither be dismayed.
1:22 And ye came near to me every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us, that
they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go
up, and the cities to which we shall come.
1:23 And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every
tribe:
1:24 and they turned and went up into the hill-country, and came to the valley of Eshcol,
and spied it out.
1:25 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down to us, and
brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Yahweh our God gives to us.
1:26 Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your
God:
1:27 and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought
us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy
us.
1:28 Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The
people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and
moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
1:29 Then I said to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
1:30 Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that
he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
1:31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how that Yahweh your God bore you, as
a man bears his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came to this place.
1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe Yahweh your God,
1:33 who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire
by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.
1:34 And Yahweh heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,
1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see the good land,
which I swore to give to your fathers,
1:36 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that
he has trodden upon, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh.
1:37 Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, You also shall not go in
there:
1:38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you
him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
1:39 Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this
day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it,
and they shall possess it.
1:40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the
Red Sea.
1:41 Then ye answered and said to me, We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up
and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us. And ye girded on
every man his weapons of war, and were forward to go up into the hill-country.
1:42 And Yahweh said to me, Say to them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among
you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
1:43 So I spoke to you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment
of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.
1:44 And the Amorites, that dwelt in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased
you, as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.
1:45 And ye returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh hearkened not to your voice,
nor gave ear to you.
1:46 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according to the days that ye abode there.
Chapter 2
2:1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea,
as Yahweh spoke to me; and we circled mount Seir many days.
2:2 And Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
2:3 You have circled this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
2:4 And command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your
brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take ye
good heed to yourselves therefore;
2:5 contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the
sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
2:6 You shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy
water of them for money, that ye may drink.
2:7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known
your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has been
with you; you have lacked nothing.
2:8 So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the
way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by the
way of the wilderness of Moab.
2:9 And Yahweh said to me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I
will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of
Lot for a possession.
2:10 (The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the
Anakim:
2:11 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
2:12 The Horites also dwelt in Seir aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them;
and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did to the
land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
2:13 Now rise up, and go over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
2:14 And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the
brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were
consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.
2:15 Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of
the camp, until they were consumed.
2:16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among
the people,
2:17 that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
2:18 You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab:
2:19 and when you come near over against the children of Ammon, vex them not, nor
contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a
possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
2:20 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the
Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
2:21 a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them
before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead;
2:22 as he did for the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites
from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even to this day:
2:23 and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth
out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
2:24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have
given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess
it, and contend with him in battle.
2:25 This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the peoples
that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and
be in anguish because of you.
2:26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon
with words of peace, saying,
2:27 Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to
the right hand nor to the left.
2:28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that
I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,
2:29 as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did to
me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.
2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God
hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your
hand, as at this day.
2:31 And Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land
before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.
2:32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
2:33 And Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons,
and all his people.
2:34 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city,
with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
2:35 only the cattle we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we
had taken.
2:36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that
is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God
delivered up all before us:
2:37 only to the land of the children of Ammon you came not near; all the side of the
river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever Yahweh our God forbade
us.
Chapter 3
3:1 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out
against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
3:2 And Yahweh said to me, Fear him not; for I have delivered him, and all his people,
and his land, into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the
Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.
3:3 So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his
people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
3:4 And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from
them; 60 cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
3:5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled
towns a great many.
3:6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly
destroying every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones.
3:7 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.
3:8 And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites
that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to mount Hermon;
3:9 (which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)
3:10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities
of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his
bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine
cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)
3:12 And this land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley
of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I to the
Reubenites and to the Gadites:
3:13 and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of
Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of
Rephaim.
3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the
Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name,
Havvoth-jair, to this day.)
3:15 And I gave Gilead to Machir.
3:16 And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of
the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border of it, even to the river Jabbok, which
is the border of the children of Ammon;
3:17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border of it, from Chinnereth even to the sea
of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
3:18 And I commanded you at that time, saying, Yahweh your God has given you this
land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all
the men of valor.
3:19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that ye have much
cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you,
3:20 until Yahweh give rest to your brethren, as to you, and they also possess the land
which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan: then shall ye return every man to
his possession, which I have given you.
3:21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh
your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you
go over.
3:22 You shall not fear them; for Yahweh your God, he it is that fights for you.
3:23 And I besought Yahweh at that time, saying,
3:24 O Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your
strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to your
works, and according to your mighty acts?
3:25 Let me go over, I pray you, and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that
goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
3:26 But Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and hearkened not to me; and
Yahweh said to me, Let it suffice you; speak no more to me of this matter.
3:27 Get you up to the top of Pisgah, and lift up your eyes westward, and northward, and
southward, and eastward, and behold with your eyes: for you shall not go over this
Jordan.
3:28 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over
before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.
3:29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.
Chapter 4
4:1 And now, O Israel, hearken to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you,
to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of
your fathers, gives you.
4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from
it, that ye may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
4:3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that
followed Baal-peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.
4:4 But ye that did cleave to Yahweh your God are alive every one of you this day.
4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God
commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess
it.
4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the
sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a
wise and understanding people.
4:7 For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is
whensoever we call upon him?
4:8 And what great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this
law, which I set before you this day?
4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things
which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but
make them known to your children and your children's children;
4:10 the day that you stood before Yahweh your God in Horeb, when Yahweh said to me,
assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear
me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
4:11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire
to the heart of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
4:12 And Yahweh spoke to you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of words,
but ye saw no form; only ye heard a voice.
4:13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even
the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
4:14 And Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that
ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.
4:15 Take ye therefore good heed to yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day
that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.
4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure,
the likeness of male or female,
4:17 the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that
flies in the heavens,
4:18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in
the water under the earth;
4:19 and lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and
the stars, even all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and worship them, and serve
them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
4:20 But Yahweh has taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of
Egypt, to be to him a people of inheritance, as at this day.
4:21 Furthermore Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not
go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in to that good land, which Yahweh your God
gives you for an inheritance:
4:22 but I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but ye shall go over, and
possess that good land.
4:23 Take heed to yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he
made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which Yahweh
your God has forbidden you.
4:24 For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
4:25 When you shall beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have been long
in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of
anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him
to anger;
4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly
perish from off the land whereto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong
your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
4:27 And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number
among the nations, whither Yahweh shall lead you away.
4:28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which
neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
4:29 But from there ye shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you
search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
4:30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things are come upon you, in the latter
days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and hearken to his voice:
4:31 for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you,
nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
4:32 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God
created man upon the earth, and from the one end of heaven to the other, whether there
has been any such thing as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?
4:33 Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you
have heard, and live?
4:34 Or has God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by
trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an
outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you
in Egypt before your eyes?
4:35 To you it was shown, that you might know that Yahweh he is God; there is none
else besides him.
4:36 Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you: and upon
earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the midst of the
fire.
4:37 And because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and
brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
4:38 to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in,
to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.
4:39 Know therefore this day, and lay it to your heart, that Yahweh he is God in heaven
above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.
4:40 And you shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you this
day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may
prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, for ever.
4:41 Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;
4:42 that the manslayer might flee there, that slays his neighbor unawares, and hated him
not in time past; and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
4:43 namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and
Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.
4:44 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
4:45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to
the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,
4:46 beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of
the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote,
when they came forth out of Egypt.
4:47 And they took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two
kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;
4:48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to mount Sion (the
same is Hermon),
4:49 and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under
the slopes of Pisgah.
Chapter 5
5:1 And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the
ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do
them.
5:2 Yahweh our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
5:3 Yahweh made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of
us here alive this day.
5:4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
5:5 (I stood between Yahweh and you at that time, to show you the word of Yahweh: for
ye were afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
5:6 I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of bondage.
5:7 You shall have no other gods before me.
5:8 You shall not make to you a graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5:9 you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God,
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third
and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;
5:10 and showing lovingkindness to thousands of them that love me and keep my
commandments.
5:11 You shall not take the name of Yahweh your God in vain: for Yahweh will not hold
him guiltless that takes his name in vain.
5:12 Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
5:13 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
5:14 but the seventh day is a sabbath to Yahweh your God: during it you shall not do any
work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-
servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger that is
within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you.
5:15 And you shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh
your God brought you out there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore
Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.
5:16 Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that
your days may be long, and that it may go well with you, in the land which Yahweh your
God gives you.
5:17 You shall not murder.
5:18 Neither shall you commit adultery.
5:19 Neither shall you steal.
5:20 Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbor.
5:21 Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; neither shall you desire your
neighbor's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his donkey,
or anything that is your neighbor's.
5:22 These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of
the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more.
And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them to me.
5:23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while
the mountain was burning with fire, that ye came near to me, even all the heads of your
tribes, and your elders;
5:24 and ye said, Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and
we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God does
speak with man, and he lives.
5:25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear
the voice of Yahweh our God any more, then we shall die.
5:26 For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out
of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
5:27 Go you near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say: and speak to us all that
Yahweh our God shall speak to you; and we will hear it, and do it.
5:28 And Yahweh heard the voice of your words, when ye spoke to me; and Yahweh said
to me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken to you:
they have well said all that they have spoken.
5:29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my
commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
5:30 Go say to them, Return ye to your tents.
5:31 But as for you, stand you here by me, and I will speak to you all the commandment,
and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them
in the land which I give them to possess it.
5:32 You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you: ye
shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
5:33 You shall walk in all the way which Yahweh your God has commanded you, that ye
may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land
which ye shall possess.
Chapter 6
6:1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your
God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to
possess it;
6:2 that you might fear Yahweh your God, to keep all his statutes and his
commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son's son, all the
days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.
6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that
ye may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a
land flowing with milk and honey.
6:4 Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God is one Yahweh:
6:5 and you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and
with all your might.
6:6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be upon your heart;
6:7 and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you
sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you
rise up.
6:8 And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets
between your eyes.
6:9 And you shall write them upon the door-posts of your house, and upon your gates.
6:10 And it shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he
swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly
cities, which you build not,
6:11 and houses full of all good things, which you filled not, and cisterns hewn out,
which you hewed not, vineyards and olive-trees, which you planted not, and you shall eat
and be full;
6:12 then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you forth out of the land of
Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
6:13 You shall fear Yahweh your God; and him shall you serve, and shall swear by his
name.
6:14 You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about
you;
6:15 for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh
your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
6:16 You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
6:17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.
6:18 And you shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be
well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to
your fathers,
6:19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
6:20 When your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and
the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh our God has commanded you?
6:21 then you shall say to your son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt: and Yahweh
brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;
6:22 and Yahweh showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh,
and upon all his house, before our eyes;
6:23 and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which
he swore to our fathers.
6:24 And Yahweh commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear Yahweh our God, for
our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as at this day.
6:25 And it shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all this commandment before
Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.
Chapter 7
7:1 When Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you are going to possess
it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the
Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven
nations greater and mightier than you;
7:2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike
them down; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them,
nor show mercy to them;
7:3 neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his
son, nor his daughter shall you take to your son.
7:4 For he will turn away your son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so
will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he will destroy you quickly.
7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces
their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
7:6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to
be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
7:7 Yahweh did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in
number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:
7:8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore
to your fathers, has Yahweh brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out
of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
7:9 Know therefore that Yahweh your God, he is God, the faithful God, who keeps
covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a
thousand generations,
7:10 and repays them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to
him that hates him, he will repay him to his face.
7:11 You shall therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances,
which I command you this day, to do them.
7:12 And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do
them, that Yahweh your God will keep with you the covenant and the lovingkindness
which he swore to your fathers:
7:13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of
your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the
increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your
fathers to give you.
7:14 You shall be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren
among you, or among your cattle.
7:15 And Yahweh will take away from you all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of
Egypt, which you know, will he put upon you, but will lay them upon all them that hate
you.
7:16 And you shall consume all the peoples that Yahweh your God shall deliver to you;
your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to
you.
7:17 If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess
them?
7:18 you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your God
did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty
hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall
Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
7:20 Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until they that are
left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.
7:21 You shall not be affrighted at them; for Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a
great God and a terrible.
7:22 And Yahweh your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you
may not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon you.
7:23 But Yahweh your God will deliver them up before you, and will discomfit them
with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.
7:24 And he will deliver their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name to
perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before you, until you have
destroyed them.
7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: you shall not covet the
silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it is an
abomination to Yahweh your God.
7:26 And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted
thing like to it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted
thing.
Chapter 8
8:1 All the commandment which I command you this day shall ye observe to do, that ye
may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your
fathers.
8:2 And you shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty
years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in
your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
8:3 And he humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you
knew not, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not
live by bread only, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh does man
live.
8:4 Your raiment became not old upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
8:5 And you shall consider in your heart, that, as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your
God chastens you.
8:6 And you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways,
and to fear him.
8:7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of
fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;
8:8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-
trees and honey;
8:9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in
it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
8:10 And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless Yahweh your God for the good
land which he has given you.
8:11 Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and
his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:
8:12 lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelt
therein;
8:13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is
multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
8:14 then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you
forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
8:15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents
and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought you forth water out
of the rock of flint;
8:16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers knew not; that he
might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
8:17 and lest you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me
this wealth.
8:18 But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he that gives you power to get
wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.
8:19 And it shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and
serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
8:20 As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because
ye would not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your God.
Chapter 9
9:1 Hear, O Israel: you are to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations
greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
9:2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you
have heard say, Who can stand before the sons of Anak?
9:3 Know therefore this day, that Yahweh your God is he who goes over before you as a
devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will bring them down before you: so shall
you drive them out, and make them to perish quickly, as Yahweh has spoken to you.
9:4 Speak not you in your heart, after that Yahweh your God has thrust them out from
before you, saying, For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;
but rather it is for the wickedness of these nations that Yahweh drives them out from
before you.
9:5 Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to
possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God drives them
out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
9:6 Know therefore, that Yahweh your God gives you not this good land to possess it for
your righteousness; for you are a stiffnecked people.
9:7 Remember, forget you not, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the
wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until ye came to
this place, ye have been rebellious against Yahweh.
9:8 Also in Horeb ye provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to
destroy you.
9:9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of
the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and
forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water.
9:10 And Yahweh delivered to me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God;
and on them was written according to all the words, which Yahweh speak with you in the
mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.
9:11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me
the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.
9:12 And Yahweh said to me, arise, go down quickly from from here; for your people
that you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly
turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten
image.
9:13 Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is
a stiffnecked people:
9:14 let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven;
and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.
9:15 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire:
and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
9:16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against Yahweh your God; ye had made
you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had
commanded you.
9:17 And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke
them before your eyes.
9:18 And I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did
neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
9:19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, with which Yahweh was angry
against you to destroy you. But Yahweh hearkened to me that time also.
9:20 And Yahweh was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron
also at the same time.
9:21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped
it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the
brook that descended out of the mount.
9:22 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked Yahweh to
wrath.
9:23 And when Yahweh sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the
land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your
God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
9:24 You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.
9:25 So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down,
because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.
9:26 And I prayed to Yahweh, and said, O Lord Yahweh, destroy not your people and
your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought
forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
9:27 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not to the stubbornness
of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
9:28 lest the land from where you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was not able to
bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has
brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
9:29 Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great
power and by your outstretched arm.
Chapter 10
10:1 At that time Yahweh said to me, Hew you two tables of stone like to the first, and
come up to me into the mount, and make you an ark of wood.
10:2 And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which you
broke, and you shall put them in the ark.
10:3 So I made an ark of acacia wood, and hewed two tables of stone like to the first, and
went up into the mount, having the two tables in my hand.
10:4 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments,
which Yahweh spoke to you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the
assembly: and Yahweh gave them to me.
10:5 And I turned and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I
had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
10:6 (And the children of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah.
There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's
office in his stead.
10:7 From there they journeyed to Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of
brooks of water.
10:8 At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh, to stand before Yahweh to minister to him, and to bless in his name, to this day.
10:9 Wherefore Levi has no portion nor inheritance with his brethren; Yahweh is his
inheritance, according as Yahweh your God spoke to him.)
10:10 And I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and
Yahweh hearkened to me that time also; Yahweh would not destroy you.
10:11 And Yahweh said to me, arise, take your journey before the people; and they shall
go in and possess the land, which I swore to their fathers to give to them.
10:12 And now, O Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear
Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your
God with all your heart and with all your soul,
10:13 to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this
day for your good?
10:14 Behold, to Yahweh your God belongs heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth,
with all that exists therein.
10:15 Only Yahweh had a delight in your fathers to love them, and he chose their seed
after them, even you above all peoples, as at this day.
10:16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stiffnecked.
10:17 For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the
mighty, and the terrible, who regards not persons, nor takes reward.
10:18 He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the sojourner, in
giving him food and raiment.
10:19 Love ye therefore the sojourner; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
10:20 You shall fear Yahweh your God; him shall you serve; and to him shall you cleave,
and by his name shall you swear.
10:21 He is your praise, and he is your God, that has done for you these great and terrible
things, which your eyes have seen.
10:22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with 70 persons; and now Yahweh your God
has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Chapter 11
11:1 Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his charge, and his statutes,
and his ordinances, and his commandments, alway.
11:2 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children that have not known, and
that have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand,
and his outstretched arm,
11:3 and his signs, and his works, which he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh the king
of Egypt, and to all his land;
11:4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he
made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how
Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
11:5 and what he did to you in the wilderness, until ye came to this place;
11:6 and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how
the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents,
and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:
11:7 but your eyes have seen all the great work of Yahweh which he did.
11:8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandment which I command you this day, that
ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go over to possess it;
11:9 and that ye may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh swore to your fathers
to give to them and to their seed, a land flowing with milk and honey.
11:10 For the land, where you are going in to possess it, it is not like the land of Egypt,
from where ye came out, where you sowed your seed, and watered it on foot, as a garden
of herbs;
11:11 but the land, where ye are going over to possess it, it is a land of hills and valleys,
and drinks water of the rain of heaven,
11:12 a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always
upon it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently to my commandments
which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all your
heart and with all your soul,
11:14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain,
that you may gather in your grain, and your new wine, and your oil.
11:15 And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you shall eat and be full.
11:16 Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve
other gods, and worship them;
11:17 and the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so
that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from
off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and ye
shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your
eyes.
11:19 And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when you sit in your house,
and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
11:20 And you shall write them upon the door-posts of your house, and upon your gates;
11:21 that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which
Yahweh swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of the heavens above the earth.
11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you, to do
it, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave to him;
11:23 then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall
dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
11:24 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the
wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even to the hinder sea shall
be your border.
11:25 There shall no man be able to stand before you: Yahweh your God shall lay the
fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he has
spoken to you.
11:26 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
11:27 the blessing, if ye shall hearken to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which
I command you this day;
11:28 and the curse, if ye shall not hearken to the commandments of Yahweh your God,
but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods,
which ye have not known.
11:29 And it shall come to pass, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land to
which you are going topossess it, that you shall set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and
the curse upon mount Ebal.
11:30 Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the way of the going down of the sun, in
the land of the Canaanites that dwell in the Arabah, over against Gilgal, beside the oaks
of Moreh?
11:31 For ye are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Yahweh your
God gives you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
11:32 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before
you this day.
Chapter 12
12:1 These are the statutes and the ordinances which ye shall observe to do in the land
which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that ye
live upon the earth.
12:2 You shall surely destroy all the places in which the nations that ye shall dispossess
served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green
tree:
12:3 and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their
Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall
destroy their name out of that place.
12:4 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.
12:5 But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put
his name there, even to his habitation shall ye seek, and there you shall come;
12:6 and there ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes,
and the heave-offering of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill-offerings, and the
firstlings of your herd and of your flock:
12:7 and there ye shall eat before Yahweh your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put
your hand to, ye and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
12:8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day: every man doing
whatever is right in his own eyes;
12:9 for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your
God gives you.
12:10 But when ye go over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Yahweh your God
causes you to inherit, and he gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye
dwell in safety;
12:11 then it shall come to pass that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell there, there shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt
offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all
your choice vows which ye vow to Yahweh.
12:12 And ye shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, ye, and your sons, and your
daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within
your gates, forasmuch as he has no portion nor inheritance with you.
12:13 Take heed to yourself that you offer not your burnt offerings in every place that
you see;
12:14 but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall
offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
12:15 Notwithstanding, you may kill and eat flesh within all your gates, after all the
desire of your soul, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which he has given
you: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the deer.
12:16 Only ye shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out upon the earth as water.
12:17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain, or of your new wine, or
of your oil, or the firstlings of your herd or of your flock, nor any of your vows which
you vowest, nor your freewill-offerings, nor the heave-offering of your hand;
12:18 but you shall eat them before Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh your
God shall choose, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your
maid-servant, and the Levite that is within your gates: and you shall rejoice before
Yahweh your God in all that you put your hand to.
12:19 Take heed to yourself that you forsake not the Levite as long as you live in your
land.
12:20 When Yahweh your God shall enlarge your border, as he has promised you, and
you shall say, I will eat flesh, because your soul desires to eat flesh; you may eat flesh,
after all the desire of your soul.
12:21 If the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to put his name there, be too far
from you, then you shall kill of your herd and of your flock, which Yahweh has given
you, as I have commanded you; and you may eat within your gates, after all the desire of
your soul.
12:22 Even as the gazelle and as the deer is eaten, so you shall eat thereof: the unclean
and the clean may eat thereof alike.
12:23 Only be sure that you eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not
eat the life with the flesh.
12:24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth as water.
12:25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you,
when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
12:26 Only your holy things which you have, and your vows, you shall take, and go to
the place which Yahweh shall choose:
12:27 and you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of
Yahweh your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of
Yahweh your God; and you shall eat the flesh.
12:28 Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with
you, and with your children after you for ever, when you do that which is good and right
in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
12:29 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations from before you, whither you go
in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;
12:30 take heed to yourself that you be not ensnared to follow them, after that they are
destroyed from before you; and that you inquire not after their gods, saying, How do
these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
12:31 You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which
he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they
burn in the fire to their gods.
12:32 What thing soever I command you, that shall ye observe to do: you shall not add
thereto, nor diminish from it.
Chapter 13
13:1 If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you
a sign or a wonder,
13:2 and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke to you, saying, Let us go
after other gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them;
13:3 you shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for
Yahweh your God proves you, to know whether ye love Yahweh your God with all your
heart and with all your soul.
13:4 You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments,
and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave to him.
13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has
spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which
Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So shall you put away the evil from the
midst of you.
13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of
your bosom, or your friend, that is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us
go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
13:7 of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, near to you, or far off from you,
from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
13:8 you shall not consent to him, nor hearken to him; neither shall your eye pity him,
neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
13:9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first upon him to put him to death,
and afterwards the hand of all the people.
13:10 And you shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you
away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of bondage.
13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do not more any such wickedness as
this is in the midst of you.
13:12 If you shall hear tell concerning one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives
you to dwell there, saying,
13:13 Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of you, and have drawn away the
inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not
known;
13:14 then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be
truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of you,
13:15 you shall surely attack the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword,
destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the
sword.
13:16 And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shall
burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it
shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
13:17 And there shall cleave nought of the devoted thing to your hand; that Yahweh may
turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon
you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;
13:18 when you shall hearken to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his
commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of
Yahweh your God.
Chapter 14
14:1 You are the children of Yahweh your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make
any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
14:2 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God, and Yahweh has chosen you to be a
people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
14:3 You shall not eat any abominable thing.
14:4 These are the beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,
14:5 the deer, and the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the
antelope, and the chamois.
14:6 And every beast that parts the hoof, and has the hoof cloven in two, and chews the
cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.
14:7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have
the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but
part not the hoof, they are unclean to you.
14:8 And the swine, because he parts the hoof but chews not the cud, he is unclean to
you: of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.
14:9 These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever has fins and scales may ye
eat;
14:10 and whatsoever has not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean to you.
14:11 Of all clean birds ye may eat.
14:12 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the gier-eagle, and the
ospray,
14:13 and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,
14:14 and every raven after its kind,
14:15 and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,
14:16 the little owl, and the great owl, and the horned owl,
14:17 and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,
14:18 and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
14:19 And all winged creeping things are unclean to you: they shall not be eaten.
14:20 Of all clean birds ye may eat.
14:21 You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the sojourner
that is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a
holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.
14:22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the
field year by year.
14:23 And you shall eat before Yahweh your God, in the place which he shall choose, to
cause his name to dwell there, the tithe of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil,
and the firstlings of your herd and of your flock; that you may learn to fear Yahweh your
God always.
14:24 And if the way be too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the
place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there,
when Yahweh your God shall bless you;
14:25 then shall you turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go
to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose:
14:26 and you shall bestow the money for whatsoever your soul desires, for oxen, or for
sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever your soul asks of you; and you
shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.
14:27 And the Levite that is within your gates, you shall not forsake him; for he has no
portion nor inheritance with you.
14:28 At the end of every three years you shall bring forth all the tithe of your increase in
the same year, and shall lay it up within your gates:
14:29 and the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the
sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates, shall come, and
shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your
hand which you do.
Chapter 15
15:1 At the end of every seven years you shall make a release.
15:2 And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he has
lent to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because
Yahweh's release has been proclaimed.
15:3 Of a foreigner you may exact it: but whatsoever of yours is with your brother your
hand shall release.
15:4 But there shall be no poor with you; (for Yahweh will surely bless you in the land
which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it;)
15:5 if only you diligently hearken to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all
this commandment which I command you this day.
15:6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to
many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they
shall not rule over you.
15:7 If there be with you a poor man, one of your brethren, within any of your gates in
your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut
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your hand from your poor brother ;
15:8 but you shall surely open your hand to him, and shall surely lend him sufficient for
his need in that which he lacks.
15:9 Beware that there be not a base thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the
year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give
him nothing; and he cries to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.
15:10 You shall surely give him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to
him; because that for this thing Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work, and in
all that you put your hand to.
15:11 For the poor will never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying,
You shall surely open your hand to your brother, to your needy, and to your poor, in your
land.
15:12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you
six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
15:13 And when you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:
15:14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing-floor,
and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.
15:15 And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt, and
Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
15:16 And it shall be, if he says to you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you
and your house, because he is well with you;
15:17 then you shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear to the door, and he shall be
your servant for ever. And also to your maid-servant you shall do likewise.
15:18 It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for at half the
cost of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all
that you do.
15:19 All the firstling males that are born of your herd and of your flock you shall
sanctify to Yahweh your God: you shall do no work with the firstling of your herd, nor
shear the firstling of your flock.
15:20 You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh
shall choose, you and your household.
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"shut your hand from your poor brother" means to be stingy and selfish toward him.
15:21 And if it have any blemish, as if it be lame or blind, any ill blemish whatsoever,
you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
15:22 You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the
gazelle, and as the deer.
15:23 Only you shall not eat the blood thereof; you shall pour it out upon the ground as
water.
Chapter 16
16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to Yahweh your God; for in the
month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.
16:2 And you shall sacrifice the passover to Yahweh your God, of the flock and the herd,
in the place which Yahweh shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread
with it, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste:
that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days
of your life.
16:4 And there shall be no leaven seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither
shall any of the flesh, which you sacrifice the first day at even, remain all night until the
morning.
16:5 You may not sacrifice the passover within any of your gates, which Yahweh your
God gives you;
16:6 but at the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell in,
there you shall sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season
that you came forth out of Egypt.
16:7 And you shall roast and eat it in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose:
and you shall turn in the morning, and go to your tents.
16:8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn
assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work during it.
16:9 Seven weeks shall you number to you: from the time you begin to put the sickle to
the standing grain shall you begin to number seven weeks.
16:10 And you shall keep the feast of weeks to Yahweh your God with a tribute of a
freewill-offering of your hand, which you shall give, according as Yahweh your God
blesses you:
16:11 and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your
daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite that is within your
gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of you, in
the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
16:12 And you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt: and you shall observe
and do these statutes.
16:13 You shall keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in
from your threshing-floor and from your winepress:
16:14 and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your
man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless,
and the widow, that are within your gates.
16:15 Seven days shall you keep a feast to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh
shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the
work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.
16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before Yahweh your God in the
place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks,
and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty:
16:17 every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God
which he has given you.
16:18 Judges and officers shall you make you in all your gates, which Yahweh your God
gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous
judgment.
16:19 You shall not wrest justice: you shall not respect persons; neither shall you take a
bribe; for a bribe does blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
16:20 That which is altogether just shall you follow, that you may live, and inherit the
land which Yahweh your God gives you.
16:21 You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh
your God, which you shall make you.
16:22 Neither shall you set you up a pillar; which Yahweh your God hates.
Chapter 17
17:1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish,
or anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.
17:2 If there be found in the midst of you, within any of your gates which Yahweh your
God gives you, man or woman, that does that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your
God, in transgressing his covenant,
17:3 and has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon,
or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
17:4 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then shall you inquire diligently; and,
behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,
17:5 then shall you bring forth that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to
your gates, even the man or the woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
17:6 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is to die be put to
death; at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
17:7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward
the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood,
between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy
within your gates; then shall you arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God
shall choose;
17:9 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge that shall be in those
days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.
17:10 And you shall do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show you
from that place which Yahweh shall choose; and you shall observe to do according to all
that they shall teach you:
17:11 according to the tenor of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the
judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the
sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
17:12 And the man that does presumptuously, in not hearkening to the priest that stands
to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die: and
you shall put away the evil from Israel.
17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
17:14 When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall
possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the
nations that are round about me;
17:15 you shall surely set him king over you, whom Yahweh your God shall choose: one
from among your brethren shall you set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over
you, who is not your brother.
17:16 Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to
Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; forasmuch as Yahweh has said to you,
You shall from now on return no more that way.
17:17 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither
shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
17:18 And it shall be, when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write
him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites:
17:19 and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he
may learn to fear Yahweh his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to
do them;
17:20 that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the
commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in
his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Chapter 18
18:1 The priests the Levites, even all the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor
inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, and his
inheritance.
18:2 And they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: Yahweh is their
inheritance, as he has spoken to them.
18:3 And this shall be the priests' due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice,
whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two
cheeks, and the maw.
18:4 The first-fruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the first of the
fleece of your sheep, shall you give him.
18:5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in
the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.
18:6 And if a Levite come from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he sojourns, and
come with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;
18:7 then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brethren the Levites
do, who stand there before Yahweh.
18:8 They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which comes of the sale of his
patrimony.
18:9 When you are come into the land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not
learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
18:10 There shall not be found with you anyone that makes his son or his daughter to
pass through the fire, one that uses divination, one that practices augury, or an enchanter,
or a sorcerer,
18:11 or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
18:12 For whosoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh: and because of
these abominations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you.
18:13 You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.
18:14 For these nations, that you shall dispossess, hearken to them that practise augury,
and to diviners; but as for you, Yahweh your God has not allowed you so to do.
18:15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your
brethren, like to me; to him ye shall hearken;
18:16 according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the
assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, neither let me see
this great fire any more, that I die not.
18:17 And Yahweh said to me, They have well said that which they have spoken.
18:18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like to you; and I will put
my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him.
18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken to my words which he
shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
18:20 But the prophet, that shall speak a word presumptuously in my name, which I have
not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, that same
prophet shall die.
18:21 And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Yahweh has not
spoken?
18:22 when a prophet speaks in the name of Yahweh, if the thing follow not, nor come to
pass, that is the thing which Yahweh has not spoken: the prophet has spoken it
presumptuously, you shall not be afraid of him.
Chapter 19
19:1 When Yahweh your God shall cut off the nations, whose land Yahweh your God
gives you, and you succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses;
19:2 you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your
God gives you to possess it.
19:3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh
your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.
19:4 And this is the case of the manslayer, that shall flee there and live: whoso kills his
neighbor unawares, and hated him not in time past;
19:5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand
fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and
lights upon his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
19:6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake
him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of
death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
19:7 Therefore I command you, saying, You shall set apart three cities for you.
19:8 And if Yahweh your God enlarge your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and
give you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
19:9 if you shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to
love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shall you add three cities more
for you, besides these three:
19:10 that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God
gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be upon you.
19:11 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him,
and strike him mortally so that he dies, and he flee into one of these cities;
19:12 then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him there, and deliver him into the
hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
19:13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel,
that it may go well with you.
19:14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in
your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to
possess it.
19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any
sin that he sins: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a
matter be established.
19:16 If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-
doing,
19:17 then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Yahweh,
before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days;
19:18 and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false
witness, and have testified falsely against his brother;
19:19 then shall ye do to him, as he had thought to do to his brother: so shall you put
away the evil from the midst of you.
19:20 And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall from now on commit no more
any such evil in the midst of you.
19:21 And your eyes shall not pity; life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand
for hand, foot for foot.
Chapter 20
20:1 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and see horses, and chariots, and
a people more than you, you shall not be afraid of them; for Yahweh your God is with
you, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
20:2 And it shall be, when ye draw near to the battle, that the priest shall approach and
speak to the people,
20:3 and shall say to them, Hear, O Israel, ye draw near this day to battle against your
enemies: let not your heart faint; fear not, nor tremble, neither be ye affrighted at them;
20:4 for Yahweh your God is he that goes with you, to fight for you against your
enemies, to save you.
20:5 And the officers shall speak to the people, saying, What man is there that has built a
new house, and has not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man dedicate it.
20:6 And what man is there that has planted a vineyard, and has not used the fruit
thereof? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use
the fruit thereof.
20:7 And what man is there that has betrothed a wife, and has not taken her? let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man take her.
20:8 And the officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, What man is
there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return to his house, lest his
brethren's heart melt as his heart.
20:9 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking to the people, that
they shall appoint captains of hosts at the head of the people.
20:10 When you draw near to a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
20:11 And it shall be, if it make you answer of peace, and open to you, then it shall be,
that all the people that are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve
you.
20:12 And if it will make no peace with you, but will make war against you, then you
shall besiege it:
20:13 and when Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male
thereof with the edge of the sword:
20:14 but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all
the spoil thereof, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your
enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.
20:15 Thus shall you do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of
the cities of these nations.
20:16 But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an
inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
20:17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and
the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as Yahweh your God has commanded you;
20:18 that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done to
their gods; so would ye sin against Yahweh your God.
20:19 When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you
shall not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of
them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be
besieged of you?
20:20 Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy
and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with
you, until it fall.
Chapter 21
21:1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it,
lying in the field, and it be not known who has smitten him;
21:2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the
cities which are round about him that is slain:
21:3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that
city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been wrought with, and which has not
drawn in the yoke;
21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water,
which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has
chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their
word shall every controversy and every stroke be.
21:6 And all the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their
hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
21:7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our
eyes seen it.
21:8 Forgive, O Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and allow not
guilt of innocent blood to remain in the midst of your people Israel. And the blood shall
be forgiven them.
21:9 So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do
that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
21:10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers
them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,
21:11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you have a desire to her, and
would take her to you to wife;
21:12 then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and pare
her nails;
21:13 and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in your
house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you shall go in to
her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
21:14 And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she
will; but you shall not sell her at all for money, you shall not deal with her as a slave,
because you have humbled her.
21:15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne
him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was
hated;
21:16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that
he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is
the first-born:
21:17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a
double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the
first-born is his.
21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his
father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken to them;
21:19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders
of his city, and to the gate of his place;
21:20 and they shall say to the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious,
he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put
away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and
you hang him on a tree;
21:23 his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him the
same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that you defile not your land which
Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
Chapter 22
22:1 You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from
them: you shall surely bring them again to your brother.
22:2 And if your brother be not near to you, or if you know him not, then you shall bring
it home to your house, and it shall be with you until your brother seek after it, and you
shall restore it to him.
22:3 And so shall you do with his donkey; and so shall you do with his garment; and so
shall you do with every lost thing of your brother's, which he has lost, and you have
found: you may not hide yourself.
22:4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide
yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
22:5 A woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man, neither shall a man put on a
woman's garment; for whosoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your
God.
22:6 If a bird's nest chance to be before you in the way, in any tree or on the ground, with
young ones or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, you shall not
take the dam with the young:
22:7 you shall surely let the dam go, but the young you may take to yourself; that it may
be well with you, and that you may prolong your days.
22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that
you bring not blood upon your house, if any man fall from there.
22:9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be
forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
22:10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.
22:11 You shall not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.
22:12 You shall make you fringes upon the four borders of your vesture, with which you
cover yourself.
22:13 If any man take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,
22:14 and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say,
I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;
22:15 then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens
of the damsel's virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;
22:16 and the damsel's father shall say to the elders, I gave my daughter to this man to
wife, and he hates her;
22:17 and, lo, he has laid shameful things to her charge, saying, I found not in your
daughter the tokens of virginity; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.
And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.
22:18 And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;
22:19 and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them to the father of
the damsel, because he has brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall
be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.
22:20 But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;
22:21 then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men
of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel, to
play the harlot in her father's house: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you.
22:22 If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of
them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away the
evil from Israel.
22:23 If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed to a husband, and a man find her in
the city, and lie with her;
22:24 then ye shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to
death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man,
because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the
midst of you.
22:25 But if the man find the damsel that is betrothed in the field, and the man force her,
and lie with her; then the man only that lay with her shall die:
22:26 but to the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of
death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this matter;
22:27 for he found her in the field, the betrothed damsel cried, and there was no one to
save her.
22:28 If a man finds a damsel that is a virgin who is not betrothed, and lays hold on her,
and lies with her, and they are found;
22:29 then the man that lay with her shall give to the damsel's father fifty shekels of
silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all
his days.
22:30 A man shall not take his father's wife, and uncover his father's nakedness.
Chapter 23
23:1 He that is wounded in the testicles, or has his private member cut off, shall not enter
into the assembly of Yahweh.
23:2 A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation
shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
23:3 An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the
tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Yahweh for
ever:
23:4 because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth
out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of
Mesopotamia, to curse you.
23:5 Nevertheless Yahweh your God would not hearken to Balaam; but Yahweh your
God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
23:6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days for ever.
23:7 You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an
Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.
23:8 The children of the third generation that are born to them shall enter into the
assembly of Yahweh.
23:9 When you go forth in camp against your enemies, then you shall keep you from
every evil thing.
23:10 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chances
him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
23:11 but it shall be, when evening comes on, he shall bathe himself in water; and when
the sun is down, he shall come within the camp.
23:12 You shall have a place also without the camp, whither you shall go forth abroad:
23:13 and you shall have a paddle among your weapons; and it shall be, when you sit
10
down abroad, you shall dig with it, and shall turn back and cover that which comes
from you:
23:14 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give
up your enemies before you; therefore shall your camp be holy, that he may not see an
unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
23:15 You shall not deliver to his master a servant that is escaped from his master to you:
23:16 he shall dwell with you, in the midst of you, in the place which he shall choose
within one of your gates, where it pleases him best: you shall not oppress him.
23:17 There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a
sodomite of the sons of Israel.
23:18 You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute, or the wages of a dog, into the house of
Yahweh your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to Yahweh your
God.
23:19 You shall not lend upon interest to your brother; interest of money, interest of
victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest:
23:20 to a foreigner you may lend upon interest; but to your brother you shall not lend
upon interest, that Yahweh your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in
the land whither you go in to possess it.
23:21 When you shall vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it:
for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.
23:22 But if you shall forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in you.
23:23 That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you
have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill-offering, which you have promised with
your mouth.
23:24 When you come into your neighbor's vineyard, then you may eat of grapes your fill
at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.
23:25 When you come into your neighbor's standing grain, then you may pluck the heads
with your hand; but you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain.
Chapter 24
24:1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his
eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of
divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's wife.
24:3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her
hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his
wife;
24:4 her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after
that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Yahweh: and you shall not cause the
land to sin, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
24:5 When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be
charged with any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife
whom he has taken.
24:6 No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes a man's life
to pledge.
24:7 If a man is found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deals
with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die: so shall you put away the evil
from the midst of you.
10
"Sit down abroad" = "squat down outside to defecate."
24:8 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently, and do according to
all that the Levite priests shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to
do.
24:9 Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as ye came forth out
of Egypt.
24:10 When you lend your neighbor any manner of loan, you shall not go into his house
to fetch his pledge.
24:11 You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you are lending shall bring forth the
pledge outside to you.
24:12 And if he be a poor man, you shall not sleep with his pledge;
24:13 you shall surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goes down, that he may
sleep in his garment, and bless you: and it shall be righteousness to you before Yahweh
your God.
24:14 You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of your
brethren, or of your sojourners that are in your land within your gates:
24:15 in his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for
he is poor, and sets his heart upon it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to
you.
24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be
put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
24:17 You shall not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take
the widow's raiment to pledge;
24:18 but you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt, and Yahweh your God
redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
24:19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you
shall not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the
widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
24:20 When you beat your olive-tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be
for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
24:21 When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean it after you: it
shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
24:22 And you shall remember that you were a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I
command you to do this thing.
Chapter 25
25:1 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges
judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;
25:2 and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause
him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by
number.
25:3 Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and
beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
25:4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.
25:5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the
dead shall not be married without to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her,
and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
25:6 And it shall be, that the first-born that she bears shall succeed in the name of his
brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.
25:7 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up
to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a
name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.
25:8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say,
I like not to take her;
25:9 then shall his brother's wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his
shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be
done to the man that does not build up his brother's house.
25:10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that has his shoe loosed.
25:11 When men fight one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her
husband out of the hand of him that is striking him, and she puts forth her hand, and takes
him by the privates;
25:12 then you shall cut off her hand, your eye shall have no pity.
25:13 You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a large and a small.
25:14 You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.
25:15 A perfect and just weight shall you have; a perfect and just measure shall you have:
that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
25:16 For all that do such things, even all that do unrighteously, are an abomination to
Yahweh your God.
25:17 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt;
25:18 how he met you by the way, and attacked the rearmost of you, all that were feeble
behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he feared not God.
25:19 Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your
enemies round about, in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you for an
inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under
heaven; you shall not forget.
Chapter 26
26:1 And it shall be, when you are come in to the land which Yahweh your God is giving
you for an inheritance, and possess it, and dwell in it,
26:2 that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in
from your land that Yahweh your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and
shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell
there.
26:3 And you shall come to the priest that shall be in those days, and say to him, I profess
this day to Yahweh your God, that I am come to the land which Yahweh swore to our
fathers to give us.
26:4 And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar
of Yahweh your God.
26:5 And you shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, a Syrian ready to perish
was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he
became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
26:6 And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
26:7 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and
saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;
26:8 and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders;
26:9 and he has brought us into this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with
milk and honey.
26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which you, O
Yahweh, have given me. And you shall set it down before Yahweh your God, and
worship before Yahweh your God:
26:11 and you shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and
to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner that is in the midst of you.
26:12 When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third
year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the sojourner, to
the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
26:13 And you shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the hallowed things
out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the sojourner, to the
fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have
commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I
forgotten them:
26:14 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I put away thereof, being
unclean, nor given thereof for the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of Yahweh my
God; I have done according to all that you have commanded me.
26:15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel,
and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with
milk and honey.
26:16 This day Yahweh your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances:
you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.
26:17 You have avouched Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would walk in
his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken
to his voice:
26:18 and Yahweh has avouched you this day to be a people for his own possession, as
he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;
26:19 and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name,
and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
Chapter 27
27:1 And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the
commandment which I command you this day.
27:2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over the Jordan to the land which
Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set you up great stones, and plaster them with
plaster:
27:3 and you shall write upon them all the words of this law, when you are passed over;
that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with
milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
27:4 And it shall be, when ye are passed over the Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones,
which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.
27:5 And there shall you build an altar to Yahweh your God, an altar of stones: you shall
lift up no iron tool upon them.
27:6 You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of unhewn stones; and you shall offer
burnt offerings upon it to Yahweh your God:
27:7 and you shall sacrifice peace offerings, and shall eat there; and you shall rejoice
before Yahweh your God.
27:8 And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke to all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and
hearken, O Israel: this day you are become the people of Yahweh your God.
27:10 You shall therefore obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and do his
commandments and his statutes, which I command you this day.
27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are passed over
the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and
Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
27:14 And the Levites shall answer, and say to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,
27:15 Cursed be the man that makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to
Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. And all the
people shall answer and say, amen.
27:16 Cursed be he that sets light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall
say, amen.
27:17 Cursed be he that removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say,
amen.
27:18 Cursed be he that makes the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people
shall say, amen.
27:19 Cursed be he that wrests the justice due to the sojourner, fatherless, and widow.
And all the people shall say, amen.
27:20 Cursed be he that lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's
skirt. And all the people shall say, amen.
27:21 Cursed be he that lies with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say,
amen.
27:22 Cursed be he that lies with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of
his mother. And all the people shall say, amen.
27:23 Cursed be he that lies with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, amen.
27:24 Cursed be he that attacks his neighbor in secret. And all the people shall say,
amen.
27:25 Cursed be he that takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people
shall say, amen.
27:26 Cursed be he that confirms not the words of this law to do them. And all the
people shall say, amen.
Chapter 28
28:1 And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently to the voice of Yahweh
your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that
Yahweh your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:
28:2 and all these blessings shall come upon you, and overtake you, if you shall hearken
to the voice of Yahweh your God.
28:3 Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.
28:4 Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of
your beasts, the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.
28:5 Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
28:6 Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
28:7 Yahweh will cause your enemies that rise up against you to be smitten before you:
they shall come out against you one way, and shall flee before you seven ways.
28:8 Yahweh will command the blessing upon you in your barns, and in all that you put
your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
28:9 Yahweh will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if
you shall keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and walk in his ways.
28:10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of
Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.
28:11 And Yahweh will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in
the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore
to your fathers to give you.
28:12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of your
land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many
nations, and you shall not borrow.
28:13 And Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only,
and you shall not be beneath; if you shall hearken to the commandments of Yahweh your
God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them,
28:14 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to
the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
28:15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your God,
to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day,
that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you.
28:16 Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the field.
28:17 Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading-trough.
28:18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your ground, the increase of
your cattle, and the young of your flock.
28:19 Cursed shall you be when you come in, and cursed shall you be when you go out.
28:20 Yahweh will send upon you cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that you put
your hand to to do, until you be destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the
evil of your doings, whereby you have forsaken me.
28:21 Yahweh will make the pestilence cleave to you, until he have consumed you from
off the land, whither you go in to possess it.
28:22 Yahweh will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation,
and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they
shall pursue you until you perish.
28:23 And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under
you shall be iron.
28:24 Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from heaven shall it
come down upon you, until you be destroyed.
28:25 Yahweh will cause you to be smitten before your enemies; you shall go out one
way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed to and
from among all the kingdoms of the earth.
28:26 And your dead body shall be food to all birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of
the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.
28:27 Yahweh will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the
scurvy, and with the itch, whereof you cannot be healed.
28:28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment
of heart;
28:29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not
prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed alway, and there shall
be none to save you.
28:30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a
house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the
fruit thereof.
28:31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey
shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you:
your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
28:32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall
look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of
your hand.
28:33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you know not eat
up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed alway;
28:34 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
28:35 Yahweh will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, from which
you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
28:36 Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation
that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods,
wood and stone.
28:37 And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the
peoples whither Yahweh shall lead you away.
28:38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust
shall consume it.
28:39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine,
nor gather the grapes; for the worm shall eat them.
28:40 You shall have olive-trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint
yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast its fruit.
28:41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go
into captivity.
28:42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.
28:43 The sojourner that is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and
higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
28:44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you
shall be the tail.
28:45 And all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you,
till you be destroyed; because you hearkened not to the voice of Yahweh your God, to
keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:
28:46 and they shall be upon you for a sign and for a wonder, and upon your seed for
ever.
28:47 Because you served not Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of
heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
28:48 therefore shall you serve your enemies that Yahweh shall send against you, in
hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke
of iron upon your neck, until he have destroyed you.
28:49 Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the earth, as the
eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand;
28:50 a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show
favor to the young,
28:51 and shall eat the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your ground, until you be
destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your cattle,
or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
28:52 And they shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls
come down, in which you have trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege
you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
28:53 And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your
daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with
which your enemies shall distress you.
28:54 The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward
his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children
whom he has remaining;
28:55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall
eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your
enemy shall distress you in all your gates.
28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the
sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil
toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
28:57 and toward her young one that comes out from between her feet, and toward her
children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the
siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
28:58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book,
that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH YOUR GOD;
28:59 then Yahweh will make your plagues extraordinary, and the plagues of your seed,
even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long
continuance.
28:60 And he will bring upon you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid
of; and they shall cleave to you.
28:61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law,
them will Yahweh bring upon you, until you be destroyed.
28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for
multitude; because you did not hearken to the voice of Yahweh your God.
28:63 And it shall come to pass, that, as Yahweh rejoiced over you to do you good, and
to multiply you, so Yahweh will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy
you; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither you go in to possess it.
28:64 And Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth
even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have
not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.
28:65 And among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the
sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes,
and pining of soul;
28:66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and
shall have no assurance of your life.
28:67 In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say,
Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight
of your eyes which you shall see.
28:68 And Yahweh will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I said
to you, You shall see it no more again: and there ye shall sell yourselves to your enemies
for bondmen and for bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.
Chapter 29
29:1 These are the words of the covenant which Yahweh commanded Moses to make
with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with
them in Horeb.
29:2 And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did
before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his
land;
29:3 the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders:
29:4 but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to
this day.
29:5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not become old
upon you, and your shoe is not become old upon your foot.
29:6 You have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may
29:7 And when ye came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of
Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we smote them:
29:8 and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all
that ye do.
29:10 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes,
your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
29:11 your little ones, your wives, and your sojourner that is in the midst of your camps,
from the hewer of your wood to the drawer of your water;
29:12 that you may enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath, which
Yahweh your God makes with you this day;
29:13 that he may establish you this day to himself for a people, and that he may be to
you a God, as he spoke to you, and as he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob.
29:14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,
29:15 but with him that stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also
with him that is not here with us this day
29:16 (for ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the
midst of the nations through which ye passed;
29:17 and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and
gold, which were among them);
29:18 lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart
turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest
there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
29:19 and it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in
his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to
destroy the moist with the dry.
29:20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will
smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him,
and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.
29:21 And Yahweh will set him apart to evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all
the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.
29:22 And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the
foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that
land, and the sicknesses with which Yahweh has made it sick;
29:23 and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not
sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and
Gomorrah, admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
29:24 even all the nations shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? what
means the heat of this great anger?
29:25 Then men shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh, the God of
their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of
Egypt,
29:26 and went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods that they knew not,
and that he had not given to them:
29:27 therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the
curse that is written in this book;
29:28 and Yahweh rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great
indignation, and cast them into another land, as at this day.
29:29 The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed
belong to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Chapter 30
30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon you, the blessing and
the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the
nations, whither Yahweh your God has driven you,
30:2 and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I
command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
30:3 that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion upon you,
and will return and gather you from all the peoples, whither Yahweh your God has
scattered you.
30:4 If any of your outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there will Yahweh
your God gather you, and from there will he fetch you:
30:5 and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed,
and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.
30:6 And Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to
love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.
30:7 And Yahweh your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them
that hate you, that persecuted you.
30:8 And you shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments
which I command you this day.
30:9 And Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the
fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, for good:
for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;
30:10 if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and
his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God
with all your heart, and with all your soul.
30:11 For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you,
neither is it far off.
30:12 It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring
it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
30:13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us,
and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?
30:14 But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do
it.
30:15 See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;
30:16 in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and
to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and
multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land whither you go in to
possess it.
30:17 But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and
worship other gods, and serve them;
30:18 I denounce to you this day, that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your
days in the land, whither you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.
30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you
life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you
and your seed;
30:20 to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your
life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to
your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Chapter 31
31:1 And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.
31:2 And he said to them, I am a hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go
out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan.
31:3 Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from
before you, and you shall dispossess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as
Yahweh has spoken.
31:4 And Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the
Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
31:5 And Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and ye shall do to them according to
all the commandment which I have commanded you.
31:6 Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be affrighted at them: for Yahweh your
God, he it is that does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.
31:7 And Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and
of good courage: for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn
to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.
31:8 And Yahweh, he it is that does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail
you, neither forsake you: fear not, neither be dismayed.
31:9 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, that bore
the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel.
31:10 And Moses commanded them, saying, at the end of every seven years, in the set
time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
31:11 when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he
shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
31:12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your
sojourner that is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear
Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;
31:13 and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh
your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
31:14 And Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call
Joshua, and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, that I may give him a charge.
And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.
31:15 And Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood
over the door of the Tent.
31:16 And Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this
people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go
to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with
them.
31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them,
and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and
troubles shall come upon them; so that they will say in that day, are not these evils come
upon us because our God is not among us?
31:18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have
wrought, in that they are turned to other gods.
31:19 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it to the children of Israel: put
it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers,
flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and
become fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break
my covenant.
31:21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are come upon them, that
this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the
mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I
have brought them into the land which I swore.
31:22 So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
31:23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good
courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them:
and I will be with you.
31:24 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law
in a book, until they were finished,
31:25 that Moses commanded the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh,
saying,
31:26 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
31:27 For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with
you this day, ye have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my
death?
31:28 Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak
these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.
31:29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside
from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days;
because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger
through the work of your hands.
31:30 And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song,
until they were finished.
Chapter 32
32:1 Give ear, ye heavens, and I will speak; And let the earth hear the words of my
mouth.
32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distill as the dew, as the small
rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
32:3 For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh: Ascribe ye greatness to our God.
32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and
without iniquity, Just and right is he.
32:5 They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish;
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
32:6 In this way ye repay Yahweh, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father
who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
32:7 Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask your father,
and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you.
32:8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the
children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the
children of Israel.
32:9 For Yahweh's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the howling wilderness waste; He encircled
him, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.
32:11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, That flutters over her young, He spread abroad
his wings, he took them, He bore them on his pinions.
32:12 Yahweh alone did lead him, and there was no foreign god with him.
32:13 He caused him to ride on the high places of the earth, and he did eat the increase of
the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
32:14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed
of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape you
drank wine.
32:15 But Jeshurun became fat, and kicked: You are become fat, you are grown thick,
you are become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the
Rock of his salvation.
32:16 They moved him to jealousy with strange gods; With abominations provoked they
him to anger.
32:17 They sacrificed to demons, which were no God, To gods that they knew not, To
new gods that came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.
32:18 Of the Rock that begat you you are unmindful, and have forgotten God that gave
you birth.
32:19 And Yahweh saw it, and abhorred them, Because of the provocation of his sons
and his daughters.
32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For
they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked
me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a
people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
32:22 For a fire is kindled in my anger, and burns to the lowest Sheol, and devours the
earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
32:23 I will heap evils upon them; I will spend my arrows upon them:
32:24 They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter
destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling
things of the dust.
32:25 Outside shall the sword bereave, and inside the chambers terror; It shall destroy
both young man and virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.
32:26 I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease
from among men,
32:27 Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries judge
amiss, Lest they might say, Our hand is exalted, and Yahweh has not done all this.
32:28 For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
32:29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their
latter end!
32:30 How should one man chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except
their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
32:31 For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.
32:32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes
are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitterness:
32:33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.
32:34 Is this not laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
32:35 Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot shall slide: For the
day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make
haste.
32:36 For Yahweh will judge his people, yet feel sorry for his servants; When he sees
that their power is gone, and there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
32:37 And he will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;
32:38 Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.
32:39 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive;
I wound, and I heal; And there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
32:40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, as I live for ever,
32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; I will render
vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.
32:42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; With
the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
32:43 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants,
And will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will make expiation for his land, for
his people.
32:44 And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he,
and Hoshea the son of Nun.
32:45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;
32:46 And he said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day,
which ye shall command your children to observe to do, that is, all the words of this law.
32:47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye
shall prolong your days in the land, where ye are going over the Jordan to possess it.
32:48 And Yahweh spoke to Moses that very same day, saying,
32:49 Get you up into this mountain of Abarim, to mount Nebo, which is in the land of
Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give to the
children of Israel for a possession;
32:50 and die in the mount whither you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron
your brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:
32:51 because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters
of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst
of the children of Israel.
32:52 For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which
I give the children of Israel.
Chapter 33
33:1 And this is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of
Israel before his death.
33:2 And he said, Yahweh came from Sinai, and rose from Seir to them; He shined forth
from mount Paran, and he came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand
was a fiery law for them.
33:3 Yes, he loves the people; All his saints are in your hand: And they sat down at your
feet; Every one shall receive of your words.
33:4 Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
33:5 And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, all the
tribes of Israel together.
33:6 Let Reuben live, and not die; Nor let his men be few.
33:7 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah,
and bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself; And you shall
be a help against his adversaries.
33:8 And of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one,
Whom you did prove at Massah, With whom you did strive at the waters of Meribah;
33:9 Who said of his father, and of his mother, I have not seen him; Neither did he
acknowledge his brethren, Nor knew he his own children: For they have observed your
word, and keep your covenant.
33:10 They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law: They shall put incense
before you, and whole burnt offering upon your altar.
33:11 Bless, Yahweh, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: Strike through the
loins of them that rise up against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
33:12 Of Benjamin he said, The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell in safety by him; He
covers him all the day long, and he dwells between his shoulders.
33:13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Yahweh be his land, For the precious things of
heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that crouches beneath,
33:14 And for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, and for the precious things of
the growth of the moons,
33:15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the
everlasting hills,
33:16 And for the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof, and the good will
of him that dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon
the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
33:17 The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox:
With them he shall push the peoples all of them, even the ends of the earth: And they are
the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
33:18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out; And, Issachar, in
your tents.
33:19 They shall call the peoples to the mountain; There shall they offer sacrifices of
righteousness: For they shall suck the abundance of the seas, and the hidden treasures of
the sand.
33:20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlarges Gad: He dwells as a lioness, and
tears the arm, and the crown of the head as well.
33:21 And he provided the first part for himself, For there was the lawgiver's portion
reserved; And he came with the heads of the people; He executed the righteousness of
Yahweh, and his ordinances with Israel.
33:22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp, That leaps forth from Bashan.
33:23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and full with the blessing
of Yahweh, Possess you the west and the south.
33:24 And of Asher he said, Blessed be Asher with children; Let him be acceptable to his
brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
33:25 Your bars shall be iron and brass; And as your days, so shall your strength be.
33:26 There is none like to God, O Jeshurun, Who rides upon the heavens for your help,
and in his excellency on the skies.
33:27 The eternal God is your dwelling-place, and underneath are the everlasting arms.
And he thrust out the enemy from before you, and said, Destroy.
33:28 And Israel dwells in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new
wine; Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
33:29 Happy are you, O Israel: Who is like to you, a people saved by Yahweh, The shield
of your help, and the sword of your excellency! And your enemies shall submit
themselves to you; And you shall tread upon their high places.
Chapter 34
34:1 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,
that is over against Jericho. And Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
34:2 and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah,
to the hinder sea,
34:3 and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, to Zoar.
34:4 And Yahweh said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but
you shall not go over there.
34:5 So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the
word of Yahweh.
34:6 And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor: but no
man knows of his sepulchre to this day.
34:7 And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim,
nor his natural force abated.
34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the
days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.
34:9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his
hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened to him, and did as Yahweh
commanded Moses.
34:10 And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like to Moses, whom Yahweh
knew face to face,
34:11 in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of
Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,
34:12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses wrought in the
sight of all Israel.
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The Book of Joshua
Joshua
Chapter 1
1:1 Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh
spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this
people, to the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I
spoke to Moses.
1:4 From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all
the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be
your border.
1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I
was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you, nor forsake you.
1:6 Be strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land
which I swore to their fathers to give them.
1:7 Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which
Moses my servant commanded you: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that
you may have good success wherever you go.
1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate upon
it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for
then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
1:9 Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not be afraid,
neither be you dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.
1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
1:11 Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare you
victuals; for within three days ye are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land,
which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
1:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spoke
Joshua, saying,
1:13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying,
Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.
1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses
gave you beyond the Jordan; but ye shall pass over before your brethren armed, all the
mighty men of valor, and shall help them;
1:15 until Yahweh have given your brethren rest, as he has given you, and they also have
possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them: then ye shall return to the land
of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond
the Jordan toward the sunrising.
1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, all that you have commanded us we will do, and
wherever you send us we will go.
1:17 According as we hearkened to Moses in all things, so will we hearken to you: only
Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.
1:18 Whosoever he be that shall rebel against your commandment, and shall not hearken
to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and
of good courage.
Chapter 2
2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go,
view the land, and Jericho. And they went and came into the house of a harlot whose
name was Rahab, and lay there.
2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in here to-night
of the children of Israel to search out the land.
2:3 And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to
you, that are entered into your house; for they are come to search out all the land.
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2:4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yes, the men came to
me, but I knew not where they were from:
2:5 and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that
the men went out; where the men went I know not: pursue them quickly; for ye will
overtake them.
2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which
she had laid in order upon the roof.
2:7 And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as
they that pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
2:8 And before they were laid down, she came up to them upon the roof;
2:9 and she said to the men, I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear
of you is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
2:10 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when
ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were
beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
2:11 And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any
more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven
above, and on earth beneath.
2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with
you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;
2:13 and that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my
sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.
2:14 And the men said to her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business; and it
shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.
2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the
side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
2:16 And she said to them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and
hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go
your way.
2:17 And the men said to her, We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made
us to swear.
2:18 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the
window which you did let us down by: and you shall gather to you into the house your
father, and your mother, and your brethren, and all your father's household.
2:19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the
street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whosoever shall be
with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
2:20 But if you utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you
have made us to swear.
2:21 And she said, according to your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they
departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
2:22 And they went, and came to the mountain, and abode there three days, until the
pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found
them not.
2:23 Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and
came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen them.
2:24 And they said to Joshua, Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all the land;
and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.
Chapter 3
3:1 And Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came
to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed
over.
3:2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the
camp;
3:3 and they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your
place, and go after it.
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3:4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure:
come not near to it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not
passed this way heretofore.
3:5 And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do
wonders among you.
3:6 And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass
over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the
people.
3:7 And Yahweh said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify you in the sight of all
Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
3:8 And you shall command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye
are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, ye shall stand still in the Jordan.
3:9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh
your God.
3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that
he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the
Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you
into the Jordan.
3:12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
3:13 And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark
of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters
of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall
stand in one heap.
3:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the
Jordan, the priests that bore the ark of the covenant being before the people;
3:15 and when they that bore the ark were come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests
that bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its
banks all the time of harvest,)
3:16 that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great
way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the
sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over
right against Jericho.
3:17 And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry
ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the
nation were passed clean over the Jordan.
Chapter 4
4:1 And it came to pass, when all the nation were clean passed over the Jordan, that
Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
4:2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
4:3 and command ye them, saying, Get yourselves out of here, out of the midst of the
Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them
over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where ye shall lodge this night.
4:4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel,
out of every tribe a man:
4:5 and Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the midst
of the Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to
the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;
4:6 that this may be a sign among you, that, when your children ask in time to come,
saying, What mean ye by these stones?
4:7 then ye shall say to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark
of the covenant of Yahweh; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were
cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel for ever.
4:8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones
out of the midst of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of
the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place
where they lodged, and laid them down there.
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4:9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet
of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.
4:10 For the priests that bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything
was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that
Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
4:11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of
Yahweh passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.
4:12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of
Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them:
4:13 about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to
the plains of Jericho.
4:14 On that day Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him,
as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
4:15 And Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
4:16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the
Jordan.
4:17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of the Jordan.
4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh
were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted
up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over
all its banks, as aforetime.
4:19 And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and
encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
4:20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in
Gilgal.
4:21 And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their
fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
4:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry
land.
4:23 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye
were passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from
before us, until we were passed over;
4:24 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that
ye may fear Yahweh your God for ever.
Chapter 5
5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan
westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard how that
Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we
were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more,
because of the children of Israel.
5:2 At that time Yahweh said to Joshua, Make you knives of flint, and circumcise again
the children of Israel the second time.
5:3 And Joshua made him knives of lint, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill
of the foreskins.
5:4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of
Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after
they came forth out of Egypt.
5:5 For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in
the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised.
5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even
the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not
to the voice of Yahweh: to whom Yahweh swore that he would not let them see the land
which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and
honey.
5:7 And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them did Joshua circumcise: for
they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
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5:8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the nation, that they abode
in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
5:9 And Yahweh said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from
off you. Wherefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.
5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the passover on the
fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
5:11 And they did eat of the produce of the land on the morrow after the passover,
unleavened cakes and parched grain, in the selfsame day.
5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the
land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the
land of Canaan that year.
5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and
looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his
hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, are you for us, or for our adversaries?
5:14 And he said, Nay; but as prince of the host of Yahweh am I now come. And
Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said to him, What says my lord
to his servant?
5:15 And the prince of Yahweh's host said to Joshua, Put off your shoe from off your
foot; for the place whereon you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.
Chapter 6
6:1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and
none came in.
6:2 And Yahweh said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hand Jericho, and the king
thereof, and the mighty men of valor.
6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about the city once. Thus
shall you do six days.
6:4 And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark: and the
seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the
trumpets.
6:5 And it shall be, that, when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye
hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall
of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.
6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, Take up the ark of the
covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of
Yahweh.
6:7 And they said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men
pass on before the ark of Yahweh.
6:8 And it was so, that, when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing
the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh passed on, and blew the trumpets: and
the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them.
6:9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew the trumpets, and the rearward
went after the ark, the priests blowing the trumpets as they went.
6:10 And Joshua commanded the people, saying, You shall not shout, nor let your voice
be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout;
then shall ye shout.
6:11 So he caused the ark of Yahweh to compass the city, going about it once: and they
came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh.
6:13 And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of
Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before
them; and the rearward came after the ark of Yahweh, the priests blowing the trumpets as
they went.
6:14 And the second day they circled the city once, and returned into the camp: this they
did six days.
6:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the
day, and circled the city after the same manner seven times. Only on that day they
circled the city seven times.
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6:16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua
said to the people, Shout; for Yahweh has given you the city.
6:17 And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Yahweh: only Rahab
the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the
messengers that we sent.
6:18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when ye have
devoted it, ye take of the devoted thing; so would ye make the camp of Israel accursed,
and trouble it.
6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh: they
shall come into the treasury of Yahweh.
6:20 So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets; and it came to pass, that
when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they shouted with a great shout, and the
wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before
him, and they took the city.
6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young
and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
6:22 And Joshua said to the two men that had spied out the land, Go into the harlot's
house, and bring out there the woman, and all that she has, as ye swore to her.
6:23 And the young men the spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and
her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; all her relatives also they brought out;
and they set them outside the camp of Israel.
6:24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it; only the silver, and the gold,
and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh.
6:25 But Rahab the harlot, and her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved
alive; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers,
whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
6:26 And Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man
before Yahweh, that rises up and builds this city Jericho: with the loss of his first-born
shall he lay the foundation thereof, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up
the gates of it.
6:27 So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
Chapter 7
7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the matter of the devoted thing; for
Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of
the devoted thing: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the children of Israel.
7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side
of Beth-el, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. And the men went
up and spied out Ai.
7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not all the people go up; but let
about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai; make not all the people to toil
there; for they are but few.
7:4 So there went up there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before
the men of Ai.
7:5 And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six men of them; and they chased them
from before the gate to as far as Shebarim, and attacked them at the descent. And the
hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
7:6 And Joshua ripped his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of
Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.
7:7 And Joshua said, alas, O Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the
Jordan at all? To deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish?
Wvould that we had been content and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!
7:8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, when Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
7:9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will circle us
round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?
7:10 And Yahweh said to Joshua, Get up; why are you fallen this way upon your face?
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7:11 Israel has sinned; they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded
them: yes, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and lied about
it as well; and they have even put it among their own stuff.
7:12 This is why the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn
their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed: I will not be with
you any more, unless ye destroy the devoted thing from among you.
7:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus
says Yahweh, the God of Israel, There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, O Israel;
you cannot stand before your enemies, until ye take away the devoted thing from among
you.
7:14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought near by your tribes: and it shall be, that
the tribe which Yahweh takes by lot shall come near by families; and the family which
Yahweh shall take shall come near by households; and the household which Yahweh
shall take shall come near man by man.
7:15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire,
he and all that he has; because he has transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because
he has committed an infamy in Israel.
7:16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes; and
the tribe of Judah was taken:
7:17 and he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zerahites:
and he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
7:18 and he brought near his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the
son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
7:19 And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray you, glory to Yahweh, the God of
Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it
from me.
7:20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Of a truth I have sinned against Yahweh, the
God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
7:21 when I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels
of silver, and a wedge of gold fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them, and took them;
and, behold, they are hidden in the ground in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hidden in his
tent, and the silver under it.
7:23 And they took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to
all the children of Israel; and they laid them down before Yahweh.
7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and
the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his
asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them up to the
valley of Achor.
7:25 And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall trouble you this day.
And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them
with stones.
7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned
from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The
valley of Achor, to this day.
Chapter 8
8:1 And Yahweh said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be dismayed: take all the people of war
with you, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his
people, and his city, and his land;
8:2 And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only the spoil
thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush
for the city behind it.
8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty
thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.
8:4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city,
behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
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8:5 and I, and all the people that are with me, will approach to the city. And it shall
come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;
8:6 and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they
will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;
8:7 and ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh
your God will deliver it into your hand.
8:8 And it shall be, when ye have seized upon the city, that ye shall set the city on fire;
according to the word of Yahweh shall ye do: see, I have commanded you.
8:9 And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the ambushment, and abode between
Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
8:10 And Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he
and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
8:11 And all the people, even the men of war that were with him, went up, and drew near,
and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley
between him and Ai.
8:12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and
Ai, on the west side of the city.
8:13 So they set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their
liers-in-wait that were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of
the valley.
8:14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early,
and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time
appointed, before the Arabah; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him
behind the city.
8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the
way of the wilderness.
8:16 And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them:
and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
8:17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they
left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
8:18 And Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai;
for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his
hand toward the city.
8:19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had
stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and set the
city on fire.
8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of
the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and
the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the
smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
8:22 And the others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of
Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let
none of them remain or escape.
8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai
in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the
edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it
with the edge of the sword.
8:25 And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all
the men of Ai.
8:26 For Joshua drew not back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he
had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
8:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according
to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.
8:28 So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, to this day.
8:29 And the king of Ai, he hung on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the
sun Joshua gave the order, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the
entrance of the gate of the city, and raised on top of it a great heap of stones, to this day.
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8:30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in mount Ebal,
8:31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in
the book of the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man had lifted
up any iron: and they offered upon it burnt offerings to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace
offerings.
8:32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in
the presence of the children of Israel.
8:33 And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of
the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, that bore the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh, as well the sojourner as the homeborn; half of them in front of mount Gerizim,
and half of them in front of mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Yahweh had
commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according
to all that is written in the book of the law.
8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before
all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners that were
among them.
Chapter 9
9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings that were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-
country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the
Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard
thereof;
9:2 that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one
accord.
9:3 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
9:4 they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and
took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,
9:5 and old and patched shoes upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the
bread of their provision was dry and was become mouldy.
9:6 And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of
Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make ye a covenant with us.
9:7 And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how
shall we make a covenant with you?
9:8 And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who are
ye? and from where come ye?
9:9 And they said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of the
name of Yahweh your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in
Egypt,
9:10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, to
Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
9:11 And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take
provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are
your servants: and now make ye a covenant with us.
9:12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came
forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become mouldy:
9:13 and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are rent: and
these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
9:14 And the men took of their provision, and asked not counsel at the mouth of Yahweh.
9:15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live:
and the princes of the congregation swore to them.
9:16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with
them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.
9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came to their cities on the third day.
Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.
9:18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation
had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured
against the princes.
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9:19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Yahweh,
the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
9:20 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath
which we swore to them.
9:21 And the princes said to them, Let them live: so they became hewers of wood and
drawers of water to all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.
9:22 And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have ye beguiled us,
saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?
9:23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondmen, both
hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants,
how that Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and
to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid
for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
9:25 And now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us,
do.
9:26 And so did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel,
that they slew them not.
9:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the
congregation, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should
choose.
Chapter 10
10:1 Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had
taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had
done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel,
and were among them;
10:2 that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities,
and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.
10:3 Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to
Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
10:4 Come up to me, and help me, and let us attack Gibeon; for it has made peace with
Joshua and with the children of Israel.
10:5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron,
the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together,
and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war
against it.
10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not your
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hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the
kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
10:7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the
mighty men of valor.
10:8 And Yahweh said to Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into your
hands; there shall not a man of them stand before you.
10:9 Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly; for he went up from Gilgal all the night.
10:10 And Yahweh discomfited them before Israel, and he slew them with a great
slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote
them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.
10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent
of Beth-horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from heaven upon them to Azekah,
and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children
of Israel slew with the sword.
10:12 Then spoke Joshua to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites
before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still upon
Gibeon; And you, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.
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10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged
themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jashar? And the sun
stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh hearkened to the
voice of a man: for Yahweh fought for Israel.
10:15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
10:16 And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at
Makkedah.
10:18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to
keep them:
10:19 but stay not ye; pursue after your enemies, and strike the rearmost of them; do not
allow them to enter into their cities: for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your
hand.
10:20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of
slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, and the remnant which
remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
10:21 that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none
moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
10:22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings to
me out of the cave.
10:23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings to him out of the cave, the king
of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of
Eglon.
10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua
called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war that went with
him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and
put their feet upon the necks of them.
10:25 And Joshua said to them, Fear not, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good
courage: for thus shall Yahweh do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
10:26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five
trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
10:27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua
commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in which
they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, to this very
day.
10:28 And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword,
and the king thereof: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls that were therein; he left
none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of
Jericho.
10:29 And Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought
against Libnah:
10:30 and Yahweh delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he
smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he left none
remaining in it; and he did to the king thereof as he had done to the king of Jericho.
10:31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped
against it, and fought against it:
10:32 and Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second
day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein,
according to all that he had done to Libnah.
10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his
people, until he had left him none remaining.
10:34 And Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they
encamped against it, and fought against it;
10:35 and they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword; and all the
souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to
Lachish.
10:36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they
fought against it:
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10:37 and they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and
all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according
to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls that were
therein.
10:38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it:
10:39 and he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them
with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left
none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as
he had done also to Libnah, and to the king thereof.
10:40 So Joshua smote all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and
the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that
breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.
10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of
Goshen, even to Gibeon.
10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because Yahweh,
the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
10:43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
Chapter 11
11:1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard thereof, that he sent to Jobab
king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
11:2 and to the kings that were on the north, in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south
of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
11:3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and
the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the
land of Mizpah.
11:4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand
that is upon the sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
11:5 And all these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the
waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
11:6 And Yahweh said to Joshua, Be not afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this
time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: you shall hock their horses, and burn
their chariots with fire.
11:7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of
Merom suddenly, and fell upon them.
11:8 And Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they smote them, and
chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth-maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh
eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
11:9 And Joshua did to them as Yahweh commanded him: he hocked their horses, and
burnt their chariots with fire.
11:10 And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof
with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.
11:11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly
destroying them; there was none left that breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he
smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant
of Yahweh commanded.
11:13 But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save
Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey
to themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had
destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.
11:15 As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua: and so
did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of
Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland
of the same;
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11:17 from mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon
under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote them, and put them to death.
11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites
the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle.
11:20 For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he
might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them,
as Yahweh commanded Moses.
11:21 And Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from
Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the
hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
11:22 There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel: only in
Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and
Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes.
And the land had rest from war.
Chapter 12
12:1 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel smote, and
possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising, from the valley of the Arnon
to mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is
on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and
half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
12:3 and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah,
even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the
slopes of Pisgah:
12:4 and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at
Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
12:5 and ruled in mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the
Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
12:6 Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel smote them: and Moses the
servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh.
12:7 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel smote
beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even to mount
Halak, that goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession
according to their divisions;
12:8 in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in
the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
12:9 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
12:10 the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
12:11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
12:12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
12:13 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
12:14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
12:15 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
12:16 the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
12:17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
12:18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;
12:19 the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
12:20 the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
12:21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
12:22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
12:23 the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
12:24 the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
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Chapter 13
13:1 Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and Yahweh said to him, You are
old and well stricken in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
13:2 This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the
Geshurites;
13:3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward,
which is reckoned to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the
Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
13:4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the
Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
13:5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad
under mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
13:6 all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all
the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot you it to
Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the half-tribe
of Manasseh.
13:8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses
gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave
them:
13:9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the
middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
13:10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the
border of the children of Ammon;
13:11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount
Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same
was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for these did Moses attack, and drove them out.
13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel drove not out the Geshurites, nor the
Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.
13:14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the offerings of Yahweh, the God
of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.
13:15 And Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
13:16 And their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
13:17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-
baal-meon,
13:18 and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
13:19 and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley,
13:20 and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,
13:21 and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites,
who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem,
and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, that dwelt in the land.
13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the
sword among the rest of their slain.
13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, and the border of it.
This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities
and the villages thereof.
13:24 And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their
families.
13:25 And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the
children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;
13:26 and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the
border of Debir;
13:27 and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest
of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border of it, to the uttermost
part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
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13:28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities
and the villages thereof.
13:29 And Moses gave inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh: and it was for the half-
tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.
13:30 And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of
Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, 60 cities:
13:31 and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in
Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the
children of Machir according to their families.
13:32 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond
the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
13:33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Yahweh, the God of Israel, is
their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
Chapter 14
14:1 And these are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of
Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers'
houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,
14:2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes,
and for the half-tribe.
14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the
Jordan: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave
no portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for
their cattle and for their substance.
14:5 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the
land.
14:6 Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses
the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea.
14:7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-
barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt;
but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.
14:9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon your foot has
trodden shall be an inheritance to you and to your children for ever, because you have
wholly followed Yahweh my God.
14:10 And now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty and five
years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the
wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day eighty-five years old.
14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength
was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in.
14:12 Now therefore give me this hill-country, whereof Yahweh spoke in that day; for
you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be
that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke.
14:13 And Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an
inheritance.
14:14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenizzite to this day; because that he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.
14:15 Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba; which Arba was the
greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.
Chapter 15
15:1 And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to
the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the
south.
15:2 And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that
looks southward;
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15:3 and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and
went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed along by Hezron, and went up to
Addar, and turned about to Karka;
15:4 and it passed along to Azmon, and went out at the brook of Egypt; and the goings
out of the border were at the sea: this shall be your south border.
15:5 And the east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. And the
border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan;
15:6 and the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth-
arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;
15:7 and the border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking
toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of
the river; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and the goings out
thereof were at En-rogel;
15:8 and the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite
southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that
lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part of the valley of
Rephaim northward;
15:9 and the border extended from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the waters
of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border extended to
Baalah (the same is Kiriath-jearim);
15:10 and the border turned about from Baalah westward to mount Seir, and passed along
to the side of mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-
shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
15:11 and the border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to
Shikkeron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings
out of the border were at the sea.
15:12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the border of it. This is the border
of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
15:13 And to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah,
according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath-arba, which Arba was
the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).
15:14 And Caleb drove out there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and
Talmai, the children of Anak.
15:15 And he went up there against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir
beforetime was Kiriath-sepher.
15:16 And Caleb said, He that attacks Kiriath-sepher, and captures it, to him will I give
Achsah my daughter as wife.
15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it: and he gave him
Achsah his daughter to wife.
15:18 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father
a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb said, What would you?
15:19 And she said, Give me a blessing; for that you have set me in the land of the South,
give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether
springs.
15:20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their
families.
15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of
Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
15:22 and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
15:23 and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
15:25 and Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-hezron (the same is Hazor),
15:26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
15:27 and Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet,
15:28 and Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah,
15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem,
15:30 and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
15:31 and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
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15:32 and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine,
with their villages.
15:33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah,
15:34 and Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
15:36 and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with
their villages.
15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad,
15:38 and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Jokyoul,
15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
15:40 and Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Chitlish,
15:41 and Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their
villages.
15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
15:43 and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
15:44 and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
15:45 Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
15:46 from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
15:47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of
Egypt, and the great sea, and the border of it.
15:48 And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
15:49 and Dannah, and Kiriath-sannah (the same is Debir),
15:50 and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
15:51 and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan,
15:53 and Janim, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,
15:54 and Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their
villages.
15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah,
15:56 and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
15:57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.
15:58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,
15:59 and Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
15:60 Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their
villages.
15:61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
15:62 and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.
15:63 And as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could
not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this
day.
Chapter 16
16:1 And the lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the
waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill-
country to Beth-el;
16:2 and it went out from Beth-el to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites
to Ataroth;
16:3 and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth-
horon the nether, even to Gezer; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.
16:4 And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: the
border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the upper;
16:6 and the border went out westward at Michmethath on the north; and the border
turned about eastward to Taanath-shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah;
16:7 and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho,
and went out at the Jordan.
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16:8 From Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the
goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Ephraim according to their families;
16:9 together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst
of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
16:10 And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites
dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and are become servants to do taskwork.
Chapter 17
17:1 And this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the first-born of Joseph.
As for Machir the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of
war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
17:2 So the lot was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families:
for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel,
and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of
Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their
families.
17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah,
and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
17:4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and
before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among
our brethren: therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an
inheritance among the brethren of their father.
17:5 And there fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which
is beyond the Jordan;
17:6 because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. And the
land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.
17:7 And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before
Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.
17:8 The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of
Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.
17:9 And the border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook: these
cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh
was on the north side of the brook, and the goings out thereof were at the sea:
17:10 southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his
border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.
17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam
and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and
its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo
and its towns, even the three heights.
17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but
the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
17:13 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were become strong, that they put
the Canaanites to taskwork, and did not utterly drive them out.
17:14 And the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but
one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as hitherto
Yahweh has blessed me?
17:15 And Joshua said to them, If you be a great people, go up to the forest, and cut down
for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country
of Ephraim is too narrow for you.
17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the
Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in
Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.
17:17 And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh,
saying, You are a great people, and have great power; you shall not have one lot only:
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17:18 but the hill-country shall be yours; for though it is a forest, you shall cut it down,
and the goings out thereof shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though
they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
Chapter 18
18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together
at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there: and the land was subdued before them.
18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet
divided their inheritance.
18:3 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go in to possess
the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
18:4 Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise,
and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall
come to me.
18:5 And they shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the
south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.
18:6 And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description here to
me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.
18:7 For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their
inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their
inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.
18:8 And the men arose, and went: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the
land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me; and I
will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh.
18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven
portions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh: and there Joshua divided
the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their
families: and the border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the
children of Joseph.
18:12 And their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan; and the border went up
to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill-country westward; and
the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
18:13 And the border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is
Beth-el), southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain that
lies on the south of Beth-horon the nether.
18:14 And the border extended there, and turned about on the west quarter southward,
from the mountain that lies before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof
were at Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was
the west quarter.
18:15 And the south quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath-jearim; and the border
went out westward, and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah;
18:16 and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lies before the
valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went
down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to
En-rogel;
18:17 and it extended northward, and went out at En-shemesh, and went out to Geliloth,
which is over against the ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the stone of Bohan
the son of Reuben;
18:18 and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down
to the Arabah;
18:19 and the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the goings
out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this
was the south border.
18:20 And the Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter. This was the inheritance
of the children of Benjamin, by the borders thereof round about, according to their
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18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families
were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz,
18:22 and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
18:23 and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
18:24 and Chephar-ammoni, and Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages:
18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
18:26 and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
18:27 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
18:28 and Zelah, Eleph, and the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath;
fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin
according to their families.
Chapter 19
19:1 And the second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon
according to their families: and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the
children of Judah.
19:2 And they had for their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
19:3 and Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Ezem,
19:4 and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
19:5 and Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah,
19:6 and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
19:7 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages:
19:8 and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramah of the
South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their
families.
19:9 Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of
Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the
children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.
19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families;
and the border of their inheritance was to Sarid;
19:11 and their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth;
and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam;
19:12 and it turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising to the border of Chisloth-
tabor; and it went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia;
19:13 and from there it passed along eastward to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin; and it went
out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah;
19:14 and the border turned about it on the north to Hannathon; and the goings out
thereof were at the valley of Iphtah-el;
19:15 and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities
with their villages.
19:16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these
cities with their villages.
19:17 The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to
their families.
19:18 And their border was to Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
19:19 and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
19:20 and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez,
19:21 and Remeth, and Engannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez,
19:22 and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh; and the
goings out of their border were at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
19:23 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their
families, the cities with their villages.
19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their
families.
19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
19:26 and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and
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19:27 and it turned toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to
the valley of Iphtah-el northward to Beth-emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the
left hand,
19:28 and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon;
19:29 and the border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border
turned to Hosah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea by the region of Achzib;
19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
19:31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their
families, these cities with their villages.
19:32 The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of
Naphtali according to their families.
19:33 And their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adaminekeb,
and Jabneel, to Lakkum; and the goings out thereof were at the Jordan;
19:34 and the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went out from there to
Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to
Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrising.
19:35 And the fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
19:36 and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
19:37 and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor,
19:38 And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen
cities with their villages.
19:39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their
families, the cities with their villages.
19:40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their
families.
19:41 And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
19:42 and Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah,
19:43 and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron,
19:44 and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
19:45 and Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,
19:46 and Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa.
19:47 And the border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of
Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the
sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of
Dan their father.
19:48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their
families, these cities with their villages.
19:49 So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance by the borders thereof;
and the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in the midst of
them:
19:50 according to the commandment of Yahweh they gave him the city which he asked,
even Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and dwelt
therein.
19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun,
and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for
inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they
made an end of dividing the land.
Chapter 20
20:1 And Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I
spoke to you by Moses,
20:3 that the manslayer that kills any person unwittingly and unawares may flee there:
and they shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.
20:4 And he shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of
the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him
into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
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20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the
manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbor unawares, and hated him not
beforetime.
20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment,
until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer
return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from which he fled.
20:7 And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in
the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of
Judah.
20:8 And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in
the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and
Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
20:9 These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that
sojourns among them, that whosoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there, and
not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Chapter 21
21:1 Then came near the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites to Eleazar the priest, and
to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes of the children
of Israel;
21:2 and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Yahweh
commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
21:3 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to
the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.
21:4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron
the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the
tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
21:5 And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of
Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
21:6 And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar,
and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of
Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
21:7 The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben,
and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs,
as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the
children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name:
21:10 and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who
were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.
21:11 And they gave them Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak (the same is
Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it.
21:12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of
Jephunneh for his possession.
21:13 And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city
of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with its suburbs,
21:14 and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
21:15 and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
21:16 and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its
suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
21:18 Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities.
21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their
suburbs.
21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the
children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
21:21 And they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, the
city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,
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21:22 and Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs; four cities.
21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs,
21:24 Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities.
21:25 And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon
with its suburbs; two cities.
21:26 All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with
their suburbs.
21:27 And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe
of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the
manslayer, and Be-eshterah with its suburbs; two cities.
21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its suburbs, Daberath with its
suburbs,
21:29 Jarmuth with its suburbs, En-gannim with its suburbs; four cities.
21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, abdon with its suburbs,
21:31 Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four cities.
21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of
refuge for the manslayer, and Hammoth-dor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its
suburbs; three cities.
21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with
their suburbs.
21:34 And to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe
of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs,
21:35 Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities.
21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahaz with its suburbs,
21:37 Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities.
21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge
for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
21:39 Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.
21:40 All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even
the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.
21:41 All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel
were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
21:42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with
all these cities.
21:43 So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and
they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
21:44 And Yahweh gave them rest round about, according to all that he swore to their
fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; Yahweh delivered all
their enemies into their hand.
21:45 There failed not anything of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the
house of Israel; all came to pass.
Chapter 22
22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
22:2 and said to them, You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded
you, and have hearkened to my voice in all that I commanded you:
22:3 ye have not left your brethren these many days to this day, but have kept the charge
of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
22:4 And now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brethren, as he spoke to them:
therefore now turn ye, and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses
the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
22:5 Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the
servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk in all his
ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all
your heart and with all your soul.
22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
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22:7 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but
to the other half gave Joshua among their brethren beyond the Jordan westward;
moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,
22:8 and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents, and with very
much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much
raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
22:9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh
returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of
Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were
possessed, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
22:10 And when they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan,
the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there
an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look upon.
22:11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the
land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the children of
Israel.
22:12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children
of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.
22:13 And the children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of
Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of
Eleazar the priest,
22:14 and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of
Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands
of Israel.
22:15 And they came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the
half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,
22:16 Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, What trespass is this that ye have
committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in
that ye have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?
22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves
to this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of Yahweh,
22:18 that ye must turn away this day from following Yahweh? and it will be, seeing ye
rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation
of Israel.
22:19 But, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over to the land of the
possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among
us: but rebel not against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the
altar of Yahweh our God.
22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath
fell upon all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of
Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,
22:22 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and
Israel he shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (save you us
not this day,)
22:23 that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer
upon it burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings upon it,
let Yahweh himself require it;
22:24 and if we have not rather out of carefulness done this, and of purpose, saying, In
time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have ye to do with
Yahweh, the God of Israel?
22:25 for Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of
Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no portion in Yahweh: so might your children make
our children cease from fearing Yahweh.
22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering,
nor for sacrifice:
22:27 but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us,
that we may do the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, and with our
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sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in
time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh.
22:28 Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time
to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers
made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.
22:29 Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from
following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice,
besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle.
22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads
of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben
and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.
22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, and to
the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we know that Yahweh is
in the midst of us, because ye have not committed this trespass against Yahweh: now
have ye delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of Yahweh.
22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the
children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of
Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God,
and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the
children of Reuben and the children of Gad dwelt.
22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: For, said
they, it is a witness between us that Yahweh is God.
Chapter 23
23:1 And it came to pass after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all
their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years;
23:2 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their
judges and for their officers, and said to them, I am old and well stricken in years:
23:3 and ye have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of
you; for Yahweh your God, he it is that has fought for you.
23:4 Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your
tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea
toward the going down of the sun.
23:5 And Yahweh your God, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them
from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to
you.
23:6 Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of
the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
23:7 that ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make
mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor
bow down yourselves to them;
23:8 but cleave to Yahweh your God, as ye have done to this day.
23:9 For Yahweh has driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you,
no man has stood before you to this day.
23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Yahweh your God, he it is that fights
for you, as he spoke to you.
23:11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love Yahweh your God.
23:12 Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave to the remnant of these nations, even these
that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to
you;
23:13 know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no more drive these nations from
out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides,
and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God
has given you.
23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your
hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which
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Yahweh your God spoke concerning you; all are come to pass to you, not one thing has
failed thereof.
23:15 And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come upon you of which
Yahweh your God spoke to you, so will Yahweh bring upon you all the evil things, until
he have destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
23:16 When ye transgress the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you,
and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger of
Yahweh be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which
he has given to you.
Chapter 24
24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of
Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented
themselves before God.
24:2 And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Your
fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the
father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
24:3 And I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all
the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
24:4 And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau mount Seir, to possess it:
and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
24:5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in
the midst thereof: and afterward I brought you out.
24:6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came to the sea; and the Egyptians
pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
24:7 And when they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the
Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I
did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.
24:8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that dwelt beyond the Jordan: and
they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their land; and I
destroyed them from before you.
24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel: and he
sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;
24:10 but I would not hearken to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered
you out of his hand.
24:11 And ye went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought
against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the
Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the
two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
24:13 And I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which ye built not,
and ye dwell therein; of vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
24:14 Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away
the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye
Yahweh.
24:15 And if it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom ye will
serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the
gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve
Yahweh.
24:16 And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake
Yahweh, to serve other gods;
24:17 for Yahweh our God, he it is that brought us and our fathers up out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage, and that did those great signs in our sight, and
preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the
midst of whom we passed;
24:18 and Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt
in the land: therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.
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24:19 And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God; he
is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgression nor your sins.
24:20 If ye forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil,
and consume you, after that he has done you good.
24:21 And the people said to Joshua, Nay; but we will serve Yahweh.
24:22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that ye have
chosen you Yahweh, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
24:23 Now therefore put away, said he, the foreign gods which are among you, and
incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
24:24 And the people said to Joshua, Yahweh our God will we serve, and to his voice
will we hearken.
24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an
ordinance in Shechem.
24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great
stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.
24:27 And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us;
for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a
witness against you, lest ye deny your God.
24:28 So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of
Yahweh, died, being a hundred and ten years old.
24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in
the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
24:31 And Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that
outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had wrought for Israel.
24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt,
buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of
Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the
inheritance of the children of Joseph.
24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his
son, which was given him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
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Judges
Chapter 1
1:1 And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked of
Yahweh, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against
them?
1:2 And Yahweh said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
1:3 And Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may
fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Simeon
went with him.
1:4 And Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into
their hand: and they smote of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
1:5 And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote
the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
1:6 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his
thumbs and his great toes.
1:7 And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their big toes cut off,
gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me. And they
brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
1:8 And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and smote it with the
edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
1:9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites that
dwelt in the hill-country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
1:10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron (now the name of
Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba); and they smote Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
1:11 And from there he went against the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir
beforetime was Kiriath-sepher.)
1:12 And Caleb said, He that attacks Kiriath-sepher, and captures it, to him will I give
Achsah my daughter as wife.
1:13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it: and he gave him
Achsah his daughter as wife.
1:14 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father
a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, What would you?
1:15 And she said to him, Give me a blessing; for that you have set me in the land of the
South, give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the
nether springs.
1:16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of
palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south
of Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.
1:17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that
inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called
Hormah.
1:18 Also Judah took Gaza with the border thereof, and Ashkelon with the border thereof,
and Ekron with the border thereof.
1:19 And Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out the inhabitants of the hill-country; for
he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
1:20 And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had spoken: and he drove out there the
three sons of Anak.
1:21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited
Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
1:22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el; and Yahweh was with
them.
1:23 And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Beth-el. (Now the name of the city
beforetime was Luz.)
1:24 And the watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, Show
us, we pray you, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.
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1:25 And he showed them the entrance into the city; and they smote the city with the
edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.
1:26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name
thereof Luz, which is the name thereof to this day.
1:27 And Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its towns, nor of
Taanach and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, nor the inhabitants of
Ibleam and its towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; but the Canaanites
would dwell in that land.
1:28 And it came to pass, when Israel was become strong, that they put the Canaanites to
taskwork, and did not utterly drive them out.
1:29 And Ephraim drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites
dwelt in Gezer among them.
1:30 Zebulun drove not out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but
the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became subject to taskwork.
1:31 Asher drove not out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of
Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
1:32 but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they
did not drive them out.
1:33 Naphtali drove not out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-
anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the
inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to taskwork.
1:34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would
not allow them to come down to the valley;
1:35 but the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the
hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to taskwork.
1:36 And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock,
and upward.
Chapter 2
2:1 And the angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I made you
to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers;
and I said, I will never break my covenant with you:
2:2 and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down
their altars. But ye have not hearkened to my voice: why have ye done this?
2:3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as
thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
2:4 And it came to pass, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children
of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
2:6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to
his inheritance to possess the land.
2:7 And the people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders
that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had wrought for
Israel.
2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being a hundred and ten
years old.
2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill-
country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
2:10 And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another
generation after them, that knew not Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had wrought for
Israel.
2:11 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served
the Baalim;
2:12 and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the
land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about
them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
2:13 And they forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
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2:14 And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the
hands of spoilers that despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies
round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
2:15 Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh
had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were sore distressed.
2:16 And Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that
despoiled them.
2:17 And yet they hearkened not to their judges; for they played the harlot after other
gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in
which their fathers walked- obeying the commandments of Yahweh; but they did not so.
2:18 And when Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and
saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented
Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed
them.
2:19 But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more
corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to
them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
2:20 And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this
nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not
hearkened to my voice;
2:21 I also will not from now on drive out any from before them of the nations that
Joshua left when he died;
2:22 that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk
therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
2:23 So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he
them into the hand of Joshua.
Chapter 3
3:1 Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel by them, even as many
of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
3:2 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at
the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:
3:3 namely, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians,
and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon to the entrance of
Hamath.
3:4 And they were left, to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken to
the commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
3:6 and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their
sons and served their gods.
3:7 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgat
Yahweh their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.
3:8 Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the
hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served
Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
3:9 And when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a saviour to the
children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger
brother.
3:10 And the Spirit of Yahweh came upon him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to
war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and
his hand prevailed against Cushan-rishathaim.
3:11 And the land had rest forty years. And Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
3:12 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and
Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
3:13 And he gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and smote
Israel, and they possessed the city of palm-trees.
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3:14 And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
3:15 But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised them up a saviour,
Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. And the children of Israel sent
tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
3:16 And Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded
it under his raiment upon his right thigh.
3:17 And he offered the tribute to Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.
3:18 And when he had made an end of offering the tribute, he sent away the people that
bore the tribute.
3:19 But he himself turned back from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a
secret errand to you, O king. And he said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him
went out from him.
3:20 And Ehud came to him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room.
And Ehud said, I have a message from God to you. And he arose out of his seat.
3:21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust
it into his body:
3:22 and the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, for he
drew not the sword out of his body; and it came out behind.
3:23 Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room upon
him, and locked them.
3:24 Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors
of the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper
chamber.
3:25 And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he opened not the doors of the
upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened them, and, behold, their lord was
fallen down dead on the earth.
3:26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped
to Seirah.
3:27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the hill-country of
Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he
before them.
3:28 And he said to them, Follow after me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the
Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of the
Jordan against the Moabites, and allowed not a man to pass over.
3:29 And they smote of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, every lusty man, and
every man of valor; and there escaped not a man.
3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest 80
years.
3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the Philistines six
hundred men with an ox-goad: and he also saved Israel.
Chapter 4
4:1 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, when
Ehud was dead.
4:2 And Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor;
the captain of whose host was Sisera, who dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
4:3 And the children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron;
and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoes, she judged Israel at that time.
4:5 And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the
hill-country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
4:6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said
to him, Has not Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, saying, Go and draw to mount
Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children
of Zebulun?
4:7 And I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with
his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.
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4:8 And Barak said to her, If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go
with me, I will not go.
4:9 And she said, I will surely go with you: notwithstanding, the journey that you take
shall not be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And
Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten
thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.
4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the
children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak
in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.
4:12 And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
4:13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and
all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.
4:14 And Deborah said to Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered
Sisera into your hand; is not Yahweh gone out before you? So Barak went down from
mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
4:15 And Yahweh discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge
of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
4:16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, to Harosheth of the Gentiles:
and all the host of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.
4:17 Sisera however fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite;
for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
4:18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me;
fear not. And he turned in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
4:19 And he said to her, Give me, I pray you, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty.
And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
4:20 And he said to her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man does
come and inquire of you, and say, Is there any man here? that you shall say, No.
4:21 Then Jael Heber's wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went
softly to him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground;
for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.
4:22 And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him,
Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. And he came to her; and, behold,
Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.
4:23 So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
4:24 And the hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the
king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
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5:1 Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
5:2 For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, For that the people offered themselves
willingly, Bless ye Yahweh.
5:3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing to Yahweh; I will sing
praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
5:4 Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, When you marched out of the field of
Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yes, the clouds dropped water.
5:5 The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, Even yon Sinai at the presence of
Yahweh, the God of Israel.
5:6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were
unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
5:7 The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a
mother in Israel.
5:8 They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen
Among forty thousand in Israel?
5:9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, That offered themselves willingly among
the people: Bless ye Yahweh.
5:10 Tell of it, ye that ride on white asses, You that sit on rich carpets, and ye that walk
by the way.
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5:11 Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they
rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, even the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then
the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.
5:12 Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song: Arise, Barak, and lead away
your captives, you son of Abinoam.
5:13 Then came down a remnant of the nobles and the people; Yahweh came down for
me against the mighty.
5:14 Out of Ephraim came down they whose root is in Amalek; After you, Benjamin,
among your peoples; Out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that
handle the marshal's staff.
5:15 And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; As was Issachar, so was Barak; Into
the valley they rushed forth at his feet. By the watercourses of Reuben There were great
resolves of heart.
5:16 Why sat you among the sheepfolds, To hear the pipings for the flocks? At the
watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.
5:17 Gilead abode beyond the Jordan: And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat
still at the haven of the sea, and abode by his creeks.
5:18 Zebulun was a people that jeoparded their lives to the death, and Naphtali, upon the
high places of the field.
5:19 The kings came and fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan. In Taanach by the
waters of Megiddo: They took no gain of money.
5:20 From heaven fought the stars, From their courses they fought against Sisera.
5:21 The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. O my
soul, march on with strength.
5:22 Then did the horsehoofs stamp By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their
strong ones.
5:23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of Yahweh. Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants
thereof, Because they came not to the help of Yahweh, To the help of Yahweh against the
mighty.
5:24 Blessed above women shall Jael be, The wife of Heber the Kenite; Blessed shall she
be above women in the tent.
5:25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish.
5:26 She put her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; And
with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head; Yes, she pierced and
struck through his temples.
5:27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell; Where he bowed,
there he fell down dead.
5:28 Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Sisera cried through
the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
5:29 Her wise ladies answered her, Indeed, she returned answer to herself,
5:30 Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A damsel, two damsels to
every man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of
dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?
5:31 So let all your enemies perish, O Yahweh: But let them that love him be as the sun
when he goes forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Chapter 6
6:1 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and
Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
6:2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children
of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the
strongholds.
6:3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the
Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;
6:4 and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till you
come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
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6:5 For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for
multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land
to destroy it.
6:6 And Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried
to Yahweh.
6:7 And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,
6:8 that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, Thus says
Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the
house of bondage;
6:9 and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that
oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;
6:10 and I said to you, I am Yahweh your God; ye shall not fear the gods of the Amorites,
in whose land ye dwell. But ye have not hearkened to my voice.
6:11 And the angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that
pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the
winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
6:12 And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, Yahweh is with you,
you mighty man of valor.
6:13 And Gideon said to him, Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then is all this
befallen us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying,
Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt? but now Yahweh has cast us off, and
delivered us into the hand of Midian.
6:14 And Yahweh looked upon him, and said, Go in this your might, and save Israel from
the hand of Midian: have not I sent you?
6:15 And he said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is
the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
6:16 And Yahweh said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the
Midianites as one man.
6:17 And he said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign
that it is you that is talking with me.
6:18 Depart not from here, I pray you, until I come to you, and bring forth my present,
and lay it before you. And he said, I will tarry until you come again.
6:19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of
meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him
under the oak, and presented it.
6:20 And the angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay
them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
6:21 Then the angel of Yahweh put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and
touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up fire out of the rock, and
consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed out of
his sight.
6:22 And Gideon saw that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, alas, O Lord
Yahweh! forasmuch as I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face.
6:23 And Yahweh said to him, Peace be to you; fear not: you shall not die.
6:24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this
day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
6:25 And it came to pass the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Take your father's
bullock, even the second bullock seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that
your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;
6:26 and build an altar to Yahweh your God upon the top of this stronghold, in the
orderly manner, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of
the Asherah which you shall cut down.
6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Yahweh had spoken to him:
and it came to pass, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, so
that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
6:28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal
was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock
was offered upon the altar that was built.
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6:29 And they said one to another, Who has done this thing? And when they inquired
and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.
6:30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, Bring out your son, that he may die, because
he has broken down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the Asherah that was
by it.
6:31 And Joash said to all that stood against him, Will ye contend for Baal? Or will ye
save him? he that will contend for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning:
if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one has broken down his altar.
6:32 Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal contend against him,
because he has broken down his altar.
6:33 Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled
themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.
6:34 But the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Gideon; and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer
was gathered together after him.
6:35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered
together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and
they came up to meet them.
6:36 And Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
6:37 behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor; if there be dew on the
fleece only, and it be dry upon all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel
by my hand, as you have spoken.
6:38 And it was so; for he rose up early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece together,
and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.
6:39 And Gideon said to God, Let not your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak
but this once: let me make trial, I pray you, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry
only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
6:40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on
all the ground.
Chapter 7
7:1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early,
and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side
of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
7:2 And Yahweh said to Gideon, The people that are with you are too many for me to
give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My
own hand has saved me.
7:3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and
trembling, let him return and depart from mount Gilead. And there returned of the
people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
7:4 And Yahweh said to Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down to the
water, and I will try them for you there: and it shall be, that of whom I say to you, This
shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of whomsoever I say to you, This shall
not go with you, the same shall not go.
7:5 So he brought down the people to the water: and Yahweh said to Gideon, Every one
that laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself;
likewise every one that bows down upon his knees to drink.
7:6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three
hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
7:7 And Yahweh said to Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you,
and deliver the Midianites into your hand; and let all the people go every man to his
place.
7:8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men
of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of
Midian was beneath him in the valley.
7:9 And it came to pass the same night, that Yahweh said to him, arise, go down into the
camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.
7:10 But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your servant down to the camp:
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7:11 and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to
go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost
part of the armed men that were in the camp.
7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in
the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand
which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.
7:13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow;
and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the
camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and smote it so that it fell, and turned it upside
down, so that the tent lay flat.
7:14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the
son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the host.
7:15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation
thereof, that he worshipped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, arise; for
Yahweh has delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
7:16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the
hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
7:17 And he said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the
outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
7:18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also
on every side of all the camp, and say, For Yahweh and for Gideon.
7:19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came to the outermost part of
the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch:
and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
7:20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the
torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and
they cried, The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon.
7:21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran;
and they shouted, and put them to flight.
7:22 And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword
against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward
Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
7:23 And the men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and
out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.
7:24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying,
Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth-barah, even
the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as
far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan.
7:25 And they took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb at the
rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they
brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
Chapter 8
8:1 And the men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you served us in this manner, such
that you did not call us when you went to fight with Midian? And they chided him
sharply.
8:2 And he said to them, What have I now done in comparison with you? Is not the
gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?
8:3 God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what
was I able to do in comparison with you? Then their anger toward him was abated,
when he had said that.
8:4 And Gideon came to the Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that
were with him, faint, yet pursuing.
8:5 And he said to the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread to the people
that follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings
of Midian.
8:6 And the princes of Succoth said, are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your
hand, that we should give bread to your army?
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8:7 And Gideon said, Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into
my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.
8:8 And he went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in like manner; and the men of
Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
8:9 And he spoke also to the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will
break down this tower.
8:10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen
thousand men, all that were left of all the host of the children of the east; for there fell a
hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
8:11 And Gideon went up by the way of them that dwelt in tents on the east of Nobah and
Jogbehah, and smote the host; for the host was secure.
8:12 And Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; and he took the two
kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.
8:13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.
8:14 And he caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he
described for him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, seventy and seven men.
8:15 And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna,
concerning whom ye did taunt me, saying, are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in
your hand, that we should give bread to your men that are weary?
8:16 And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with
them he taught the men of Succoth.
8:17 And he broke down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.
8:18 Then said he to Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye
slew at Tabor? And they answered, as you are, so were they; each one resembled the
children of a king.
8:19 And he said, They were my brethren, the sons of my mother: as Yahweh lives, if ye
had saved them alive, I would not slay you.
8:20 And he said to Jether his first-born, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his
sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth.
8:21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise you, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is
his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescents
that were on their camels' necks.
8:22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule you over us, both you, and your son,
and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.
8:23 And Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over
you: Yahweh shall rule over you.
8:24 And Gideon said to them, I would make a request of you, that ye would give me
every man the ear-rings of his spoil. (For they had golden ear-rings, because they were
Ishmaelites.)
8:25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and
did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.
8:26 And the weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested was a thousand and seven
hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple raiment
that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels'
necks.
8:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all
Israel played the harlot after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.
8:28 So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads
no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
8:29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
8:30 And Gideon had from his body begotten 70 sons; for he had many wives.
8:31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he called his
name Abimelech.
8:32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre
of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
8:33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned
again, and played the harlot after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.
8:34 And the children of Israel remembered not Yahweh their God, who had delivered
them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
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8:35 neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, according to
all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.
Chapter 9
9:1 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brethren, and
spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
9:2 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you,
that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are 70 persons, rule over you, or that one rule over
you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
9:3 And his mother's brethren spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all
these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our
brother.
9:4 And they gave him 70 pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, with which
Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.
9:5 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of
Jerubbaal, being 70 persons, upon one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal
was left; for he hid himself.
9:6 And all the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of
Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.
9:7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of mount Gerizim, and
lifted up his voice, and cried, and said to them, Hearken to me, ye men of Shechem, that
God may hearken to you.
9:8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive-
tree, Reign you over us.
9:9 But the olive-tree said to them, Should I leave my fatness, with which by me they
honor God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?
9:10 And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come you, and reign over us.
9:11 But the fig-tree said to them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and
go to wave to and fro over the trees?
9:12 And the trees said to the vine, Come you, and reign over us.
9:13 And the vine said to them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man,
and go to wave to and fro over the trees?
9:14 Then said all the trees to the bramble, Come you, and reign over us.
9:15 And the bramble said to the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come
and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the
cedars of Lebanon.
9:16 Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech
king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him
according to the deserving of his hands
9:17 (for my father fought for you, and adventured his life, and delivered you out of the
hand of Midian:
9:18 and ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, 70
persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king
over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
9:19 if ye then have dealt truly and uprightly with Jerubbaal and with his house this day,
then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:
9:20 but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and
the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house
of Millo, and devour Abimelech.
9:21 And Jotham ran away, and fled, and went to Beer, and dwelt there, for fear of
Abimelech his brother.
9:22 And Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
9:23 And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the
men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:
9:24 that the violence done to the 70 sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood
might be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them, and upon the men of
Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brethren.
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9:25 And the men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and
they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.
9:26 And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem; and
the men of Shechem put their trust in him.
9:27 And they went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trod the grapes,
and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed
Abimelech.
9:28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we
should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve ye the
men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him?
9:29 And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech.
And he said to Abimelech, Increase your army, and come out.
9:30 And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his
anger was kindled.
9:31 And he sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed
and his brethren are come to Shechem; and, behold, they constrain the city to take part
against you.
9:32 Now therefore, up by night, you and the people that are with you, and lie in wait in
the field:
9:33 and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and
rush upon the city; and, behold, when he and the people that are with him come out
against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.
9:34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they
laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
9:35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city:
and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from the ambushment.
9:36 And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down
from the tops of the mountains. And Zebul said to him, You see the shadow of the
mountains as if they were men.
9:37 And Gaal spoke again and said, See, there come people down by the middle of the
land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.
9:38 Then said Zebul to him, Where is now your mouth, that you said, Who is
Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that you have despised?
go out now, I pray, and fight with them.
9:39 And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.
9:40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded,
even to the entrance of the gate.
9:41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul drove out Gaal and his brethren, that
they should not dwell in Shechem.
9:42 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they
told Abimelech.
9:43 And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the
field; and he looked, and, behold, the people came forth out of the city; And he rose up
against them, and smote them.
9:44 And Abimelech, and the companies that were with him, rushed forward, and stood
in the entrance of the gate of the city: and the two companies rushed upon all that were in
the field, and smote them.
9:45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew
the people that were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
9:46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard thereof, they entered into the
stronghold of the house of Elberith.
9:47 And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered
together.
9:48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with
him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and
took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said to the people that were with him, What
ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
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9:49 And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed
Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire upon them; so
that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.
9:50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
9:51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women,
and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and gat them up to the roof of the tower.
9:52 And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door
of the tower to burn it with fire.
9:53 And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and broke his
skull.
9:54 Then he called hastily to the young man his armorbearer, and said to him, Draw
your sword, and kill me, that men say not of me, a woman slew him. And his young
man thrust him through, and he died.
9:55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man
to his place.
9:56 Thus God requited the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did to his father, in
slaying his seventy brethren;
9:57 and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads: and
upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
Chapter 10
10:1 And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of
Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.
10:2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
10:3 And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty and two years.
10:4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities,
which are called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
10:5 And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
10:6 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and
served the Baalim, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and
the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the
Philistines; and they forsook Yahweh, and served him not.
10:7 And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand
of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
10:8 And they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years they
oppressed all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the
Amorites, which is in Gilead.
10:9 And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and
against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
10:10 And the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have sinned against you,
even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.
10:11 And Yahweh said to the children of Israel, Did I not save you from the Egyptians,
and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
10:12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye
cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
10:13 Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will save you no more.
10:14 Go and cry to the gods which ye have chosen; let them save you in the time of your
distress.
10:15 And the children of Israel said to Yahweh, We have sinned: do you to us
whatsoever seems good to you; only deliver us, we pray you, this day.
10:16 And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and
his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
10:17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead.
And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.
10:18 And the people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, What man is he that will
begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants
of Gilead.
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Chapter 11
11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a
harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
11:2 And Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out
Jephthah, and said to him, You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son
of another woman.
11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were
gathered vain fellows to Jephthah, and they went out with him.
11:4 And it came to pass after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against
Israel.
11:5 And it was so, that, when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders
of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob;
11:6 and they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the
children of Ammon.
11:7 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and drive me out of
my father's house? and why are ye come to me now when ye are in distress?
11:8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore are we turned again to you
now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be
our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
11:9 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight with
the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
11:10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Yahweh shall be witness between us;
surely according to your word so will we do.
11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and
chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.
11:12 And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What
have you to do with me, that you are come to me to fight against my land?
11:13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah,
Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even
to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.
11:14 And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;
11:15 and he said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor
the land of the children of Ammon,
11:16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the
Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
11:17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray you, pass
through your land; but the king of Edom hearkened not. And in like manner he sent to
the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
11:18 Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the
land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the
other side of the Arnon; but they came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was
the border of Moab.
11:19 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon;
and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray you, through your land to my place.
11:20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his
people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
11:21 And Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of
Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the
inhabitants of that country.
11:22 And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the
Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
11:23 So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his
people Israel, and should you possess them?
11:24 Will not you possess that which Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So
whomsoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
11:25 And now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab?
did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
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11:26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all
the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why did ye not
recover them within that time?
11:27 I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me:
Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of
Ammon.
11:28 But the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not to the words of Jephthah
which he sent him.
11:29 Then the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and
Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over
to the children of Ammon.
11:30 And Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed deliver the
children of Ammon into my hand,
11:31 then it shall be, that whatsoever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet
me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, it shall be Yahweh's, and I will
offer it up for a burnt offering.
11:32 So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and
Yahweh delivered them into his hand.
11:33 And he smote them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and
to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued
before the children of Israel.
11:34 And Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and, behold, his daughter came out to
meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had
neither son nor daughter.
11:35 And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, alas, my
daughter! you have brought me very low, and you are one of them that trouble me; for I
have opened my mouth to Yahweh, and I cannot go back.
11:36 And she said to him, My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me
according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, forasmuch as Yahweh has
taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon.
11:37 And she said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months,
that I may depart and go down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my
companions.
11:38 And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she departed, she
and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.
11:39 And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who
did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew not man. And it
was a custom in Israel,
11:40 that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the
Gileadite four days in a year.
Chapter 12
12:1 And the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and passed northward; and they
said to Jephthah, Why did you pass over to fight against the children of Ammon, and not
call us to go with you? we will burn your house upon you with fire.
12:2 And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of
Ammon; and when I called you, ye saved me not out of their hand.
12:3 And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over
against the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand: why then are
ye come up to me this day, to fight against me?
12:4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim;
and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, You are fugitives of Ephraim,
ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.
12:5 And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it
was so, that, when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of
Gilead said to him, are you an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;
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12:6 then said they to him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not
frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the
Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.
12:7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was
buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
12:8 And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.
12:9 And he had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he
brought in from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
12:10 And Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.
12:11 And after him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
12:12 And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
12:13 And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
12:14 And he had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, that rode on 70 donkey colts: and he
judged Israel eight years.
12:15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the
land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.
Chapter 13
13:1 And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and
Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
13:2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was
Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bore not.
13:3 And the angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold now, you
are barren, and bear not; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.
13:4 Now therefore beware, I pray you, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not
any unclean thing:
13:5 for, lo, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head;
for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel
out of the hand of the Philistines.
13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, a man of God came to me, and
his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; and I asked
him not from where he was, neither told he me his name:
13:7 but he said to me, Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no
wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to
God from the womb to the day of his death.
13:8 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, I pray you, let the man of God
whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child that shall
be born.
13:9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the
woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.
13:10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said to him,
Behold, the man has appeared to me, that came to me the other day.
13:11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him,
are you the man that spoke to the woman? And he said, I am.
13:12 And Manoah said, Now let your words come to pass: what shall be the ordering of
the child, and how shall we do to him?
13:13 And the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her
beware.
13:14 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or
strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.
13:15 And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, that we
may make ready a kid for you.
13:16 And the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I will not eat of
your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.
For Manoah knew not that he was the angel of Yahweh.
13:17 And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that, when your
words come to pass, we may do you honor?
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13:18 And the angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is
wonderful?
13:19 So Manoah took the kid with the meal offering, and offered it upon the rock to
Yahweh: and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
13:20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that
the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked
on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
13:21 But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then
Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.
13:22 And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
13:23 But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he would not have
received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown
us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.
13:24 And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and
Yahweh blessed him.
13:25 And the Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and
Eshtaol.
Chapter 14
14:1 And Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters
of the Philistines.
14:2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman
in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.
14:3 Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the
daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the
uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she
pleases me well.
14:4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an
occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.
14:5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the
vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
14:6 And the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would
have rent a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother
what he had done.
14:7 And he went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
14:8 And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of
the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
14:9 And he took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his
father and mother, and gave to them, and they did eat: but he told them not that he had
taken the honey out of the body of the lion.
14:10 And his father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so
used the young men to do.
14:11 And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be
with him.
14:12 And Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you: if ye can declare it
to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen
garments and thirty changes of raiment;
14:13 but if ye cannot declare it to me, then shall ye give me thirty linen garments and
thirty changes of raiment. And they said to him, Put forth your riddle, that we may hear
it.
14:14 And he said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came
forth sweetness. And they could not in three days declare the riddle.
14:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice
your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's
house with fire: have ye called us to impoverish us? is it not so?
14:16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You just hate me. You don't love
me. You have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and not told it to me.
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And he said to her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell
you?
14:17 And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to
pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him sore; and she told the
riddle to the children of her people.
14:18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,
What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If
ye had not plowed with my heifer, You had not found out my riddle.
14:19 And the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily upon him, and he went down to
Ashkelon, and killed thirty of their men, and took their spoil, and gave the changes of
clothes to those that had declared the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up
to his father's house.
14:20 But Samson's wife was given to his companion, the man he had used as his
wedding friend.
Chapter 15
15:1 But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited
his wife bringing a kid goat; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bedroom. But
her father would not allow him to go in.
15:2 And her father said, I really thought that you had utterly hated her; so I gave her to
your companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Take her, I pray you,
instead of her.
15:3 And Samson said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines,
when I do them a mischief.
15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and tied
them tail to tail. He put a firebrand in the midst between every two tails.
15:5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the
Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the oliveyards.
15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they said, Samson, the son-in-
law of that Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion. So
the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
15:7 And Samson said to them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of
you, and after that I will cease.
15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and
dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in
Lehi.
15:10 And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To
bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.
15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and
said to Samson, Know you not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what then is this
that you have done to us? And he said to them, as they did to me, so have I done to
them.
15:12 And they said to him, We are come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into
the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said to them, Swear to me, that ye will not fall
upon me yourselves.
15:13 And they spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into
their hand: but surely we will not kill you. And they bound him with two new ropes,
and brought him up from the rock.
15:14 When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of
Yahweh came mightily upon him, and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax
that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.
15:15 And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and
smote a thousand men with it.
15:16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, With the
jawbone of a donkey have I smitten a thousand men.
15:17 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the
jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi.
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15:18 And he was sore athirst, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have given this great
deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the
hand of the uncircumcised.
15:19 But God clave the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and
when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: therefore the name thereof was
called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, to this day.
15:20 And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Chapter 16
16:1 And Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a harlot, and went in to her.
16:2 And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. And they surrounded
him, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night,
saying, Let us wait till morning light, then we will kill him.
16:3 And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and laid hold of the doors of
the gate of the city, and the two posts, and plucked them up, bar and all, and put them on
his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron.
16:4 And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose
name was Delilah.
16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and find
out wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that
we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give you every one of us eleven hundred
pieces of silver.
16:6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray you, where does your great strength
come from, and with what might you be bound that would afflict you.
16:7 And Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green bowstrings that were
never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.
16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green bowstrings which had
not been dried, and she bound him with them.
16:9 Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said to him, The
Philistines are upon you, Samson. And he broke the bowstrings, like a string of flax is
broken when it touches the fire. So the source of his strength was not discovered.
16:10 And Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now
tell me, I pray you, with what can you be bound.
16:11 And he said to her, If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has
been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.
16:12 So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him with it, and said to him, The Philistines
are upon you, Samson. And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And
he broke them off his arms like a thread.
16:13 And Delilah said to Samson, Up till now you have mocked me, and told me lies:
tell me with what you can be bound. And he said to her, If you weave the seven locks
of my head with the web.
16:14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are upon you,
Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the
web.
16:15 And she said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me?
you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me the source of your great
strength.
16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him,
that his soul was vexed to death.
16:17 And he told her all his heart, and said to her, There has not come a razor upon my
head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my
strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.
16:18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the
lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart. Then
the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.
16:19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off
the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
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16:20 And she said, The Philistines are upon you, Samson. And he awoke out of his
sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he knew not
that Yahweh was departed from him.
16:21 And the Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him
down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.
16:22 But now the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
16:23 And the lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to
Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy
into our hand.
16:24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, Our god has
delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many
of us.
16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson,
that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he
made sport before them. And they set him between the pillars:
16:26 and Samson said to the lad that held him by the hand, allow me to feel the pillars
upon which the house rests, so that I may lean upon them.
16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines
were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that
beheld while Samson made sport.
16:28 And Samson called to Yahweh, and said, O Lord Yahweh, remember me, I pray
you, and strengthen me, I pray you, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged
of the Philistines for my two eyes.
16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house rested, and
leaned upon them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left.
16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all
his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein.
So the dead that he slew at his death were more than they that he slew in his life.
16:31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and
brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of
Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
Chapter 17
17:1 And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
17:2 And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from
you, about which you did utter a curse, and did also speak it in my ears, behold, the silver
is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh.
17:3 And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother
said, I verily dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a graven
image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you.
17:4 And when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces
of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten
image: and it was in the house of Micah.
17:5 And the man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and
ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his
own eyes.
17:7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who
was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
17:8 And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he
could find a place, and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as
he journeyed.
17:9 And Micah said to him, From where are you coming? And he said to him, I am a
Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
17:10 And Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I
will give you ten pieces of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and your victuals.
So the Levite went in.
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17:11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him
as one of his sons.
17:12 And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was
in the house of Micah.
17:13 Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a
Levite to my priest.
Chapter 18
18:1 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites
sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day their inheritance had not fallen to
them among the tribes of Israel.
18:2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men
of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said
to them, Go, search the land. And they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the
house of Micah, and lodged there.
18:3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the
Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, Who brought you here? and what
do you in this place? and what have you here?
18:4 And he said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me,
and I am become his priest.
18:5 And they said to him, ask counsel, we pray you, of God, that we may know whether
our way which we go shall be prosperous.
18:6 And the priest said to them, Go in peace: before Yahweh is your way in which ye
go.
18:7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were
therein, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure;
for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in
anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.
18:8 And they came to their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said to
them, What say ye?
18:9 And they said, arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and,
behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go and to enter in to possess
the land.
18:10 When ye go, ye shall come to a people secure, and the land is large; for God has
given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.
18:11 And there set forth from there of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of
Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
18:12 And they went up, and encamped in Kiriath-jearim, in Judah: therefore they called
that place Mahaneh-dan, to this day; behold, it is behind Kiriath-jearim.
18:13 And they passed there to the hill-country of Ephraim, and came to the house of
Micah.
18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said to
their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a
graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
18:15 And they turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite,
even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
18:16 And the six hundred men girt with their weapons of war, who were of the children
of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
18:17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and
took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the
priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of
war.
18:18 And when these went into Micah's house, and fetched the graven image, the ephod,
and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, What do ye?
18:19 And they said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand upon your mouth, and go
with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for you to be priest to the house of
one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?
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18:20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the
graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the goods
before them.
18:22 When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the
houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
18:23 And they cried to the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said to
Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?
18:24 And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are
gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye to me, What ails you?
18:25 And the children of Dan said to him, Let not your voice be heard among us, lest
angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.
18:26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too
strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
18:27 And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came
to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword; and
they burnt the city with fire.
18:28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no
dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth-rehob. And they built
the city, and dwelt therein.
18:29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who
was born to Israel: though the name of the city was Laish at the first.
18:30 And the children of Dan set up for themselves the graven image: and Jonathan, the
son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites
until the day of the captivity of the land.
18:31 So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the
house of God was in Shiloh.
Chapter 19
19:1 And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a
certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to
him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.
19:2 And his concubine played the harlot against him, and went away from him to her
father's house to Beth-lehem-judah, and was there the space of four months.
19:3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again,
having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father's
house; and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.
19:4 And his father-in-law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him
three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.
19:5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he
rose up to depart: and the damsel's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart
with a morsel of bread, and afterward ye shall go your way.
19:6 So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together: and the damsel's
father said to the man, Be pleased, I pray you, to tarry all night, and let your heart be
merry.
19:7 And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law urged him, and he lodged there
again.
19:8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the damsel's father
said, Strengthen your heart, I pray you, and tarry ye until the day declines; and they did
eat, both of them.
19:9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his
father-in-law, the damsel's father, said to him, Behold, now the day draws toward
evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your
heart may be merry; and tomorrow get early on your way, that you may go home.
19:10 But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over
against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): and there were with him a couple of asses saddled;
his concubine also was with him.
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19:11 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master,
Come, I pray you, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
19:12 And his master said to him, We will not turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that
is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.
19:13 And he said to his servant, Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and
we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
19:14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them near to
Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
19:15 And they turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat
him down in the street of the city; for there was no man that took them into his house to
lodge.
19:16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the
man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the
place were Benjamites.
19:17 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and
the old man said, Where are you going? and from where do you come?
19:18 And he said to him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah to the farther side of
the hill-country of Ephraim; from there am I, and I went to Beth-lehem-judah: and I am
now going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man that takes me into his house.
19:19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine
also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man that is with your servants:
there is no want of anything.
19:20 And the old man said, Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie upon me;
only lodge not in the street.
19:21 So he brought him into his house, and gave the asses fodder; and they washed their
feet, and did eat and drink.
19:22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base
fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of
the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into your house, that we
may know him.
19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, Nay, my
brethren, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do
not this folly.
19:24 Behold, here is my daughter a virgin, and his concubine; them I will bring out now,
and humble ye them, and do with them what seems good to you: but to this man do not
any such folly.
19:25 But the men would not hearken to him: so the man laid hold on his concubine, and
brought her forth to them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the
morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.
19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the
man's house where her lord was, till it was light.
19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went
out to go his way; and, behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of
the house, with her hands upon the threshold.
19:28 And he said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: then he took her up
upon the donkey; and the man rose up, and gat him to his place.
19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his
concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all
the borders of Israel.
19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from
the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day: consider it,
take counsel, and speak.
Chapter 20
20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one
man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
20:2 And the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves
in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
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20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to
Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to
pass?
20:4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was murdered, answered and said, I
came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
20:5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by
night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they forced, and she is dead.
20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the
country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
20:7 Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
20:8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent,
neither will we any of us turn to his house.
20:9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
20:10 and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a
hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victuals for the
people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the
folly that they have wrought in Israel.
20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What
wickedness is this that is come to pass among you?
20:13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, that are in Gibeah, that we
may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not hearken
to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
20:14 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to
Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty
and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were
numbered seven hundred chosen men.
20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one
could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
20:17 And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand
men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God;
and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?
And Yahweh said, Judah shall go up first.
20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
20:20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel
set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the
ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.
20:22 And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again
in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
20:23 And the children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; and they
asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of
Benjamin my brother? And Yahweh said, Go up against him.
20:24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second
day.
20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and
destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all
these drew the sword.
20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Beth-el,
and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until even; and they offered
burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
20:27 And the children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God
was there in those days,
20:28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days),
saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or
shall I cease? And Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.
20:29 And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.
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20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third
day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away
from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the
highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about
thirty men of Israel.
20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first.
But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the
highways.
20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at
Baal-tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of
Maareh-geba.
20:34 And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and
the battle was sore; but they knew not that evil was close upon them.
20:35 And Yahweh smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of
Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men: all these drew the
sword.
20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten; for the men of Israel gave
place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the liers-in-wait whom they had set against
Gibeah.
20:37 And the liers-in-wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers-in-wait drew
themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
20:38 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait was, that
they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
20:39 And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of
the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are smitten down before
us, as in the first battle.
20:40 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the
Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to
heaven.
20:41 And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they
saw that evil was come upon them.
20:42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the
wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and they that came out of the cities
destroyed them in the midst thereof.
20:43 They inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trod them down
at their resting-place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
20:44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these weremen of valor.
20:45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they
gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to
Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.
20:46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that
drew the sword; all these weremen of valor.
20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon,
and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.
20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them
with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found:
moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.
Chapter 21
21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give
his daughter to Benjamin to wife.
21:2 And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God, and lifted up
their voices, and wept sore.
21:3 And they said, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that
there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?
21:4 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an
altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
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21:5 And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came
not up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great oath concerning him that
came not up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
21:6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There
is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
21:7 How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by Yahweh
that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
21:8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Yahweh
to Mizpah? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the
assembly.
21:9 For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of
Jabesh-gilead there.
21:10 And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and
commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of
the sword, along with the women and the little ones.
21:11 And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every
woman that has lain by man.
21:12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young
virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them to the camp to
Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
21:13 And the whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin that were
in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.
21:14 And Benjamin returned at that time; and they gave them the women whom they
had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.
21:15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a
breach in the tribes of Israel.
21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that
remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
21:17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin,
that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.
21:18 Yet we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had
sworn, saying, Cursed be he that gives a wife to Benjamin.
21:19 And they said, Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh,
which is on the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Beth-
el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
21:20 And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the
vineyards,
21:21 and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances,
then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of
Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
21:22 And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain to us, that we
will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we took not for each man of them
his wife in battle, neither did ye give them to them, else would ye now be guilty.
21:23 And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their
number, of them that danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned to their
inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.
21:24 And the children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to
his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.
21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his
own eyes.
End of Judges
The Book of Ruth
Ruth
1:1 And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the
land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab,
he, and his wife, and his two sons.
1:2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the
name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem-judah. And they
came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
1:3 And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, died; and she was left, and her two sons.
1:4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah,
and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelt there about ten years.
1:5 And Mahlon and Chilion died both of them; and the woman was left of her two
children and of her husband.
1:6 Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of
Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that Yahweh had visited his people
in giving them bread.
1:7 And she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law
with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
1:8 And Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's
house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
1:9 Yahweh grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.
Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
1:10 And they said to her, Nay, but we will return with you to your people.
1:11 And Naomi said, Turn back, my daughters: why will ye go with me? have I yet
sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
1:12 Turn back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I
should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband to-night, and should also bear
sons;
1:13 would ye therefore tarry till they were grown? would ye therefore stay from
having husbands? nay, my daughters, for it grieves me much for your sakes, for the
hand of Yahweh is gone forth against me.
1:14 And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law,
but Ruth clave to her.
1:15 And she said, Behold, your sister-in-law is gone back to her people, and to her god:
return you after your sister-in-law.
1:16 And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave you, and to return from following after you,
for whither you go, I will go; and where you lodgest, I will lodge; your people shall be
my people, and your God my God;
1:17 where you die, I will die, and there will I be buried: Yahweh do so to me, and more
also, if anything except death parts you and me.
1:18 And when she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, she left off
speaking to her.
1:19 So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they
were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and the women said, Is
this Naomi?
1:20 And she said to them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt
very bitterly with me.
1:21 I went out full, and Yahweh has brought me home again empty; why call ye me
Naomi, seeing Yahweh has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?
1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who
returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of
barley harvest.
2:1 And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband's, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of
Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.
2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean among
the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor. And she said to her, Go, my
daughter.
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2:3 And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to
light on the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
2:4 And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, Yahweh be with
you. And they answered him, Yahweh bless you.
2:5 Then said Boaz to his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?
2:6 And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish
damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
2:7 And she said, Let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the reapers among the
sheaves. So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, save that
she tarried a little in the house.
2:8 Then said Boaz to Ruth, Hear you not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another
field, neither pass from out of here, but abide here fast by my maidens.
2:9 Let your eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go you after them: have I not
charged the young men that they shall not touch you? and when you are athirst, go to
the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.
2:10 Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why
have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a
foreigner?
2:11 And Boaz answered and said to her, It has fully been shown me, all that you have
done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your
father and your mother, and the land of your nativity, and are come to a people that you
knew not heretofore.
2:12 Yahweh recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of Yahweh, the God
of Israel, under whose wings you are come to take refuge.
2:13 Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, for that you have comforted
me, and for that you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I be not as one of your
handmaidens.
2:14 And at meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your
morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched
grain, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left thereof.
2:15 And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let
her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not.
2:16 And also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and
rebuke her not.
2:17 So she gleaned in the field until even; and she beat out that which she had gleaned,
and it was about an ephah of barley.
2:18 And she took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had
gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was
sufficed.
2:19 And her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today? and where
have you wrought? blessed be he that did take knowledge of you. And she showed
her mother-in-law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I
wrought today is Boaz.
2:20 And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Yahweh, who has not left
off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said to her, The man is near
of kin to us, one of our near kinsmen.
2:21 And Ruth the Moabitess said, Yes, he said to me, You shall keep fast by my young
men, until they have ended all my harvest.
2:22 And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that you go
out with his maidens, and that they meet you not in any other field.
2:23 So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean to the end of barley harvest and of
wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.
3:1 And Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you,
that it may be well with you?
3:2 And now is not Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he
winnows barley to-night in the threshing-floor.
3:3 Wash yourself therefore, and anoint you, and put your raiment upon you, and go
down to the threshing-floor, but make not yourself known to the man, until he shall have
done eating and drinking.
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3:4 And it shall be, when he lies down, that you shall mark the place where he shall lie,
and you shall go in, and uncover his feet, and lay you down; and he will tell you what
you shall do.
3:5 And she said to her, all that you say I will do.
3:6 And she went down to the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-
law told her.
3:7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at
the end of the heap of grain: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her
down.
3:8 And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself; and,
behold, a woman lay at his feet.
3:9 And he said, Who are you? And she answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: spread
therefore your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.
3:10 And he said, Blessed be you of Yahweh, my daughter: you have shown more
kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you followed not young
men, whether poor or rich.
3:11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of
my people does know that you are a worthy woman.
3:12 And now it is true that I am a near kinsman; yet there is a kinsman nearer than I.
3:13 Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform to you the part
of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a
kinsman to you, then will I do the part of a kinsman to you, as Yahweh lives: lie down
until the morning.
3:14 And she lay at his feet until the morning. And she rose up before one could discern
another. For he said, Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing-floor.
3:15 And he said, Bring the mantle that is upon you, and hold it; and she held it; and he
measured six measures of barley, and laid it on her: and he went into the city.
3:16 And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who are you, my daughter?
And she told her all that the man had done to her.
3:17 And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said, Go not empty to
your mother-in-law.
3:18 Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall; for the
man will not rest, until he have finished the thing this day.
4:1 Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman
of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down
here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
4:2 And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here. And they
sat down.
4:3 And he said to the near kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of
Moab, sells the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
4:4 And I thought to disclose it to you, saying, Buy it before them that sit here, and
before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it: but if you will not
redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it besides you; and I
am after you. And he said, I will redeem it.
4:5 Then said Boaz, What day you buy the field of the hand of Naomi, you must buy it
also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon
his inheritance.
4:6 And the near kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own
inheritance: take you my right of redemption on you; for I cannot redeem it.
4:7 Now this was the custom in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and
concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man drew off his shoe, and gave it to his
neighbor; and this was the manner of attestation in Israel.
4:8 So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. And he drew off his shoe.
4:9 And Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, You are witnesses this day, that I
have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand
of Naomi.
4:10 Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife,
to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut
off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
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4:11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses.
Yahweh make the woman that is come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which
two did build the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in
Bethlehem:
4:12 and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the
seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman.
4:13 So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh
gave her conception, and she bore a son.
4:14 And the women said to Naomi, Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day
without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.
4:15 And he shall be to you a restorer of life, and a nourisher of your old age, for your
daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.
4:16 And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.
4:17 And the women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi;
and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
4:18 Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez begat Hezron,
4:19 and Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,
4:20 and Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon,
4:21 and Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,
4:22 and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.
End of Ruth
The First Book of Samuel
1 Samuel
1:1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim,
and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son
of Zuph, an Ephraimite:
1:2 and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other
Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
1:3 And this man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to
Yahweh of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to
Yahweh, were there.
1:4 And when the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to
all her sons and her daughters, portions:
1:5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut
up her womb.
1:6 And her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her
womb.
1:7 And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she
provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
1:8 And Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are
you not eating? and why is your heart grieved? am not I better to you than ten sons?
1:9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drank. (Now
Eli the priest was sitting upon his seat by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh.)
1:10 And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept sore.
1:11 And she vowed a vow, and said, O Yahweh of hosts, if you will indeed look on the
affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will
give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his
life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.
1:12 And it came to pass, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli toke note of
her mouth.
1:13 Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not
heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunk.
1:14 And Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.
1:15 And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I
have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
1:16 Count not your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my
complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.
1:17 Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant your petition
that you have asked of him.
1:18 And she said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. So the woman went her
way, and did eat; and her countenance was no longer sad.
1:19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before Yahweh, and
returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and
Yahweh remembered her.
1:20 And it came to pass, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and
bore a son; and she called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of
Yahweh.
1:21 And the man Elkanah, and his entire house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly
sacrifice, and his vow.
1:22 But Hannah went not up; for she said to her husband, Not until the child be weaned;
and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and there abide for ever.
1:23 And Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems you good; tarry until you have
weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. So the woman tarried and gave her son
suck, until she weaned him.
1:24 And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and
one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to the house of Yahweh in
Shiloh: and the child was young.
1:25 And they slew the bullock, and brought the child to Eli.
1:26 And she said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman that stood
by you here, praying to Yahweh.
1:27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him:
1:28 therefore also I have granted him to Yahweh; as long as he lives he is granted to
Yahweh. And he worshipped Yahweh there.
2:1 And Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh; My horn is exalted in
Yahweh; My mouth is enlarged over my enemies; Because I rejoice in your salvation.
2:2 There is none holy as Yahweh; For there is none besides you, Neither is there any
rock like our God.
2:3 Talk no more so exceedingly proudly; Let not arrogance come out of your mouth; For
Yahweh is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
2:4 The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with
strength.
2:5 They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; And they that were hungry
have ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven; And she that has many
children languishes.
2:6 Yahweh kills, and makes alive: He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
2:7 Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich: He brings low, he also lifts up.
2:8 He raises up the poor out of the dust, He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To
make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are
Yahweh's, and he has set the world upon them.
2:9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in
darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
2:10 They that strive with Yahweh shall be broken to pieces; Against them will he
thunder in heaven: Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth; And he will give strength to
his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
2:11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister to Yahweh
before Eli the priest.
2:12 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not Yahweh.
2:13 And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered
sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a flesh-hook of three
teeth in his hand;
2:14 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook
brought up the priest took with it. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites that came
there.
2:15 Moreover, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man
that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of you,
but raw.
2:16 And if the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much
as your soul desires; then he would say, Nay, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I
will take it by force.
2:17 And the sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised
the offering of Yahweh.
2:18 But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
2:19 Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year,
when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
2:20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this
woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. And they went to their own home.
2:21 And Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two
daughters. And the child Samuel grew before Yahweh.
2:22 Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that
they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.
2:23 And he said to them, Why do ye such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from
this entire people.
2:24 Nay, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear: ye make Yahweh's people to
transgress.
2:25 If one man sins against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sins against
Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they heeded not the voice of their
father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.
2:26 And the child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh, and also
with men.
2:27 And there came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Did I
reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to
Pharaoh's house?
2:28 and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my
altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give to the house of your
father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?
2:29 Why are you disgracing my offering, which I have commanded to be in my
habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all
the offerings of Israel my people?
2:30 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the
house of your father, should walk before me for ever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far
from me; for them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly
esteemed.
2:31 Behold, the days are coming, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your
father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.
2:32 And you shall behold the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which God
shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house for ever.
2:33 And the man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall be to consume
your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the
flower of their age.
2:34 And this shall be the sign to you, that shall come upon your two sons, on Hophni
and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
2:35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my
heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my
anointed for ever.
2:36 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in your house shall come and
bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray
you, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
3:1 And the child Samuel ministered to Yahweh before Eli. And the word of Yahweh
was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.
3:2 And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes
had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see),
3:3 and the lamp of God was not yet gone out, and Samuel was laid down to sleep, in the
temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;
3:4 that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I.
3:5 And he ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. And he said, I called not;
lie down again. And he went and lay down.
3:6 And Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said,
Here am I; for you called me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.
3:7 Now Samuel did not yet know Yahweh, neither was the word of Yahweh yet revealed
to him.
3:8 And Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and
said, Here am I; for you called me. And Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.
3:9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call you, that you
shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his
place.
3:10 And Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then
Samuel said, Speak; for your servant hears.
3:11 And Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the
ears of every one that hears it shall tingle.
3:12 In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house,
from the beginning even to the end.
3:13 For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he
knew, because his sons did bring a curse upon themselves, and he restrained them not.
3:14 And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall
not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.
3:15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Yahweh.
And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
3:16 Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he said, Here am I.
3:17 And he said, What is the thing that Yahweh has spoken to you? I pray you, hide it
not from me: God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the
things that he spoke to you.
3:18 And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is
Yahweh: let him do what seems to him good.
3:19 And Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him, and did let none of his words fall to
the ground.
3:20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be
a prophet of Yahweh.
3:21 And Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh; for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in
Shiloh by the word of Yahweh.
4:1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the
Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines encamped in
Aphek.
4:2 And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined
battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines; and they slew of the army in the field
about four thousand men.
4:3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has
Yahweh smitten us today before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of
our enemies.
4:4 So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh of hosts, who sits above the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and
Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
4:5 And when the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the camp, all Israel shouted
with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
4:6 And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What means the
noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark
of Yahweh was come into the camp.
4:7 And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they
said, Woe to us! for there has not been such a thing heretofore.
4:8 Woe to us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the
gods that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness.
4:9 Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants to
the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
4:10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his
tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
4:11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were
slain.
4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day,
with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
4:13 And when he came, lo, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the wayside watching; for his
heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all
the city cried out.
4:14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What means the noise of this
tumult? And the man hasted, and came and told Eli.
4:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not
see.
4:16 And the man said to Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled today out of
the army. And he said, How went the matter, my son?
4:17 And he that brought the tidings answered and said, Israel is fled before the
Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons
also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
4:18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off
his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an
old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
4:19 And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and
when she heard the news that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her
husband were dead, she bowed herself and brought forth; for her pains came upon her.
4:20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said to her, Fear not;
for you have brought forth a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
4:21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because
the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
4:22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.
5:1 Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought it from Eben-ezer to
Ashdod.
5:2 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and
set it by Dagon.
5:3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon
his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. And they took Dagon, and set him in
his place again.
5:4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon
his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the head of Dagon and both the
palms of his hands lay cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to
him.
5:5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread
on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, to this day.
5:6 But the hand of Yahweh was heavy upon those of Ashdod, and he destroyed them,
and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.
5:7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of
Israel shall not abide with us; for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them, and said,
What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of
the God of Israel be carried about to Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel
there.
5:9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Yahweh was against
the city with a very great discomfiture: and he smote the men of the city, both small and
great; and tumors broke out upon them.
5:10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came
to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God
of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
5:11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they
said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that is
slay us not, and our people. For there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city;
the hand of God was very heavy there.
5:12 And the men that died not were smitten with the tumors; and the cry of the city went
up to heaven.
6:1 And the ark of Yahweh was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
6:2 And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do
with the ark of Yahweh? show us with which we shall sent it to its place.
6:3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; but by
all means return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to
you why his hand is not removed from you.
6:4 Then said they, What shall be the trespass offering which we shall return to him?
And they said, Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, according to the number of the
lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
6:5 Wherefore ye shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar
the land; and ye shall give glory to the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his
hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
6:6 Why then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their
hearts? When he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go,
and they departed?
6:7 Now therefore take and prepare you a new cart, and two milch kine, on which there
has come no yoke; and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
6:8 and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold,
which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it
away, that it may go.
6:9 And see; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he has done
us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it
was a chance that happened to us.
6:10 And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up
their calves at home;
6:11 and they put the ark of Yahweh upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold
and the images of their tumors.
6:12 And the kine took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the
highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the
lords of the Philistines went after them to the border of Beth-shemesh.
6:13 And they of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley; and they
lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see it.
6:14 And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and stood there, where
there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered up the kine for a
burnt offering to Yahweh.
6:15 And the Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, in
which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-
shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.
6:16 And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the
same day.
6:17 And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass
offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for
Ekron one;
6:18 and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines
belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the
great stone, whereon they set down the ark of Yahweh, which stone remains to this day in
the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
6:19 And he smote of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of
Yahweh, he smote of the people seventy men, and fifty thousand men; and the people
mourned, because Yahweh had smitten the people with a great slaughter.
6:20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy
God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
6:21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, The
Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
7:1 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yahweh, and brought
it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of
Yahweh.
7:2 And it came to pass, from the day that the ark abode in Kiriath-jearim, that the time
was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.
7:3 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return to Yahweh with
all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and
direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand
of the Philistines.
7:4 Then the children of Israel did put away the Baalim and the Ashtaroth, and served
Yahweh only.
7:5 And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to Yahweh.
7:6 And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before
Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Yahweh. And
Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
7:7 And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to
Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of
Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
7:8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry to Yahweh our God for us,
that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
7:9 And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a whole burnt offering to
Yahweh: and Samuel cried to Yahweh for Israel; and Yahweh answered him.
7:10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle
against Israel; but Yahweh thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the
Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten down before Israel.
7:11 And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah, and pursued the Philistines, and smote
them, until they came under Beth-car.
7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name
of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.
7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within the border of Israel:
and the hand of Yahweh was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
7:14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel,
from Ekron even to Gath; and the border thereof did Israel deliver out of the hand of the
Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
7:15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
7:16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he
judged Israel in all those places.
7:17 And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel:
and he built there an altar to Yahweh.
8:1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
8:2 Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, abijah: they
were judges in Beer-sheba.
8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and
perverted justice.
8:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to
Ramah;
8:5 and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons walk not in your ways: now
make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
8:6 But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And
Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
8:7 And Yahweh said to Samuel, Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to
you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king
over them.
8:8 According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up
out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do
they also to you.
8:9 Now therefore hearken to their voice, nevertheless you shall protest solemnly to
them, and shall show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.
8:10 And Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people that asked of him a king.
8:11 And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will
take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and
they shall run before his chariots;
8:12 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties;
and he will set some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his
instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
8:13 And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best
of them, and give them to his servants.
8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his
officers, and to his servants.
8:16 And he will take your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and your goodliest
young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
8:17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and ye shall be his servants.
8:18 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen
you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
8:19 But the people refused to hearken to the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay: but we
will have a king over us,
8:20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out
before us, and fight our battles.
8:21 And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of
Yahweh.
8:22 And Yahweh said to Samuel, Hearken to their voice, and make them a king. And
Samuel said to the men of Israel, Go ye every man to his city.
9:1 Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son
of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of
valor.
9:2 And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a young man and a goodly: and there was
not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and
upward he was higher than any of the people.
9:3 And the asses of Kish, Saul's father, were lost. And Kish said to Saul his son, Take
now one of the servants with you, and arise, go seek the asses.
9:4 And he passed through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of
Shalishah, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and
there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found
them not.
9:5 When they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him,
Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the asses, and be anxious for
us.
9:6 And he said to him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man
that is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there;
peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man?
for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God:
what have we?
9:8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth
part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.
9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let
us go to the seer; for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city
where the man of God was.
9:11 As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw
water, and said to them, Is the seer here?
9:12 And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before you: make haste now,
for he is come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place:
9:13 as soon as ye are come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he goes up
to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he does bless
the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that are bidden. Now therefore go up; for at this
time ye shall find him.
9:14 And they went up to the city; and as they came within the city, behold, Samuel came
out toward them, to go up to the high place.
9:15 Now Yahweh had revealed to Samuel a day before Saul came, saying,
9:16 Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man out of the land of Benjamin, and
you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel; and he shall save my people out
of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is
come to me.
9:17 And when Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, Behold, the man of whom I spoke
to you! this same shall have authority over my people.
9:18 Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray you, where the
seer's house is.
9:19 And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me to the high
place, for ye shall eat with me today: and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell
you all that is in your heart.
9:20 And as for your asses that were lost three days ago, set not they mind on them; for
they are found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you, and
for all your father's house?
9:21 And Saul answered and said, am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of
Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? why then
speak to me after this manner?
9:22 And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the guest-chamber,
and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, who were about
thirty persons.
9:23 And Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to
you, Set it by you.
9:24 And the cook took up the thigh, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul.
And Samuel said, Behold, that which has been reserved! set it before you and eat;
because to the appointed time has it been kept for you, for I said, I have invited the
people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.
9:25 And when they were come down from the high place into the city, he communed
with Saul upon the housetop.
9:26 And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel
called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send you away. And Saul arose,
and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
9:27 As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant
pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear
the word of God.
10:1 Then Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and
said, Is it not that Yahweh has anointed you to be prince over his inheritance?
10:2 When you are departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel's
sepulchre, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, The asses which
you went to seek are found; and, lo, your father has left off caring for the asses, and is
anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
10:3 Then shall you go on forward from there, and you shall come to the oak of Tabor;
and there shall meet you there three men going up to God to Beth-el, one carrying three
kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
10:4 and they will salute you, and give you two loaves of bread, which you shall receive
of their hand.
10:5 After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines:
and it shall come to pass, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band
of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe,
and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:
10:6 and the Spirit of Yahweh will come mightily upon you, and you shall prophesy with
them, and shall be turned into another man.
10:7 And let it be, when these signs are come to you, that you do as occasion shall serve
you; for God is with you.
10:8 And you shall go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down to you,
to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shall
you tarry, till I come to you, and show you what you shall do.
10:9 And it was so, that, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him
another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.
10:10 And when they came there to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the
Spirit of God came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them.
10:11 And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he
prophesied with the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that is
come to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?
10:12 And one of the same place answered and said, and who is their father? Therefore
it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?
10:13 And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.
10:14 And Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, Whither went ye? And he said,
To seek the asses; and when we saw that they were not found, we came to Samuel.
10:15 And Saul's uncle said, Tell me, I pray you, what Samuel said to you.
10:16 And Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But
concerning the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spoke, he told him not.
10:17 And Samuel called the people together to Yahweh to Mizpah;
10:18 and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I
brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and
out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
10:19 but ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your
calamities and your distresses; and ye have said to him, No, but set a king over us. Now
therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.
10:20 So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was
taken.
10:21 And he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the
Matrites was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he
could not be found.
10:22 Therefore they asked of Yahweh further, Is there yet a man to come here? And
Yahweh answered, Behold, he has hid himself among the baggage.
10:23 And they ran and fetched him there; and when he stood among the people, he was
higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom Yahweh has chosen, that
there is none like him along all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, Long
live the king.
10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book,
and laid it up before Yahweh. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his
house.
10:26 And Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there went with him the host,
whose hearts God had touched.
10:27 But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? And they
despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
11:1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all
the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.
11:2 And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with you,
that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
11:3 And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send
messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to save us, we will come
out to you.
11:4 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of
the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
11:5 And, behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, What ails
the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
11:6 And the Spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard those words, and his
anger was kindled greatly.
11:7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the
borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whosoever comes not forth after
Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. And the dread of Yahweh fell on
the people, and they came out as one man.
11:8 And he numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred
thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
11:9 And they said to the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say to the men of Jabesh-
gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, ye shall have deliverance. And the
messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
11:10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and ye shall
do with us all that seems good to you.
11:11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they
came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and smote the Ammonites until
the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they that remained were scattered, so that not
two of them were left together.
11:12 And the people said to Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us?
bring the men, that we may put them to death.
11:13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for today Yahweh
has wrought deliverance in Israel.
11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the
kingdom there.
11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in
Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul
and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
12:1 And Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened to your voice in all that ye
said to me, and have made a king over you.
12:2 And now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old and grayheaded; and,
behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.
12:3 Here I am: witness against me before Yahweh, and before his anointed: whose ox
have I taken? or whose donkey have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom
have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind my eyes by it? and
I will restore it you.
12:4 And they said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken
anything of any man's hand.
12:5 And he said to them, Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this
day, that ye have not found anything in my hand. And they said, He is witness.
12:6 And Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh that appointed Moses and Aaron, and
that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
12:7 Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all
the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.
12:8 When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh
sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to
dwell in this place.
12:9 But they forgat Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain
of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of
Moab; and they fought against them.
12:10 And they cried to Yahweh, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken
Yahweh, and have served the Baalim and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the
hand of our enemies, and we will serve you.
12:11 And Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered
you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and ye dwelt in safety.
12:12 And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against
you, ye said to me, Nay, but a king shall reign over us; when Yahweh your God was your
king.
12:13 Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have asked
for: and, behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.
12:14 If ye will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and not rebel
against the commandment of Yahweh, and both ye and also the king that reigns over you
be followers of Yahweh your God, good:
12:15 but if ye will not hearken to the voice of Yahweh, but rebel against the
commandment of Yahweh, then will the hand of Yahweh be against you, as it was
against your fathers.
12:16 Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before
your eyes.
12:17 Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and
rain; and ye shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the
sight of Yahweh, in asking you a king.
12:18 So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day: and all
the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.
12:19 And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God,
that we die not; for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask us a king.
12:20 And Samuel said to the people, Fear not; ye have indeed done all this evil; yet turn
not aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart:
12:21 and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit
nor deliver, for they are vain.
12:22 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has
pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
12:23 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing
to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
12:24 Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how
great things he has done for you.
12:25 But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.
13:1 Saul was forty years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned twenty-
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two years over Israel,
13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of whom two thousand were with Saul
in Michmash and in the mount of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah
of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
13:3 And Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: and the
Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let
the Hebrews hear.
13:4 And all Israel heard say that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and
also that Israel was held to be an abomination with the Philistines. And the people were
gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
13:5 And the Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty
thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the
sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth-
aven.
13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were
distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks,
and in coverts, and in pits.
13:7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead;
but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.
13:8 And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but
Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
13:9 And Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace offerings. And
he offered the burnt offering.
13:10 And it came to pass that, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt
offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.
13:11 And Samuel said, What have you done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the
people were scattered from me, and that you came not within the days appointed, and that
the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;
13:12 therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down upon me to Gilgal, and I have
not entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt
offering.
13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the
commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh
have established your kingdom upon Israel for ever.
13:14 But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him a man after his
own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have
not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.
13:15 And Samuel arose, and got himself up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And
Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.
13:16 And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode
in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
13:17 And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one
company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the land of Shual;
13:18 and another company turned the way to Beth-horon; and another company turned
the way of the border that looks down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
13:19 Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the
Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears:
13:20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his
plowshare, and his mattock, and his axe, and his sickle;
13:21 and the charge was a pim for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a half pim
for the axes, and to set the goads.
13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found
in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: only with Saul and
with Jonathan his son was there found.
13:23 And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Michmash.
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This number is conjecture, since the original full number has apparently been lost, and only the –two part
has been transmitted to us. Likewise also the age of Saul when he began to reign is uncertain.
14:1 Now it fell upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man that bore
his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side.
But he told not his father.
14:2 And Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which is
in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;
14:3 and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli,
the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that
Jonathan was gone.
14:4 And between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines'
garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and
the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
14:5 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south
in front of Geba.
14:6 And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to
the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is
no restraint to Yahweh to save by many or by few.
14:7 And his armorbearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart: turn you, behold, I am
with you according to your heart.
14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will disclose
ourselves to them.
14:9 If they say thus to us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our
place, and will not go up to them.
14:10 But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered
them into our hand: and this shall be the sign to us.
14:11 And both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the
Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid
themselves.
14:12 And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armorbearer, and said,
Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And Jonathan said to his armorbearer,
Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel.
14:13 And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armorbearer
after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armorbearer slew them after him.
14:14 And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about
twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.
14:15 And there was a trembling in the camp sent by God, in the field, and among all the
people; the garrison. And the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked: such that
there was an exceedingly great trembling.
14:16 And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the
multitude melted away, and they went here and there.
14:17 Then said Saul to the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone
from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armorbearer were not
there.
14:18 And Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of God was there
at that time with the children of Israel.
14:19 And it came to pass, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult that was in the
camp of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your
hand.
14:20 And Saul and all the people that were with him were gathered together, and came
to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very
great discomfiture.
14:21 Now the Hebrews that were with the Philistines as beforetime, and that went up
with them into the camp, from the country round about, even they also turned to be with
the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.
14:22 Likewise all the men of Israel that had hid themselves in the hill-country of
Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after
them in the battle.
14:23 So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by Beth-aven.
14:24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people,
saying, Cursed be the man that eats any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on my
enemies. So none of the people tasted food.
14:25 And all the people came into the forest; and there was honey upon the ground.
14:26 And when the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no
man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.
14:27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: therefore
he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and
put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father strictly charged the people
with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eats food this day. And the people were
faint.
14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land: see, I pray you, how my eyes
have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.
14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their
enemies which they found? for now has there been no great slaughter among the
Philistines.
14:31 And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the
people were very faint;
14:32 and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew
them on the ground; and the people did eat them with the blood.
14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against Yahweh, in that they
eat with the blood. And he said, ye have dealt treacherously: roll a great stone to me
this day.
14:34 And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say to them, Bring me
here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not
against Yahweh in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox
with him that night, and slew them there.
14:35 And Saul built an altar to Yahweh: the same was the first altar that he built to
Yahweh.
14:36 And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among
them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do
whatsoever seems good to you. Then said the priest, Let us draw near here to God.
14:37 And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? will you
deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.
14:38 And Saul said, Draw near here, all ye chiefs of the people; and know and see where
it is this sin has been this day.
14:39 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall
surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.
14:40 Then said he to all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on
the other side. And the people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you.
14:41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the right. And Jonathan
and Saul were taken by lot; but the people escaped.
14:42 And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was
taken.
14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. And Jonathan told him,
and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand;
and, lo, I must die.
14:44 And Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.
14:45 And the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great
salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall
to the ground; for he has wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan,
that he died not.
14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their
own place.
14:47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his
enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against
Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and wherever he
turned himself, he put them to the worse.
14:48 And he did valiantly, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the
hands of them that despoiled them.
14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of
his two daughters were these: the name of the first-born Merab, and the name of the
younger Michal:
14:50 and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the
name of the captain of his host was Abner the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.
14:51 And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.
14:52 And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul
saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to him.
15:1 And Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people,
over Israel: now therefore hearken you to the voice of the words of Yahweh.
15:2 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he
set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
15:3 Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them
not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
15:4 And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred
thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
15:5 And Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
15:6 And Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest
I destroy you with them; for ye showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they
came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
15:7 And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before
Egypt.
15:8 And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the
people with the edge of the sword.
15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and
of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them:
but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
15:10 Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying,
15:11 It repents me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from
following me, and has not performed my commandments. And Samuel was angry; and
he cried to Yahweh all night.
15:12 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel,
saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a monument, and turned, and
passed on, and went down to Gilgal.
15:13 And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed be you of Yahweh: I have
performed the commandment of Yahweh.
15:14 And Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the
lowing of the oxen which I hear?
15:15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared
the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; and the rest we
have utterly destroyed.
15:16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me
this night. And he said to him, Say on.
15:17 And Samuel said, Though you were little in your own sight, were you not made the
head of the tribes of Israel? And Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;
15:18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the
Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
15:19 Why then did you not obey the voice of Yahweh, but did fly upon the spoil, and
did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?
15:20 And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone
the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have
utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the devoted things, to
sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.
15:22 And Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as
in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to
hearken than the fat of rams.
15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and
teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has also rejected you
from being king.
15:24 And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment
of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
15:25 Now therefore, I pray you, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may
worship Yahweh.
15:26 And Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word
of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being king over Israel.
15:27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, Saul laid hold upon the skirt of his robe,
and it rent.
15:28 And Samuel said to him, Yahweh has rent the kingdom of Israel from you this day,
and has given it to a neighbor of yours, that is better than you.
15:29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he
should repent.
15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray you, before the elders of my
people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.
15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped Yahweh.
15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring ye here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And
Agag came to him cheerfully. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
15:33 And Samuel said, as your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother
be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Yahweh in
Gilgal.
15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel
mourned for Saul: and Yahweh repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
16:1 And Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have
rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you
to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
16:2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And Yahweh
said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh.
16:3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall
anoint to me him whom I name to you.
16:4 And Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Beth-lehem. And the
elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Come you peaceably?
16:5 And he said, Peaceably; I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh: sanctify yourselves, and
come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to
the sacrifice.
16:6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely
Yahweh's anointed is before him.
16:7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his
stature; because I have rejected him: for Yahweh sees not as man sees. For man looks
on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks on the heart.
16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said,
Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this
one.
16:10 And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse,
Yahweh has not chosen these.
16:11 And Samuel said to Jesse, are all your children here? And he said, There remains
yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send
and fetch him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.
16:12 And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful
countenance, and goodly to look upon. And Yahweh said, arise, anoint him; for this is
he.
16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren:
and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily upon David from that day forward. So Samuel
rose up, and went to Ramah.
16:14 Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh
troubled him.
16:15 And Saul's servants said to him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubles you.
16:16 Let our lord now command your servants, that are before you, to seek out a man
who is a skilful player on the harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from
God is upon you, that he shall play with his hand, and you shall be well.
16:17 And Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring
him to me.
16:18 Then one of the young men answered, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse
the Beth-lehemite, that is skilful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war,
and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
16:19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who
is with the sheep.
16:20 And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and
sent them by David his son to Saul.
16:21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he
became his armorbearer.
16:22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray you, stand before me; for he has
found favor in my sight.
16:23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took
the harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil
spirit departed from him.
17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered
together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in
Ephes-dammim.
17:2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the valley
of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
17:3 And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the
mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
17:4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of
Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
17:5 And he had a helmet of brass upon his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail;
and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
17:6 And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a javelin of brass between his
shoulders.
17:7 And the staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six
hundred shekels of iron: and his shield-bearer went before him.
17:8 And he stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why are ye come
out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? Choose
yourselves a man, and let him come down to me.
17:9 If he is able to fight with me, and kill me, then we will be your servants; but if I
prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
17:10 And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, so we
may fight together.
17:11 And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were
dismayed, and greatly afraid.
17:12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah, whose name was
Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken in
years among men.
17:13 And the three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names
of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next to him
Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
17:14 And David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.
17:15 Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father's sheep at Bethlehem.
17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty
days.
17:17 And Jesse said to David his son, Take now for your brethren an ephah of this
parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brethren;
17:18 and bring these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and look how your
brethren fare, and take their pledge.
17:19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting
with the Philistines.
17:0 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took,
and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the
host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
17:21 And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.
17:22 And David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage, and ran to the
army, and came and saluted his brethren.
17:23 And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of
Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the
same words: and David heard them.
17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore
afraid.
17:25 And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy
Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him
with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in
Israel.
17:26 And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the
man that kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this
uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
17:27 And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the
man that kills him.
17:28 And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger
was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? and with whom have
you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of
your heart; for you are come down that you might see the battle.
17:29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
17:30 And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner:
and the people answered him again after the former manner.
17:31 And when the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before
Saul; and he sent for him.
17:32 And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; your servant will
go and fight with this Philistine.
17:33 And Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with
him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.
17:34 And David said to Saul, Your servant was keeping his father's sheep; and when
there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,
17:35 I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he
arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him.
17:36 Your servant smote both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine
shall be as one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.
17:37 And David said, Yahweh that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of
the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said
to David, Go, and Yahweh shall be with you.
17:38 And Saul clad David with his apparel, and he put a helmet of brass upon his head,
and he clad him with a coat of mail.
17:39 And David girded his sword upon his apparel, and he assayed to go; for he had not
proved it. And David said to Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them.
And David put them off him.
17:40 And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the
brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet; and his sling
was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
17:41 And the Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man that carried the
shield went before him.
17:42 And when the Philistine looked around, and saw David, he disdained him; for he
was but a youth, and ruddy, and fairly handsome in appearance.
17:43 And the Philistine said to David, am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?
And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.
17:44 And the Philistine said to David, Come near me, and I will give your flesh to the
birds of the heavens, and to the beasts of the field.
17:45 Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear,
and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the
armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
17:46 This day will Yahweh deliver you into my hand; and I will strike you down, and
take your head off of you; and I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines
this day to the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth
may know that there is a God in Israel,
17:47 and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh saves not with sword and spear:
for the battle is Yahweh's, and he will give you into our hand.
17:48 And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet
David, that David ran quickly toward the army, to meet the Philistine.
17:49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took there a stone, and slung it, and struck
the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face
to the earth.
17:50 Thus David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck
down the Philistine, and killed him, though there was no sword in the hand of David.
17:51 Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out
of its sheath, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw
that their champion was dead, they fled.
17:52 And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines,
until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines
fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron.
17:53 And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they
plundered their camp.
17:54 And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put
his armor in his tent.
17:55 And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the
captain of the host, abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, as your soul lives,
O king, I cannot tell.
17:56 And the king said, Inquire you whose son the stripling is.
17:57 And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, abner took him, and
brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
17:58 And Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? And David answered,
I am the son of your servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.
18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of
Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
18:2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's
house.
18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
18:4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David,
and his apparel, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
18:5 And David went out wherever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul
set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the
sight of Saul's servants.
18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the
Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to
meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with instruments of music.
18:7 And the women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul has slain his
thousands, and David his ten thousands.
18:8 And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have
ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what
can he have more but the kingdom?
18:9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
18:10 And it came to pass on the morrow, that an evil spirit from God came mightily
upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand,
as he did day by day. And Saul had his spear in his hand;
18:11 and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall. And
David avoided out of his presence twice.
18:12 And Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed
from Saul.
18:13 Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand;
and he went out and came in before the people.
18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Yahweh was with him.
18:15 And when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
18:16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
18:17 And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give you to
wife: only be you valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles. For Saul said, Let not my
hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.
18:18 And David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life, or my father's family in
Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?
18:19 But it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been
given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite to wife.
18:20 And Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing
pleased him.
18:21 And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the
hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, You shall
this day be my son-in-law a second time.
18:22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say,
Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the
king's son-in-law.
18:23 And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said,
Seems it to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and
lightly esteemed?
18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David.
18:25 And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desires not any dowry, but a
hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul
thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
18:26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the
king's son-in-law. And the days were not expired;
18:27 and David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred
men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king,
that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
18:28 And Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul's daughter,
loved him.
18:29 And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David's enemy
continually.
18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, as often as they
went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that
his name was much set by.
19:1 And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should slay
David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.
19:2 And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to slay you: now therefore, I
pray you, take heed to yourself in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide
yourself:
19:3 and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will
commune with my father of you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.
19:4 And Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, Let not the
king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and
because his works have been to you-ward very good:
19:5 for he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and Yahweh wrought a great
victory for all Israel: you saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent
blood, to slay David without a cause?
19:6 And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, as Yahweh lives, he
shall not be put to death.
19:7 And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. And
Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as beforetime.
19:8 And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and
slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.
19:9 And an evil spirit from Yahweh was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear
in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.
19:10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped
away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and
escaped that night.
19:11 And Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the
morning: and Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, If you save not your life to-night,
tomorrow you will be slain.
19:12 So Michal let David down through the window: and he went, and fled, and
escaped.
19:13 And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair
at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes.
19:14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
19:15 And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed,
that I may slay him.
19:16 And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the
pillow of goats' hair at the head thereof.
19:17 And Saul said to Michal, Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go,
so that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said to me, Let me go; why
should I kill you?
19:18 Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that
Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.
19:19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.
19:20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the
prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came
upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
19:21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied.
And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.
19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he
asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they are at Naioth
in Ramah.
19:23 And he went there to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God came upon him also,
and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah.
19:24 And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay
down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the
prophets?
20:1 And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What
have I done? what is my iniquity? and what is my sin before your father, that he seeks
my life?
20:2 And he said to him, Far from it; you shall not die: behold, my father does nothing
either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this
thing from me? it is not so.
20:3 And David swore moreover, and said, Your father knows well that I have found
favor in your eyes; and he says, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly
as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.
20:4 Then said Jonathan to David, Whatsoever your soul desires, I will even do it for
you.
20:5 And David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not
fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the
third day at even.
20:6 If your father miss me at all, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he
might run to Beth-lehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.
20:7 If he say thus, It is well; your servant shall have peace: but if he be angry, then know
that evil is determined by him.
20:8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a
covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, slay me yourself; for why
should you bring me to your father?
20:9 And Jonathan said, Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were
determined by my father to come upon you, then would not I tell it to you?
20:10 Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance your father answer
you roughly?
20:11 And Jonathan said to David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they
went out both of them into the field.
20:12 And Jonathan said to David, Yahweh, the God of Israel, be witness: when I have
sounded my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there be good
toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you?
20:13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you
evil, if I disclose it not to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh
be with you, as he has been with my father.
20:14 And you shall not only while yet I live show me the lovingkindness of Yahweh,
that I die not;
20:15 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house for ever; no, not when
Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.
20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, and Yahweh will
require it at the hand of David's enemies.
20:17 And Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he
loved him as he loved his own soul.
20:18 Then Jonathan said to him, Tomorrow is the new moon: and you will be missed,
because your seat will be empty.
20:19 And when you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the
place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the
stone Ezel.
20:20 And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.
20:21 And, behold, I will send the lad, saying, Go, find the arrows. If I say to the lad,
Behold, the arrows are on this side of you; take them, and come; for there is peace to you
and no hurt, as Yahweh lives.
20:22 But if I say thus to the boy, Behold, the arrows are beyond you; go your way; for
Yahweh has sent you away.
20:23 And as touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is
between you and me for ever.
20:24 So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat
him down to eat food.
20:25 And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon the seat by the wall;
and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul's side: but David's place was empty.
20:26 Nevertheless Saul spoke not anything that day: for he thought, Something has
befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.
20:27 And it came to pass on the morrow after the new moon, which was the second day,
that David's place was empty: and Saul said to Jonathan his son, Why does the son of
Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?
20:28 And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-
lehem:
20:29 and he said, Let me go, I pray you; for our family has a sacrifice in the city; and my
brother, he has commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favor in your eyes,
let me get away, I pray you, and see my brethren. This is why he is not come to the
king's table.
20:30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of a
perverse rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your
own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?
20:31 Because you see, as long as the son of Jesse lives upon the earth, you shall not be
established, nor your kingdom. Therefore send now and fetch him to me, for he shall
surely die.
20:32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he be put to
death? what has he done?
20:33 And Saul cast his spear at him to strike him; whereby Jonathan knew that it was
determined by his father to put David to death.
20:34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no food the second
day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.
20:35 And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time
appointed with David, and a little lad with him.
20:36 And he said to his lad, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad
ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
20:37 And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot,
Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond you?
20:38 And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad
gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
20:39 But the lad knew not anything: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.
20:40 And Jonathan gave his weapons to his lad, and said to him, Go, carry them to the
city.
20:41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the South, and
fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one
another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
20:42 And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us
in the name of Yahweh, saying, Yahweh shall be between me and you, and between my
seed and your seed, for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the
city.
21:1 Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech came to meet
David trembling, and said to him, Why are you alone, and no man with you?
21:2 And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business,
and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business whereabout I send you,
and what I have commanded you: and I have appointed the young men to such and such a
place.
21:3 Now therefore what is under your hand? give me five loaves of bread in my hand,
or whatsoever there is present.
21:4 And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under my hand,
but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
21:5 And David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women have been kept
from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy,
though it was but a common journey; how much more then today shall their vessels be
holy?
21:6 So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread,
that was taken from before Yahweh, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.
21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before
Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of the herdsmen that belonged
to Saul.
21:8 And David said to Ahimelech, and is there not here under your hand spear or sword?
for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's
business required haste.
21:9 And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you slew in the
valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take
that, take it; for there is no other but that here. And David said, There is none like that;
give it to me.
21:10 And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of
Gath.
21:11 And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David the king of the land? did
they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, and
David his ten thousands?
21:12 And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king
of Gath.
21:13 And while in their hands he changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be
insane, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva fall down onto his beard.
21:14 Then said Achish to his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad; why then have ye
brought him to me?
21:15 Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my
presence? shall this fellow come into my house?
22:1 David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his
brethren and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
22:2 And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one
that was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and
there were with him about four hundred men.
22:3 And David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my
father and my mother, I pray you, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will
do for me.
22:4 And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while
that David was in the stronghold.
22:5 And the prophet Gad said to David, abide not in the stronghold; depart, and go into
the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
22:6 And Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him: now
Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk-tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand,
and all his servants were standing about him.
22:7 And Saul said to his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will
the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains
of thousands and captains of hundreds,
22:8 that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that discloses to me
when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry
for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait,
as at this day?
22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, and said, I
saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
22:10 And he inquired of Yahweh for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the
sword of Goliath the Philistine.
22:11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his
father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
22:12 And Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my
lord.
22:13 And Saul said to him, Why have ye conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse,
in that you have given him bread, and a sword, and have inquired of God for him, that he
should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, and who among all your servants is
so faithful as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is taken into your council, and is
honorable in your house?
22:15 Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king
impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows
nothing of all this, less or more.
22:16 And the king said, You shall surely die, ahimelech, you, and all your father's
house.
22:17 And the king said to the guard that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of
Yahweh; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and
did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to
fall upon the priests of Yahweh.
22:18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the
Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day 85 persons that did
wear a linen ephod.
22:19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men
and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the
sword.
22:20 And one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped,
and fled after David.
22:21 And Abiathar told David that Saul had slain Yahweh's priests.
22:22 And David said to Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was
there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of
your father's house.
22:23 Abide you with me, fear not; for he that seeks my life seeks your life: for with me
you shall be in safeguard.
23:1 And they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and
are robbing the threshing-floors.
23:2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines?
And Yahweh said to David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
23:3 And David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more
then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
23:4 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. And Yahweh answered him, and said,
arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.
23:5 And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought
away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter. So David save the inhabitants of
Keilah.
23:6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah,
that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
23:7 And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God has
delivered him into my hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that has gates and
bars.
23:8 And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David
and his men.
23:9 And David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him; and he said to
Abiathar the priest, Bring here the ephod.
23:10 Then said David, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that
Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
23:11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as
your servant has heard? O Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beseech you, tell your servant.
And Yahweh said, He will come down.
23:12 Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up to me and my men into the
hand of Saul? And Yahweh said, They will deliver you up.
23:13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of
Keilah, and went wherever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped
from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.
23:14 And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-
country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered
him not into his hand.
23:15 And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the
wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
23:16 And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and
strengthened his hand in God.
23:17 And he said to him, Fear not; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; and
you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father
knows.
23:18 And they two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode in the wood, and
Jonathan went to his house.
23:19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself
with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of
the desert?
23:20 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to
come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.
23:21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Yahweh; for ye have had compassion on me.
23:22 Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is,
and who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly.
23:23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself,
and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass,
if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
23:24 And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the
wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.
23:25 And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David: therefore he came
down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he
pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
23:26 And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of
the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men
surrounded David and his men round about to take them.
23:27 But there came a messenger to Saul, saying, Make haste, and come; for the
Philistines have made a raid upon the land.
23:28 So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines:
therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.
23:29 And David went up from there, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.
24:1 And it came to pass, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it
was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.
24:2 Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David
and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
24:3 And he came to the pastures by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to
relieve himself. Now David and his men were abiding in the innermost parts of the
cave.
24:4 And the men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you,
Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem
good to you. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe stealthily.
24:5 And it came to pass afterward, that David's heart smote him, because he had cut off
Saul's skirt.
24:6 And he said to his men, Yahweh forbid that I should do this thing to my lord,
Yahweh's anointed, to put forth my hand against him, seeing he is Yahweh's anointed.
24:7 So David checked his men with these words, and did not allow them to rise against
Saul. And Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.
24:8 David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying,
My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the
earth, and did obeisance.
24:9 And David said to Saul, Why do you take heed to men's words, when they say,
Behold, David seeks your hurt?
24:10 Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today
into my hand in the cave: and some told me to kill you; but my eye spared you; and I said,
I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.
24:11 Moreover, my father, see, indeed, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that
I cut off the skirt of your robe, and did not kill you, know you and see that there is neither
evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt
after my life to take it.
24:12 Yahweh judge between me and you, and Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand
shall not be upon you.
24:13 As the proverb of the ancients says, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness; but
my hand shall not be upon you.
24:14 After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom do you pursue? after a
dead dog, after a flea.
24:15 Yahweh therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and
plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand.
24:16 And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul,
that Saul said, Is this your voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.
24:17 And he said to David, You are more righteous than I; for you have rendered to me
good, whereas I have rendered to you evil.
24:18 And you have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, forasmuch
as when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you killed me not.
24:19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go well away? therefore may
Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.
24:20 And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of
Israel shall be established in your hand.
24:21 Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my seed after me,
and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.
24:22 And David swore to Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them
up to the stronghold.
25:1 And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him,
and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the
wilderness of Paran.
25:2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was
very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing
his sheep in Carmel.
25:3 Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the
woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was
churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.
25:4 And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.
25:5 And David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, Get you up to
Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
25:6 and thus shall ye say to him that lives in prosperity, Peace be to you, and peace be to
your house, and peace be to all that you have.
25:7 And now I have heard that you have shearers: your shepherds have now been with
us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything missing to them, all the while
they were in Carmel.
25:8 Ask your young men, and they will tell you: therefore let the young men find favor
in your eyes; for we come in a good day: give, I pray you, whatsoever comes to your
hand, to your servants, and to your son David.
25:9 And when David's young men came, they spoke to Nabal according to all those
words in the name of David, and ceased.
25:10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the
son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his
master.
25:11 Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my
shearers, and give it to men of whom I know not from where they are?
25:12 So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him
according to all these words.
25:13 And David said to his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on
every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David
about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the baggage.
25:14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent
messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed at them.
25:15 But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we
anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields:
25:16 they were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them
keeping the sheep.
25:17 Now therefore know and consider what you will do; for evil is determined against
our master, and against all his house: for he is such a worthless fellow, that one cannot
speak to him.
25:18 Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine,
and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters
of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
25:19 And she said to her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But
she told not her husband Nabal.
25:20 And it was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the
mountain, that, behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.
25:21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the
wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him: and he has returned
me evil for good.
25:22 God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that pertain to
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him by the morning light so much as one male person.
25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and alighted from her donkey, and fell
before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.
25:24 And she fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me be the iniquity; and
let your handmaid, I pray you, speak in your ears, and hear you the words of your
handmaid.
25:25 Let not my lord, I pray you, regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his
name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid saw not
the young men of my lord, whom you did send.
25:26 Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, seeing Yahweh
has withhheld you from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand,
now therefore let your enemies, and them that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
25:27 And now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to
the young men that follow my lord.
25:28 Forgive, I pray you, the trespass of your handmaid: for Yahweh will certainly make
my lord a sure house, because my lord fights the battles of Yahweh; and evil shall not be
found in you all your days.
25:29 And though men be risen up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of
my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God; and the souls of your
enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
25:30 And it shall come to pass, when Yahweh shall have done to my lord according to
all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over
Israel,
25:31 that this shall be no grief to you, nor offence of heart to my lord, either that you
have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. And when
Yahweh shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.
25:32 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you
this day to meet me:
25:33 and blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, that have kept me this day from
bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
25:34 For in very deed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withholden me from
hurting you, except you had hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left to
Nabal by the morning light so much as one man-child.
25:35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said to her,
Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and have accepted
your person.
25:36 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast
of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: therefore she
told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
25:37 And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his
wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
25:38 And it came to pass about ten days after, that Yahweh smote Nabal, so that he died.
25:39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yahweh, that has
pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant
from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal has Yahweh returned upon his own head. And
David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
25:40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to
her, saying, David has sent us to you, to take you to him to wife.
25:41 And she arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, Behold, your
handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.
25:42 And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon a donkey, with five damsels of hers
that followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.
25:43 David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they became both of them his wives.
25:44 Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish,
who was of Gallim.
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26:1 And the Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself in the
hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?
26:2 Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand
chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
26:3 And Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way.
But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the
wilderness.
26:4 David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come of a certainty.
26:5 And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David
beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and
Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him.
26:6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of
Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And
Abishai said, I will go down with you.
26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping
within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner
and the people lay round about him.
26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this
day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray you, with the spear to the earth at one stroke,
and I will not smite him the second time.
26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against
Yahweh's anointed, and be guiltless?
26:10 And David said, as Yahweh lives, Yahweh will smite him; or his day shall come to
die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
26:11 Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed: but now
take, I pray you, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
26:12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's head; and they gat them
away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep,
because a deep sleep from Yahweh was fallen upon them.
26:13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar
off; a great space being between them;
26:14 and David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, answer you not,
abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who are you that cry to the king?
26:15 And David said to Abner, are not you a valiant man? and who is like to you in
Israel? why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? for there came one
of the people in to destroy the king your lord.
26:16 This thing is not good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, ye are worthy to die,
because ye have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. And now see where
the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his head.
26:17 And Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this your voice, my son David? And
David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.
26:18 And he said, Why does my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done?
or what evil is in my hand?
26:19 Now therefore, I pray you, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it
be Yahweh that has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the
children of men, cursed be they before Yahweh: for they have driven me out this day that
I should not cleave to the inheritance of Yahweh, saying, Go, serve other gods.
26:20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of
Yahweh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a
partridge in the mountains.
26:21 Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do you
harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool,
and have erred exceedingly.
26:22 And David answered and said, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of the young
men come over and fetch it.
26:23 And Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness;
forasmuch as Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I would not put forth my
hand against Yahweh's anointed.
26:24 And, behold, as your life was much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be
much set by in the eyes of Yahweh, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
26:25 Then Saul said to David, Blessed be you, my son David: you shall both do
mightily, and shall surely prevail. So David went his way, and Saul returned to his
place.
27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is
nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul
will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out
of his hand.
27:2 And David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men that were with him,
to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
27:3 And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his
household, even David with his two wives, ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the
Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
27:4 And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for
him.
27:5 And David said to Achish, If now I have found favor in your eyes, let them give me
a place in one of the cities in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should your
servant dwell in the royal city with you?
27:6 Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: therefore Ziklag belongs to the kings of
Judah to this day.
27:7 And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a
full year and four months.
27:8 And David and his men went up, and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the
Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were
of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
27:9 And David smote the land, and saved neither man nor woman alive, and took away
the sheep, and the oxen, and the asses, and the camels, and the apparel; and he returned,
and came to Achish.
27:10 And Achish said, against whom have ye made a raid today? And David said,
against the South of Judah, and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the
South of the Kenites.
27:11 And David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest
they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so has been his manner all the while he
has dwelt in the country of the Philistines.
27:12 And Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor
him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
28:1 And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together
for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said to David, Know you assuredly, that
you shall go out with me in the host, you and your men.
28:2 And David said to Achish, Therefore you shall know what your servant will do.
And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make you keeper of my head for ever.
28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah,
even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the
wizards, out of the land.
28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in
Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in Gilboa.
28:5 And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled
greatly.
28:6 And when Saul inquired of Yahweh, Yahweh answered him not, neither by dreams,
nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
28:7 Then said Saul to his servants, Seek me a woman that has a familiar spirit, that I
may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a
woman that has a familiar spirit at En-dor.
28:8 And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and went, he and two men
with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, Divine to me, I pray you, by
the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomsoever I shall name to you.
28:9 And the woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut
off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: why then lay you a
snare for my life, to cause me to die?
28:10 And Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, as Yahweh lives, there shall no
punishment happen to you for this thing.
28:11 Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up to you? And he said, Bring me up
Samuel.
28:12 And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman
spoke to Saul, saying, Why have you deceived me? for you are Saul.
28:13 And the king said to her, Be not afraid: for what see you? And the woman said to
Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.
28:14 And he said to her, What form is he of? And she said, an old man comes up; and
he is covered with a robe. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with
his face to the ground, and did obeisance.
28:15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you disquieted me, to bring me up? And
Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is
departed from me, and answers me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams:
therefore I have called you, that you may make known to me what I shall do.
28:16 And Samuel said, Why then do you ask of me, seeing Yahweh is departed from
you, and is become your adversary?
28:17 And Yahweh has done to you, as he spoke by me: and Yahweh has torn the
kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.
28:18 Because you obeyed not the voice of Yahweh, and did not execute his fierce wrath
upon Amalek, therefore has Yahweh done this thing to you this day.
28:19 Moreover Yahweh will deliver Israel along with you into the hand of the
Philistines; and tomorrow shall you and your sons be with me: Yahweh will deliver the
host of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.
28:20 Then Saul fell straightway his full length upon the earth, and was sore afraid,
because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no
bread all the day, nor all the night.
28:21 And the woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said to him,
Behold, your handmaid has hearkened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand,
and have hearkened to your words which you spoke to me.
28:22 Now therefore, I pray you, hearken you also to the voice of your handmaid, and let
me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on
your way.
28:23 But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the
woman, constrained him; and he hearkened to their voice. So he arose from the earth,
and sat upon the bed.
28:24 And the woman had a fatted calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it; and she
took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:
28:25 and she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then
they rose up, and went away that night.
29:1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their hosts to Aphek: and the Israelites
encamped by the fountain which is in Jezreel.
29:2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David
and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.
29:3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What are these Hebrews doing here? And
Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king
of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no
fault in him since he fell away to me to this day?
29:4 But he princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the
Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you
have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he
become an adversary to us: for with which should this fellow reconcile himself to his
lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?
29:5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul has slain
his thousands, And David his ten thousands?
29:6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, as Yahweh lives, you have been upright,
and your going out and your coming in with me in the host is good in my sight; for I have
not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day: nevertheless the
lords favor you not.
29:7 Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that you displease not the lords of the
Philistines.
29:8 And David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what have you found in
your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight
against the enemies of my lord the king?
29:9 And Achish answered and said to David, I know that you are good in my sight, as an
angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up
with us to the battle.
29:10 Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord that are
come with you; and as soon as ye are up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
29:11 So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the
land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.
30:1 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day,
that the Amalekites had made a raid upon the South, and upon Ziklag, and had smitten
Ziklag, and burned it with fire,
30:2 and had taken captive the women and all that were therein, both small and great:
they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.
30:3 And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and
their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.
30:4 Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until
they had no more power to weep.
30:5 And David's two wives were taken captive, ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the
wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the
soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but
David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.
30:7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, I pray you, bring me
here the ephod. And Abiathar brought there the ephod to David.
30:8 And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake
them? And he answered him, Pursue; for you shall surely overtake them, and shall
without fail recover all.
30:9 So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the
brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who
were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.
30:11 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him
bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink.
30:12 And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when
he had eaten, his spirit came again to him; for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any
water, three days and three nights.
30:13 And David said to him, To whom do you belong? and from where are you?
And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me,
because three days ago I fell sick.
30:14 We made a raid upon the South of the Cherethites, and upon that which belongs to
Judah, and upon the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
30:15 And David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? And he said,
Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my
master, and I will bring you down to this troop.
30:16 And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the
ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had
taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
30:17 And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and
there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels
and fled.
30:18 And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two
wives.
30:19 And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor
daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back
all.
30:20 And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drove before those other
cattle, and said, This is David's spoil.
30:21 And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not
follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth
to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to
the people, he saluted them.
30:22 Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those that went with David,
and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that
we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them
away, and depart.
30:23 Then said David, You shall not do so, my brethren, with that which Yahweh has
given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our
hand.
30:24 And who will hearken to you in this matter? for as his share is that goes down to
the battle, so shall his share be that tarries by the baggage: they shall share alike.
30:25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for
Israel to this day.
30:26 And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to
his friends, saying, Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh:
30:27 To them that were in Beth-el, and to them that were in Ramoth of the South, and to
them that were in Jattir,
30:28 and to them that were in Aroer, and to them that were in Siphmoth, and to them
that were in Eshtemoa,
30:29 and to them that were in Racal, and to them that were in the cities of the
Jerahmeelites, and to them that were in the cities of the Kenites,
30:30 and to them that were in Hormah, and to them that were in Bor-ashan, and to them
that were in Athach,
30:31 and to them that were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his
men were wont to haunt.
31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the
Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
31:2 And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines
slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.
31:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was
greatly distressed by reason of the archers.
31:4 Then said Saul to his armorbearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it,
lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his
armorbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell
upon it.
31:5 And when his armorbearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword,
and died with him.
31:6 So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armorbearer, and all his men, that same day
together.
31:7 And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that
were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were
dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
31:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that
they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
31:9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the
Philistines round about, to carry the tidings to the house of their idols, and to the people.
31:10 And they put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to
the wall of Beth-shan.
31:11 And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard concerning him that which the
Philistines had done to Saul,
31:12 all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the
bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them
there.
31:13 And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and
fasted seven days.
End of 1 Samuel
The Second Book of Samuel
2 Samuel
1:1 And it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David had returned from the
slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
1:2 it came to pass that on the third day, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul,
with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head. And so it was, that when he came to
David, he fell to the ground, and did obeisance.
1:3 And David said to him, Where did you come from? And he said to him, Out of the
camp of Israel I have escaped.
1:4 And David said to him, How went the matter? I pray you, tell me. And he
answered, The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen
and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
1:5 And David said to the young man who told him, How do you know that Saul and
Jonathan his son are dead?
1:6 And the young man who told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa,
behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and, lo, the chariots and the horsemen were
following hard after him.
1:7 And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. And I answered,
Here am I.
1:8 And he said to me, Who are you? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
1:9 And he said to me, Stand, I beg you, beside me, and kill me; for anguish has seized
me, because my life is still whole inside me.
1:10 So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after
how he was fallen: and I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet that was
on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.
1:11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men that were with
him the same:
1:12 and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, mourned for Saul, and for
Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they
were fallen by the sword.
1:13 And David said to the young man that told him, From where are you? And he
answered, I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.
1:14 And David said to him, How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy
Yahweh's anointed?
1:15 And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him.
And he struck him, so that he died.
1:16 And David said to him, Your blood is on your head; for your own mouth has
testified against you, saying, I have killed Yahweh's anointed.
1:17 And David lamented with this lamentation, “The Bow,” over Saul and over Jonathan
his son,
1:18 and he said The Bow should be taught to the children of Judah: behold, it is written
in the book of Jashar:
1:19 Your glory, O Israel, is slain upon your high places! How are the mighty fallen!
1:20 Tell it not in Gath, Publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon; Lest the daughters of the
Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
1:21 You mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain upon you, neither fields of
offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not
anointed with oil.
1:22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan turned
not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
1:23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they
were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.
1:24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you in scarlet delicately, Who
put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
1:25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high
places.
1:26 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant have you been to me:
Your love to me was wonderful, Surpassing the love of women.
1:27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
2:1 And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up
into any of the cities of Judah? And Yahweh said to him, Go up. And David said,
Where shall I go up? And he said, To Hebron.
2:2 So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and
Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
2:3 And his men who were with him David brought up, every man with his household:
and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.
2:4 And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of
Judah. And they told David, saying, The men of Jabesh-gilead were the ones that buried
Saul.
2:5 And David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said to them, Blessed be
ye of Yahweh, that ye have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have
buried him.
2:6 And now may Yahweh show lovingkindness and truth to you: and I also will repay
you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.
2:7 Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for Saul your lord is dead,
and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.
2:8 Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of
Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;
2:9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over
Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.
2:10 Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and
he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
2:11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven
years and six months.
2:12 And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out
from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
2:13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out, and met them by
the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other
on the other side of the pool.
2:14 And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men, I pray you, arise and play before us.
And Joab said, Let them arise.
2:15 Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin, and for Ish-bosheth
the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.
2:16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his
fellow's side; so they fell down together: therefore that place was called Helkath-
hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.
2:17 And the battle was very sore that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel,
before the servants of David.
2:18 And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel
was as light of foot as a wild roe.
2:19 And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to
the left from following Abner.
2:20 Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Is it you, asahel? And he answered, It is
I.
2:21 And Abner said to him, Turn you aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay
you hold on one of the young men, and take you his armor. But Asahel would not turn
aside from following him.
2:22 And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn you aside from following me: why should I
smite you to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab your brother?
2:23 But he refused to turn aside: therefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote
him in the body, so that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died
in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel
fell down and died stood still.
2:24 But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were
come to the hill of Ammah, that lies before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.
2:25 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became
one band, and stood on the top of a hill.
2:26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? know you
not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, before you bid
the people return from following their brethren?
2:27 And Joab said, as God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the
people had gone away, nor followed every one his brother.
2:28 So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no
more, neither fought they any more.
2:29 And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over
the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.
2:30 And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people
together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.
2:31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that 360
men died.
2:32 And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was
in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke upon them at
Hebron.
3:1 Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and
David grew stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.
3:2 And to David were sons born in Hebron: and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam
the Jezreelitess;
3:3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third,
absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
3:4 and the fourth, adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of
Abital;
3:5 and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah, David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.
3:6 And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of
David, that Abner made himself strong in the house of Saul.
3:7 Now Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish-
bosheth said to Abner, Why have you gone in to my father's concubine?
3:8 Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, am I a dog's head
that belongs to Judah? This day do I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to
his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and
yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman.
3:9 God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Yahweh has sworn to David, I do not even
so to him;
3:10 to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David
over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba.
3:11 And he could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.
3:12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land?
saying also, Make your league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring
about all Israel to you.
3:13 And he said, Well; I will make a league with you; but one thing I require of you: that
is, you shall not see my face, except you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you
come to see my face.
3:14 And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife
Michal, whom I betrothed to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
3:15 And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of
Laish.
3:16 And her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim.
Then said Abner to him, Go, return: and he returned.
3:17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, In times past ye
sought for David to be king over you:
3:18 now then do it; for Yahweh has spoken of David, saying, By the hand of my servant
David I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand
of all their enemies.
3:19 And Abner also spoke in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went also to speak in the
ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to Israel, and to the whole house of
Benjamin.
3:20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And David made
Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
3:21 And Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the
king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your
soul desires. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.
3:22 And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from a foray, and brought in a
great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him
away, and he was gone in peace.
3:23 When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying,
abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
3:24 Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done? behold, abner came to
you; why is it that you have sent him away, and he is quite gone?
3:25 You know Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive you, and to know your
going out and your coming in, and to know all that you do.
3:26 And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they
brought him back from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.
3:27 And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the
gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the
blood of Asahel his brother.
3:28 And afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before
Yahweh for ever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
3:29 let it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's house; and let there not fail
from the house of Joab one that has an issue, or that is a leper, or that leans on a staff, or
that falls by the sword, or that lacks bread.
3:30 So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had killed their brother
Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
3:31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes,
and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David followed the
bier.
3:32 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the
grave of Abner; and all the people wept.
3:33 And the king lamented for Abner, and said, Should Abner die as a fool dies?
3:34 Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters: As a man falls before the
children of iniquity, so did you fall. And all the people wept again over him.
3:35 And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David
swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, till the
sun be down.
3:36 And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatsoever the king did
pleased all the people.
3:37 So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay
Abner the son of Ner.
3:38 And the king said to his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man
fallen this day in Israel?
3:39 And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah
are too hard for me: Yahweh reward the evil-doer according to his wickedness.
4:1 And when Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands
became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.
4:2 And Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, had two men that were captains of bands: the name of
the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the
Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin (for Beeroth also is reckoned to Benjamin:
4:3 and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day).
4:4 Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old
when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up,
and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame.
And his name was Mephibosheth.
4:5 And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about
the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, as he took his rest at noon.
4:6 And they came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched
wheat; and they smote him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
4:7 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they
smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of
the Arabah all night.
4:8 And they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David to Hebron, and said to the king,
Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; and
Yahweh has avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
4:9 And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the
Beerothite, and said to them, as Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all
adversity,
4:10 when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good
tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for
his tidings.
4:11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house
upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the
earth?
4:12 And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands
and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of
Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.
5:1 Then came all the tribes of Israel to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we
are your bone and your flesh.
5:2 In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you that led out and brought in
Israel: and Yahweh said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall
be prince over Israel.
5:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a
covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh: and they anointed David king over Israel.
5:4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
5:5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he
reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of
the land, who spoke to David, saying, Except you take away the blind and the lame, you
shall not come in here; thinking, David cannot come in here.
5:7 Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
5:8 And David said on that day, Whosoever strikes the Jebusites, let him get up to the
watercourse, and strike the lame and the blind, that are hated of David's soul.
Wherefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.
5:9 And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built
round about from Millo and inward.
5:10 And David became greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of hosts, was with him.
5:11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and carpenters,
and masons; and they built David a house.
5:12 And David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he
had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
5:13 And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was
come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
5:14 And these are the names of those that were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and
Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,
5:15 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
5:16 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.
5:17 And when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the
Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the
stronghold.
5:18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
5:19 And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? will
you deliver them into my hand? And Yahweh said to David, Go up; for I will certainly
deliver the Philistines into your hand.
5:20 And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and he said,
Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters. Therefore he
called the name of that place Baal-perazim.
5:21 And they left their images there; and David and his men took them away.
5:22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of
Rephaim.
5:23 And when David inquired of Yahweh, he said, You shall not go up: make a circuit
behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.
5:24 And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-
trees, that then you shall bestir yourself; for then is Yahweh gone out before you to smite
the host of the Philistines.
5:25 And David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba
until you come to Gezer.
6:1 And David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
6:2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him, from Baale-judah,
to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, even the name of
Yahweh of hosts that sits above the cherubim.
6:3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of
Abinadab that was in the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new
cart.
6:4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was in the hill, with the ark
of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
6:5 And David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all manner of
instruments made of fir-wood, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and
with castanets, and with cymbals.
6:6 And when they came to the threshing-floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth his hand to the
ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen stumbled.
6:7 And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for
his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
6:8 And David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth upon Uzzah; and he
called that place Perez-uzzah, to this day.
6:9 And David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, How shall the ark of Yahweh
come to me?
6:10 So David would not remove the ark of Yahweh to him into the city of David; but
David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
6:11 And the ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three
months: and Yahweh blessed Obed-edom, and all his house.
6:12 And it was told king David, saying, Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-edom,
and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God. And David went and brought up
the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with joy.
6:13 And it was so, that, when they that bore the ark of Yahweh had gone six paces, he
sacrificed an ox and a fatling.
6:14 And David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was girded with a
linen ephod.
6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh with shouting,
and with the sound of the trumpet.
6:16 And it was so, as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, that Michal the
daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing
before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.
6:17 And they brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent
that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings
before Yahweh.
6:18 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace
offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of hosts.
6:19 And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both
to men and women, to every one a cake of bread, and a portion of flesh, and a cake of
raisins. So all the people departed every one to his house.
6:20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul
came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who
uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain
fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!
6:21 And David said to Michal, It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father,
and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel:
therefore will I play before Yahweh.
6:22 And I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight: but of the
handmaids of whom you have spoken, of them shall I be had in honor.
6:23 And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
7:1 And it came to pass, when the king dwelt in his house, and Yahweh had given him
rest from all his enemies round about,
7:2 that the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the
ark of God dwells within curtains.
7:3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in your heart; for Yahweh is with you.
7:4 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying,
7:5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus says Yahweh, Shall you build me a house for me
to dwell in?
7:6 for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel
out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
7:7 In all places in which I have walked with all the children of Israel, spoke I a word
with any of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people Israel,
saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedar?
7:8 Now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of hosts, I
took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my
people, over Israel;
7:9 and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from
before you; and I will make you a great name, like to the name of the great ones that are
in the earth.
7:10 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may
dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness
afflict them any more, as at the first,
7:11 and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I will
cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will
make you a house.
7:12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up
your seed after you, that shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his
kingdom.
7:13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom
for ever.
7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him
with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
7:15 but my lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put
away before you.
7:16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your
throne shall be established for ever.
7:17 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak to
David.
7:18 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, O
Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
7:19 And this was yet a small thing in your eyes, O Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken
also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this too after the manner of
men, O Lord Yahweh!
7:20 And what can David say more to you? for you know your servant, O Lord
Yahweh.
7:21 For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, have you wrought all this
greatness, to make your servant know it.
7:22 Wherefore you are great, O Yahweh God: for there is none like you, neither is there
any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
7:23 And what one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God
went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things
for you, and terrible things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you
out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
7:24 And you did establish to yourself your people Israel to be a people to you for ever;
and you, Yahweh, became their God.
7:25 And now, O Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant,
and concerning his house, confirm you it for ever, and do as you have spoken.
7:26 And let your name be magnified for ever, saying, Yahweh of hosts is God over
Israel; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you.
7:27 For you, O Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant,
saying, I will build you a house: therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray this
prayer to you.
7:28 And now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have
promised this good thing to your servant:
7:29 now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may
continue for ever before you; for you, O Lord Yahweh, have spoken it: and with your
blessing let the house of your servant be blessed for ever.
8:1 And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them:
and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.
8:2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on
the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive.
And the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.
8:3 David smote also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover
his dominion at the River.
8:4 And David took from him a thousand and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty
thousand footmen: and David hocked all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a
hundred chariots.
8:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor Hadadezer king of Zobah, David
smote of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
8:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to
David, and brought tribute. And Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
8:7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and
brought them to Jerusalem.
8:8 And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceedingly
much brass.
8:9 And when Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of
Hadadezer,
8:10 then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because
he had fought against Hadadezer and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi.
And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:
8:11 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and gold that he
dedicated of all the nations which he subdued;
8:12 of Syria, and of Moab, and of the children of Ammon, and of the Philistines, and of
Amalek, and of the spoil of Hadadezer, son of Rehob, king of Zobah.
8:13 And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley
of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.
8:14 And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all the
Edomites became servants to David. And Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he
went.
8:15 And David reigned over all Israel; and David executed justice and righteousness to
all his people.
8:16 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud
was recorder;
8:17 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and
Seraiah was scribe;
8:18 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and
David's sons were chief ministers.
9:1 And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him
kindness for Jonathan's sake?
9:2 And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba, and they called
him to David; and the king said to him, are you Ziba? And he said, Your servant is he.
9:3 And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may show the
kindness of God to him? And Ziba said to the king, Jonathan has yet a son, who is lame
of his feet.
9:4 And the king said to him, Where is he? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is in
the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lo-debar.
9:5 Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel,
from Lo-debar.
9:6 And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, and fell on
his face, and did obeisance. And David said, Mephibosheth. And he answered,
Behold, your servant!
9:7 And David said to him, Fear not; for I will surely show you kindness for Jonathan
your father's sake, and will restore you all the land of Saul your father; and you shall eat
bread at my table continually.
9:8 And he did obeisance, and said, What is your servant, that you should look upon such
a dead dog as I am?
9:9 Then the king called to Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, all that pertained to Saul
and to all his house have I given to your master's son.
9:10 And you shall till the land for him, you, and your sons, and your servants; and you
shall bring in the fruits, that your master's son may have bread to eat: but Mephibosheth
your master's son shall eat bread alway at my table. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and
twenty servants.
9:11 Then said Ziba to the king, according to all that my lord the king commands his
servant, so shall your servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my
table, as one of the king's sons.
9:12 And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all that dwelt in
the house of Ziba were servants to mephibosheth.
9:13 So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem; for he did eat continually at the king's table.
And he was lame in both his feet.
10:1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and
Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
10:2 And David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father
showed kindness to me. So David sent by his servants to comfort him concerning his
father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.
10:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Think you that
David does honor your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? has not David sent
his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
10:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut
off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
10:5 When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed.
And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
10:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the
children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah,
twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of
Tob twelve thousand men.
10:7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
10:8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of
the gate: and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob, and the men of Tob and Maacah, were
by themselves in the field.
10:9 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose
of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:
10:10 And the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and
he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
10:11 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the
children of Ammon be too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our
God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.
10:13 So Joab and the people that were with him drew near to the battle against the
Syrians: and they fled before him.
10:14 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise
fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of
Ammon, and came to Jerusalem.
10:15 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they
gathered themselves together.
10:16 And Hadarezer sent, and brought out the Syrians that were beyond the River: and
they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.
10:17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the
Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and
fought with him.
10:18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven
hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their
host, so that he died there.
10:19 And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were put to
the worse before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians
feared to help the children of Ammon any more.
11:1 And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle,
that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the
children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem.
11:2 And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon
the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman
was very beautiful to look upon.
11:3 And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is this not Bathsheba,
the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
11:4 And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with
her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.
11:5 And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
11:6 And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to
David.
11:7 And when Uriah was come to him, David asked of him how Joab did, and how the
people fared, and how the war prospered.
11:8 And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. And Uriah
departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king.
11:9 But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and
went not down to his house.
11:10 And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down to his house, David
said to Uriah, are you not come from a journey? why did you not go down to your
house?
11:11 And Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths; and my
lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into
my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, and as your soul
lives, I will not do this thing.
11:12 And David said to Uriah, Tarry here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.
So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
11:13 And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him
drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not
down to his house.
11:14 And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by
the hand of Uriah.
11:15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle,
and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
11:16 And it came to pass, when Joab kept watch upon the city, that he assigned Uriah to
the place where he knew that valiant men were.
11:17 And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the
people, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
11:18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
11:19 and he charged the messenger, saying, When you have made an end of telling all
the things concerning the war to the king,
11:20 it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he say to you, Why went ye so near to
the city to fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
11:21 who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper
millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? why went ye so near the
wall? then shall you say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
11:22 So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
11:23 And the messenger said to David, The men prevailed against us, and came out to us
into the field, and we were upon them even to the entrance of the gate.
11:24 And the shooters shot at your servants from off the wall; and some of the king's
servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
11:25 Then David said to the messenger, Thus shall you say to Joab, Let not this thing
displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another; make your battle more
strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage you him.
11:26 And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made
lamentation for her husband.
11:27 And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and
she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased
Yahweh.
12:1 And Yahweh sent Nathan to David. And he came to him, and said to him, There
were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor.
12:2 The rich man had exceedingly many flocks and herds;
12:3 but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and
nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his
own morsel, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him as a
daughter.
12:4 And there came a traveller to the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock
and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come to him, but took the
poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
12:5 And David's anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, as
Yahweh lives, the man that has done this is worthy to die:
12:6 and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had
no pity.
12:7 And Nathan said to David, You are the man. Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,
I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;
12:8 and I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and
gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have
added to you such and such things.
12:9 Why have you despised the word of Yahweh, to do that which is evil in his sight?
you have smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your
wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
12:10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have
despised me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
12:11 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house;
and I will take your wives before your eyes, and give them to your neighbor, and he shall
lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.
12:12 For you did it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
12:13 And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against Yahweh. And Nathan said to
David, Yahweh also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
12:14 However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of
Yahweh to blaspheme, the child also that is born to you shall surely die.
12:15 And Nathan departed to his house. And Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife
bore to David, and it was very sick.
12:16 David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay
all night upon the earth.
12:17 And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the
earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.
12:18 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that the child died. And the servants of
David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child
was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he hearkened not to our voice: how will he then vex
himself, if we tell him that the child is dead!
12:19 But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived
that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? And they said,
He is dead.
12:20 Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed
his apparel; and he came into the house of Yahweh, and worshipped: then he came to his
own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.
12:21 Then said his servants to him, What thing is this that you have done? you did fast
and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you did rise and
eat bread.
12:22 And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who
knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?
12:23 But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to
him, but he will not return to me.
12:24 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay with her: and
she bore a son, and he called his name Solomon. And Yahweh loved him;
12:25 and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, for
Yahweh's sake.
12:26 Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal
city.
12:27 And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah; yes, I
have taken the city of waters.
12:28 Now therefore gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city,
and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called after my name.
12:29 And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought
against it, and took it.
12:30 And he took the crown of their king from off his head; and the weight of it was a
talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David's head. And he
brought forth the spoil of the city, exceedingly much.
12:31 And he brought out the people that were in it, and put them under saws, and under
harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and
this is what he did to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the
people returned to Jerusalem.
13:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose
name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
13:2 And Amnon was so vexed that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a
virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.
13:3 But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's
brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
13:4 And he said to him, Why, O son of the king, are you thus lean from day to day?
will you not tell me? And Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's
sister.
13:5 And Jonadab said to him, Lay you down on your bed, and feign yourself sick: and
when your father comes to see you, say to him, Let my sister Tamar come, I pray you,
and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from
her hand.
13:6 So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king was come to see
him, amnon said to the king, Let her sister Tamar come, I pray you, and make me a
couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.
13:7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to your brother Amnon's house,
and dress him food.
13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid down. And she
took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
13:9 And she took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And
Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him.
13:10 And Amnon said to Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from
your hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the
chamber to Amnon her brother.
13:11 And when she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to
her, Come, lie with me, my sister.
13:12 And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought
to be done in Israel: do not you this folly.
13:13 And I, where shall I carry my shame? and as for you, you will be as one of the
fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray you, speak to the king; for he will not withhold me
from you.
13:14 But he would not hearken to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her,
and lay with her.
13:15 Then Amnon hated her with exceedingly great hatred; for the hatred with which he
hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to
her, arise, be gone.
13:16 And she said to him, Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is worse
than the other that you did to me. But he would not hearken to her.
13:17 Then he called his servant that ministered to him, and said, Put now this woman
out from me, and bolt the door after her.
13:18 And she had a garment of divers colors upon her; for with such robes were the
king's daughters that were virgins apparelled. Then his servant brought her out, and
bolted the door after her.
13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that was
on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.
13:20 And Absalom her brother said to her, Has Amnon your brother been with you?
but now hold your peace, my sister: he is your brother; take not this thing to heart. So
Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom's house.
13:21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry.
13:22 And Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon,
because he had forced his sister Tamar.
13:23 And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheep-shearers in Baal-
hazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
13:24 And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, your servant has sheep-
shearers; let the king, I pray you, and his servants go with your servant.
13:25 And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all go, lest we be
burdensome to you. And he pressed him: however, he would not go, but blessed him.
13:26 Then said Absalom, If not, I pray you, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the
king said to him, Why should he go with you?
13:27 But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him.
13:28 And Absalom commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now, when Amnon's heart
is merry with wine; and when I say to you, Smite Amnon, then kill him; fear not; have
not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.
13:29 And the servants of Absalom did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then
all the king's sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.
13:30 And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that the tidings came to David,
saying, absalom has slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
13:31 Then the king arose, and rent his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his
servants stood by with their clothes rent.
13:32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered and said, Let not my
lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is
dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he
forced his sister Tamar.
13:33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all
the king's sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.
13:34 But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and
looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill-side behind him.
13:35 And Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons are come: as your servant
said, so it is.
13:36 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the
king's sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept: and the king also and all his
servants wept very sore.
13:37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. And
David mourned for his son every day.
13:38 So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.
13:39 And the soul of king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted
concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
14:1 Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.
14:2 And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, I pray
you, feign yourself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray you, and anoint
not yourself with oil, but be as a woman that has a long time mourned for the dead:
14:3 and go in to the king, and speak on this manner to him. So Joab put the words in
her mouth.
14:4 And when the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground,
and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
14:5 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, Of a truth I am a
widow, and my husband is dead.
14:6 And your handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and
there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.
14:7 And, behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they say, Deliver
him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew,
and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave
to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.
14:8 And the king said to the woman, Go to your house, and I will give charge
concerning you.
14:9 And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me,
and on my father's house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.
14:10 And the king said, Whosoever says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall
not touch you any more.
14:11 Then said she, I pray you, let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the
avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, as
Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.
14:12 Then the woman said, Let your handmaid, I pray you, speak a word to my lord the
king. And he said, Say on.
14:13 And the woman said, Why then have you devised such a thing against the people
of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king does
not fetch home again his banished one.
14:14 We must indeed die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered
up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he that is banished be
not an outcast from him.
14:15 Now therefore seeing that I am come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is
because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, I will now speak to the
king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.
14:16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man that would
destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
14:17 Then your handmaid said, Let, I pray you, the word of my lord the king be
comfortable; for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad: and
Yahweh your God be with you.
14:18 Then the king answered and said to the woman, Hide not from me, I pray you,
anything that I shall ask you. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.
14:19 And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman
answered and said, as your soul lives, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or
to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he
commanded me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;
14:20 to change the face of the matter has your servant Joab done this thing: and my lord
is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the
earth.
14:21 And the king said to Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring
the young man Absalom back.
14:22 And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and did obeisance, and blessed the king:
and Joab said, Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord,
O king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant.
14:23 So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
14:24 And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, but let him not see my face. So
Absalom turned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.
14:25 Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty:
from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
14:26 And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year's end that he cut it;
because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two
hundred shekels, after the king's weight.
14:27 And to Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was
Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
14:28 And Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem; and he saw not the king's face.
14:29 Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to
him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.
14:30 Therefore he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley
there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.
14:31 Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom to his house, and said to him, Why have
your servants set my field on fire?
14:32 And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, that I may
send you to the king, to say, Why am I come from Geshur? it were better for me to be
there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be iniquity in me, let
him kill me.
14:33 So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he
came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the
king kissed Absalom.
15:1 And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and
fifty men to run before him.
15:2 And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so,
that, when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom
called to him, and said, Of what city are you? And he said, Your servant is of one of the
tribes of Israel.
15:3 And Absalom said to him, See, your matters are good and right; but there is no man
deputed of the king to hear you.
15:4 Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who
has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!
15:5 And it was so, that, when any man came near to do him obeisance, he put forth his
hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.
15:6 And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so
Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
15:7 And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, I pray
you, let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
15:8 For your servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Yahweh
shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.
15:9 And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.
15:10 But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, as soon as ye
hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, absalom is king in Hebron.
15:11 And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem, that were invited, and
went in their simplicity; and they knew not anything.
15:12 And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city,
even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong;
for the people increased continually with Absalom.
15:13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are
after Absalom.
15:14 And David said to all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, arise, and let us
flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he
overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the
sword.
15:15 And the king's servants said to the king, Behold, your servants are ready to do
whatsoever my lord the king shall choose.
15:16 And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten
women, that were concubines, to keep the house.
15:17 And the king went forth, and all the people after him; and they tarried in Beth-
merhak.
15:18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the
Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men that came after him from Gath, passed on
before the king.
15:19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Why go you also with us? return, and abide
with the king: for you are a foreigner, and also an exile; return to your own place.
15:20 Whereas you came but yesterday, should I this day make you go up and down with
us, seeing I go whither I may? return you, and take back your brethren; mercy and truth
be with you.
15:21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, as Yahweh lives, and as my lord the king
lives, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even
there also will your servant be.
15:22 And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and
all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.
15:23 And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king
also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the
way of the wilderness.
15:24 And, lo, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the
covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the
people had done passing out of the city.
15:25 And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find
favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his
habitation:
15:26 but if he say thus, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, let him do to me as
seems good to him.
15:27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, are you not a seer? return into the city in
peace, and your two sons with you, ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.
15:28 See, I will tarry at the fords of the wilderness, until there come word from you to
certify me.
15:29 Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they
abode there.
15:30 And David went up by the ascent of the mount of Olives, and wept as he went up;
and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people that were with him
covered each one his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
15:31 And one told David, saying, ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.
And David said, O Yahweh, I pray you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
15:32 And it came to pass, that, when David was come to the top of the ascent, where
God was worshipped, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent,
and earth upon his head.
15:33 And David said to him, If you pass on with me, then you will be a burden to me:
15:34 but if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as I
have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you
defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.
15:35 And have you not there with you Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it
shall be, that what thing soever you shall hear out of the king's house, you shall tell it to
Zadok and Abiathar the priests.
15:36 Behold, they have there with them their two sons, ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and
Jonathan, abiathar's son; and by them ye shall send to me everything that ye shall hear.
15:37 So Hushai, David's friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.
16:1 And when David was a little past the top of the ascent, behold, Ziba the servant of
Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred
loaves of bread, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and a hundred of summer fruits, and a
bottle of wine.
16:2 And the king said to Ziba, What mean you by these? And Ziba said, The asses are
for the king's household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to
eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.
16:3 And the king said, and where is your master's son? And Ziba said to the king,
Behold, he abides at Jerusalem; for he said, Today will the house of Israel restore me the
kingdom of my father.
16:4 Then said the king to Ziba, Behold, yours is all that belongs to Mephibosheth. And
Ziba said, I do obeisance; let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.
16:5 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out there a man of the
family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and
cursed still as he came.
16:6 And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people
and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.
16:7 And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Begone, begone, you man of blood, and base
fellow:
16:8 Yahweh has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead
you have reigned; and Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your
son; and, behold, you are taken in your own mischief, because you are a man of blood.
16:9 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, Why should this dead dog curse
my lord the king? let me go over, I pray you, and take off his head.
16:10 And the king said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? Because he
curseth, and because Yahweh has said to him, Curse David; who then shall say, Why
have you done so?
16:11 And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, who came forth
from my bowels, seeks my life: how much more may this Benjamite now do it? let him
alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has bidden him.
16:12 It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will
requite me good for his cursing of me this day.
16:13 So David and his men went by the way; and Shimei went along on the hill-side
over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.
16:14 And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary; and he refreshed
himself there.
16:15 And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and
Ahithophel with him.
16:16 And it came to pass, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, was come to
Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, Long live the king, Long live the king.
16:17 And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this your kindness to your friend? why did you
not go with your friend?
16:18 And Hushai said to Absalom, Nay; but whom Yahweh, and this people, and all the
men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
16:19 And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son?
as I have served in your father's presence, so will I be in your presence.
16:20 Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give your counsel what we shall do.
16:21 And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left
to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you are abhorred of your father: then will
the hands of all that are with you be strong.
16:22 So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in to
his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
16:23 And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man
inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and
with Absalom.
17:1 Moreover Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand
men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
17:2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, and will make him
afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only;
17:3 and I will bring back all the people to you: the man whom you seek is as if all
returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
17:4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
17:5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what
he says.
17:6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, absalom spoke to him, saying, ahithophel
has spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not, speak.
17:7 And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not
good.
17:8 Hushai said moreover, You know your father and his men, that they are mighty men,
and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and your
father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
17:9 Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass,
when some of them are fallen at the first, that whosoever hears it will say, There is a
slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
17:10 And even he that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt;
for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are
valiant men.
17:11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beer-
sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own
person.
17:12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will
light upon him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men that are with
him we will not leave so much as one.
17:13 Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city,
and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
17:14 And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is
better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good
counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil upon Absalom.
17:15 Then said Hushai to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did
Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I
counselled.
17:16 Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night at the
fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all
the people that are with him.
17:17 Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En-rogel; and a maid-servant used to
go and tell them; and they went and told king David: for they might not be seen to come
into the city.
17:18 But a lad saw them, and told Absalom: and they went both of them away quickly,
and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went
down there.
17:19 And the woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed
bruised grain upon it; and nothing was known.
17:20 And Absalom's servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, Where are
Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They are gone over the brook of
water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
17:21 And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well,
and went and told king David; and they said to David, arise ye, and pass quickly over the
water; for thus has Ahithophel counselled against you.
17:22 Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over the
Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over the
Jordan.
17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his
donkey, and arose, and gat him home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged
himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
17:24 Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all
the men of Israel with him.
17:25 And Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son
of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of
Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
17:26 And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.
17:27 And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of
Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar,
and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,
17:28 brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and
parched grain, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,
17:29 and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the
people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and
thirsty, in the wilderness.
18:1 And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands
and captains of hundreds over them.
18:2 And David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part
under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the
hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, I will surely go forth with you
myself also.
18:3 But the people said, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care
for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but you are worth ten thousand of us;
therefore now it is better that you be ready to help us out of the city.
18:4 And the king said to them, What seems to you best I will do. And the king stood
by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
18:5 And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my
sake with the young man, that is, with Absalom. And all the people heard when the
king gave all the captains the command about Absalom.
18:6 So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of
Ephraim.
18:7 And the people of Israel were smitten there before the servants of David, and there
was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.
18:8 For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest
devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
18:9 And Absalom chanced to meet the servants of David. And Absalom was riding
upon his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head
caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between heaven and earth; and the mule that
was under him went on.
18:10 And a man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an
oak.
18:11 And Joab said to the man that told him, And, behold, you saw it, and why did you
not smite him there to the ground? and I would have given you ten pieces of silver, and
a girdle.
18:12 And the man said to Joab, Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in
my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the
king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man
Absalom.
18:13 Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against his life (and there is no matter hid from the
king), then you yourself would have set yourself against me.
18:14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry like this with you. And he took three darts in his
hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst
of the oak.
18:15 And ten young men that bore Joab's armor surrounded and attacked Absalom, and
slew him.
18:16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for
Joab held back the people.
18:17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised
over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.
18:18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which
is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he
called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to this day.
18:19 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings,
how that Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.
18:20 And Joab said to him, You shall not be the bearer of tidings this day, but you shall
bear tidings another day; but this day you shall bear no tidings, because the king's son is
dead.
18:21 Then said Joab to the Cushite, Go, tell the king what you have seen. And the
Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.
18:22 Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But come what may, let
me, I pray you, also run after the Cushite. And Joab said, Why will you run, my son,
seeing that you will have no reward for the tidings?
18:23 But come what may, said he, I will run. And he said to him, Run. Then
Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.
18:24 Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the
roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running
alone.
18:25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone,
there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near.
18:26 And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the
porter, and said, Behold, another man running alone. And the king said, He also brings
tidings.
18:27 And the watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of
Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and comes with good
tidings.
18:28 And Ahimaaz called, and said to the king, all is well. And he bowed himself
before the king with his face to the earth, and said, Blessed be Yahweh your God, who
has delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.
18:29 And the king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And Ahimaaz
answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult,
but I knew not what it was.
18:30 And the king said, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood
still.
18:31 And, behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, Tidings for my lord the king;
for Yahweh has avenged you this day of all them that rose up against you.
18:32 And the king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And
the Cushite answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise up against you to
do you hurt, be as that young man is.
18:33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and
wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would
I had died for you, O Absalom, my son, my son!
19:1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weeps and mourns for Absalom.
19:2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people; for the people
heard say that day, The king grieves for his son.
19:3 And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people that are ashamed
steal away when they flee in battle.
19:4 And the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son
Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
19:5 And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, You have shamed this day the
faces of all your servants, who this day have saved your life, and the lives of your sons
and of your daughters, and the lives of your wives, and the lives of your concubines;
19:6 in that you love them that hate you, and hate them that love you. For you have
declared this day, that princes and servants are nought to you: for this day I perceive, that
if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased you well.
19:7 Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably to your servants; for I swear
by Yahweh, if you go not forth, there will not tarry a man with you this night: and that
will be worse to you than all the evil that has befallen you from your youth until now.
19:8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told to all the people, saying,
Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now
Israel had fled every man to his tent.
19:9 And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king
delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the
Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom.
19:10 And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why
speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?
19:11 And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the
elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing
the speech of all Israel is come to the king, to bring him to his house.
19:12 You are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh: why then are ye the last to
bring back the king?
19:13 And say ye to Amasa, are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and
more also, if you be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
19:14 And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so
that they sent to the king, saying, Return, and all your servants.
19:15 So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to
meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
19:16 And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hasted and came
down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
19:17 And there were a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the
house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him; and they went
through the Jordan in the presence of the king.
19:18 And there went over a ferry-boat to bring over the king's household, and to do what
he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he was
come over the Jordan.
19:19 And he said to the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity to me, nor remember that
which your servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem,
that the king should take it to his heart.
19:20 For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this
day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
19:21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death
for this, because he cursed Yahweh's anointed?
19:22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this
day be adversaries to me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for
do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
19:23 And the king said to Shimei, You shall not die. And the king swore to him.
19:24 And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither
dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king
departed until the day he came home in peace.
19:25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king
said to him, Why did you not go with me, Mephibosheth?
19:26 And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for your servant said,
I will saddle me a donkey, that I may ride upon it, and go with the king; because your
servant is lame.
19:27 And he has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is as
an angel of God: do therefore what is good in your eyes.
19:28 For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet did you
set your servant among them that did eat at your own table. What right therefore have I
yet that I should cry any more to the king?
19:29 And the king said to him, Why speak any more of your matters? I say, You and
Ziba divide the land.
19:30 And Mephibosheth said to the king, Let him in fact take it all, seeing as how my
lord the king is come in peace to his own house.
19:31 And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan
with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even 80 years old: and he had provided the
king with sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
19:33 And the king said to Barzillai, Come you over with me, and I will sustain you with
me in Jerusalem.
19:34 And Barzillai said to the king, How many are the days of the years of my life, that I
should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
19:35 I am this day 80 years old: can I discern between good and bad? can your servant
taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and
singing women? why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
19:36 Your servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king: and why should the
king recompense it me with such a reward?
19:37 Let your servant, I pray you, turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the
grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over
with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you.
19:38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that
which shall seem good to you: and whatsoever you shall require of me, that will I do for
you.
19:39 And all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over: and the king
kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.
19:40 So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him: and all the
people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.
19:41 And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have
our brethren the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household,
over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?
19:42 And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of
kin to us: why then are ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost?
or has he given us any gift?
19:43 And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in
the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that
our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men
of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
20:1 And there happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of
Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David,
neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
20:2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son
of Bichri; but the men of Judah clave to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
20:3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his
concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and provided
them with sustenance, but went not in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their
death, living in widowhood.
20:4 Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days,
and be you here present.
20:5 So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he tarried longer than the set
time which he had appointed him.
20:6 And David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than
did Absalom: take you your lord's servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified
cities, and escape out of our sight.
20:7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and
all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of
Bichri.
20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, amasa came to meet them.
And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and upon it was a girdle
with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
20:9 And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with you, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by
the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
20:10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he struck him
with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, without striking a second
blow; and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of
Bichri.
20:11 And there stood by him one of Joab's young men, and said, He that favors Joab,
and he that is for David, let him follow Joab.
20:12 And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. And when
the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the
field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood
still.
20:13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to
pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
20:14 And he went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, and to Beth-maacah, and all
the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.
20:15 And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth-maacah, and they cast up a
mound against the city, and it stood against the rampart; and all the people that were with
Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.
20:16 Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, to Joab,
Come near here, that I may speak with you.
20:17 And he came near to her; and the woman said, are you Joab? And he answered, I
am. Then she said to him, Hear the words of your handmaid. And he answered, I do
hear.
20:18 Then she spoke, saying, They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall
surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.
20:19 I am of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: you seek to destroy a city and
a mother in Israel: why will you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?
20:20 And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up
or destroy.
20:21 The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of
Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him
only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head
shall be thrown to you over the wall.
20:22 Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head
of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the trumpet, and they
were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to
the king.
20:23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over
the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;
20:24 and Adoram was over the men subject to taskwork; and Jehoshaphat the son of
Ahilud was the recorder;
20:25 and Sheva was scribe; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
20:26 and also Ira the Jairite was chief minister to David.
21:1 And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David
sought the face of Yahweh. And Yahweh said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house,
because he put to death the Gibeonites.
21:2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not
of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had
sworn to them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of Israel and
Judah);
21:3 and David said to the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and with which shall I
make atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?
21:4 And the Gibeonites said to him, It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul,
or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel. And he said, What ye
shall say, that will I do for you.
21:5 And they said to the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us,
that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,
21:6 let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in
Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh. And the king said, I will give them.
21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of
Yahweh's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
21:8 But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to
Saul, armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom
she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
21:9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the
mountain before Yahweh, and they fell all seven together. And they were put to death
in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the
rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured upon them from heaven; and
she allowed neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the
field by night.
21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul,
had done.
21:12 And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from
the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the
Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines slew Saul in Gilboa;
21:13 and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son:
and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.
21:14 And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin
in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king
commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land.
21:15 And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his
servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David became faint;
21:16 and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was
three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to
have slain David.
21:17 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed
him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to
battle, that you quench not the lamp of Israel.
21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob:
then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.
21:19 And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of
Jaareoregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like
a weaver's beam.
21:20 And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on
every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also
was born to the giant.
21:21 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, slew him.
21:22 These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and
by the hand of his servants.
22:1 And David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh
delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
22:2 and he said, Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
22:3 God, my rock, in him will I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation,
my high tower, and my refuge; My saviour, you save me from violence.
22:4 I will call upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from my
enemies.
22:5 For the waves of death surrounded me; The floods of ungodliness made me afraid:
22:6 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
22:7 In my distress I called upon Yahweh; Yes, I called to my God: And he heard my
voice out of his temple, and my cry came into his ears.
22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled, The foundations of heaven quaked And were
shaken, because he was angry.
22:9 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals
were kindled by it.
22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his
feet.
22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; And he was seen upon the wings of the
wind.
22:12 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick
clouds of the skies.
22:13 At the brightness before him Coals of fire were kindled.
22:14 Yahweh thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.
22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; Lightning, and discomfited them.
22:16 Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid
bare, By the rebuke of Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
22:17 He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters;
22:18 He delivered me from my strong enemy, From them that hated me; for they were
too mighty for me.
22:19 They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Yahweh was my stay.
22:20 He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted
in me.
22:21 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness
of my hands has he recompensed me.
22:22 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my
God.
22:23 For all his ordinances were before me; And as for his statutes, I did not depart from
them.
22:24 I was also perfect toward him; And I kept myself from my iniquity.
22:25 Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, according
to my cleanness in his eyesight.
22:26 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; With the perfect man you will
show yourself perfect;
22:27 With the pure you will show yourself pure; And with the perverse you will show
yourself froward.
22:28 And the afflicted people you will save; But your eyes are upon the haughty, that
you may bring them down.
22:29 For you are my lamp, O Yahweh; And Yahweh will lighten my darkness.
22:30 For by you I run upon a troop; By my God do I leap over a wall.
22:31 As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Yahweh is tried; He is a shield to all
them that take refuge in him.
22:32 For who is God, save Yahweh? And who is a rock, save our God?
22:33 God is my strong fortress; And he guides the perfect in his way.
22:34 He makes his feet like hinds' feet, and sets me upon my high places.
22:35 He teaches my hands to war, So that my arms do bend a bow of brass.
22:36 You have also given me the shield of your salvation; And your gentleness has
made me great.
22:37 You have enlarged my steps under me; And my feet have not slipped.
22:38 I have pursued my enemies, and destroyed them; Neither did I turn again till they
were consumed.
22:39 And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, so that they cannot arise:
Yes, they are fallen under my feet.
22:40 For you have girded me with strength to the battle; You have subdued under me
those that rose up against me.
22:41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, That I might cut off them
that hate me.
22:42 They looked, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he answered them
not.
22:43 Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did crush them as the mire of
the streets, and did spread them abroad.
22:44 You also have delivered me from the strivings of my people; You have kept me to
be the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
22:45 The foreigners shall submit themselves to me: As soon as they hear of me, they
shall obey me.
22:46 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.
22:47 Yahweh lives; And blessed be my rock; And exalted be God, the rock of my
salvation,
22:48 Even the God that executes vengeance for me, and that brings down peoples under
me,
22:49 And that brings me forth from my enemies: Yes, you lift me up above them that
rise up against me; You deliver me from the violent man.
22:50 Therefore I will give thanks to you, O Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing
praises to your name.
22:51 Great deliverance gives he to his king, and shows lovingkindness to his anointed,
To David and to his seed, for evermore.
23:1 Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, and the man
who was raised on high says, The anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of
Israel:
23:2 The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me, and his word was upon my tongue.
23:3 The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me: One that rules over men
righteously, That rules in the fear of God,
23:4 He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without
clouds, When the tender grass springs out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.
23:5 Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he has made with me an everlasting
covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all my desire,
although he makes it not to grow.
23:6 But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they
cannot be taken with the hand
23:7 But the man that touches them Must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear: And
they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place
23:8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a
Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight
hundred slain at one time.
23:9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three
mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered
together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.
23:10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave to
the sword; and Yahweh wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after
him only to take spoil.
23:11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. And the Philistines
were gathered together into a troop, where was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the
people fled from the Philistines.
23:12 But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and
Yahweh wrought a great victory.
23:13 And three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest
time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley
of Rephaim.
23:14 And David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then
in Beth-lehem.
23:15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well
of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!
23:16 And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water
out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David:
but he would not drink thereof, but poured it out to Yahweh.
23:17 And he said, Be it far from me, O Yahweh, that I should do this: shall I drink the
blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it.
These things did the three mighty men.
23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the three. And
he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the
three.
23:19 Was he not most honorable of the thirty? therefore he was made their captain:
nevertheless he attained not to the first three.
23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had
done mighty deeds, he slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a
lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
23:21 And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand;
but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand,
and slew him with his own spear.
23:22 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three
mighty men.
23:23 He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And
David set him over his guard.
23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-
lehem,
23:25 Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
23:27 Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
23:29 Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the
children of Benjamin,
23:30 Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash.
23:31 Abialbon the Arbathite, azmaveth the Barhumite,
23:32 Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
23:33 Shammah the Hararite, ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite,
23:34 Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of
Ahithophel the Gilonite,
23:35 Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
23:36 Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
23:37 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armorbearers to Joab the son of
Zeruiah,
23:38 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
23:39 Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
24:1 And again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David
against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
24:2 And the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, Go now to and
fro through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and number ye the
people, that I may know the sum of the people.
24:3 And Joab said to the king, Now Yahweh your God add to the people, how many
soever they may be, a hundredfold; and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why
does my lord the king delight in this thing?
24:4 Notwithstanding, the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of
the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king,
to number the people of Israel.
24:5 And they passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the
city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer:
24:6 then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-
jaan, and round about to Sidon,
24:7 and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the
Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beer-sheba.
24:8 So when they had gone to and from through all the land, they came to Jerusalem at
the end of nine months and twenty days.
24:9 And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there
were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of
Judah were five hundred thousand men.
24:10 And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David
said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, O Yahweh, put
away, I beseech you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.
24:11 And when David rose up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet
Gad, David's seer, saying,
24:12 Go and speak to David, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose you
one of them, that I may do it to you.
24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine
come to you in your land? or will you flee three months before your foes while they
pursue you? or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? now advise you, and
consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
24:14 And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of
Yahweh; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.
24:15 So Yahweh sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time
appointed; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand
men.
24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh
repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough;
now stay your hand. And the angel of Yahweh was by the threshing-floor of Araunah
the Jebusite.
24:17 And David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel that smote the people, and
said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they
done? let your hand, I pray you, be against me, and against my father's house.
24:18 And Gad came that day to David, and said to him, Go up, rear an altar to Yahweh
in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
24:19 And David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.
24:20 And Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward
him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the
ground.
24:21 And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David
said, To buy the threshing-floor of you, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may
be stayed from the people.
24:22 And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems
good to him: behold, the oxen for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and
the yokes of the oxen for the wood:
24:23 all this, O king, does Araunah give to the king. And Araunah said to the king,
Yahweh your God accept you.
24:24 And the king said to Araunah, Nay; but I will verily buy it of you at a price.
Neither will I offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing. So
David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
24:25 And David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
End of 2 Samuel
The First Book of Kings
1 Kings
1:1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes,
but he gat no heat.
1:2 Wherefore his servants said to him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young
virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in your bosom,
that my lord the king may get heat.
1:3 So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of Israel, and found
Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.
1:4 And the damsel was very fair; and she cherished the king, and ministered to him; but
the king knew her not.
1:5 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he
prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
1:6 And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so?
and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.
1:7 And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they
following Adonijah helped him.
1:8 But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and
Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men that belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.
1:9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is
beside En-rogel; and he called all his brethren, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah,
the king's servants:
1:10 but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother,
he called not.
1:11 Then Nathan spoke to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Have you not
heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith does reign, and David our lord knows it not?
1:12 Now therefore come, let me, I pray you, give you counsel, that you may save your
own life, and the life of your son Solomon.
1:13 Go in at once to king David, and say to him, Did not you, my lord, O king, swear to
your handmaid, saying, assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit
upon my throne? why then does Adonijah reign?
1:14 Behold, while you yet talk there with the king, I also will come in after you, and
confirm your words.
1:15 And Bathsheba went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and
Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.
1:16 And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. And the king said, What
would you?
1:17 And she said to him, My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your handmaid,
saying, assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.
1:18 And now, behold, adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, know it not:
1:19 and he has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the
sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host; but Solomon
your servant has he not called.
1:20 And you, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you, that you should tell
them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
1:21 Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers,
that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.
1:22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.
1:23 And they told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. And when he was
come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.
1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, have you said, adonijah shall reign after me, and
he shall sit upon my throne?
1:25 For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in
abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar
the priest; and, behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, Long live king
Adonijah.
1:26 But me, even me your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of
Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, has he not called.
1:27 Is this thing done by my lord the king, and you have not shown to your servants who
should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?
1:28 Then king David answered and said, Call to me Bathsheba. And she came into the
king's presence, and stood before the king.
1:29 And the king swore, and said, as Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all
adversity,
1:30 verily as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, assuredly Solomon
your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; verily so will I
do this day.
1:31 Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and
said, Let my lord king David live for ever.
1:32 And king David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.
1:33 And the king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause
Solomon my son to ride upon my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon:
1:34 and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel;
and blow ye the trumpet, and say, Long live king Solomon.
1:35 Then ye shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit upon my throne; for he
shall be king in my stead; and I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over
Judah.
1:36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, amen: Yahweh, the
God of my lord the king, say so too.
1:37 As Yahweh has been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make
his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.
1:38 So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and
the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king
David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
1:39 And Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Solomon.
And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, Long live king Solomon.
1:40 And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced
with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.
1:41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end
of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Why is this noise of
the city being in an uproar?
1:42 While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and
Adonijah said, Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good tidings.
1:43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David has made
Solomon king:
1:44 and the king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and
Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused
him to ride upon the king's mule;
1:45 and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon; and
they are come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that
ye have heard.
1:46 And also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Your
God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than
your throne: and the king bowed himself upon the bed.
1:48 And also thus said the king, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given
one to sit on my throne this day, my eyes even seeing it.
1:49 And all the guests of Adonijah were afraid, and rose up, and went every man his
way.
1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose, and went, and caught hold
on the horns of the altar.
1:51 And it was told Solomon, saying, Behold, adonijah fears king Solomon; for, lo, he
has laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me first that he
will not slay his servant with the sword.
1:52 And Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of
him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.
1:53 So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came
and did obeisance to king Solomon; and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.
2:1 Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged Solomon his
son, saying,
2:2 I am going the way of all the earth: be you strong therefore, and show yourself a man;
2:3 and keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes,
and his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which
is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you
turn yourself.
2:4 That Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, If your
children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all
their soul, there shall not fail you (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
2:5 Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to
the two captains of the hosts of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of
Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon
his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
2:6 Do therefore according to your wisdom, and let not his gray head go down to Sheol in
peace.
2:7 But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that
eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.
2:8 And, behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim,
who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came
down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, I will not put you
to death with the sword.
2:9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know
what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.
2:10 And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
2:11 And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; seven years reigned he
in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
2:12 And Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was
established greatly.
2:13 Then Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon. And
she said, Come you peaceably? And he said, Peaceably.
2:14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say to you. And she said, Say on.
2:15 And he said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces
on me, that I should reign: however, the kingdom is turned about, and is become my
brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.
2:16 And now I ask one petition of you; deny me not. And she said to him, Say on.
2:17 And he said, Speak, I pray you, to Solomon the king (for he will not say you nay),
that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to wife.
2:18 And Bathsheba said, Well; I will speak for you to the king.
2:19 Bathsheba therefore went to king Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. And the
king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne, and
caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
2:20 Then she said, I ask one small petition of you; deny me not. And the king said to
her, ask on, my mother; for I will not deny you.
2:21 And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother to
wife.
2:22 And king Solomon answered and said to his mother, and why do you ask Abishag
the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder
brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
2:23 Then king Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if
Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.
2:24 Now therefore as Yahweh lives, who has established me, and set me on the throne of
David my father, and who has made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be
put to death this day.
2:25 And king Solomon sent by Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him, so
that he died.
2:26 And to Abiathar the priest said the king, Get you to Anathoth, to your own fields;
for you are worthy of death: but I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore
the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all
in which my father was afflicted.
2:27 So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, that he might fulfil the
word of Yahweh, which he spoke concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
2:28 And the tidings came to Joab; for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned
not after Absalom. And Joab fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and caught hold on the horns
of the altar.
2:29 And it was told king Solomon, Joab is fled to the Tent of Yahweh, and, behold, he is
by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
2:30 And Benaiah came to the Tent of Yahweh, and said to him, Thus says the king,
Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king
word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
2:31 And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that
you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my
father's house.
2:32 And Yahweh will return his blood upon his own head, because with my father David
knowing it not, he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them
with the sword: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of
Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
2:33 So shall their blood return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for
ever: but to David, and to his seed, and to his house, and to his throne, shall there be
peace for ever from Yahweh.
2:34 Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him; and he
was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
2:35 And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok
the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
2:36 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Build you a house in
Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth there any whither.
2:37 For on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that
you shall surely die: your blood shall be upon your own head.
2:38 And Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king has said, so
will your servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.
2:39 And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran
away to Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold,
your servants are in Gath.
2:40 And Shimei arose, and saddled his donkey, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his
servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
2:41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was
come again.
2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, Did I not adjure you by
Yahweh, and protest to you, saying, Know for certain, that on the day you go out, and
walk abroad any whither, you shall surely die? and you said to me, The saying that I
have heard is good.
2:43 Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh, and the commandment that I have
charged you with?
2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, You know all the wickedness which your heart is
privy to, that you did to David my father: therefore Yahweh shall return your wickedness
upon your own head.
2:45 But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established
before Yahweh for ever.
2:46 So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell upon
him, so that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
3:1 And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's
daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his
own house, and the house of Yahweh, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
3:2 Only the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was no house built for the
name of Yahweh until those days.
3:3 And Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he
sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a
thousand burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.
3:5 In Gibeon Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, ask what
I shall give you.
3:6 And Solomon said, You have shown to your servant David my father great
lovingkindness, according as he walked before you in truth, and in righteousness, and in
uprightness of heart with you; and you have kept for him this great lovingkindness, that
you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
3:7 And now, O Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my
father: and I am but a little child; I know not how to go out or come in.
3:8 And your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great
people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
3:9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may
discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?
3:10 And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
3:11 And God said to him, Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for
yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your
enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;
3:12 behold, I have done according to your word: lo, I have given you a wise and an
understanding heart; so that there has been none like you before you, neither after you
shall any arise like to you.
3:13 And I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so
that there shall not be any among the kings like to you, all your days.
3:14 And if you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as
your father David did walk, then I will lengthen your days.
3:15 And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and
stood before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and offered up burnt offerings, and
offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
3:16 Then there came two women that were harlots, to the king, and stood before him.
3:17 And the one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I
was delivered of a child with her in the house.
3:18 And it came to pass the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was
delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we
two in the house.
3:19 And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay upon it.
3:20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid
slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
3:21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but
when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear.
3:22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son.
And this said, No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke
before the king.
3:23 Then said the king, The one says, This is my son that lives, and your son is the dead:
and the other says, Nay; but your son is the dead, and my son is the living.
3:24 And the king said, Fetch me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
3:25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half
to the other.
3:26 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned
over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it.
But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.
3:27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it:
she is the mother thereof.
3:28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the
king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
4:1 And king Solomon was king over all Israel.
4:2 And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
4:3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the
recorder;
4:4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were
priests;
4:5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan
was chief minister, and the king's friend;
4:6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the
men subject to taskwork.
4:7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king
and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
4:8 And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
4:9 Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
4:10 Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him belonged Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);
4:11 Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to
wife);
4:12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is
beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond
Jokmeam;
4:13 Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him belonged the towns of Jair the son of
Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even to him belonged the region of Argob, which is in
Bashan, 60 great cities with walls and brazen bars);
4:14 Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;
4:15 Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon to wife);
4:16 Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;
4:17 Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;
4:18 Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;
4:19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the
Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer that was in the land.
4:20 Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and
drinking and making merry.
4:21 And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the
Philistines, and to the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the
days of his life.
4:22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty
measures of meal,
4:23 ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides deer,
and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
4:24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to
Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides round about
him.
4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig-tree,
from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.
4:26 And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve
thousand horsemen.
4:27 And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came to king
Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
4:28 Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they to the place where
the officers were, every man according to his charge.
4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceedingly much, and
largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
4:30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all
the wisdom of Egypt.
4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and
Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations round about.
4:32 And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
4:33 And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that
springs out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and
of fishes.
4:34 And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the
earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon; for he had heard that they had
anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
5:2 And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,
5:3 You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh
his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under
the soles of his feet.
5:4 But now Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary,
nor evil occurrence.
5:5 And, behold, I intend to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh
spoke to David my father, saying, Your son, whom I will set upon your throne in your
room, he shall build the house for my name.
5:6 Now therefore command you that they cut me cedar-trees out of Lebanon; and my
servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants
according to all that you shall say: for you know that there is not among us any that
knows how to cut timber like to the Sidonians.
5:7 And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced
greatly, and said, Blessed be Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over
this great people.
5:8 And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard the message which you have sent to
me: I will do all your desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.
5:9 My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them
into rafts to go by sea to the place that you shall appoint me, and will cause them to be
broken up there, and you shall receive them; and you shall accomplish my desire, in
giving food for my household.
5:10 So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
5:11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his
household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
5:12 And Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace
between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand
men.
5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were
in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to
taskwork.
5:15 And Solomon had 70,000 that bore burdens, and 80,000 that were hewers in the
mountains;
5:16 besides Solomon's chief officers that were over the work, 3,300, who bore rule over
the people that wrought in the work.
5:17 And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the
foundation of the house with wrought stone.
5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them,
and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel
were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in
the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Yahweh.
6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it was 60 cubits,
and the breadth of it 20 cubits, and the height of it 30 cubits.
6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, 20 cubits was the length of it,
according to the breadth of the house; and 10 cubits was the breadth of it before the
house.
6:4 And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
6:5 And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the
house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers all
around.
6:6 The lowest story was 5 cubits broad, and the middle was 6 cubits broad, and the third
was 7 cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets from the wall of the house all
round, so that the beams not have hold to the walls of the house.
6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry;
and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it
was in building.
6:8 The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they
went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.
6:9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and
planks of cedar.
6:10 And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested
on the house with timber of cedar.
6:11 And the word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,
6:12 Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes, and
execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I
establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
6:13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.
6:14 So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
6:15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the
house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he
covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.
6:16 And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from
the floor to the walls of the ceiling: he built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the
most holy place.
6:17 And the house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long.
6:18 And there was cedar on the house within, carved with bulbs and open flowers: all
was cedar; there was no stone seen.
6:19 And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh.
6:20 And within the oracle was a space of twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in
breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he
covered the altar with cedar.
6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold
across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the
whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.
6:23 And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.
6:24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the
cherub. From the furthest part of the one wing to the furthest part of the other, was ten
cubits.
6:25 And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and
one form.
6:26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and the same with the other cherub.
6:27 And he set the cherubim within the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were
stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other
cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the
house.
6:28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.
6:29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of
cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.
6:30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
6:31 And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel and door-
posts were a fifth part of the wall.
6:32 So he made two doors of olive-wood; and he carved upon them carvings of
cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread
the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm-trees.
6:33 So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of olive-wood, out of a
fourth part of the wall;
6:34 and two doors of fir-wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two
leaves of the other door were folding.
6:35 And he carved upon it cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid
them with gold fitted upon the graven work.
6:36 And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar
beams.
6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Yahweh laid, in the month Ziv.
6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the
house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So
was he seven years in building it.
7:1 And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his
house.
7:2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length of it was a hundred cubits,
and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar
pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
7:3 And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were upon
the pillars; fifteen in a row.
7:4 And there were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three
ranks.
7:5 And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over
against window in three ranks.
7:6 And he made the porch of pillars; the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of
it thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.
7:7 And he made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of
judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
7:8 And his house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like
work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken to wife),
similar to this porch.
7:9 All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, according to measure, sawed
with saws, within and without, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the
outside to the great court.
7:10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and
stones of eight cubits.
7:11 And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-
wood.
7:12 And the great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of
cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.
7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
7:14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of
Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to
work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
7:15 For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of
twelve cubits circumferred either of them.
7:16 And he made two capitals of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the
height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five
cubits.
7:17 There were nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the capitals which
were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
7:18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about upon the one network,
to cover the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other
capital.
7:19 And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work,
four cubits.
7:20 And there were capitals above also upon the two pillars, close by the belly which
was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about
upon the other capital.
7:21 And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and
called the name thereof Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof
Boaz.
7:22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars
finished.
7:23 And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and
the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits circumferred it.
7:24 And under the brim of it round about there were bulbs which did compass it, for ten
cubits, compassing the sea round about: the bulbs were in two rows, cast when it was
cast.
7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward
the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the
sea was set upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
7:26 And it was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a
cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
7:27 And he made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four
cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
7:28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were
panels between the ledges;
7:29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and
upon the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths
of hanging work.
7:30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet thereof
had undersetters: beneath the laver were the undersetters molten, with wreaths at the side
of each.
7:31 And the mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and the mouth thereof
was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of it
were gravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.
7:32 And the four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axletrees of the wheels
were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
7:33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and
their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten.
7:34 And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base: the undersetters
thereof were of the base itself.
7:35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; and on the
top of the base the stays thereof and the panels thereof were of the same.
7:36 And on the plates of the stays thereof, and on the panels thereof, he engraved
cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round
about.
7:37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure,
and one form.
7:38 And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths; and every laver
was four cubits; and upon very one of the ten bases one laver.
7:39 And he set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of
the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an
end of doing all the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of Yahweh:
7:41 the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the
pillars;
7:42 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates
for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars;
7:43 and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;
7:44 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
7:45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram
made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.
7:46 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth
and Zarethan.
7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceedingly many:
the weight of the brass could not be found out.
7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: the golden
altar, and the table upon which the showbread was, of gold;
7:49 and the candlesticks, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, of
pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
7:50 and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of
pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and
for the doors of the nave of the temple, of gold.
7:51 Thus all the work that king Solomon wrought in the house of Yahweh was finished.
And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, even the silver,
and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.
8:1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to
bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.
8:2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves to king Solomon at the feast, in the
month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.
8:3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
8:4 And they brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy
vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.
8:5 And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him,
were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor
numbered for multitude.
8:6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the
oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
8:7 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim
covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
8:8 And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place
before the oracle; but they were not seen without: and there they are to this day.
8:9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at
Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of
the land of Egypt.
8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud
filled the house of Yahweh,
8:11 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of
Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh.
8:12 Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
8:13 I have surely built you a house of habitation, a place for you to dwell in for ever.
8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the
assembly of Israel stood.
8:15 And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to
David your father, and has with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out
of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David
to be over my people Israel.
8:17 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of
Yahweh, the God of Israel.
8:18 But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house
for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:
8:19 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son that shall come forth out of
your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
8:20 And Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of
David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the
house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
8:21 And there have I set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which
he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
8:22 And Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly
of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;
8:23 and he said, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven above,
or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with your servants, that
walk before you with all their heart;
8:24 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him:
yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
8:25 Now therefore, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my
father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my
sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk
before me as you have walked before me.
8:26 Now therefore, O God of Israel, let your word, I pray you, be verified, which you
spoke to your servant David my father.
8:27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of
heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
8:28 Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, O
Yahweh my God, to hearken to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before
you this day;
8:29 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place
whereof you have said, My name shall be there; to hearken to the prayer which your
servant shall pray toward this place.
8:30 And hearken you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel,
when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear you in heaven your dwelling-place; and
when you hear, forgive.
8:31 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to
swear, and he come and swear before your altar in this house;
8:32 then hear you in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked,
to bring his way upon his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to
his righteousness.
8:33 When your people Israel are smitten down before the enemy, because they have
sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make
supplication to you in this house:
8:34 then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them
again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
8:35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you;
if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you
afflict them:
8:36 then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people
Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain upon
your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
8:37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew,
locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever
plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
8:38 whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel,
who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward
this house:
8:39 then hear you in heaven your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to
every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only,
know the hearts of all the children of men;)
8:40 that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our
fathers.
8:41 Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of your people Israel, when he shall
come out of a far country for your name's sake
8:42 (for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your
outstretched arm); when he shall come and pray toward this house;
8:43 hear you in heaven your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner
calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as
does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is
called by my name.
8:44 If your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatsoever way you shall
send them, and they pray to Yahweh toward the city which you have chosen, and toward
the house which I have built for your name;
8:45 then hear you in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
8:46 If they sin against you (for there is no man that sins not), and you be angry with
them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to the land of
the enemy, far off or near;
8:47 yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and
turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of them that carried them captive,
saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;
8:48 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their
enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to
their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your
name:
8:49 then hear you their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling-place, and
maintain their cause;
8:50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in
which they have transgressed against you; and give them compassion before those who
carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them
8:51 (for they are your people, and your inheritance, which you brought forth out of
Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);
8:52 that your eyes may be open to the supplication of your servant, and to the
supplication of your people Israel, to hearken to them whenever they cry to you.
8:53 For you did separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be your
inheritance, as you spoke by Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of
Egypt, O Lord Yahweh.
8:54 And it was so, that, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and
supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling on his
knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.
8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
8:56 Blessed be Yahweh, that has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he
promised: there has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by
Moses his servant.
8:57 Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor
forsake us;
8:58 that he may incline our hearts to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and his statutes, and his ordinances, which he commanded our fathers.
8:59 And let these my words, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be
near to Yahweh our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the
cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;
8:60 that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; there is none
else.
8:61 Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes,
and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
8:62 And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
8:63 And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to
Yahweh, two and twenty thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So
the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Yahweh.
8:64 The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house
of Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of
the peace offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Yahweh was too little to
receive the burnt offering, and the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.
8:65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly,
from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days
and seven days, even fourteen days.
8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to
their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David
his servant, and to Israel his people.
9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of
Yahweh, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
9:2 that Yahweh appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at
Gibeon.
9:3 And Yahweh said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication, that you
have made before me: I have hallowed this house, which you have built, to put my name
there for ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
9:4 And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, in integrity
of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will
keep my statutes and my ordinances;
9:5 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel for ever, according as I
promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man upon the throne of
Israel.
9:6 But if ye shall turn away from following me, ye or your children, and not keep my
commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other
gods, and worship them;
9:7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house,
which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a
proverb and a byword among all peoples.
9:8 And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passes by it be astonished,
and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this
house?
9:9 and they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought forth
their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them,
and served them: therefore has Yahweh brought all this evil upon them.
9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the
two houses, the house of Yahweh and the king's house
9:11 (now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar-trees and fir-trees,
and with gold, according to all his desire), that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty
cities in the land of Galilee.
9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and
they pleased him not.
9:13 And he said, What cities are these which you have given me, my brother? And he
called them the land of Cabul to this day.
9:14 And Hiram sent to the king 120 talants of gold.
9:15 And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of
Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and
Megiddo, and Gezer.
9:16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and
slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter,
Solomon's wife.
9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
9:18 and Baalath, and Tamar in the wilderness, in the land,
9:19 and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and the cities for his chariots, and the cities
for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem,
and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
9:20 As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;
9:21 their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were
not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondservants; but they were the
men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots
and of his horsemen.
9:23 These were the chief officers that were over Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty,
who bore rule over the people that wrought in the work.
9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David to her house which
Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.
9:25 And three times a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon
the altar which he built to Yahweh, burning incense with it, upon the altar that was
before Yahweh. So he finished the house.
9:26 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on
the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
9:27 And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea,
with the servants of Solomon.
9:28 And they came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty
talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
10:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of
Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.
10:2 And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and
very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she
communed with him of all that was in her heart.
10:3 And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not anything hid from the king
which he told her not.
10:4 And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house
that he had built,
10:5 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his
ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up to
the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.
10:6 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your
acts, and of your wisdom.
10:7 But I believed not the words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it: and, behold, the
half was not told me; your wisdom and prosperity exceed the fame which I heard.
10:8 Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, that stand continually before
you, and that hear your wisdom.
10:9 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on the throne of
Israel: because Yahweh loved Israel for ever, therefore made he you king, to do justice
and righteousness.
10:10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very
great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these
which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
10:11 And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir
great plenty of almug-trees and precious stones.
10:12 And the king made of the almug-trees pillars for the house of Yahweh, and for the
king's house, harps also and psalteries for the singers: there came no such almug-trees,
nor were seen, to this day.
10:13 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she
asked, besides that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty. So she turned, and
went to her own land, she and her servants.
10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred 66
talants of gold,
10:15 besides that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all
the kings of the mingled people, and of the governors of the country.
10:16 And king Solomon made 200 bucklers of beaten gold; 600 shekels of gold went to
one buckler.
10:17 And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; 3 pounds of gold went to one shield: and
the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest
gold.
10:19 There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and
there were stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the
stays.
10:20 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps:
there was not the like made in any kingdom.
10:21 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the
house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing
accounted of in the days of Solomon.
10:22 For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three
years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
10:23 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
10:24 And all the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God
had put in his heart.
10:25 And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and
raiment, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
10:26 And Solomon gathered together chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and
four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot
cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
10:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as
the sycamore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
10:28 And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's
merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and
a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of
Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
11:1 Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of
Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
11:2 of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, You shall not
go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your
heart after their gods: Solomon clave to these in love.
11:3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his
wives turned his heart away.
11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart
after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of
David his father.
11:5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom
the abomination of the Ammonites.
11:6 And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and went not fully
after Yahweh, as did David his father.
11:7 Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the
mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of
Ammon.
11:8 And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their
gods.
11:9 And Yahweh was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from
Yahweh, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice,
11:10 and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other
gods: but he kept not that which Yahweh commanded.
11:11 Wherefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done by you, and you
have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely
rend the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
11:12 Notwithstanding in your days I will not do it, for David your father's sake: but I
will rend it out of the hand of your son.
11:13 But, I will not rend away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for
David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
11:14 And Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the
king's seed in Edom.
11:15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was
gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom
11:16 (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male
in Edom);
11:17 that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go
into Egypt, Hadad being yet a little child.
11:18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out
of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and
appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
11:19 And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife
the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
11:20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in
Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.
11:21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the
captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to my
own country.
11:22 Then Pharaoh said to him, But what have you lacked with me, that, behold, you
seek to go to your own country? And he answered, Nothing: nevertheless, let me
depart.
11:23 And God raised up another adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had
fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.
11:24 And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a troop, when David slew
them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief
that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.
11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon,
whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.
11:27 And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built
Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.
11:28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young
man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labor of the house of
Joseph.
11:29 And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the
prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; now Ahijah had clad himself with a
new garment; and they two were alone in the field.
11:30 And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve
pieces.
11:31 And he said to Jeroboam, Take you ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten
tribes to you
11:32 (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David's sake and for Jerusalem's sake,
the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);
11:33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of
the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of
Ammon; and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and
to keep my statutes and my ordinances, as did David his father.
11:34 However, I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him
prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my
commandments and my statutes;
11:35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, even ten
tribes.
11:36 And to his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp alway
before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
11:37 And I will take you, and you shall reign according to all that your soul desires, and
shall be king over Israel.
11:38 And it shall be, if you will hearken to all that I command you, and will walk in my
ways, and do that which is right in my eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments,
as David my servant did; that I will be with you, and will build you a sure house, as I
built for David, and will give Israel to you.
11:39 And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.
11:40 Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into
Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.
11:41 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they
not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
11:42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
11:43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father:
and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him
king.
12:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in
Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in
Egypt,
12:3 and they sent and called him), that Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came,
and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
12:4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service
of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you.
12:5 And he said to them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the
people departed.
12:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon
his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this
people?
12:7 And they spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this people this day, and
will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your
servants for ever.
12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took
counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.
12:9 And he said to them, What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this
people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father did put upon us
lighter?
12:10 And the young men that were grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall
you say to this people that spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but
make you it lighter to us; thus shall you speak to them, My little finger is thicker than my
father's loins.
12:11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your
yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king
commanded, saying, Come to me again the third day.
12:13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men
which they had given him,
12:14 and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, My father
made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with
whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
12:15 So the king did not listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about by
Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh had spoken by Ahijah the
Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
12:16 And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered
the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the
son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel: now see to your own house, David. So Israel
departed to their tents.
12:17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned
over them.
12:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to taskwork;
and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And king Rehoboam made speed to get
him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
12:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
12:20 And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they
sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was
none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
12:21 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah,
and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men, that were warriors, to fight against the
house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
12:22 But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
12:23 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of
Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,
12:24 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the
children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they
hearkened to the word of Yahweh, and returned and went their way, according to the
word of Yahweh.
12:25 Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein;
and he went out from there, and built Penuel.
12:26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, Now will the kingdom return to the house of
David:
12:27 if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then
will the heart of this people turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and
they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to
them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold your gods, O Israel, which
brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
12:29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan.
12:30 And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even to
Dan.
12:31 And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people,
that were not of the sons of Levi.
12:32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the
month, like to the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Beth-el,
sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high
places that he had made.
12:33 And he went up to the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day in
the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he
ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
13:1 And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of Yahweh to Beth-
el: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
13:2 And he cried against the altar by the word of Yahweh, and said, O altar, altar, thus
says Yahweh: Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, Josiah by name; and
upon you shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon you, and
men's bones shall they burn upon you.
13:3 And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which Yahweh has
spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.
13:4 And it came to pass, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he
cried against the altar in Beth-el, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the altar, saying,
Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he
could not draw it back again to him.
13:5 The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the
sign which the man of God had given by the word of Yahweh.
13:6 And the king answered and said to the man of God, Entreat now the favor of
Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the
man of God entreated Yahweh, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became
as it was before.
13:7 And the king said to the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh yourself, and
I will give you a reward.
13:8 And the man of God said to the king, If you will give me half your house, I will not
go in with you, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place;
13:9 for so was it charged me by the word of Yahweh, saying, You shall eat no bread, nor
drink water, neither return by the way that you came.
13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el.
13:11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and told him
all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had
spoken to the king, them also they told to their father.
13:12 And their father said to them, What way went he? Now his sons had seen what
way the man of God went, that came from Judah.
13:13 And he said to his sons, Saddle me the donkey. So they saddled him the donkey;
and he rode upon it.
13:14 And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said
to him, are you the man of God that came from Judah? And he said, I am.
13:15 Then he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.
13:16 And he said, I may not return with you, nor go in with you; neither will I eat bread
nor drink water with you in this place:
13:17 for it was said to me by the word of Yahweh, You shall eat no bread nor drink
water there, nor turn again to go by the way that you came.
13:18 And he said to him, I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the
word of Yahweh, saying, Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread
and drink water. But he lied to him.
13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.
13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of Yahweh came to the
prophet that brought him back;
13:21 and he cried to the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh,
Forasmuch as you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the
commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,
13:22 but came back, and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said
to you, Eat no bread, and drink no water; your body shall not come to the sepulchre of
your fathers.
13:23 And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he
saddled for him the donkey, that is, for the prophet whom he had brought back.
13:24 And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his body
was cast in the way, and the donkey stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.
13:25 And, behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion
standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said,
It is the man of God, who was disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh: therefore Yahweh
has delivered him to the lion, which has torn him, and slain him, according to the word of
Yahweh, which he spoke to him.
13:27 And he spoke to his sons, saying, Saddle me the donkey. And they saddled it.
13:28 And he went and found his body cast in the way, and the donkey and the lion
standing by the body: the lion had not eaten the body, nor torn the donkey.
13:29 And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it upon the donkey,
and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury
him.
13:30 And he laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, alas,
my brother!
13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying,
When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre in which the man of God is buried; lay
my bones beside his bones.
13:32 For the saying which he cried by the word of Yahweh against the altar in Beth-el,
and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall
surely come to pass.
13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from
among all the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him,
that there might be priests of the high places.
13:34 And this thing became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to
destroy it from off the face of the earth.
14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, arise, I pray you, and disguise yourself, that you be
not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and go to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the
prophet, who spoke concerning me that I should be king over this people.
14:3 And take with you ten loaves, and cakes, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he
will tell you what shall become of the child.
14:4 And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of
Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.
14:5 And Yahweh said to Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam comes to inquire of you
concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shall you say to her; for it will be, when
she comes in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.
14:6 And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door,
that he said, Come in, you wife of Jeroboam; why do you pretend to be another? for I
am sent to you with heavy tidings.
14:7 Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Forasmuch as I exalted you
from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,
14:8 and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to you; and yet you
have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me
with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,
14:9 but have done evil above all that were before you, and have gone and made you
other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your
back:
14:10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off
from Jeroboam every man-child, him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel,
and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung, till it be
all gone.
14:11 Him that dies of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dies in the
field shall the birds of the heavens eat: for Yahweh has spoken it.
14:12 Arise therefore, go to your house: and when your feet enter into the city, the child
shall die.
14:13 And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall
come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the
God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.
14:14 Moreover Yahweh will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house
of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.
14:15 For Yahweh will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up
Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond
the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Yahweh to anger.
14:16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned,
and with which he has made Israel to sin.
14:17 And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and as she came to
the threshold of the house, the child died.
14:18 And all Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh,
which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.
14:19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold,
they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
14:20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept
with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.
14:21 And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and
one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the
city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and
his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
14:22 And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him
to jealousy with their sins which they committed, beyond all that their fathers had done.
14:23 For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill,
and under every green tree;
14:24 and there were also sodomites in the land: they did according to all the
abominations of the nations which Yahweh drove out before the children of Israel.
14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem;
14:26 and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the
king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which
Solomon had made.
14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to
the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king's house.
14:28 And it was so, that, as oft as the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guard
bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.
14:29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
14:30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
14:31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
David: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. And Abijam his son
reigned in his stead.
15:1 Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to
reign over Judah.
15:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the
daughter of Abishalom.
15:3 And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his
heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father.
15:4 Nevertheless for David's sake did Yahweh his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to
set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;
15:5 because David did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and turned not aside
from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of
Uriah the Hittite.
15:6 Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
15:7 And the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and
Jeroboam.
15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa
his son reigned in his stead.
15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.
15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was
Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, as did David his father.
15:12 And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his
fathers had made.
15:13 And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made
an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the
brook Kidron.
15:14 But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect
with Yahweh all his days.
15:15 And he brought into the house of Yahweh the things that his father had dedicated,
and the things that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
15:16 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
15:17 And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might
not allow any one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
15:18 Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house
of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his
servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of
Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
15:19 There is a league between me and you, between my father and your father: behold,
I have sent to you a present of silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of
Israel, that he may depart from me.
15:20 And Ben-hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against
the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth,
with all the land of Naphtali.
15:21 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah,
and dwelt in Tirzah.
15:22 Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they
carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber from it, with which Baasha had built;
and king Asa used them to build Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
15:23 Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the
cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
15:24 And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David
his father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.
15:25 And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of
Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.
15:26 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and walked in the way of
his father, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
15:27 And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and
Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab and all
Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.
15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his
stead.
15:29 And it came to pass that, as soon as he was king, he smote all the house of
Jeroboam: he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him;
according to the saying of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite;
15:30 for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin,
because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.
15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15:32 And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
15:33 In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over
all Israel in Tirzah, and reigned twenty and four years.
Jeroboam, and in his sin with which he made Israel to sin.
16:1 And the word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,
16:2 Forasmuch as I exalted you out of the dust, and made you prince over my people
Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam, and have made my people Israel to
sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
16:3 behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make your house
like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
16:4 Him that dies of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dies of his in the
field shall the birds of the heavens eat.
16:5 Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16:6 And Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son
16:7 And moreover by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of Yahweh
against Baasha, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight
of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house
of Jeroboam, and because he smote him.
16:8 In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to
reign over Israel in Tirzah, and reigned two years.
16:9 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he
was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household
in Tirzah:
16:10 and Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of
Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.
16:11 And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that
he smote all the house of Baasha: he left him not a single man-child, neither of his
kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
16:12 Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Yahweh,
which he spoke against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
16:13 for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with
which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their
vanities.
16:14 Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16:15 In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in
Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the
Philistines.
16:16 And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri has conspired, and has also
smitten the king: therefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel
that day in the camp.
16:17 And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged
Tirzah.
16:18 And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the
castle of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,
16:19 for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, in
walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
16:20 Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not
16:21 Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed
Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.
16:22 But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni
the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.
16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, and
reigned twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
16:24 And he bought the hill Samaria of Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on
the hill, and called the name of the city which he built, after the name of Shemer, the
owner of the hill, Samaria.
16:25 And Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and dealt wickedly
above all that were before him.
16:26 For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with
which he made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their
vanities.
16:27 Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he shown, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son
16:29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri
to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and
two years.
16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh above all
that were before him.
16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of
the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.
16:32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in
Samaria.
16:33 And Ahab made the Asherah; and Ahab did yet more to provoke Yahweh, the God
of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
16:34 In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof with
the loss of Abiram his first-born, and set up the gates thereof with the loss of his youngest
son Segub, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
17:1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, as
Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain
these years, but according to my word.
17:2 And the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
17:3 Get yourself away from here, and turn you eastward, and hide yourself by the brook
Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
17:4 And it shall be, that you shall drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens
to feed you there.
17:5 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and dwelt by the
brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.
17:6 And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in
the evening; and he drank of the brook.
17:7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain
in the land.
17:8 And the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
17:9 Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have
commanded a widow there to sustain you.
17:10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city,
behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I
pray you, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
17:11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray you, a
morsel of bread in your hand.
17:12 And she said, as Yahweh your God lives, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal
in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may
go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
17:13 And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go and do as you have said; but make me thereof a
little cake first, and bring it forth to me, and afterward make for you and for your son.
17:14 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, The jar of meal shall not waste, neither
shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain upon the earth.
17:15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her
house, did eat many days.
17:16 The jar of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word
of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah.
17:17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of
the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
17:18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O you man of God? you are
come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son!
17:19 And he said to her, Give me your son. And he took him out of her bosom, and
carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
17:20 And he cried to Yahweh, and said, O Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil
upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
17:21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and
said, O Yahweh my God, I pray you, let this child's soul come into him again.
17:22 And Yahweh hearkened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into
him again, and he revived.
17:23 And Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the
house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, See, your son lives.
17:24 And the woman said to Elijah, Now I know that you are a man of God, and that the
word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.
18:1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah, in the
third year, saying, Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
18:2 And Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.
18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah, who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared
Yahweh greatly:
18:4 for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Yahweh, that Obadiah took a
hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
18:5 And Ahab said to Obadiah, Go through the land, to all the fountains of water, and to
all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that
we lose not all the beasts.
18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by
himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
18:7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell
on his face, and said, Is it you, my lord Elijah?
18:8 And he answered him, It is I: go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
18:9 And he said, In what way have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the
hand of Ahab, to slay me?
18:10 As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord has not
sent to seek you: and when they said, He is not here, he took an oath of the kingdom and
nation, that they found you not.
18:11 And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
18:12 And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from you, that the Spirit of Yahweh
will carry you whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find
you, he will slay me: but I your servant fear Yahweh from my youth.
18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Yahweh, how
I hid a hundred men of Yahweh's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and
water?
18:14 And now you say, Go, tell your lord, Behold, Elijah is here; and he will slay me.
18:15 And Elijah said, as Yahweh of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show
myself to him today.
18:16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.
18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said to him, Is it you, you
troubler of Israel?
18:18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in
that ye have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baalim.
18:19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel to mount Carmel, and the prophets
of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the Asherah four hundred, that eat at
Jezebel's table.
18:20 So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together to
mount Carmel.
18:21 And Elijah came near to all the people, and said, How long go ye limping between
the two sides? if Yahweh be God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him. And the
people answered him not a word.
18:22 Then said Elijah to the people, I, even I only, am left a prophet of Yahweh; but
Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
18:23 Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for
themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under; and I will
dress the other bullock, and lay it on the wood, and put no fire under.
18:24 And call ye on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh; and
the God that answers by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is
well spoken.
18:25 And Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves,
and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under.
18:26 And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on
the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was
no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped about the altar which was made.
18:27 And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud; for he
is a god: either he is musing, or he is gone aside, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he
sleeps and must be awaked.
18:28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and
lances, till the blood gushed out upon them.
18:29 And it was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the
offering of the evening oblation; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any
that regarded.
18:30 And Elijah said to all the people, Come near to me; and all the people came near to
him. And he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was thrown down.
18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of
Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, Israel shall be your name.
18:32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench
about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
18:33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid it on the
wood. And he said, Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on
the wood.
18:34 And he said, Do it the second time; and they did it the second time. And he said,
Do it the third time; and they did it the third time.
18:35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
18:36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening oblation, that Elijah
the prophet came near, and said, O Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel,
let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I
have done all these things at your word.
18:37 Hear me, O Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are
God, and that you have turned their heart back again.
18:38 Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and
the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
18:39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Yahweh, he
is God; Yahweh, he is God.
18:40 and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape.
And they took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them
there.
18:41 And Elijah said to Ahab, Get you up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of
abundance of rain.
18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel;
and he bowed himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees.
18:43 And he said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and
looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
18:44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there arises a cloud
out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Make ready
your chariot, and go down, that the rain stop you not.
18:45 And it came to pass in a little while, that the heavens grew black with clouds and
wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel:
18:46 and the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before
Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
19:1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and withal how he had slain all the
prophets with the sword.
19:2 Then Jezebel send a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more
also, if I make not your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.
19:3 And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba,
which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
19:4 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down
under a juniper-tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is
enough; now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
19:5 And he lay down and slept under a juniper-tree; and, behold, an angel touched him,
and said to him, arise and eat.
19:6 And he looked, and, behold, there was at his head a cake baken on the coals, and a
cruse of water. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.
19:7 And the angel of Yahweh came again the second time, and touched him, and said,
arise and eat, because the journey is too great for you.
19:8 And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that food forty days
and forty nights to Horeb the mount of God.
19:9 And he came there to a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of Yahweh
came to him, and he said to him, What do you here, Elijah?
19:10 And he said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts; for the
children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your
prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it
away.
19:11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mountain before Yahweh. And,
behold, Yahweh passed by. And a great and strong wind ripped the mountains, and
broke into pieces the rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. And after
the wind an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake.
19:12 And after the earthquake a fire; but Yahweh was not in the fire. And after the fire,
there was a still, small voice.
19:13 And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and
went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice to him
and said, What are you doing here, Elijah?
19:14 And he said, I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of hosts. Because the
children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your
prophets with the sword; and I, even only I, am left; and they are seeking my life, to take
it away.
19:15 And Yahweh said to him, Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus:
and when you come, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria;
19:16 and Jehu the son of Nimshi shall you anoint to be king over Israel; and Elisha the
son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shall you anoint to be prophet in your room.
19:17 And it shall come to pass, that him that escapes from the sword of Hazael shall
Jehu slay; and him that escapes from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
19:18 Yet will I leave me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed to
Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.
19:19 So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with
twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him,
and cast his mantle upon him.
19:20 And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray you, kiss my
father and my mother, and then I will follow you. And he said to him, Go back again;
for what have I done to you?
19:21 And he returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and slew them,
and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they
did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered to him.
20:1 And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there were thirty
and two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria,
and fought against it.
20:2 And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said to him, Thus
says Ben-hadad,
20:3 Your silver and your gold is mine; your wives also and your children, even the
goodliest, are mine.
20:4 And the king of Israel answered and said, It is according to your saying, my lord, O
king; I am yours, and all that I have.
20:5 And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaks Ben-hadad, saying, I sent
indeed to you, saying, You shall deliver me your silver, and your gold, and your wives,
and your children;
20:6 but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they shall search
your house, and the houses of your servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in
your eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.
20:7 Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you,
and see how this man seeks mischief: for he sent to me for my wives, and for my
children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.
20:8 And all the elders and all the people said to him, Hearken you not, neither consent.
20:9 Wherefore he said to the messengers of Ben-hadad, Tell my lord the king, all that
you did send for to your servant at the first I will do; but this thing I may not do. And
the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
20:10 And Ben-hadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also, if the
dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girds on his
armor boast himself as he that puts it off.
20:12 And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he
and the kings, in the pavilions, that he said to his servants, Set yourselves in array. And
they set themselves in array against the city.
20:13 And, behold, a prophet came near to Ahab king of Israel, and said, Thus says
Yahweh, Have you seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into your hand
this day; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
20:14 And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus says Yahweh, By the young men
of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? And he
answered, You.
20:15 Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were
two hundred and thirty-two: and after them he mustered all the people, even all the
children of Israel, being seven thousand.
20:16 And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the
pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.
20:17 And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad
sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out from Samaria.
20:18 And he said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive, or whether they
are come out for war, taken them alive.
20:19 So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and
the army which followed them.
20:20 And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them:
and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.
20:21 And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the
Syrians with a great slaughter.
20:22 And the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said to him, Go, strengthen
yourself, and mark, and see what you do; for at the return of the year the king of Syria
will come up against you.
20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria said to him, Their god is a god of the hills;
therefore they were stronger than we: but let us fight against them in the plain, and surely
we shall be stronger than they.
20:24 And do this: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in
their room;
20:25 and number yourself an army, like the army that you have lost, horse for horse, and
chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be
stronger than they. And he hearkened to their voice, and did so.
20:26 And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians,
and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.
20:27 And the children of Israel were mustered, and were victualled, and went against
them: and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but
the Syrians filled the country.
20:28 And a man of God came near and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, Thus says
Yahweh, Because the Syrians have said, Yahweh is a god of the hills, but he is not a god
of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and ye shall
20:29 And they encamped one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in
the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians a
hundred thousand footmen in one day.
20:30 But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven
thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner
chamber.
20:31 And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the
house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray you, put sackcloth on our loins, and
ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save your
life.
20:32 So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to
the king of Israel, and said, Your servant Ben-hadad says, I pray you, let me live. And
he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
20:33 Now the men observed diligently, and hasted to catch whether it were his mind;
and they said, Your brother Ben-hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben-
hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.
20:34 And Ben-hadad said to him, The cities which my father took from your father I
will restore; and you shall make streets for you in Damascus, as my father made in
Samaria. And I, said Ahab, will let you go with this covenant. So he made a covenant
with him, and let him go.
20:35 And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by the word of
Yahweh, Smite me, I pray you. And the man refused to smite him.
20:36 Then said he to him, Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, behold, as
soon as you are departed from me, a lion shall slay you. And as soon as he was
departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
20:37 Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray you. And the man smote
him, smiting and wounding him.
20:38 So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself
with his headband over his eyes.
20:39 And as the king passed by, he cried to the king; and he said, Your servant went out
into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man to me,
and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall your life be for his
life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.
20:40 And as your servant was busy here and there, he was gone. And the king of Israel
said to him, So shall your judgment be; you yourself have decided it.
20:41 And he hasted, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel
discerned him that he was of the prophets.
20:42 And he said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have let go out of your hand
the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore your life shall go for his life, and
your people for his people.
20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to
Samaria.
21:1 And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard,
which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
21:2 And Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a
garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard
than it: or, if it seems good to you, I will give you the worth of it in money.
21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, Yahweh forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of
my fathers to you.
21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which
Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give you the
inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his
face, and would eat no bread.
21:5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is your spirit so sad, that
you eat no bread?
21:6 And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite, and said to him, Give
me your vineyard for money; or else, if it please you, I will give you another vineyard for
it: and he answered, I will not give you my vineyard.
21:7 And Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise,
and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the
Jezreelite.
21:8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the
letters to the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth.
21:9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among
the people:
21:10 and set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them bear witness against him,
saying, You did curse God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him to
death.
21:11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as
Jezebel had sent to them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent to
them.
21:12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
21:13 And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base
fellows bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people,
saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city,
and stoned him to death with stones.
21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
21:15 And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead,
that Jezebel said to Ahab, arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite,
which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.
21:16 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to
go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
21:17 And the word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
21:18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria: behold, he is
in the vineyard of Naboth, where he is gone down to take possession of it.
21:19 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Have you killed and also
taken possession? And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus says Yahweh, In the place
where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours.
21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you found me, O my enemy? And he answered, I
have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of
Yahweh.
21:21 Behold, I will bring evil upon you, and will utterly sweep you away, and I will cut
off from Ahab every man-child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in
Israel:
21:22 and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like
the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have
provoked me to anger, and have caused Israel to sin.
21:23 And about Jezebel also, Yahweh spoke, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the
rampart of Jezreel.
21:24 Him that dies of the family of Ahab, in the city the dogs shall eat; and that dies in
the field the birds of the heaven shall eat.
21:25 (But there was none of them like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil
in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
21:26 And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites
did, whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.)
21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put
sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
21:28 And the word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,
21:29 See how Ahab is humbling himself before me? because he humbles himself
before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but rather in his son's days will I bring the
evil upon his house.
22:1 And they continued three years without war between Syria and Israel.
22:2 And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down
to the king of Israel.
22:3 And the king of Israel said to his servants, Know ye that Ramoth-gilead is ours, and
we are still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?
22:4 And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are, my people as your people, my
horses as your horses.
22:5 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire first, I pray you, for the word of
Yahweh.
22:6 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and
said to them, Shall I go against Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they
said, Go up; for the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
22:7 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may
inquire of him?
22:8 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, there is yet one man by whom we may
inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah: but I hate him; for he does not prophesy
good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
22:9 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of
Imlah.
22:10 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his
throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and
all the prophets were prophesying before them.
22:11 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says
Yahweh, With these shall you push the Syrians, until they be consumed.
22:12 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper;
for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.
22:13 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold now, the
words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth: let your word, I pray
you, be like the word of one of them, and speak good.
22:14 And Micaiah said, as Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that will I speak.
22:15 And when he was come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to
Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go up and prosper;
and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.
22:16 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me
nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?
22:17 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no
shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his
house in peace.
22:18 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell you that he would not
prophesy good concerning me, but evil?
22:19 And Micaiah said, Therefore hear you the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting
on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
22:20 And Yahweh said, Who shall entice Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-
gilead? And one said on this manner; and another said on that manner.
22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, I will entice him.
22:22 And Yahweh said to him, With which? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a
lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall entice him, and
shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.
22:23 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your
prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.
22:24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek,
and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?
22:25 And Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an
inner chamber to hide yourself.
22:26 And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the
governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
22:27 and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread
of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
22:28 And Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.
And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.
22:29 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
22:30 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the
battle; but put you on your robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went
into the battle.
22:31 Now the king of Syria had commanded the thirty and two captains of his chariots,
saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
22:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they
said, Surely it is the king of Israel; and they turned aside to fight against him: and
Jehoshaphat cried out.
22:33 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king
of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
22:34 And a certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between
the joints of the armor: therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, Turn your hand, and
carry me out of the host; for I am sore wounded.
22:35 And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against
the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the
chariot.
22:36 And there went a cry throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying,
Every man to his city, and every man to his country.
22:37 So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.
22:38 And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his
blood (now the harlots washed themselves there); according to the word of Yahweh
which he spoke.
22:39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he
built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of
the kings of Israel?
22:40 So Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
22:41 And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of
Ahab king of Israel.
22:42 Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of
Shilhi.
22:43 And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; He turned not aside from it, doing
that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh: however, the high places were not taken
away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
22:44 And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
22:45 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he
warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
22:46 And the remnant of the sodomites, that remained in the days of his father Asa, he
put away out of the land.
22:47 And there was no king in Edom: a deputy was king.
22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for
the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.
22:49 Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with your
servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.
22:50 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city
of David his father; And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
22:51 Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth
year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, in
which he made Israel to sin.
22:53 And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger Yahweh, the God
of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
End of 1 Kings
The Second Book of Kings
2 Kings
1:1 And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.
1:2 And Ahaziah fell down through the lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria,
and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said to them, Go, inquire of Baal-zebub, the
god of Ekron, whether I shall recover of this sickness.
1:3 But the angel of Yahweh said to Elijah the Tishbite, arise, go up to meet the
messengers of the king of Samaria, and say to them, Is it because there is no God in
Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?
1:4 Now therefore thus says Yahweh, You shall not come down from the bed whither you
are gone up, but shall surely die. And Elijah departed.
1:5 And the messengers returned to him, and he said to them, Why is it that ye are
returned?
1:6 And they said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again
to the king that sent you, and say to him, Thus says Yahweh, Is it because there is no God
in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? therefore you shall
not come down from the bed whither you are gone up, but shall surely die.
1:7 And he said to them, What manner of man was he that came up to meet you, and told
you these words?
1:8 And they answered him, He was a hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about
his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.
1:9 Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him:
and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he spoke to him, O man of God,
the king has said, Come down.
1:10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire
come down from heaven, and consume you and your fifty. And there came down fire
from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
1:11 And again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. And he answered
and said to him, O man of God, thus has the king said, Come down quickly.
1:12 And Elijah answered and said to them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down
from heaven, and consume you and your fifty. And the fire of God came down from
heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.
1:13 And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of
fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said to
him, O man of God, I pray you, let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be
precious in your sight.
1:14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains
of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight.
1:15 And the angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him.
And he arose, and went down with him to the king.
1:16 And he said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Forasmuch as you have sent messengers to
inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire
of his word? therefore you shall not come down from the bed whither you are gone up,
but shall surely die.
1:17 So he died according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken. And
Jehoram began to reign in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat
king of Judah; because he had no son.
1:18 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
2:1 And it came to pass, when Yahweh would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven,
that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.
2:2 And Elijah said to Elisha, Tarry here, I pray you; for Yahweh has sent me as far as
Beth-el. And Elisha said, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.
So they went down to Beth-el.
2:3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said to
him, Know you that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today? And he
said, Yes, I know it; hold ye your peace.
2:4 And Elijah said to him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray you; for Yahweh has sent me to
Jericho. And he said, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So
they came to Jericho.
2:5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to
him, Know you that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today? And he
answered, Yes, I know it; hold ye your peace.
2:6 And Elijah said to him, Tarry here, I pray you; for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan.
And he said, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. And they two
went on.
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2:7 And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood over against them afar
off: and they two stood by the Jordan.
2:8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they
were divided here and there, so that they two went over on dry ground.
2:9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said to Elisha, ask what I
shall do for you, before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, I pray you, let a double
portion of your spirit be upon me.
2:10 And he said, You have asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if you see me when I am
taken from you, it shall be so to you; but if not, it shall not be so.
2:11 And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a
chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by
a whirlwind into heaven.
2:12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the
horsemen thereof! And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and
rent them in two pieces.
2:13 He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by
the bank of the Jordan.
2:14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said,
Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they
were divided here and there; and Elisha went over.
2:15 And when the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho over against him saw him,
they said, The spirit of Elijah does rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and
bowed themselves to the ground before him.
2:16 And they said to him, Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men; let
them go, we pray you, and seek your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has taken him up,
and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, You shall not
send.
2:17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore
fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
2:18 And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho; and he said to them, Did I
not say to you, Go not?
2:19 And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, we pray you, the situation of this city
is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the land miscarrieth.
2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to
him.
2:21 And he went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said, Thus
says Yahweh, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from there any more death or
miscarrying.
2:22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he
spoke.
2:23 And he went up from there to Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there
came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you
baldhead; go up, you baldhead.
2:24 And he looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh.
And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and mauled 42 lads of them.
2:25 And he went from there to mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.
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"sons of the prophets" means the brotherhood or community of prophets.
3:1 Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth
year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
3:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, but not like his father, and
like his mother; for he put away the pillar of Baal that his father had made.
3:3 Nevertheless he cleaved to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he
made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
3:4 Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master; and he rendered to the king of Israel
the wool of a hundred thousand lambs, and of a hundred thousand rams.
3:5 But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the
king of Israel.
3:6 And king Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.
3:7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has
rebelled against me: will you go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go
up: I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
3:8 And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way of the
wilderness of Edom.
3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they
made a circuit of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, nor for the
beasts that followed them.
3:10 And the king of Israel said, alas! for Yahweh has called these three kings together to
deliver them into the hand of Moab.
3:11 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of
Yahweh by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Elisha the
son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.
3:12 And Jehoshaphat said, The word of Yahweh is with him. So the king of Israel and
Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
3:13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the
prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother. And the king of Israel said
to him, Nay; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the
hand of Moab.
3:14 And Elisha said, as Yahweh of hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not
that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you,
nor see you.
3:15 But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that
the hand of Yahweh came upon him.
3:16 And he said, Thus says Yahweh, Make this valley full of trenches.
3:17 For thus says Yahweh, You shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that
valley shall be filled with water, and ye shall drink, both ye and your cattle and your
beasts.
3:18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of Yahweh: he will also deliver the Moabites
into your hand.
3:19 And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every
good tree, and stop all fountains of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
3:20 And it came to pass in the morning, about the time of offering the oblation, that,
behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.
3:21 Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them,
they gathered themselves together, all that were able to put on armor, and upward, and
stood on the border.
3:22 And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the
Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood:
3:23 and they said, This is blood; the kings are surely destroyed, and they have smitten
each man his fellow: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.
3:24 And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the
Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the
Moabites.
3:25 And they beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land they cast every man
his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good
trees, until only in Kir-hareseth had they left the stones thereof; but even it the slingers
went about, and attacked it.
3:26 And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with
him seven hundred men that drew sword, to break through to the king of Edom; but they
could not.
3:27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him
for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel: and they
departed from him, and returned to their own land.
4:1 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha,
saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear
Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondmen.
4:2 And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for you? tell me; what have you in the
house? And she said, Your handmaid has not anything in the house, save a pot of oil.
4:3 Then he said, Go, borrow you vessels abroad of all your neighbors, even empty
vessels; borrow not a few.
4:4 And you shall go in, and shut the door upon you and upon your sons, and pour out
into all those vessels; and you shall set aside that which is full.
4:5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons; they brought
the vessels to her, and she poured out.
4:6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet
a vessel. And he said to her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
4:7 Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay your
debt, and live you and your sons of the rest.
4:8 And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she
constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in
there to eat bread.
4:9 And she said to her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God,
that passes by us continually.
4:10 Let us make, I pray you, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a
bed, and a table, and a seat, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he comes to us, that
he shall turn in there.
4:11 And it fell on a day, that he came there, and he turned into the chamber and lay
there.
4:12 And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called
her, she stood before him.
4:13 And he said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all
this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the
captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among my own people.
4:14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she
has no son, and her husband is old.
4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.
4:16 And he said, at this season, when the time comes round, you shall embrace a son.
And she said, Nay, my lord, you man of God, do not lie to your handmaid.
4:17 And the woman conceived, and bore a son at that season, when the time came
round, as Elisha had said to her.
4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the
reapers.
4:19 And he said to his father, My head, my head. And he said to his servant, Carry him
to his mother.
4:20 And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till
noon, and then died.
4:21 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon
him, and went out.
4:22 And she called to her husband, and said, Send me, I pray you, one of the servants,
and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
4:23 And he said, Why will you go to him today? it is neither new moon nor sabbath.
And she said, It shall be well.
4:24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slacken
me not the riding, except I bid you.
4:25 So she went, and came to the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass,
when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder
is the Shunammite:
4:26 run, I pray you, now to meet her, and say to her, Is it well with you? is it well with
your husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
4:27 And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. And
Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul
is vexed within her; and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me.
4:28 Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?
4:29 Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go
your way: if you meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute you, answer him not
again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.
4:30 And the mother of the child said, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not
leave you. And he arose, and followed her.
4:31 And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but
there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he returned to meet him, and told him,
saying, The child is not awaked.
4:32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid
upon his bed.
4:33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon the two of them, and prayed to
Yahweh.
4:34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his
eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon him; and
the flesh of the child grew warm.
4:35 Then he returned, and walked in the house once to and fro; and went up, and
stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his
eyes.
4:36 And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And
when she was come in to him, he said, Take up your son.
4:37 Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took
up her son, and went out.
4:38 And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a famine in the land; and the sons
of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set the great pot on,
and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.
4:39 And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered
wild gourds from it, his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage, not
knowing what they were.
4:40 So they poured it out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating
of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O man of God, there is death in the pot.
And they could not eat thereof.
4:41 But he said, Then bring some meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour
out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.
4:42 And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of
the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said,
Give it to the people, that they may eat.
4:43 And his servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said,
Give the people, that they may eat; for thus says Yahweh, They shall eat, and shall leave
some of it left over.
4:44 So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left some of it, according to the word
of Yahweh.
5:1 Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his
master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a
mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
5:2 And the Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land
of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's wife.
5:3 And she said to her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in
Samaria! Then he would heal him of his leprosy.
5:4 And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maiden that is of
the land of Israel.
5:5 And the king of Syria said, Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.
And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold,
and ten changes of raiment.
5:6 And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, and now when this letter is
come to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his
leprosy.
5:7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his
clothes, and said, am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends orders to me to
heal a man of his leprosy? But consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel
against me.
5:8 And it came about, that when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had
rent his clothes, he sent word to the king, saying, Why have you rent your clothes? Let
him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.
5:9 So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariots, and stood at the door of
Elisha's house.
5:10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times,
and your flesh shall come back to you, and you shall be clean.
5:11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely
come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand
over the place, and heal the leper.
5:12 Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of
Israel? Could I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned, and went away in a
rage.
5:13 And his servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, My father, if the prophet
had bid you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much rather then
when he says to you, Wash, and be clean?
5:14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the
saying of the man of God; and his flesh came back, like the flesh of a little child, and he
was clean.
5:15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood
before him; and he said, Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, except
in Israel: now therefore, I pray you, accept a present from your servant.
5:16 He however said, as Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I will accept none. And
he kept urging him to take it; but he refused.
5:17 And Naaman said, If not, yet, I pray you, let there be given to your servant two
mules' burden of earth; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor
sacrifice to other gods; only to Yahweh.
5:18 In the following matter may Yahweh pardon your servant. When my master goes
into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow myself
in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh
pardon your servant in this matter.
5:19 And he said to him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
5:20 But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has
spared this Naaman the Syrian, by not taking at his hands that which he brought. As
Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and accept somewhat from him.
5:21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw someone running after
him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is everything well?
5:22 And he said, all is well. My master has sent me, saying, Behold, even now there
are come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the
prophets; give them, I pray you, a talent of silver, and two changes of clothes.
5:23 And Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound
two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothes, and laid them upon two of
his servants; and they carried them before [Gehazi].
5:24 And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and laid them in the
house; and he sent the men away, and they departed.
5:25 And went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where are you
coming from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere.
5:26 And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man turned from his
chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and
oliveyards and vineyards, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and maid-servants?
5:27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave to you, and to your seed for ever.
And [Gehazi] went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
6:1 And the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell
before you is too cramped for us.
6:2 Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man a beam, and let us
make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ahead.
6:3 And one said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. And he answered, I
will go.
6:4 So he went with them. And when they came to the Jordan, they cut down wood.
6:5 But as one was felling a pole, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said,
alas, my master! (For it was borrowed.)
6:6 And the man of God said, Where did it fall? And he showed him the place. And
he cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and caused the iron to swim.
6:7 And he said, Take it up to you. So he put out his hand, and took it.
6:8 Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took counsel with his
servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.
6:9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Beware that you pass not such
a place; for there the Syrians are coming down.
6:10 And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned
him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.
6:11 And the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his
servants, and said to them, Will ye not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?
6:12 And one of his servants said, Nay, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet that is in
Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber.
6:13 And he said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was
told him, saying, Behold, he is in Doesan.
6:14 Therefore sent he there horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by
night, and surrounded the city.
6:15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, a
host with horses and chariots was round about the city. And his servant said to him,
alas, my master! how shall we do?
6:16 And he answered, Fear not; for they that are with us are more than they that are with
them.
6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, I pray you, open his eyes, that he may see.
And Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain
was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
6:18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, Strike this
people, I pray you, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the
word of Elisha.
6:19 And Elisha said to them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I
will bring you to the man whom ye seek. And he led them to Samaria.
6:20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Yahweh,
open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And Yahweh opened their eyes, and they
saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.
6:21 And the king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite
them? shall I smite them?
6:22 And he answered, You shall not smite them: would you smite those whom you have
taken captive with your sword and with your bow? set bread and water before them,
that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.
6:23 And he prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he
sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Syria came no more
into the land of Israel.
6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and
went up, and besieged Samaria.
6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a
donkey's head was sold for 80 pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung
for 5 pieces of silver.
6:26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman to him,
saying, Help, my lord, O king.
6:27 And he said, If Yahweh does not help you, from where shall I help you? out of the
threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?
6:28 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, This woman said to
me, Give your son, so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.
6:29 So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your
son, so we may eat him; but she has hidden her son.
6:30 And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his
clothes (now he was passing by upon the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he
had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
6:31 Then he said, God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of
Shaphat shall stand on him this day.
6:32 But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and the
king sent a man out from his presence: but before the messenger came to him, he said to
the elders, Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? look,
when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: is not the
sound of his master's feet behind him?
6:33 And while he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him:
and he said, Behold, this evil is of Yahweh; why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?
7:1 And Elisha said, Hear ye the word of Yahweh: thus says Yahweh, Tomorrow about
this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for
a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
7:2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said,
Behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said,
Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof.
7:3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to
another, Why sit we here until we die?
7:4 If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die
there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the host
of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
7:5 And they rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians; and when they
were come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man
there.
7:6 For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise
of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of
Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to
come upon us.
7:7 Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses,
and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
7:8 And when these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one
tent, and did eat and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and
hid it; and they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went
and hid it.
7:9 Then they said one to another, We do not well; this day is a day of good tidings, and
we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, punishment will overtake us; now
therefore come, let us go and tell the king's household.
7:10 So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We
came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of
man, but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.
7:11 And he called the porters; and they told it to the king's household within.
7:12 And the king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what
the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out
of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we
shall take them alive, and get into the city.
7:13 And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray you, five of the
horses that remain, which are left in the city (behold, they are as all the multitude of
Israel that are left in it; behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are consumed);
and let us send and see.
7:14 They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the
Syrians, saying, Go and see.
7:15 And they went after them to the Jordan: and, lo, all the way was full of garments and
vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. And the messengers returned,
and told the king.
7:16 And the people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of
fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the
word of Yahweh.
7:17 And the king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of
the gate: and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had
said, who spoke when the king came down to him.
7:18 And it came to pass, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two
measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be
tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;
7:19 and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Yahweh should
make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it
with your eyes, but shall not eat thereof:
7:20 it came to pass even so to him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.
8:1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying,
arise, and go you and your household, and sojourn wheresoever you can sojourn: for
Yahweh has called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
8:2 And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she
went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
8:3 And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land
of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.
8:4 Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell
me, I pray you, all the great things that Elisha has done.
8:5 And it came to pass, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him that
was dead, that, behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for
her house and for her land. And Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and
this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
8:6 And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a
certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the
day that she left the land, even until now.
8:7 And Elisha came to Damascus; and Benhadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was
told him, saying, The man of God is come here.
8:8 And the king said to Hazael, Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of
God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?
8:9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing
of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Your son
Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?
8:10 And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You shall surely recover. Though Yahweh
has shown me that he shall surely die.
8:11 And Elisha settled his countenance stedfastly upon him, until he was ashamed.
Then the man of God wept.
8:12 And Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? And he answered, Because I know the
evil that you will do to the children of Israel: their strongholds will you set on fire, and
their young men will you slay with the sword, and will dash in pieces their little ones, and
rip up their women with child.
8:13 And Hazael said, But what is your servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this
great thing? And Elisha answered, Yahweh has shown me that you shall be king over
Syria.
8:14 Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said
Elisha to you? And he answered, He told me that you would surely recover.
8:15 And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took the coverlet, and dipped it in water,
and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.
8:16 And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then
king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
8:17 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years
in Jerusalem.
8:18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for he
had the daughter of Ahab to wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
8:1 Yet Juda Yahweh would not destroy, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him
to give to him a lamp for his children alway.
8:20 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over
themselves.
8:21 Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by
night, and smote the Edomites that surrounded him about, and the captains of the
chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
8:22 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then did Libnah
revolt at the same time.
8:23 And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book
of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
8:24 And Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.
8:25 In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of
Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one
year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of
Israel.
8:27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the
sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of
Ahab.
8:28 And he went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at
Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.
8:29 And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians
had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah
the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel,
because he was sick.
9:1 And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird
up your loins, and take this vial of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
9:2 And when you come there, look out there Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of
Nimshi, and go in, and make him arise up from among his brethren, and carry him to an
inner chamber.
9:3 Then take the vial of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus says Yahweh, I have
anointed you king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.
9:4 So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.
9:5 And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have
an errand to you, O captain. And Jehu said, To which of us all? And he said, To you,
O captain.
9:6 And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said to
him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I have anointed you king over the people of
Yahweh, even over Israel.
9:7 And you shall smite the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of
my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of
Jezebel.
9:8 For the whole house of Ahab shall perish; and I will cut off from Ahab every man-
child, and him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel.
9:9 And I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and
like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.
9:10 And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to
bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.
9:11 Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said to him, Is all well?
why came this mad fellow to you? And he said to them, You know the man and what
his talk was.
9:12 And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spoke he to me,
saying, Thus says Yahweh, I have anointed you king over Israel.
9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top
of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.
9:14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now
Joram was keeping Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;
9:15 but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians
had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If this be your
mind, then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.
9:16 So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah
king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
9:17 Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company
of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and
send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?
9:18 So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus says the king, Is it
peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? turn you behind me. And
the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he comes not back.
9:19 Then he sent out a second on horseback, who came to them, and said, Thus says the
king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What have you to do with peace? turn you
behind me.
9:20 And the watchman told, saying, He came even to them, and comes not back: and the
driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he drives furiously.
9:21 And Joram said, Make ready. And they made ready his chariot. And Joram king
of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to
meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he
answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of your mother Jezebel and her
witchcrafts are so many?
9:23 And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O
Ahaziah.
9:24 And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and smote Joram between his arms;
and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.
9:25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the
field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and you rode together after
Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden upon him:
9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says
Yahweh; and I will requite you in this plat, says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast
him into the plat of ground, according to the word of Yahweh.
9:27 But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden-
house. And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot: and they
smote him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, and died
there.
9:28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his
sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.
9:29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over
Judah.
9:30 And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes,
and attired her head, and looked out at the window.
9:31 And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, you Zimri, your master's
murderer?
9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And
there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.
9:33 And he said, Throw her down. So they threw her down; and some of her blood
was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trod her under foot.
9:34 And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed
woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter.
9:35 And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the
feet, and the palms of her hands.
9:36 Wherefore they came back, and told him. And he said, This is the word of
Yahweh, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of
Jezreel shall the dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel;
9:37 and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of
Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.
10:1 Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to
Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to them that brought up the sons of
Ahab, saying,
10:2 And now as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you,
and there are with you chariots and horses, a fortified city also, and armor;
10:3 look ye out the best and meet of your master's sons, and set him on his father's
throne, and fight for your master's house.
10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two kings stood not before
him: how then shall we stand?
10:5 And he that was over the household, and he that was over the city, the elders also,
and they that brought up the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants, and will
do all that you shall bid us; we will not make any man king: do you that which is good in
your eyes.
10:6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be on my side, and if ye
will hearken to my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to
me to Jezreel by tomorrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were
with the great men of the city, who brought them up.
10:7 And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons,
and slew them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him
to Jezreel.
10:8 And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of
the king's sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until
the morning.
10:9 And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the
people, You are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him; but who
smote all these?
10:10 Know now that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of Yahweh, which
Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab: for Yahweh has done that which he spoke
by his servant Elijah.
10:11 So Jehu smote all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great
men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.
10:12 And he arose and departed, and went to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing-
house of the shepherds in the way,
10:13 Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And
they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah: and we go down to salute the children of
the king and the children of the queen.
10:14 And he said, Take them alive. And they took them alive, and slew them at the pit
of the shearing-house, even two and forty men; neither left he any of them.
10:15 And when he was departed there, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab
coming to meet him; and he saluted him, and said to him, Is your heart right, as my heart
is with your heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me your hand. And
he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.
10:16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh. So they made him ride
in his chariot.
10:17 And when he came to Samaria, he smote all that remained to Ahab in Samaria, till
he had destroyed him, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke to Elijah.
10:18 And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, ahab served Baal a
little; but Jehu will serve him much.
10:19 Now therefore call to me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his
priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be
wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy
the worshippers of Baal.
10:20 And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.
10:21 And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that
there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the
house of Baal was filled from one end to another.
10:22 And he said to him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the
worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.
10:23 And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal; and he
said to the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the
servants of Yahweh, but the worshippers of Baal only.
10:24 And they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had appointed
him 80 men outside, and said, If any of the men whom I bring into your hands escape, he
that lets him go, his life shall be for the life of him.
10:25 And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering,
that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let no one come out.
And they struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast
them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.
10:26 And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.
10:27 And they broke down the pillar of Baal, and broke down the house of Baal, and
made it a draught-house, to this day.
10:28 Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.
10:29 However, from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he caused Israel
to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, that is, the golden calves that were in Beth-el,
and that were in Dan.
10:30 And Yahweh said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing that which is
right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my
heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
10:31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his
heart: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
10:32 In those days Yahweh began to cut off from Israel: and Hazael smote them in all
the borders of Israel;
10:33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites,
and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and
Bashan.
10:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not
10:35 And Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz
10:36 And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.
11:1 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and
destroyed all the seed royal.
11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of
Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons that were slain, even him and
his nurse, and put them in the bedchamber; and they hid him from Athaliah, so that he
was not slain;
11:3 And he was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. And Athaliah reigned
over the land.
11:4 And in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the
Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he
made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and
showed them the king's son.
11:5 And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of
you, that come in on the sabbath, shall be keepers of the watch of the king's house;
11:6 And a third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard:
so shall ye keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.
11:7 And the two companies of you, even all that go forth on the sabbath, shall keep the
watch of the house of Yahweh about the king.
11:8 And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his
hand; and he that comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be ye with the king when
he goes out, and when he comes in.
11:9 And the captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest
commanded; and they took every man his men, those that were to come in on the sabbath,
with those that were to go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
11:10 And the priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that
had been king David's, which were in the house of Yahweh.
11:11 And the guard stood, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side
of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the king
round about.
11:12 Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the
testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and
said, Long live the king.
11:13 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the
people into the house of Yahweh:
11:14 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and
the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and
blew trumpets. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason! Treason!
11:15 And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds that were set over the
host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and him that follows her slay
with the sword. For the priest said, Let her not be slain in the house of Yahweh.
11:16 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the
king's house: and there was she slain.
11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that
they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the people.
11:18 And all the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his
altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal
before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of Yahweh.
11:19 And he took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the
people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came
by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the
kings.
11:20 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And Athaliah they
had slain with the sword at the king's house.
11:21 Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign.
12:1 In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in
Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.
12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all his days in which
Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
12:3 However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt
incense in the high places.
12:4 And Jehoash said to the priests, all the money of the hallowed things that is brought
into the house of Yahweh, in current money, the money of the persons for whom each
man is rated, and all the money that it comes into any man's heart to bring into the house
of Yahweh,
12:5 let the priests take it to them, every man from his acquaintance; and they shall repair
the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.
12:6 But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not
repaired the breaches of the house.
12:7 Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said
to them, Why repair ye not the breaches of the house? now therefore take no more
money from your acquaintance, but deliver it for the breaches of the house.
12:8 And the priests consented that they should take no more money from the people,
neither repair the breaches of the house.
12:9 But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside
the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Yahweh: and the priests that
kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh.
12:10 And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the
king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money
that was found in the house of Yahweh.
12:11 And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of them that did the
work, that had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the
carpenters and the builders, that wrought upon the house of Yahweh,
12:12 and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone
to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house
to repair it.
12:13 But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups of silver, snuffers, basins,
trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the
house of Yahweh;
12:14 for they gave that to them that did the work, and used it to repair the house of
Yahweh.
12:15 Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the
money to give to them that did the work; for they dealt faithfully.
12:16 The money for the trespass offerings, and the money for the sin offerings, was not
brought into the house of Yahweh: it was the priests'.
12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and
Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
12:18 And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and
Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed
things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and of the
king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
12:19 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
12:20 And his servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and smote Joash at the house of
Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.
12:21 For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants,
smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and
Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
13:1 In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz
the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.
13:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and followed the sins of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
13:3 And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the
hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael,
continually.
13:4 And Jehoahaz besought Yahweh, and Yahweh hearkened to him; for he saw the
oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.
13:5 (And Yahweh gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the
Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as beforetime.
13:6 Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which
he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in
Samaria.)
13:7 For he left not to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and
ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust
in threshing.
13:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not
13:9 And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his
son reigned in his stead.
13:10 In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of
Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.
13:11 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; he departed not from all the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; but he walked
therein.
13:12 Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he
fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles
of the kings of Israel?
13:13 And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was
buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
13:14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness form which he died: and Joash the king
of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the
chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!
13:15 And Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows. And he took to him bow and
arrows.
13:16 And he said to the king of Israel, Put your hand upon the bow; and he put his hand
upon it. And Elisha laid his hands upon the king's hands.
13:17 And he said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. Then Elisha said,
Shoot; and he shot. And he said, Yahweh's arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory
over Syria; for you shall smite the Syrians in Aphek, till you have consumed them.
13:18 And he said, Take the arrows; and he took them. And he said to the king of
Israel, Strike upon the ground; and he struck three times, and stopped.
13:19 And the man of God was angry with him, and said, You should have struck five or
six times: then you would have struck Syria till you had consumed it, whereas now you
shall strike Syria but three times.
13:20 And Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded
the land at the coming in of the year.
13:21 And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band;
and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and as soon as the man touched the
bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
13:22 And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.
13:23 But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect
to them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy
them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.
13:24 And Hazael king of Syria died; and Benhadad his son reigned in his stead.
13:25 And Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz took again out of the hand of Benhadad the son
of Hazael the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war.
Three times did Joash smite him, and recovered the cities of Israel.
14:1 In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of
Joash king of Judah to reign.
14:2 He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty
and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddin of Jerusalem.
14:3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not like David his
father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.
14:4 However, the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt
14:5 And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he
slew his servants who had slain the king his father:
14:6 but the children of the murderers he put not to death; according to that which is
written in the book of the law of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers
shall not be put to death for the children, nor the children be put to death for the fathers;
but every man shall die for his own sin.
14:7 He slew of Edom in the Valley of Salt ten thousand, and took Sela by war, and
called the name of it Jokyoul, to this day.
14:8 Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash, the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu, king of
Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle
that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to
my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the
thistle.
14:10 You have indeed smitten Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory thereof,
and abide at home; for why should you meddle to your hurt, that you should fall, even
you, and Judah with you?
14:11 But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and
Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to
Judah.
14:12 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.
14:13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son
of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of
Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
14:14 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house
of Yahweh, and in the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to
Samaria.
14:15 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his might, and how he fought
with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Israel?
14:16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of
Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
14:17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of
Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
14:18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
14:19 And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but
they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
14:20 And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers
in the city of David.
14:21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made
him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
14:22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
14:23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son
of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
14:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he departed not from all the
sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
14:25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the
Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his
servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.
14:26 For Yahweh saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none
shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.
14:27 And Yahweh said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven;
but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
14:28 Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he
warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for
Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
14:29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah
15:1 In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of
Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
15:2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned two and fifty years
in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
15:3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his
father Amaziah had done.
15:4 However, the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt
15:5 And Yahweh smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and
dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging
the people of the land.
15:6 Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the
15:7 And Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city
of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.
15:8 In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah the son of
Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.
15:9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his fathers had done: he
departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to
sin.
15:10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the
people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
15:11 Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:12 This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons to the
fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel. And so it came to pass.
15:13 Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah
king of Judah; and he reigned the space of a month in Samaria.
15:14 And Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and
smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
15:15 Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold,
they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:16 Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders thereof,
from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women
therein that were with child he ripped up.
15:17 In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of
Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.
15:18 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he departed not all his days
from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin.
15:19 There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul a
thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his
hand.
15:20 And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth,
of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria
turned back, and stayed not there in the land.
15:21 Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
15:22 And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.
15:23 In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to
reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.
15:24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he departed not from the
15:25 And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and smote him
in Samaria, in the castle of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were
fifty men of the Gileadites: and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.
15:26 Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in
the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:27 In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah
began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
15:28 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: he departed not from the
15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took
Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and
Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.
15:30 And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah,
and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham
the son of Uzziah.
15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
15:32 In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the
son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.
15:33 Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen
years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.
15:34 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh; he did according to all that
his father Uzziah had done.
15:35 However, the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and
burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh.
15:36 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the
15:37 In those days Yahweh began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and
Pekah the son of Remaliah.
15:38 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
16:1 In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king
of Judah began to reign.
16:2 Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh his God, like David
his father.
16:3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass
through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out
from before the children of Israel.
16:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under
every green tree.
16:5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to
Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
16:6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from
Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there, to this day.
16:7 So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am your
servant and your son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out
of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.
16:8 And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of Yahweh, and in
the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
16:9 And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against
Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.
16:10 And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw
the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the
altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
16:11 And Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from
Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from
Damascus.
16:12 And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king
drew near to the altar, and offered upon it.
16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured his drink
offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
16:14 And the brazen altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of
the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of
his altar.
16:15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the
morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and
his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal
offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering,
and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by.
16:16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
16:17 And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the laver from off
them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon
a pavement of stone.
16:18 And the covered way for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's
entry without, turned he to the house of Yahweh, because of the king of Assyria.
16:19 Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
16:20 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in
Samaria over Israel, and reigned nine years.
17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as the kings of Israel
that were before him.
17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant,
and brought him tribute.
17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to
So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by
year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria,
and besieged it three years.
17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel
away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in
the cities of the Medes.
17:7 And it was so, because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God,
who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of
Egypt, and had feared other gods,
17:8 and walked in the statutes of the nations, whom Yahweh cast out from before the
children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made.
17:9 And the children of Israel did secretly things that were not right against Yahweh
their God: and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the
watchmen to the fortified city;
17:10 and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every
green tree;
17:11 and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom
Yahweh carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Yahweh
to anger;
17:12 and they served idols, whereof Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this
thing.
17:13 Yet Yahweh testified to Israel, and to Judah, by every prophet, and every seer,
saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes,
according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my
servants the prophets.
17:14 Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of
their fathers, who believed not in Yahweh their God.
17:15 And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and
his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain,
and went after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had
charged them that they should not do like them.
17:16 And they forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them
molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshipped all the host of
heaven, and served Baal.
17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used
divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight
of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
17:18 Therefore Yahweh was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight:
there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.
17:19 Also Judah kept not the commandments of Yahweh their God, but walked in the
statutes of Israel which they made.
17:20 And Yahweh rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them
into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of
Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Yahweh, and made them sin a
great sin.
17:22 And the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they
departed not from them;
17:23 until Yahweh removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the
prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.
17:24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from
Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria
instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities
thereof.
17:25 And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not
Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
17:26 Wherefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which you have
carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the law of the god of the land:
therefore he has sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know
not the law of the god of the land.
17:27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one of the priests whom
ye brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of
the god of the land.
17:28 So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in
Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.
17:29 Nevertheless every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of
the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they
dwelt.
17:30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal,
and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
17:31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children
in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
17:32 So they feared Yahweh, and made to them from among themselves priests of the
high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
17:33 They feared Yahweh, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations
from among whom they had been carried away.
17:34 To this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Yahweh, neither do they
after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment
which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
17:35 with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, You shall not
fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
17:36 but Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and
with an outstretched arm, him shall ye fear, and to him shall ye bow yourselves, and to
him shall ye sacrifice:
17:37 and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he
wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods:
17:38 and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear
other gods:
17:39 but Yahweh your God shall ye fear; and he will deliver you out of the hand of all
your enemies.
17:40 However, they did not hearken, but did after their former manner.
17:41 So these nations feared Yahweh, and served their graven images; their children
likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they to this day.
18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that
Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
18:2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty
and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.
18:3 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David
his father had done.
18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he
broke in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of
Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
18:5 He trusted in Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among
all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.
18:6 For he clave to Yahweh; he departed not from following him, but kept his
commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.
18:7 And Yahweh was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled
against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
18:8 He smote the Philistines to Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the
watchmen to the fortified city.
18:9 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year
of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against
Samaria, and besieged it.
18:10 And at the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was
the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
18:11 And the king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and
on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,
18:12 because they obeyed not the voice of Yahweh their God, but transgressed his
covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it,
nor do it.
18:13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come
up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
18:14 And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have
offended; return from me: that which you put on me will I bear. And the king of
Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty
talents of gold.
18:15 And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of Yahweh, and
in the treasures of the king's house.
18:16 At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of Yahweh,
and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of
Assyria.
18:17 And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to
king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. And they went up and came to
Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the
upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
18:18 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph
the recorder.
18:19 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king,
the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust?
18:20 You say (but they are but vain words), There is counsel and strength for the war.
Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
18:21 Now, behold, you trust upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt;
whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt
to all that trust on him.
18:22 But if ye say to me, We trust in Yahweh our God; is not that he, whose high places
and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You
shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
18:23 Now therefore, I pray you, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I
will give you two thousand horses, if you be able on your part to set riders upon them.
18:24 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's
servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
18:25 Am I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said
to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
18:26 Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, to Rabshakeh,
Speak, I pray you, to your servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and
speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
18:27 But Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to
speak these words? has he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own
dung, and to drink their own water with you?
18:28 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and
spoke, saying, Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.
18:29 Thus says the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver
you out of his hand:
18:30 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver
us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
18:31 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for Thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with
me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one from his vine, and every one from his fig-
tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
18:32 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and
new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may
live, and not die: and hearken not to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, Yahweh
will deliver us.
18:33 Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the
king of Assyria?
18:34 Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim,
of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
18:35 Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country
out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
18:36 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's
commandment was, saying, answer him not.
18:37 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent,
and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
19:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and
covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.
19:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the
elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
19:3 And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of
rebuke, and of disgrace; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to
bring forth.
19:4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of
Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which
Yahweh your God has heard: therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.
19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
19:6 And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus says Yahweh, Be
not afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of
Assyria have blasphemed me.
19:7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return to his
own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for
he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight
against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
19:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your God in whom
you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
19:11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by
destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed,
Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
19:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of
Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
19:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and
Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh.
19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, that
sits above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the
earth; you have made heaven and earth.
19:16 Incline your ear, O Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, O Yahweh, and see; and
hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent him to defy the living God.
19:17 Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their
lands,
19:18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's
hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
19:19 Now therefore, O Yahweh our God, save you us, I beseech you, out of his hand,
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you Yahweh are God alone.
19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God
of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have
heard you.
19:21 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of
Zion has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken
her head at you.
19:22 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted
your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
19:23 By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude
of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of
Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and
I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field.
19:24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all
the rivers of Egypt.
19:25 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times?
now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into
ruinous heaps.
19:26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and
confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the
housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.
19:27 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your
raging against me.
19:28 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my
ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn
you back by the way by which you came.
19:29 And this shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year that which grows of itself,
and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and
reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root
downward, and bear fruit upward.
19:31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that shall
escape: the zeal of Yahweh shall perform this.
19:32 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to
this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up
a mound against it.
19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this
city, says Yahweh.
19:34 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's
sake.
19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of Yahweh went forth, and smote in
the camp of the Assyrians 185,000 thousand: and when men arose early in the morning,
behold, these were all dead bodies.
19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at
Nineveh.
19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that
Adrammelech and Sharezer smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of
Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
20:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz
came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order: for you shall
die, and not live.
20:2 Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying,
20:3 Remember now, O Yahweh, I beseech you, how I have walked before you in truth
and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. And Hezekiah
wept sore.
20:4 And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of the city, that
the word of Yahweh came to him, saying,
20:5 Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus says Yahweh, the
God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will
heal you; on the third day you shall go up to the house of Yahweh.
20:6 And I will add to your days fifteen years; and I will deliver you and this city out of
the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for my own sake, and for my
servant David's sake.
20:7 And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he
recovered.
20:8 And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Yahweh will heal me, and
that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh the third day?
20:9 And Isaiah said, This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do the
thing that he has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?
20:10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay,
but let the shadow return backward ten steps.
20:11 And Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps
backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.
20:12 At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters
and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.
20:13 And Hezekiah hearkened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious
things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his
armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all
his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
20:14 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these
men say? and from where did they come to you? And Hezekiah said, They are come
from a far country, even from Babylon.
20:15 And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, all
that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not
shown them.
20:16 And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh.
20:17 Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers
have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, says
Yahweh.
20:18 And of your sons that shall issue from you, whom you shall beget, shall they take
away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
20:19 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have
spoken. He said moreover, Is it not so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?
20:20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool,
and the conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20:21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned five and
fifty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hephzibah.
21:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the
nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
21:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he
reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
21:4 And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, whereof Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will
I put my name.
21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of
Yahweh.
21:6 And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and used
enchantments, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought
much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
21:7 And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which
Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I
have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;
21:8 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I
gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded
them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more
than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
21:10 And Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done
wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and has made Judah also
to sin with his idols;
21:12 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such evil upon
Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.
21:13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the
house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it
upside down.
21:14 And I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of
their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
21:15 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to
anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even to this day.
21:16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem
from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that
which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
21:17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21:18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own
house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
21:19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two
years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of
Jotbah.
21:20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father.
21:21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his
father served, and worshipped them:
21:22 and he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of
Yahweh.
21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his
own house.
21:24 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and
the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
21:25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of
the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son
22:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one
years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of
Bozkath.
22:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of
David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
22:3 And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan,
the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Yahweh, saying,
22:4 Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into
the house of Yahweh, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people:
22:5 and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the
house of Yahweh; and let them give it to the workmen that are in the house of Yahweh,
to repair the breaches of the house,
22:6 to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and
hewn stone to repair the house.
22:7 However there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered
into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.
22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the
law in the house of Yahweh. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
22:9 And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought word back to the king, and
said, Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have
delivered it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of Yahweh.
22:10 And Shaphan the scribe said to the king, as follows, Hilkiah the priest has
delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
22:11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that
he rent his clothes.
22:12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and
Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant,
saying,
22:13 Go ye, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning
the words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled
against us, because our fathers have not hearkened to the words of this book, to do
according to everything that is written concerning us.
22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to
Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper
of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they communed
with her.
22:15 And she said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that
sent you to me,
22:16 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the
inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.
22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they
might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath shall be
kindled against this place, and it shall not be quenched.
22:18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus shall ye say to
him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,
22:19 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before Yahweh, when
you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they
should become a desolation and a curse, and have rent your clothes, and wept before me;
I also have heard you, says Yahweh.
22:20 Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to
your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil which I will bring upon this
place. And they brought the king word again.
23:1 And the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
23:2 And the king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people,
both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant
which was found in the house of Yahweh.
23:3 And the king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after
Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all
his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this
book: and all the people stood to the covenant.
23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second
order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Yahweh all the
vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and
he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of
them to Beth-el.
23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to
burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about
Jerusalem; them also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the
planets, and to all the host of heaven.
23:6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, without Jerusalem, to
the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust
thereof upon the graves of the common people.
23:7 And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh,
where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
23:8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places
where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the
high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the
city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
23:9 Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of Yahweh in
Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened bread among their brethren.
23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no
man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
23:11 And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the
entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain,
which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
23:12 And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings
of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the
house of Yahweh, did the king break down, and beat them down from there, and cast the
dust of them into the brook Kidron.
23:13 And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of
the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the
abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for
Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
23:14 And he broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their
places with the bones of men.
23:15 Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son
of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke
down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
23:16 And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount;
and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and
defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who
proclaimed these things.
23:17 Then he said, What monument is that which I see? And the men of the city told
him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these
things that you have done against the altar of Beth-el.
23:18 And he said, Let him be; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone,
with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
23:19 And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which
the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to
them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
23:20 And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there, upon the altars, and
burned men's bones upon them; and he returned to Jerusalem.
23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to Yahweh
your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.
23:22 Surely there was not kept such a passover from the days of the judges that judged
Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23:23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover kept to Yahweh in
Jerusalem.
23:24 Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the
idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did
Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the
book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.
23:25 And like to him was there no king before him, that turned to Yahweh with all his
heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses;
neither after him arose there any like him.
23:26 Notwithstanding, Yahweh turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, with
which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which
Manasseh had provoked him.
23:27 And Yahweh said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed
Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of
which I said, My name shall be there.
23:28 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the
23:29 In his days Pharaoh-necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the
river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh-necoh slew him at
Megiddo, when he had seen him.
23:30 And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to
Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took
Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead.
23:31 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
three months in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah
of Libnah.
23:32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his
fathers had done.
23:33 And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he
might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver,
and a talent of gold.
23:34 And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his
father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to
Egypt, and died there.
23:35 And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to
give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the
gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it to
Pharaoh-necoh.
23:36 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of
Rumah.
fathers had done.
24:1 In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his
servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
24:2 And Yahweh sent against him bands of the Chaldeans, and bands of the Syrians, and
bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah
to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by his servants the
prophets.
24:3 Surely at the commandment of Yahweh came this upon Judah, to remove them out
of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,
24:4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent
blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.
24:5 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, are they not written in the
24:6 So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
24:7 And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land; for the king of
Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to
the king of Egypt.
24:8 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in
Jerusalem three months: and his mother's name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of
Jerusalem.
father had done.
24:10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to
Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
24:11 And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city, while his servants were
besieging it;
24:12 and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his
mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took
him in the eighth year of his reign.
24:13 And he carried out there all the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures
of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel
had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had said.
24:14 And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of
valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained,
save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
24:15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king's mother, and the king's
wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from
Jerusalem to Babylon.
24:16 And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths a
thousand, all of them strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought
captive to Babylon.
24:17 And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin's father's brother, king is his
stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
24:18 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah
of Libnah.
24:19 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done.
24:20 For through the anger of Yahweh did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until
he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of
Babylon.
25:1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day
of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against
Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
25:2 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
25:3 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was sore in the city, so that there
was no bread for the people of the land.
25:4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way
of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden (now the Chaldeans
were against the city round about); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
25:5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains
of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
25:6 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and
they gave judgment upon him.
25:7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of
Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
25:8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth
year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.
25:9 And he burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of
Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
25:10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, broke
down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
25:11 And the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away,
that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the
captain of the guard carry away captive.
25:12 But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and
husbandmen.
25:13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the
brazen sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and
carried the brass of them to Babylon.
25:14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels
of brass with which they ministered, took they away.
25:15 And the firepans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which
was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
25:16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house
of Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
25:17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was upon it;
and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the
capital round about, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.
25:18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the
second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
25:19 and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and five
men of them that saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the
captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and 60 men of the people of the
land, that were found in the city.
25:20 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king
of Babylon to Riblah.
25:21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
25:22 And as for the people that were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son
of Shaphan, governor.
25:23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of
Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael
the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth
the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
25:24 And Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, Fear not because
of the servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it
shall be well with you.
25:25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the
son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, so
that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
25:26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and
came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
25:27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin
king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that
Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head 15
of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
25:28 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that
were with him in Babylon,
25:29 and changed his prison garments. And Jehoiachin did eat bread before him
continually all the days of his life:
25:30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every
day a portion, all the days of his life.
End of 2 Kings
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that is, he freed him from prison
The First Book of Chronicles
1 Chronicles
1:1 Adam, Seth, Enosh,
1:2 Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared,
1:3 Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech,
1:4 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
1:5 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and
Meshech, and Tiras.
1:6 And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Diphath, and Togarmah.
1:7 And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.
1:8 The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.
1:9 And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And
the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
1:10 And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
1:11 And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
1:12 and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from where came the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
1:13 And Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
1:14 and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
1:15 and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
1:16 and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
1:17 The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz,
and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.
1:18 And Arpachshad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.
1:19 And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the
earth was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
1:20 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
1:21 and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
1:22 and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
1:23 and Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.
1:24 Shem, arpachshad, Shelah,
1:25 Eber, Peleg, Reu,
1:26 Serug, Nahor, Terah,
1:27 Abram (the same is Abraham).
1:28 The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.
1:29 These are their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and
Adbeel, and Mibsam,
1:30 Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
1:31 Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.
1:32 And the sons of Keturah, abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and
Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and
Dedan.
1:33 And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah.
All these were the sons of Keturah.
1:34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.
1:35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.
1:36 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and
Amalek.
1:37 The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
1:38 And the sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and
Ezer, and Dishan.
1:39 And the sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.
1:40 The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the
sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah.
1:41 The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Hamran, and Eshban, and
Ithran, and Cheran.
1:42 The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran.
1:43 Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there resigned any
king over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was
Dinhabah.
1:44 And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
1:45 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
1:46 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of
Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith.
1:47 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
1:48 And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.
1:49 And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.
1:50 And Baal-hanan died, and Hadad reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was
Pai: and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-
zahab.
1:51 And Hadad died. And the chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief
Jetheth,
1:52 chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,
1:53 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,
1:54 chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.
2:1 These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
2:2 Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
2:3 The sons of Judah: Er, and Onan, and Shelah; which three were born to him of Shua's
daughter the Canaanitess. And Er, Judah's first-born, was wicked in the sight of
Yahweh; and he slew him.
2:4 And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah
were five.
2:5 The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.
2:6 And the sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; five of
them in all.
2:7 And the sons of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who committed a trespass in the
devoted thing.
2:8 And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.
2:9 The sons also of Hezron, that were born to him: Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
2:10 And Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children
of Judah;
2:11 and Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
2:12 and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse;
2:13 and Jesse begat his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third,
2:14 Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
2:15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
2:16 and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and
Joab, and Asahel, three.
2:17 And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
2:18 And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and
these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
2:19 And Azubah died, and Caleb took to him Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
2:20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezalel.
2:21 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom
he took to wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.
2:22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
2:23 And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the
villages thereof, even 60 cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
2:24 And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron's wife bore
him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
2:25 And the sons of Jerahmeel the first-born of Hezron were Ram the first-born, and
Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, ahijah.
2:26 And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of
Onam.
2:27 And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.
2:28 And the sons of Onam were Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai:
Nadab, and Abishur.
2:29 And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bore him Ahban, and
Molid.
2:30 And the sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children.
2:31 And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of
Sheshan: Ahlai.
2:32 And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether died
without children.
2:33 And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
2:34 Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an
Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.
2:35 And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bore him Attai.
2:36 And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,
2:37 and Zabad begat Ephlal, and Ephlal begat Obed,
2:38 and Obed begat Jehu, and Jehu begat Azariah,
2:39 and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,
2:40 and Eleasah begat Sismai, and Sismai begat Shallum,
2:41 and Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.
2:42 And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his first-born, who was
the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
2:43 And the sons of Hebron: Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
2:44 And Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem begat Shammai.
2:45 And the son of Shammai was Maon; and Maon was the father of Beth-zur.
2:46 And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bore Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran begat
Gazez.
2:47 And the sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jothan, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and
Shaaph.
2:48 Maacah, Caleb's concubine, bore Sheber and Tirhanah.
2:49 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and
the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.
2:50 These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah: Shobal the
father of Kiriath-jearim,
2:51 Salma the father of Beth-lehem, Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
2:52 And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
2:53 And the families of Kiriath-jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the
Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
2:54 The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, atroth-beth-joab, and half of
the Manahathites, the Zorites.
2:55 And the families of scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the
Sucathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of
Rechab.
3:1 Now these were the sons of David, that were born to him in Hebron: the first-born,
amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second, Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;
3:2 the third, absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the
fourth, adonijah the son of Haggith;
3:3 the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:
3:4 six were born to him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months.
And in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years;
3:5 and these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and
Solomon, four, of Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel;
3:6 and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
3:7 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
3:8 and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
3:9 All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was
their sister.
3:10 And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, abijah his son, asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,
3:11 Joram his son, ahaziah his son, Joash his son,
3:12 Amaziah his son, azariah his son, Jotham his son,
3:13 Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
3:14 Amon his son, Josiah his son.
3:15 And the sons of Josiah: the first-born Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third
Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
3:16 And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.
3:17 And the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son,
3:18 and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
3:19 And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel:
Meshullam, and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;
3:20 and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five.
3:21 And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of
Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.
3:22 And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, and
Igal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
3:23 And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai, and Hizkiah, and Azrikam, three.
3:24 And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and
Johanan, and Delaiah, and Anani, seven.
4:1 The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
4:2 And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai and Lahad.
These are the families of the Zorathites.
4:3 And these were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and
the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;
4:4 and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of
Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem.
4:5 And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
4:6 And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These
were the sons of Naarah.
4:7 And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan.
4:8 And Hakkoz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of
Harum.
4:9 And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name
Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.
4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed,
and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep
me from evil, that it be not to my sorrow! And God granted him that which he requested.
4:11 And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begat Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
4:12 And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash.
These are the men of Recah.
4:13 And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel: Hathath.
4:14 And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab the father of Ge-harashim; for
they were craftsmen.
4:15 And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of
Elah; and Kenaz.
4:16 And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.
4:17 And the sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she bore
Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.
4:18 And his wife the Jewess bore Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of
Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter
of Pharaoh, whom Mered took.
4:19 And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah
the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
4:20 And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons
of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.
4:21 The sons of Shelah the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father
of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house
of Ashbea;
4:22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in
Moab, and Jashubilehem. And the records are ancient.
4:23 These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they dwelt
with the king for his work.
4:24 The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;
4:25 Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
4:26 And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.
4:27 And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many
children, neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah.
4:28 And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
4:29 and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
4:30 and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
4:31 and at Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These
were their cities to the reign of David.
4:32 And their villages were Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five
cities;
4:33 and all their villages that were round about the same cities, to Baal. These were
their habitations, and they have their genealogy.
4:34 And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
4:35 and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
4:36 and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel,
and Benaiah,
4:37 and Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri,
the son of Shemaiah-
4:38 these mentioned by name were princes in their families: and their fathers' houses
increased greatly.
4:39 And they went to the entrance of Gedor, even to the east side of the valley, to seek
pasture for their flocks.
4:40 And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and
peaceable; for they that dwelt there aforetime were of Ham.
4:41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote
their tents, and the Meunim that were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day,
and dwelt in their stead; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
4:42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount
Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons
of Ishi.
4:43 And they smote the remnant of the Amalekites that escaped, and have dwelt there to
this day.
5:1 And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but,
forasmuch as he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph
the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
5:2 For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the prince; but the birthright
was Joseph's:)
5:3 the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
5:4 The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son,
5:5 Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
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5:6 Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he
was prince of the Reubenites.
5:7 And his brethren by their families, when the genealogy of their generations was
reckoned: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah,
5:8 and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even
to Nebo and Baal-meon:
5:9 and eastward he dwelt even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river
Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
5:10 And in the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand;
and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.
5:11 And the sons of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:
5:12 Joel the chief, and Shapham the second, and Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan.
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Or “Tiglath-pileser”
5:13 And their brethren of their fathers' houses: Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and
Jorai, and Jacan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.
5:14 These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead,
the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;
5:15 Ahi the son of Abdiel, the son of Guni, chief of their fathers' houses.
5:16 And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of
Sharon, as far as their borders.
5:17 All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in
the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
5:18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men,
men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were
44,760, that were able to go forth to war.
5:19 And they made war with the Hagrites, with Jetur, and Naphish, and Nodab.
5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand,
and all that were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of
them, because they put their trust in him.
5:21 And they took away their cattle; of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two
hundred and fifty thousand, and of asses two thousand, and of men a hundred thousand.
5:22 For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their
stead until the captivity.
5:23 And the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased
from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and mount Hermon.
5:24 And these were the heads of their fathers' houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel,
and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men,
heads of their fathers' houses.
5:25 And they trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the
gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
5:26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of
Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the
Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and
Hara, and to the river of Gozan, to this day.
6:1 The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
6:2 And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
6:3 And the children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of
Aaron: Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
6:4 Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,
6:5 and Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,
6:6 and Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,
6:7 Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
6:8 and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,
6:9 and Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,
6:10 and Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest's office in the house that
Solomon built in Jerusalem),
6:11 and Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
6:12 and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,
6:13 and Shallum begat Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begat Azariah,
6:14 and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak;
6:15 And Jehozadak went into captivity, when Yahweh carried away Judah and
Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
6:16 The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
6:17 And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.
6:18 And the sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites
according to their fathers' houses.
6:20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
6:21 Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.
6:22 The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, assir his son,
6:23 Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,
6:24 Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.
6:25 And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.
6:26 As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,
6:27 Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.
6:28 And the sons of Samuel: the first-born Joel, and the second Abijah.
6:29 The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,
6:30 Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, asaiah his son.
6:31 And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of
Yahweh, after that the ark had rest.
6:32 And they ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until
Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office
according to their order.
6:33 And these are they that waited, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites:
Heman the singer, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
6:34 the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
6:35 the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
6:36 the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
6:37 the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
6:38 the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
6:39 And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of
Berechiah, the son of Shimea,
6:40 the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,
6:41 the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,
6:42 the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
6:43 the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
6:44 And on the left hand their brethren the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the
son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
6:45 the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
6:46 the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,
6:47 the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.
6:48 And their brethren the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of
the house of God.
6:49 But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of burnt offering, and upon the altar of
incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel,
according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
6:50 And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, abishua his son,
6:51 Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son,
6:52 Meraioth his son, amariah his son, ahitub his son,
6:53 Zadok his son, ahimaaz his son.
6:54 Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their
borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first
lot),
6:55 to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about
it;
6:56 but the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of
Jephunneh.
6:57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its
suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
6:58 and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
6:59 and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs;
6:60 and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its
suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were
thirteen cities.
6:61 And to the rest of the sons of Kohath were given by lot, out of the family of the
tribe, out of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, ten cities.
6:62 And to the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar,
and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of
Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
6:63 To the sons of Merari were given by lot, according to their families, out of the tribe
of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
6:64 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities with their suburbs.
6:65 And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of
the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities
which are mentioned by name.
6:66 And some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the
tribe of Ephraim.
6:67 And they gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim
with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,
6:68 and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs,
6:69 and Aijalon with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs;
6:70 and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its
suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.
6:71 To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh,
Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs;
6:72 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs,
6:73 and Ramoth with its suburbs, and Anem with its suburbs;
6:74 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs,
6:75 and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs;
6:76 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon
with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs.
6:77 To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun,
Rimmono with its suburbs, Tabor with its suburbs;
6:78 and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them,
out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with its suburbs, and Jahzah with its
suburbs,
6:79 and Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;
6:80 and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, and Mahanaim with
its suburbs,
6:81 and Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.
7:1 And of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.
7:2 And the sons of Tola: Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Ibsam, and
Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses, houses of Tola; mighty men of valor in their
generations: their number in the days of David was 22,600.
7:3 And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah,
and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.
7:4 And with them, by their generations, after their fathers' houses, were bands of the
host for war, 36,000; for they had many wives and sons.
7:5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar, mighty men of valor, reckoned
in all by genealogy, were 87,000.
7:6 The sons of Benjamin: Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
7:7 And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads
of fathers' houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy 22,034.
7:8 And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri,
and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of
Becher.
7:9 And they were reckoned by genealogy, after their generations, heads of their fathers'
houses, mighty men of valor, 20,200.
7:10 And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and
Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.
7:11 All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers' houses,
mighty men of valor, 17,200, that were able to go forth in the host for war.
7:12 Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher.
7:13 The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.
7:14 The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his concubine the Aramitess bore: she bore
Machir the father of Gilead:
7:15 and Machir took a wife of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister's name was Maacah;
and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.
7:16 And Maacah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the
name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.
7:17 And the sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir,
the son of Manasseh.
7:18 And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.
7:19 And the sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.
7:20 And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and
Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,
7:21 and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of
Gath that were born in the land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.
7:22 And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brethren came to comfort
him.
7:23 And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he called his
name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
7:24 And his daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth-horon the nether and the upper, and
Uzzen-sheerah.
7:25 And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,
7:26 Ladan his son, ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
7:27 Nun his son, Joshua his son.
7:28 And their possessions and habitations were Beth-el and the towns thereof, and
eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the
towns thereof, to Azzah and the towns thereof;
7:29 and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach
and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the children of
Joseph the son of Israel.
7:30 The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
7:31 And the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.
7:32 And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
7:33 And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children
of Japhlet.
7:34 And the sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
7:35 And the sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
7:36 The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
7:37 Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.
7:38 And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.
7:39 And the sons of Ulla: Arah, and Hanniel, and Rizia.
7:40 All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers' houses, choice and mighty
men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number of them reckoned by genealogy for
service in war was twenty and six thousand men.
8:1 And Benjamin begat Bela his first-born, ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,
8:2 Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth.
8:3 And Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
8:4 and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,
8:5 and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
8:6 And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers' houses of the
inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath:
8:7 and Naaman, and Ahijah, and Gera, he carried them captive: and he begat Uzza and
Ahihud.
8:8 And Shaharaim begat children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away;
Hushim and Baara were his wives.
8:9 And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,
8:10 and Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of fathers' houses.
8:11 And of Hushim he begat Abitub and Elpaal.
8:12 And the sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod,
with the towns thereof;
8:13 and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers' houses of the inhabitants of
Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;
8:14 and Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,
8:15 and Zebadiah, and Arad, and Eder,
8:16 and Michael, and Ishpah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah,
8:17 and Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Heber,
8:18 and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal,
8:19 and Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
8:20 and Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel,
8:21 and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,
8:22 and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel,
8:23 and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,
8:24 and Hananiah, and Elam, and Anthothijah,
8:25 and Iphdeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak,
8:26 and Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,
8:27 and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
8:28 These were heads of fathers' houses throughout their generations, chief men: these
dwelt in Jerusalem.
8:29 And in Gibeon there dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was
Maacah;
8:30 and his first-born son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,
8:31 and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zecher.
8:32 And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And they also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem,
over against their brethren.
8:33 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-
shua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
8:34 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah.
8:35 And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
8:36 And Ahaz begat Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and
Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza.
8:37 And Moza begat Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, azel his son.
8:38 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and
Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
8:39 And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his first-born, Jeush the second, and
Eliphelet the third.
8:40 And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and
sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.
9:1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they are written in the book
of the kings of Israel: and Judah was carried away captive to Babylon for their
transgression.
9:2 Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the
priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
9:3 And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and
of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
9:4 Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the
children of Perez the son of Judah.
9:5 And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the first-born, and his sons.
9:6 And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.
9:7 And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the
son of Hassenuah,
9:8 and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and
Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;
9:9 and their brethren, according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty and six.
All these men were heads of fathers' houses by their fathers' houses.
9:10 And of the priests: Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, Jachin,
9:11 and Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of
Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;
9:12 and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and
Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of
Meshillemith, the son of Immer;
9:13 and their brethren, heads of their fathers' houses, 1,760; very able men for the work
of the service of the house of God.
9:14 And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of
Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;
9:15 and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri,
the son of Asaph,
9:16 and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and
Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the
Netophathites.
9:17 And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren
(Shallum was the chief),
9:18 who hitherto waited in the king's gate eastward: they were the porters for the camp
of the children of Levi.
9:19 And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his
brethren, of his father's house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers
of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of Yahweh, keepers
of the entry.
9:20 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them in time past, and Yahweh was
with him.
9:21 Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tent of meeting.
9:22 All these that were chosen to be porters in the thresholds were two hundred and
twelve. These were reckoned by genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel
the seer did ordain in their office of trust.
9:23 So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house of Yahweh,
even the house of the tent, by wards.
9:24 On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.
9:25 And their brethren, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to
time to be with them:
9:26 for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over
the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.
9:27 And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge of it was upon
them; and to them pertained the opening thereof morning by morning.
9:28 And certain of them had charge of the vessels of service; for by count were these
brought in and by count were these taken out.
9:29 Some of them also were appointed over the furniture, and over all the vessels of the
sanctuary, and over the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the
spices.
9:30 And some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the spices.
9:31 And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the first-born of Shallum the Korahite,
had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
9:32 And some of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the showbread,
to prepare it every sabbath.
9:33 And these are the singers, heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, who dwelt in the
chambers and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day
and night.
9:34 These were heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, throughout their generations,
chief men: these dwelt at Jerusalem.
9:35 And in Gibeon there dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was
Maacah:
9:36 and his first-born son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,
9:37 and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.
9:38 And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their brethren in
Jerusalem, over against their brethren.
9:39 And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua,
and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
9:40 And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal begat Micah.
9:41 And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
9:42 And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and
Zimri begat Moza;
9:43 and Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, azel his son.
9:44 And Azel had six sons, whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and
Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.
10:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the
Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
10:2 And the Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines
slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.
10:3 And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was
distressed by reason of the archers.
10:4 Then said Saul to his armor-bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it,
lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not; for he
was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.
10:5 And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword,
and died.
10:6 So Saul died, and his three sons; and all his house died together.
10:7 And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that
Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came
and dwelt in them.
10:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that
they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
10:9 And they stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of
the Philistines round about, to carry the tidings to their idols, and to the people.
10:10 And they put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the
house of Dagon.
10:11 And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
10:12 all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his
sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and
fasted seven days.
10:13 So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of the
word of Yahweh, which he kept not; and also for that he asked counsel of one that had a
familiar spirit, to inquire thereby,
10:14 and inquired not of Yahweh: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom to
David the son of Jesse.
11:1 Then all Israel gathered themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are your
bone and your flesh.
11:2 In times past, even when Saul was king, it was you that led out and brought in Israel:
and Yahweh your God said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you
shall be prince over my people Israel.
11:3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant
with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according
to the word of Yahweh by Samuel.
11:4 And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the land, were there.
11:5 And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in here.
Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
11:6 And David said, Whosoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.
And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
11:7 And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.
11:8 And he built the city round about, from Millo even round about; and Joab repaired
the rest of the city.
11:9 And David became greater and greater; for Yahweh of hosts was with him.
11:10 Now these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who showed
themselves strong with him in his kingdom, together with all Israel, to make him king,
according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel.
11:11 And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of
a Hachmonite, the chief of the thirty; he lifted up his spear against three hundred and
slew them at one time.
11:12 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three
mighty men.
11:13 He was with David at Pasdammim, and there the Philistines were gathered together
to battle, where was a plot of ground full of barley; and the people fled from before the
Philistines.
11:14 And they stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines;
and Yahweh saved them by a great victory.
11:15 And three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of
Adullam; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
11:16 And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then
in Beth-lehem.
11:17 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well
of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!
11:18 And the three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the
well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David
would not drink thereof, but poured it out to Yahweh,
11:19 and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these
men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they
brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.
11:20 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his
spear against three hundred and slew them, and had a name among the three.
11:21 Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain:
nevertheless he attained not to the first three.
11:22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done
mighty deeds, he slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion
in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
11:23 And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the
Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff,
and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
11:24 These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three
mighty men.
11:25 Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three:
and David set him over his guard.
11:26 Also the mighty men of the armies: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of
Dodo of Beth-lehem,
11:27 Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
11:28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, abiezer the Anathothite,
11:29 Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,
11:30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
11:31 Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin, Benaiah the
Pirathonite,
11:32 Hurai of the brooks of Gaash, abiel the Arbathite,
11:33 Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,
11:34 the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,
11:35 Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
11:36 Hepher the Mecherathite, ahijah the Pelonite,
11:37 Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,
11:38 Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,
11:39 Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armorbearer of Joab the son of
Zeruiah,
11:40 Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
11:41 Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
11:42 Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with
him,
11:43 Hanan the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,
11:44 Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
11:45 Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
11:46 Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the
Moabite,
11:47 Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.
12:1 Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close
because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men, his helpers in
war.
12:2 They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in
slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow: they were of Saul's brethren of
Benjamin.
12:3 The chief was Ahiezer; then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite, and Jeziel,
and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Beracah, and Jehu the Anathothite,
12:4 and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and
Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite,
12:5 Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,
12:6 Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites,
12:7 and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.
12:8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves to David to the stronghold in the
wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear;
whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes upon the
mountains;
12:9 Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
12:10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
12:11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
12:12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
12:13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.
12:14 These of the sons of Gad were captains of the host: he that was least was equal to a
hundred, and the greatest to a thousand.
12:15 These are they that went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed
all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and
toward the west.
12:16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold to David.
12:17 And David went out to meet them, and answered and said to them, If ye be come
peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to you; but if ye be come to betray me
to my adversaries, seeing there is no wrong in my hands, the God of our fathers look
upon it, and rebuke it.
12:18 Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, Yours
are we, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse: peace, peace be to you, and peace be to
your helpers; for your God helps you. Then David received them, and made them
captains of the band.
12:19 Of Manasseh also there fell away some to David, when he came with the
Philistines against Saul to battle: but they helped them not; for the lords of the Philistines
upon advisement sent him away, saying, He will fall away to his master Saul to the
jeopardy of our heads.
12:20 As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, adnah, and Jozabad, and
Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands that
were of Manasseh.
12:21 And they helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of
valor, and were captains in the host.
12:22 For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great host,
like the host of God.
12:23 And these are the numbers of the heads of them that were armed for war, who
came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of
Yahweh.
12:24 The children of Judah that bore shield and spear were six thousand and eight
hundred, armed for war.
12:25 Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valor for the war, seven thousand and
one hundred.
12:26 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.
12:27 And Jehoiada was the leader of the house of Aaron; and with him were three
thousand and seven hundred,
12:28 and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty and two
captains.
12:29 And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto
the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.
12:30 And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of
valor, famous men in their fathers' houses.
12:31 And of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by
name, to come and make David king.
12:32 And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the times, to know
what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were
at their commandment.
12:33 Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in
array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and that could order the
battle array, and were not of double heart.
12:34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty
and seven thousand.
12:35 And of the Danites that could set the battle in array, twenty and eight thousand and
six hundred.
12:36 And of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in
array, forty thousand.
12:37 And on the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the
half-tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, a hundred
and twenty thousand.
12:38 All these being men of war, that could order the battle array, came with a perfect
heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of
one heart to make David king.
12:39 And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brethren
had made preparation for them.
12:40 Moreover they that were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and
Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, victuals of
meal, cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep in
abundance: for there was joy in Israel.
13:1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with
every leader.
13:2 And David said to all the assembly of Israel, If it seem good to you, and if it be of
Yahweh our God, let us send abroad every where to our brethren that are left in all the
land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that
they may gather themselves to us;
13:3 and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we sought not to it in the days of
Saul.
13:4 And all the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes
of all the people.
13:5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to
the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
13:6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim, which
belonged to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God Yahweh that sitts above the
cherubim, that is called by the Name.
13:7 And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of
Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
13:8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs,
and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with
trumpets.
13:9 And when they came to the threshing-floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to
hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
13:10 And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he
put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died before God.
13:11 And David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth upon Uzza; and he
called that place Perez-uzza, to this day.
13:12 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God
home to me?
13:13 So David removed not the ark to him into the city of David, but carried it aside into
the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
13:14 And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three
months: and Yahweh blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.
14:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and masons, and
carpenters, to build him a house.
14:2 And David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his
kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel's sake.
14:3 And David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David begat more sons and
daughters.
14:4 And these are the names of the children whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, and
Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
14:5 and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet,
14:6 and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,
14:7 and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
14:8 And when the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the
Philistines went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.
14:9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.
14:10 And David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and will
you deliver them into my hand? And Yahweh said to him, Go up; for I will deliver
them into your hand.
14:11 So they came up to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and David said,
God has broken my enemies by my hand, like the breach of waters. Therefore they
called the name of that place Baal-perazim.
14:12 And they left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and they were
burned with fire.
14:13 And the Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.
14:14 And David inquired again of God; and God said to him, You shall not go up after
them: turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.
14:15 And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-
trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for God is gone out before you to smite the host
of the Philistines.
14:16 And David did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines
from Gibeon even to Gezer.
14:17 And the fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him
upon all nations.
15:1 And David made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the
ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
15:2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them has
Yahweh chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him for ever.
15:3 And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh to its
place, which he had prepared for it.
15:4 And David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites:
15:5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty;
15:6 of the sons of Merari, asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;
15:7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty;
15:8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred;
15:9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and his brethren 80;
15:10 of the sons of Uzziel, amminadab the chief, and his brethren 112.
15:11 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel,
asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
15:12 and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites: sanctify
yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God
of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.
15:13 For because ye bore it not at the first, Yahweh our God made a breach upon us, for
that we sought him not according to the ordinance.
15:14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh,
the God of Israel.
15:15 And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God upon their shoulders with the
staves upon it, as Moses commanded according to the word of Yahweh.
15:16 And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers,
with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting
up the voice with joy.
15:17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, asaph the son
of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
15:18 and with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and
Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah,
and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
15:19 So the singers, Heman, asaph, and Ethan, were appointed with cymbals of brass to
sound aloud;
15:20 and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and
Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries set to Alamoth;
15:21 and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and
Azaziah, with harps set to the Sheminith, to lead.
15:22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the
song, because he was skilful.
15:23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
15:24 And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and
Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-
edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
15:25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring
up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the house of Obed-edom with joy.
15:26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams.
15:27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bore the
ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: and David
had upon him an ephod of linen.
15:28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, and
with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with
psalteries and harps.
15:29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the city of
David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David
dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
16:1 And they brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had
pitched for it: and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
16:2 And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offering and the peace
offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh.
16:3 And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of
bread, and a portion of flesh, and a cake of raisins.
16:4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of Yahweh, and to
celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
16:5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel,
and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with psalteries and
with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
16:6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the
covenant of God.
16:7 Then on that day did David first ordain to give thanks to Yahweh, by the hand of
Asaph and his brethren.
16:8 O give thanks to Yahweh, call upon his name; Make known his doings among the
peoples.
16:9 Sing to him, sing praises to him; Talk ye of all his marvellous works.
16:10 Glory ye in his holy name; Let the heart of them rejoice that seek Yahweh.
16:11 Seek ye Yahweh and his strength; Seek his face evermore.
16:12 Remember his marvellous works that he has done, His wonders, and the judgments
of his mouth,
16:13 O ye seed of Israel his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
16:14 He is Yahweh our God; His judgments are in all the earth.
16:15 Remember his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand
generations,
16:16 The covenant which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac,
16:17 And confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting
covenant,
16:18 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
16:19 When ye were but a few men in number, Yes, very few, and sojourners in it;
16:20 And they went about from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another
people.
16:21 He allowed no man to do them wrong; Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
16:22 Saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.
16:23 Sing to Yahweh, all the earth; Show forth his salvation from day to day.
16:24 Declare his glory among the nations, His marvellous works among all the peoples.
16:25 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised: He also is to be feared above all
gods.
16:26 For all the gods of the peoples are idols: But Yahweh made the heavens.
16:27 Honor and majesty are before him: Strength and gladness are in his place.
16:28 Ascribe to Yahweh, ye kindreds of the peoples, ascribe to Yahweh glory and
strength;
16:29 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name: Bring an offering, and come before
him: Worship Yahweh in holy array.
16:30 Tremble before him, all the earth: The world also is established that it cannot be
moved.
16:31 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; And let them say among the
nations, Yahweh reigns.
16:32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; Let the field exult, and all that is therein;
16:33 Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy before Yahweh; For he comes to
judge the earth.
16:34 O give thanks to Yahweh; for he is good; For his lovingkindness endures for ever.
16:35 And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together and deliver us
from the nations, To give thanks to your holy name, and to triumph in your praise.
16:36 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. And
all the people said, amen, and praised Yahweh.
16:37 So he left there, before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, asaph and his brethren,
to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required;
16:38 and Obed-edom with their brethren, 68; Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun and
Hosah to be doorkeepers;
16:39 and Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of Yahweh
in the high place that was at Gibeon,
16:40 to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh upon the altar of burnt offering continually
morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of Yahweh, which
he commanded to Israel;
16:41 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were
mentioned by name, to give thanks to Yahweh, because his lovingkindness endures for
ever;
16:42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that
should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun
to be at the gate.
16:43 And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his
house.
17:1 And it came to pass, when David dwelt in his house, that David said to Nathan the
prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh dwells
under curtains.
17:2 And Nathan said to David, Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.
17:3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
17:4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not build me a house to
dwell in:
17:5 for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but
have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.
17:6 In all places in which I have walked with all Israel, spoke I a word with any of the
judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have ye
not built me a house of cedar?
17:7 Now therefore thus shall you say to my servant David, Thus says Yahweh of hosts, I
took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my
people Israel:
17:8 and I have been with you wherever you have gone, and have cut off all your enemies
from before you; and I will make you a name, like to the name of the great ones that are
in the earth.
17:9 And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may
dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness
waste them any more, as at the first,
17:10 and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel; and I
will subdue all your enemies. Moreover I tell you that Yahweh will build you a house.
17:11 And it shall come to pass, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with
your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will
establish his kingdom.
17:12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne for ever.
17:13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my lovingkindness
away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;
17:14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom for ever; and his throne shall
be established for ever.
17:15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak
to David.
17:16 Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, O
Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
17:17 And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God; but you have spoken of your
servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of
a man of high degree, O Yahweh God.
17:18 What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your
servant? for you know your servant.
17:19 O Yahweh, for your servant's sake, and according to your own heart, have you
wrought all this greatness, to make known all these great things.
17:20 O Yahweh, there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according
to all that we have heard with our ears.
17:21 And what one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to
redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and terrible things, in
driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?
17:22 For your people Israel did you make your own people for ever; and you, Yahweh,
became their God.
17:23 And now, O Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant,
and concerning his house, be established for ever, and do as you have spoken.
17:24 And let your name be established and magnified for ever, saying, Yahweh of hosts
is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and the house of David your servant is
established before you.
17:25 For you, O my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house:
therefore has your servant found in his heart to pray before you.
17:26 And now, O Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your
servant:
17:27 and now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue
for ever before you: for you, O Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed for ever.
18:1 And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them,
and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.
18:2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought
tribute.
18:3 And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his
dominion by the river Euphrates.
18:4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and
twenty thousand footmen; and David hocked all the chariot horses, but reserved of them
for a hundred chariots.
18:5 And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succor Hadarezer king of Zobah, David
smote of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.
18:6 Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to
David, and brought tribute. And Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
18:7 And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and
brought them to Jerusalem.
18:8 And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadarezer, David took very much brass,
with which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.
18:9 And when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of
Hadarezer king of Zobah,
18:10 he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he
had fought against Hadarezer and smitten him; (for Hadarezer had wars with Tou;) and
he had with him all manner of vessels of gold and silver and brass.
18:11 These also did king David dedicate to Yahweh, with the silver and the gold that he
carried away from all the nations; from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of
Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
18:12 Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah smote of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt
eighteen thousand.
18:13 And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David.
And Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
18:14 And David reigned over all Israel; and he executed justice and righteousness to all
his people.
18:15 And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud
was recorder;
18:16 and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and
Shavsha was scribe;
18:17 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and
the sons of David were chief about the king.
19:1 And it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died,
and his son reigned in his stead.
19:2 And David said, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his
father showed kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his
father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to
comfort him.
19:3 But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Think you that David does
honor your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? are not his servants come to
you to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?
19:4 So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the
middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
19:5 Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. And he
sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at
Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
19:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to
David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them
chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Arammaacah, and out of Zobah.
19:7 So they hired them thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his
people, who came and encamped before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered
themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.
19:8 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.
19:9 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the
city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.
19:10 Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose
of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
19:11 And the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and
they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.
19:12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the
children of Ammon be too strong for you, then I will help you.
19:13 Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our
God: and Yahweh do that which seems him good.
19:14 So Joab and the people that were with him drew near before the Syrians to the
battle; and they fled before him.
19:15 And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they likewise
fled before Abishai his brother, and entered into the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.
19:16 And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent
messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the River, with Shophach the
captain of the host of Hadarezer at their head.
19:17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the
Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David
had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
19:18 And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven
thousand chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the
host.
19:19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before
Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: neither would the Syrians help the
children of Ammon any more.
20:1 And it came to pass, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go
out to battle, that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of
Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab
smote Rabbah, and overthrew it.
20:2 And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a
talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's head: and
he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceedingly much.
20:3 And he brought forth the people that were therein, and cut them with saws, and with
harrows of iron, and with axes. And thus did David to all the cities of the children of
Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
20:4 And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then
Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
20:5 And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew
Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's
beam.
20:6 And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers
and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot; and he also was
born to the giant.
20:7 And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.
20:8 These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the
hand of his servants.
21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
21:2 And David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, Go, number Israel from
Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.
21:3 And Joab said, Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are: but,
my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why does my lord require this
thing? why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?
21:4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and
went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
21:5 And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. And all they
of Israel were 1,100,000 men that drew sword: and Judah was 470,000 men that drew
sword.
21:6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them; for the king's command was
abominable to Joab.
21:7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he attacked Israel.
21:8 And David said to God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but
now, put away, I beseech you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have acted very
foolishly.
21:9 And Yahweh spoke to Gad, David's seer, saying,
21:10 Go and speak to David, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I offer you three things: choose
one of them, that I may do it to you.
21:11 So Gad came to David, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Take which you will:
21:12 either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes,
while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh,
even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the
borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent
me.
21:13 And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall, I pray, into the hand of
Yahweh; for very great are his mercies: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
21:14 So Yahweh sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand
men.
21:15 And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy,
Yahweh beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is
enough; now stay your hand. And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing-
floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
21:16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth
and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then
David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
21:17 And David said to God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered?
even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they
done? let your hand, I pray you, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my
father's house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.
21:18 Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go
up, and rear an altar to Yahweh in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
21:19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.
21:20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons that were with him
hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21:21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the
threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing-floor, that I may
build upon it an altar to Yahweh: for the full price shall you give it me, that the plague
may be stayed from the people.
21:23 And Ornan said to David, Take it to you, and let my lord the king do that which is
good in his eyes: lo, I give you the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments
for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering; I give it all.
21:24 And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I
will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost.
21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
21:26 And David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace
offerings, and called upon Yahweh; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the
altar of burnt offering.
21:27 And Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into the sheath
thereof.
21:28 At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing-
floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
21:29 For the tabernacle of Yahweh, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar
of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
21:30 But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the
sword of the angel of Yahweh.
22:1 Then David said, This is the house of Yahweh God, and this is the altar of burnt
offering for Israel.
22:2 And David commanded to gather together the sojourners that were in the land of
Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
22:3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and
for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;
22:4 and cedar-trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar-
trees in abundance to David.
22:5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be
built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all
countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before
his death.
22:6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for Yahweh,
the God of Israel.
22:7 And David said to Solomon his son, as for me, it was in my heart to build a house to
the name of Yahweh my God.
22:8 But the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, You have shed blood abundantly, and
have made great wars: you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed
much blood upon the earth in my sight.
22:9 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him
rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give
peace and quietness to Israel in his days:
22:10 he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his
father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
22:11 Now, my son, Yahweh be with you; and prosper you, and build the house of
Yahweh your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
22:12 Only Yahweh give you discretion and understanding, and give you charge
concerning Israel; that so you may keep the law of Yahweh your God.
22:13 Then shall you prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which
Yahweh charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; fear not,
neither be dismayed.
22:14 Now, behold, in my affliction I have prepared for the house of Yahweh a hundred
thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver, and of brass and iron
without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and you
may add thereto.
22:15 Moreover there are workmen with you in abundance, hewers and workers of stone
and timber, and all men that are skilful in every manner of work:
22:16 of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and
be doing, and Yahweh be with you.
22:17 David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,
22:18 Is not Yahweh your God with you? and has he not given you rest on every side?
for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued
before Yahweh, and before his people.
22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God; arise therefore,
and build ye the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh,
and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.
23:1 Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
23:2 And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.
23:3 And the Levites were numbered from thirty years old and upward: and their number
by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
23:4 Of these, 24,000 were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; and six thousand
were officers and judges;
23:5 and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the
instruments which I have made, said David, for the purpose of praise.
23:6 And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon,
Kohath, and Merari.
23:7 Of the Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.
23:8 The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.
23:9 The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the
heads of the fathers' houses of Ladan.
23:10 And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the
sons of Shimei.
23:11 And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not
many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning.
23:12 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
23:13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should
sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, for ever, to burn incense before Yahweh,
to minister to him, and to bless in his name, for ever.
23:14 But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.
23:15 The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
23:16 The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief.
23:17 And the sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons;
but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
23:18 The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
23:19 The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and
Jekameam the fourth.
23:20 The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.
23:21 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
23:22 And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters only: and their brethren the sons
of Kish took them to wife.
23:23 The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
23:24 These were the sons of Levi after their fathers' houses, even the heads of the
fathers' houses of those of them that were counted, in the number of names by their polls,
who did the work for the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and
upward.
23:25 For David said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people; and he
dwells in Jerusalem for ever:
23:26 and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tabernacle and all the
vessels of it for the service thereof.
23:27 For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were numbered, from twenty years
old and upward.
23:28 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of
Yahweh, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, even
the work of the service of the house of God;
23:29 for the showbread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of
unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and
for all manner of measure and size;
23:30 and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise at even;
23:31 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the sabbaths, on the new moons, and
on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually
before Yahweh;
23:32 and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the
holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house
of Yahweh.
24:1 And the courses of the sons of Aaron were these. The sons of Aaron: Nadab and
Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.
24:2 But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore
Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
24:3 And David with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of
Ithamar, divided them according to their ordering in their service.
24:4 And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of
Ithamar; and thus were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, heads of
fathers' houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, according to their fathers' houses, eight.
24:5 Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for there were princes of the
sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
24:6 And Shemaiah the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was of the Levites, wrote them in
the presence of the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of
Abiathar, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the priests and of the Levites; one
fathers' house being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.
24:7 Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
24:8 the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,
24:9 the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,
24:10 the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,
24:11 the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah,
24:12 the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,
24:13 the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
24:14 the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
24:15 the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez,
24:16 the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezkel,
24:17 the one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,
24:18 the three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.
24:19 This was the ordering of them in their service, to come into the house of Yahweh
according to the ordinance given to them by Aaron their father, as Yahweh, the God of
Israel, had commanded him.
24:20 And of the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of
Shubael, Jehdeiah.
24:21 Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief.
24:22 Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.
24:23 And the sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, amariah the second, Jahaziel the third,
Jekameam the fourth.
24:24 The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.
24:25 The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
24:26 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno.
24:27 The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur, and Ibri.
24:28 Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons.
24:29 Of Kish; the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.
24:30 And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of
the Levites after their fathers' houses.
24:31 These likewise cast lots even as their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of
David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the
priests and of the Levites; the fathers' houses of the chief even as those of his younger
brother.
25:1 Moreover David and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain of the
sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with
psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of them that did the work according to their
service was:
25:2 of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asharelah, the sons of
Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied after the order of the king.
25:3 Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and
Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in
giving thanks and praising Yahweh.
25:4 Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth,
Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi,
Hothir, Mahazioth.
25:5 All these were the sons of Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the
horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
25:6 All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of Yahweh, with
cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and
Heman being under the order of the king.
25:7 And the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in singing to
Yahweh, even all that were skilful, was two hundred eighty-eight.
25:8 And they cast lots for their offices, all alike, as well the small as the great, the
teacher as the scholar.
25:9 Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah; he and his
brethren and sons were twelve:
25:10 the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:11 the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:12 the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:13 the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:14 the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:15 the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:16 the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:17 the tenth to Shimei, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:18 the eleventh to Azarel, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:19 the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:20 for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:21 for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:22 for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:23 for the sixteenth to Hananiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:24 for the seventeenth to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:25 for the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:26 for the nineteenth to Mallothi, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:27 for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:28 for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:29 for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:30 for the three and twentieth to Mahazioth, his sons and his brethren, twelve:
25:31 for the four and twentieth to Romamtiezer, his sons and his brethren, twelve.
26:1 For the courses of the doorkeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore,
of the sons of Asaph.
26:2 And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the first-born, Jediael the second, Zebadiah
the third, Jathniel the fourth,
26:3 Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.
26:4 And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the first-born, Jehozabad the second, Joah the
third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,
26:5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.
26:6 Also to Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled over the house of their father;
for they were mighty men of valor.
26:7 The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren
were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.
26:8 All these were of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brethren,
able men in strength for the service; 62 of Obed-edom.
26:9 And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, valiant men, eighteen.
26:10 Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, (for though he
was not the first-born, yet his father made him chief),
26:11 Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and
brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
26:12 Of these were the courses of the doorkeepers, even of the chief men, having offices
like their brethren, to minister in the house of Yahweh.
26:13 And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to their fathers' houses,
for every gate.
26:14 And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a discreet
counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.
26:15 To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the store-house.
26:16 To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that
goes up, watch against watch.
26:17 Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the
store-house two and two.
26:18 For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.
26:19 These were the courses of the doorkeepers; of the sons of the Korahites, and of the
sons of Merari.
26:20 And of the Levites, ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the
treasures of the dedicated things.
26:21 The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of
the fathers' houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.
26:22 The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the house of
Yahweh.
26:23 Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:
26:24 and Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler over the treasures.
26:25 And his brethren: of Eliezer came Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and
Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.
26:26 This Shelomoth and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things,
which David the king, and the heads of the fathers' houses, the captains over thousands
and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.
26:27 Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of Yahweh.
26:28 And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner,
and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whosoever had dedicated anything, it was
under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brethren.
26:29 Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel,
for officers and judges.
26:30 Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valor, a thousand and seven
hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of
Yahweh, and for the service of the king.
26:31 Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their
generations by fathers' houses. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were
sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead.
26:32 And his brethren, men of valor, were two thousand and seven hundred, heads of
fathers' houses, whom king David made overseers over the Reubenites, and the Gadites,
and the half-tribe of the Manassites, for every matter pertaining to God, and for the
affairs of the king.
Chapter 27
27:1 Now this is the list of the children of Israel, that is, the heads of fathers' houses and
the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any
matter concerning the rotation of divisions which came in and went out month by month
throughout all the months of the year- every division numbering 24,000.
27:2 Over the first division for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in
his course were 24,000.
27:3 He was of the children of Perez, the chief of all the captains of the host for the first
month.
27:4 And over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his course;
and Mikloth the ruler: and in his course were 24,000.
27:5 The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada
the priest, chief: and in his division were 24,000.
27:6 This is the same Benaiah who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty:
and of his course was Ammizabad his son.
27:7 The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and
Zebadiah his son after him: and in his division were 24,000.
27:8 The fifth captain for this fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course
were 24,000.
27:9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in
his course were 24,000.
27:10 The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children
of Ephraim: and in his course were 24,000.
27:11 The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the
Zerahites: and in his course were 24,000.
27:12 The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the
Benjamites: and in his course were 24,000.
27:13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the
Zerahites: and in his course were 24,000.
27:14 The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the
children of Ephraim: and in his course were 24,000.
27:15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel:
and in his course were 24,000.
27:16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of
Zichri the ruler: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah:
27:17 of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok:
27:18 of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
27:19 of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel:
27:20 of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half-tribe of
Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
27:21 of the half -tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin,
Jaasiel the son of Abner:
27:22 of Dan, azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.
27:23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because
Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.
27:24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath
for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king
David.
27:25 And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the
treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jonathan
the son of Uzziah:
27:26 And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the
son of Chelub:
27:27 and over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: and over the increase of the
vineyards for the wine-cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
27:28 and over the olive-trees and the sycomore-trees that were in the lowland was Baal-
hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:
27:29 and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds
that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:
27:30 and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite: and over the asses was Jehdeiah the
Meronothite: and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.
27:31 All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David's.
27:32 Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counsellor, a man of understanding, and a
scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:
27:33 And Ahithophel was the king's counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king's
friend:
27:34 and after Ahithophel was Jehoiada the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar: and the
captain of the king's host was Joab.
28:1 And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the
captains of the companies that served the king by course, and the captains of thousands,
and the captains of hundreds, and the rulers over all the substance and possessions of the
king and of his sons, with the officers, and the mighty men, even all the mighty men of
valor, to Jerusalem.
28:2 Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my
people: as for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh, and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the building.
28:3 But God said to me, You shall not build a house for my name, because you are a
man of war, and have shed blood.
28:4 Nevertheless, Yahweh, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father
to be king over Israel for ever: for he has chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of
Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to
make me king over all Israel;
28:5 And of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon
my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel.
28:6 And he said to me, Solomon your son, he shall build my house and my courts; for I
have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
28:7 And I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments
and my ordinances, as at this day.
28:8 Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Yahweh, and in the
audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God;
that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after
you for ever.
28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a
perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all
the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you
forsake him, he will cast you off for ever.
28:10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be
strong, and do it.
28:11 Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch of the temple, and of
the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper rooms thereof, and of
the inner chambers thereof, and of the place of the mercy-seat;
28:12 and the pattern of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of the house of
Yahweh, and for all the chambers round about, for the treasuries of the house of God, and
for the treasuries of the dedicated things;
28:13 also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the
service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Yahweh;
28:14 of gold by weight for the vessels of gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; of
silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;
28:15 by weight also for the candlesticks of gold, and for the lamps thereof, of gold, by
weight for every candlestick and for the lamps thereof; and for the candlesticks of silver,
silver by weight for every candlestick and for the lamps thereof, according to the use of
every candlestick;
28:16 and the gold by weight for the tables of showbread, for every table; and silver for
the tables of silver;
28:17 and the flesh-hooks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden
bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
28:18 and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the
chariot, even the cherubim, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh.
28:19 All this, said David, have I been made to understand in writing from the hand of
Yahweh, even all the works of this pattern.
28:20 And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear
not, nor be dismayed; for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you; he will not fail you,
nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of the house of Yahweh be finished.
28:21 And, behold, there are the courses of the priests and the Levites, for all the service
of the house of God: and there shall be with you in all manner of work every willing man
that has skill, for any manner of service: also the captains and all the people will be
wholly at your commandment.
29:1 And David the king said to all the assembly, Solomon my son, whom alone God has
chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but
for Yahweh God.
29:2 Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the
things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the brass for the things of brass,
the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; onyx stones, and stones
to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones,
and marble stones in abundance.
29:3 Moreover also, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, seeing that
I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and
above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
29:4 even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents
of refined silver, with which to overlay the walls of the houses;
29:5 of gold for the things of gold, and of silver for the things of silver, and for all manner
of work to be made by the hands of artificers. Who then offers willingly to consecrate
himself this day to Yahweh?
29:6 Then the princes of the fathers' houses, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the
captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king's work, offered
willingly;
29:7 and they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and
ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand
talents, and of iron a hundred thousand talents.
29:8 And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the
house of Yahweh, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
29:9 Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart
they offered willingly to Yahweh: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
29:10 Wherefore David blessed Yahweh before all the assembly; and David said, Blessed
be you, O Yahweh, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
29:11 Yours, O Yahweh, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory,
and the majesty: for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours; yours is the
kingdom, O Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
29:12 Both riches and honor come of you, and you rule over all; and in your hand is
power and might; and in your hand it is to make great, and to give strength to all.
29:13 Now therefore, our God, we thank you, and praise your glorious name.
29:14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly
after this sort? for all things come of you, and of your own have we given you.
29:15 For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days
on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
29:16 O Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for
your holy name comes of your hand, and is all your own.
29:17 I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As
for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now
have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
29:18 O Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for
ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of your people, and prepare their heart
to you;
29:19 and give to Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep your commandments, your
testimonies, and your statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for
which I have made provision.
29:20 And David said to all the assembly, Now bless Yahweh your God. And all the
assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and
worshipped Yahweh, and the king.
29:21 And they sacrificed sacrifices to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings to Yahweh,
on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand
lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel,
29:22 and did eat and drink before Yahweh on that day with great gladness. And they
made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him to Yahweh to be
prince, and Zadok to be priest.
29:23 Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and
prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
29:24 And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David,
submitted themselves to Solomon the king.
29:25 And Yahweh magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and
bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king before him in Israel.
29:26 Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.
29:27 And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in
Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
29:28 And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honor: and Solomon his son
29:29 Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history
of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the
seer,
29:30 with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel,
and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
End of 1 Chronicles
The Second Book of Chronicles
2 Chronicles
1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Yahweh his
God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.
1:2 And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to
the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers' houses.
1:3 So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at
Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Yahweh
had made in the wilderness.
1:4 But the ark of God had David brought up from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David
had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
1:5 Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was
there before the tabernacle of Yahweh: and Solomon and the assembly sought to it.
1:6 And Solomon went up there to the brazen altar before Yahweh, which was at the tent
of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.
1:7 In that night did God appear to Solomon, and said to him, ask what I shall give you.
1:8 And Solomon said to God, You have shown great lovingkindness to David my father,
and have made me king in his stead.
1:9 Now, O Yahweh God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you
have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
1:10 Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this
people; for who can judge this your people, that is so great?
1:11 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked
riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of them that hate you, neither yet have asked long
life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people,
over whom I have made you king:
1:12 wisdom and knowledge is granted to you; and I will give you riches, and wealth, and
honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before you; neither shall there
any after you have the like.
1:13 So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of
meeting, to Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.
1:14 And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four
hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and
with the king at Jerusalem.
1:15 And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he
to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
1:16 And the horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; the king's merchants
received them in droves, each drove at a price.
1:17 And they fetched up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of
silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the
kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.
2:1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his
kingdom.
2:2 And Solomon counted out 70,000 men to bear burdens, and 80,000 men that were
hewers in the mountains, and 3,600 to oversee them.
2:3 And Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, as you did deal with David my
father, and did send him cedars to build him a house to dwell therein, even so deal with
me.
2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to
him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual showbread,
and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons,
and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
2:5 And the house which I build is great; for great is our God above all gods.
2:6 But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens
cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn
incense before him?
2:7 Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and
in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that knows how to grave all manner of
gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom
David my father did provide.
2:8 Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that
your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with
your servants,
2:9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build
shall be great and wonderful.
2:10 And, behold, I will give to your servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty
thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty
thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
2:11 Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon,
Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them.
2:12 Huram said moreover, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and
earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endued with discretion and
understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.
2:13 And now I have sent a skilful man, endued with understanding, of Huram my
father's,
2:14 the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre,
skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in
blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to grave any manner of graving, and to devise
any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skilful men, and with
the skilful men of my lord David your father.
2:15 Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has
spoken of, let him send to his servants:
2:16 and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring
it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem.
2:17 And Solomon numbered all the sojourners that were in the land of Israel, after the
numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found a
hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.
2:18 And he set 70,000 of them to bear burdens, and 80,000 that were hewers in the
mountains, and 3,600 overseers to set the people at work.
3:1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on mount Moriah,
where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he made ready in the place that David
had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
3:2 And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his
reign.
3:3 Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of
God. The length by cubits after the first measure was 60 cubits, and the breadth twenty
cubits.
3:4 And the porch that was before the house, the length of it, according to the breadth of
the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it
within with pure gold.
3:5 And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and
wrought upon it palm-trees and chains.
3:6 And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of
Parvaim.
3:7 He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls of it, and the
doors of it, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.
3:8 And he made the most holy house: the length thereof, according to the breadth of the
house, was twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with
fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
3:9 And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper
chambers with gold.
3:10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubim of image work; and they overlaid
them with gold.
3:11 And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one cherub
was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was likewise five
cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.
3:12 And the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house;
and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.
3:13 The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood
on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.
3:14 And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought
cherubim upon it.
3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the
capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
3:16 And he made chains in the oracle, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he
made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
3:17 And he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on
the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the
left Boaz.
4:1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty
cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
4:2 Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and
the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits circumferred it.
4:3 And under it was the likeness of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten
cubits, compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was
cast.
4:4 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward
the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the
sea was set upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
4:5 And it was a handbreadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a
cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash
in them; such things as belonged to the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea
was for the priests to wash in.
4:7 And he made the ten candlesticks of gold according to the ordinance concerning
them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and
five on the left. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the
court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
4:10 And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
4:11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram made an
end of doing the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of God:
4:12 the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were on the top of the
pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top
of the pillars,
4:13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates
for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars.
4:14 He made also the bases, and the lavers made he upon the bases;
4:15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all the vessels thereof, did
Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright brass.
4:17 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth
and Zeredah.
4:18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass
could not be found out.
4:19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the golden altar
also, and the tables whereon was the showbread;
4:20 and the candlesticks with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the
oracle, of pure gold;
4:21 and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;
4:22 and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the firepans, of pure gold: and
as for the entry of the house, the inner doors of it for the most holy place, and the doors of
the nave of the temple, were of gold.
5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of Yahweh was finished.
And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver,
and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
5:2 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the
princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh out of the city of David, which is Zion.
5:3 nd all the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, which was in
the seventh month.
5:4 And all the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;
5:5 and they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were
in the Tent; these did the priests the Levites bring up.
5:6 And king Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled to him,
were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be counted nor numbered
for multitude.
5:7 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the
oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
5:8 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim
covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
5:9 And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before
the oracle; but they were not seen without: and there it is to this day.
5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb,
when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
5:11 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the
priests that were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their courses;
5:12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun,
and their sons and their brethren, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and psalteries and
harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests
sounding with trumpets;)
5:13 it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to
be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice with the
trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Yahweh, saying, For he is
good; for his lovingkindness endures for ever; that then the house was filled with a cloud,
even the house of Yahweh,
5:14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of
Yahweh filled the house of God.
6:1 Then spoke Solomon, Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
6:2 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in for ever.
6:3 And the king turned his face, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the
assembly of Israel stood.
6:4 And he said, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth to
David my father, and has with his hands fulfilled it, saying,
6:5 Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city
out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither
chose I any man to be prince over my people Israel:
6:6 but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to
be over my people Israel.
6:7 Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel.
6:8 But Yahweh said to David my father, Whereas it was in your heart to build a house
for my name, you did well that it was in your heart:
6:9 nevertheless you shall not build the house; but your son that shall come forth out of
your loins, he shall build the house for my name.
6:10 And Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of
David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the
house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
6:11 And there have I set the ark, in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which he made
with the children of Israel.
6:12 And he stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of
Israel, and spread forth his hands
6:13 (for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad,
and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and
kneeled down upon his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands
toward heaven;)
6:14 and he said, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, there is no God like you, in heaven, or on
earth; who keepest covenant and lovingkindness with your servants, that walk before you
with all their heart;
6:15 who have kept with your servant David my father that which you did promise him:
yes, you spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is this day.
6:16 Now therefore, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my
father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my
sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in
my law as you have walked before me.
6:17 Now therefore, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you
spoke to your servant David.
6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the
heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
6:19 Yet have you respect to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, O
Yahweh my God, to hearken to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before
you;
6:20 that your eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place
whereof you have said that you would put your name there; to hearken to the prayer
which your servant shall pray toward this place.
6:21 And hearken you to the supplications of your servant, and of your people Israel,
when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear you from your dwelling-place, even
from heaven; and when you hear forgive.
6:22 If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to
swear, and he come and swear before your altar in this house;
6:23 then hear you from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, requiting the wicked, to
bring his way upon his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to
his righteousness.
6:24 And if your people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have
sinned against you, and shall turn again and confess your name, and pray and make
supplication before you in this house;
6:25 then hear you from heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them
again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.
6:26 When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against
you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when
you afflict them:
6:27 then hear you in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people
Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain upon
your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.
6:28 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew,
locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever
plague or whatsoever sickness there be;
6:29 what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all your people
Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread
forth his hands toward this house:
6:30 then hear you from heaven your dwelling-place and forgive, and render to every
man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the
hearts of the children of men;)
6:31 that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which
you gave to our fathers.
6:32 Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of your people Israel, when he shall
come from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your
outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house:
6:33 then hear you from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, and do according to all
that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name,
and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I
have built is called by your name.
6:34 If your people go out to battle against their enemies, by whatsoever way you shall
send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house
which I have built for your name;
6:35 then hear you from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their
cause.
6:36 If they sin against you (for there is no man that sinns not), and you be angry with
them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captive to a land far
off or near;
6:37 yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and
turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have
sinned, we have done perversely, and have dealt wickedly;
6:38 if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their
captivity, whither they have carried them captive, and pray toward their land, which you
gave to their fathers, and the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I
have built for your name:
6:39 then hear you from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, their prayer and their
supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against
you.
6:40 Now, O my God, let, I beseech you, your eyes be open, and let your ears be attent,
to the prayer that is made in this place.
6:41 Now therefore arise, O Yahweh God, into your resting-place, you, and the ark of
your strength: let your priests, O Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your
saints rejoice in goodness.
6:42 O Yahweh God, turn not away the face of your anointed: remember your
lovingkindnesses to David your servant.
7:1 Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven,
and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the
house.
7:2 And the priests could not enter into the house of Yahweh, because the glory of
Yahweh filled Yahweh's house.
7:3 And all the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of
Yahweh was upon the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground
upon the pavement, and worshipped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, saying, For he is good;
for his lovingkindness endures for ever.
7:4 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yahweh.
7:5 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a
hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house
of God.
7:6 And the priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of
music of Yahweh, which David the king had made to give thanks to Yahweh, (for his
lovingkindness endures for ever,) when David praised by their ministry: and the priests
sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
7:7 Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house of
Yahweh; for there he offered the burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings,
because the brazen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt
offering, and the meal offering, and the fat.
7:8 So Solomon held the feast at that time seven days, and all Israel with him, a very
great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt.
7:9 And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of
the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.
7:10 And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away to
their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David,
and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.
7:11 Thus Solomon finished the house of Yahweh, and the king's house: and all that
came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Yahweh, and in his own house, he
prosperously effected.
7:12 And Yahweh appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your
prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.
7:13 If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour
the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and
seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will
forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
7:15 Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attent, to the prayer that is made in this
place.
7:16 For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for
ever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.
7:17 And as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked, and do
according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep my statutes and my
ordinances;
7:18 then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, according as I covenanted with
David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man to be ruler in Israel.
7:19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have
set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
7:20 then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and
this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and I will
make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
7:21 And this house, which is so high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished, and
shall say, Why has Yahweh done thus to this land, and to this house?
7:22 And they shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped
them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil upon them.
8:1 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, during which Solomon had built the
house of Yahweh, and his own house,
8:2 that the cities which Huram had given to Solomon, Solomon built them, and caused
the children of Israel to dwell there.
8:3 And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.
8:4 And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in
Hamath.
8:5 Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with
walls, gates, and bars;
8:6 and Baalath, and all the store-cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his
chariots, and the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his
pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
8:7 As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, that were not of Israel;
8:8 of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel
consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants to this day.
8:9 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they
were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.
8:10 And these were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred and fifty, that
bore rule over the people.
8:11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the
house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David
king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereto the ark of Yahweh has come.
8:12 Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh, which he
had built before the porch,
8:13 even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of
Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the
year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tabernacles.
8:14 And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the
priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before
the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their courses at
every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.
8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites
concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.
8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared to the day of the foundation of the house
of Yahweh, and until it was finished. So the house of Yahweh was completed.
8:17 Then went Solomon to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth, on the seashore in the land of
Edom.
8:18 And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had
knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched
from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
9:1 And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove
Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bore
spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon,
she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
9:2 And Solomon told her all her questions; and there was not anything hid from
Solomon which he told her not.
9:3 And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that
he had built,
9:4 and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his
ministers, and their apparel, his cupbearers also, and their apparel, and his ascent by
which he went up to the house of Yahweh; there was no more spirit in her.
9:5 And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of your acts,
and of your wisdom.
9:6 But I believed not their words, until I came, and my eyes had seen it; and, behold, the
half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me: you exceed the fame that I heard.
9:7 Happy are your men, and happy are these your servants, that stand continually before
you, and hear your wisdom.
9:8 Blessed be Yahweh your God, who delighted in you, to set you on his throne, to be
king for Yahweh your God: because your God loved Israel, to establish them for ever,
therefore made he you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.
9:9 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great
abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba
gave to king Solomon.
9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, that brought gold
from Ophir, brought algum-trees and precious stones.
9:11 And the king made of the algum-trees terraces for the house of Yahweh, and for the
king's house, and harps and psalteries for the singers: and there were none such seen
before in the land of Judah.
9:12 And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked,
besides that which she had brought to the king. So she turned, and went to her own
land, she and her servants.
9:13 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,
9:14 besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia
and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.
9:15 And king Solomon made 200 bucklers of beaten gold; 600 shekels of beaten gold
went to one buckler.
9:16 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold
went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
9:18 nd there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened
to the throne, and stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing
beside the stays.
9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps:
there was not the like made in any kingdom.
9:20 And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the
house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the
days of Solomon.
9:21 For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every
three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and
peacocks.
9:22 So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom,
which God had put in his heart.
9:24 And they brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and
raiment, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand
horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.
9:26 And he ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines,
and to the border of Egypt.
9:27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as
the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.
9:28 And they brought horses for Solomon out of Egypt, and out of all lands.
9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the history
of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of
Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?
9:30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
9:31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his
father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
10:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem; for all Israel were come to Shechem to make him
king.
10:2 And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it, (for he was in
Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon,) that Jeroboam returned
out of Egypt.
10:3 And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spoke to
Rehoboam, saying,
10:4 Your father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make you the grievous service
of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve you.
10:5 And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And the people departed.
10:6 And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon
his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this
people?
10:7 And they spoke to him, saying, If you be kind to this people, and please them, and
speak good words to them, then they will be your servants for ever.
10:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took
counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.
10:9 And he said to them, What counsel give ye, that we may return answer to this
people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father did put upon us
lighter?
10:10 And the young men that were grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall
you say to the people that spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but
make you it lighter to us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger is thicker than my
father's loins.
10:11 And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your
yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
10:12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king
commanded, saying, Come to me again the third day.
10:13 And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of
the old men,
10:14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made
your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will
chastise you with scorpions.
10:15 So the king hearkened not to the people; for it was brought about of God, that
Yahweh might establish his word, which he spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam
the son of Nebat.
10:16 And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not to them, the people answered
the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the
son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: now see to your own house, David. So
all Israel departed to their tents.
10:17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned
over them.
10:18 Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to taskwork;
and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And king Rehoboam made
speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
10:19 So Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
11:1 And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and
Benjamin, a 180,000 chosen men, that were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the
kingdom again to Rehoboam.
11:2 But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
11:3 Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah
and Benjamin, saying,
11:4 Thus says Yahweh, You shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return
every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they hearkened to the words of
Yahweh, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
11:5 And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.
11:6 He built Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
11:7 And Beth-zur, and Soco, and Adullam,
11:8 and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
11:9 and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,
11:10 and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified
cities.
11:11 And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of victuals,
and oil and wine.
11:12 And in every city he put shields and spears, and made them exceedingly strong.
And Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.
11:13 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their
border.
11:14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and
Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the
priest's office to Yahweh;
11:15 and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the
calves which he had made.
11:16 And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek
Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their
fathers.
11:17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of
Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and
Solomon.
11:18 And Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of
David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;
11:19 and she bore him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.
11:20 And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah,
and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.
11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his
concubines: (for he took 18 wives, and 60 concubines, and begat 28 sons and 60
daughters.)
11:22 And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah to be chief, even the prince
among his brethren; for he was minded to make him king.
11:23 And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his sons throughout all the lands of Judah
and Benjamin, to every fortified city: and he gave them victuals in abundance. And he
sought for them many wives.
12:1 And it came to pass, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was
strong, that he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him.
12:2 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt
came up against Jerusalem, because they had trespassed against Yahweh,
12:3 with 1,200 chariots, and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number
that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.
12:4 And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.
12:5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that
were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, Thus says
Yahweh, You have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.
12:6 Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, Yahweh
is righteous.
12:7 And when Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to
Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves: I will not destroy them; but I will
grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by
the hand of Shishak.
12:8 Nevertheless they shall be his servants, that they may know my service, and the
service of the kingdoms of the countries.
12:9 So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of
the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house: he took all away: he took
away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
12:10 And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to
the hands of the captains of the guard, that kept the door of the king's house.
12:11 And it was so, that, as oft as the king entered into the house of Yahweh, the guard
came and bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.
12:12 And when he humbled himself, the wrath of Yahweh turned from him, so as not to
destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found.
12:13 So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam
was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in
Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his
name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
12:14 And he did that which was evil, because he set not his heart to seek Yahweh.
12:15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the histories of
Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? And there
were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.
12:16 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and
Abijah his son reigned in his stead.
13:1 In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
13:2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Micaiah the
daughter of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
13:3 And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred
thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight
hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.
13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of
Ephraim, and said, Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel:
13:5 Ought ye not to know that Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave the kingdom over Israel
to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
13:6 Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up,
and rebelled against his lord.
13:7 And there were gathered to him worthless men, base fellows, that strengthened
themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and soft-
hearted, and could not withstand them.
13:8 And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of Yahweh in the hand of the sons of
David; and ye are a great multitude, and there are with you the golden calves which
Jeroboam made you for gods.
13:9 Have ye not driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites,
and made you priests after the manner of the peoples of other lands? so that whosoever
comes to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a
priest of them that are no gods.
13:10 But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and we have
priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:
13:11 and they burn to Yahweh every morning and every evening burnt offerings and
sweet incense: the showbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the
candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge
of Yahweh our God; but ye have forsaken him.
13:12 And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm
to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against Yahweh, the
God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were
before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
13:14 And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and
they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
13:15 Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to
pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
13:16 And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their
hand.
13:17 And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down
slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
13:18 Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of
Judah prevailed, because they relied upon Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
13:19 And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth-el with the
towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephron with the towns thereof.
13:20 Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and Yahweh
smote him, and he died.
13:21 But Abijah became mighty, and took to himself fourteen wives, and begat twenty
and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
13:22 And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the
commentary of the prophet Iddo.
14:1 So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa
his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.
14:2 And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God:
14:3 for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars,
and hewed down the Asherim,
14:4 and commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and to do the law
and the commandment.
14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images:
and the kingdom was quiet before him.
14:6 And he built fortified cities in Judah; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in
those years, because Yahweh had given him rest.
14:7 For he said to Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and
towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our
God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side. So they built and
prospered.
14:8 And Asa had an army that bore bucklers and spears, out of Judah 300,000; and out
of Benjamin, that bore shields and drew bows, 280,000: all these were mighty men of
valor.
14:9 And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of one million,
and 300 chariots; and he came to Mareshah.
14:10 Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of
Zephathah at Mareshah.
14:11 And Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, Yahweh, there is none besides you to
help, between the mighty and him that has no strength. Help us, O Yahweh our God;
for we rely on you, and in your name we are here against this multitude. O Yahweh,
you are our God; let not man prevail against you.
14:12 So Yahweh struck the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians
fled.
14:13 And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them to Gerar. And so many
of the Ethiopians fell there that they could not recover themselves; for they were
destroyed before Yahweh, and before his host. And they carried away very much booty.
14:14 And they attacked all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of Yahweh came
upon them: and they despoiled all the cities; for there was much spoil in them.
14:15 They attacked also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance, and
camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
15:1 And the Spirit of God came upon Azariah the son of Oded:
15:2 and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and
Benjamin, Yahweh is with you, while you are with him. And if you seek him, he will
be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
15:3 Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching
priest, and without law:
15:4 But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him,
he was found by them.
15:5 And in those times there was no peace for him that went out, nor for him that came
in; but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the lands.
15:6 And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God
did vex them with all adversity.
15:7 But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.
15:8 And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took
courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and
out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the
altar of Yahweh, that was before the porch of Yahweh.
15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and them that sojourned with them out of
Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in
abundance, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
15:10 So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the
fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
15:11 And they sacrificed to Yahweh in that day, of the spoil which they had brought,
seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
15:12 And they entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with
all their heart and with all their soul;
15:13 and that whosoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to
death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
15:14 And they swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with
trumpets, and with cornets.
15:15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath; for they had sworn with all their heart, and
sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and Yahweh gave them
rest round about.
15:16 And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen,
because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her
image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
15:17 But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa
was perfect all his days.
15:18 And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and
that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
15:19 And there was no more war to the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.
16:1 In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha king of Israel went up
against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow any one to go out or come in to
Asa king of Judah.
16:2 Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Yahweh
and of the king's house, and sent to Ben-hadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus,
saying,
16:3 There is a league between me and you, as there was between my father and your
father: behold, I have sent you silver and gold; go, break your league with Baasha king of
Israel, that he may depart from me.
16:4 And Ben-hadad hearkened to king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against
the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-maim, and all the store-cities
of Naphtali.
16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah,
and let his work cease.
16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and
the timber thereof, with which Baasha had built; and he used them to build Geba and
Mizpah.
16:7 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him,
Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God,
therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of your hand.
16:8 Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with chariots and horsemen
exceedingly many? yet, because you did rely on Yahweh, he delivered them into your
hand.
16:9 For the eyes of Yahweh run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself
strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein you have done
foolishly; for from from now on you shall have wars.
16:10 Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison-house; for he was in a
rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same
time.
16:11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the
kings of Judah and Israel.
16:12 And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his
disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he sought not to Yahweh, but to the
physicians.
16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in
the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers
kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers' are: and they made a very great burning for
him.
17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened himself against
Israel.
17:2 And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land
of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.
17:3 And Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his
father David, and sought not to the Baalim,
17:4 but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after
the doings of Israel.
17:5 Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to
Jehoshaphat tribute; and he had riches and honor in abundance.
17:6 And his heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh: and furthermore he took away
the high places and the Asherim out of Judah.
17:7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben-hail, and Obadiah,
and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;
17:8 and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and
Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-
adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.
17:9 And they taught in Judah, having the book of the law of Yahweh with them; and
they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.
17:10 And the fear of Yahweh fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round
about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
17:11 And some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute;
the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven
thousand and seven hundred he-goats.
17:12 And Jehoshaphat became great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities
of store.
17:13 And he had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of
valor, in Jerusalem.
17:14 And this was the numbering of them according to their fathers' houses: Of Judah,
the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men of valor 300,000;
17:15 and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him 280,000;
17:16 and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself to
Yahweh; and with him 200,000 mighty men of valor.
17:17 And of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him 200,000 armed with
bow and shield;
17:18 and next to him Jehozabad and with him a 180,000 ready prepared for war.
17:19 These were they that waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the
fortified cities throughout all Judah.
18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance; and he joined affinity with
Ahab.
18:2 And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep
and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that were with him, and moved him to
go up with him to Ramoth-gilead.
18:3 And Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Will you go with me to
Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as you are, and my people as your people;
and we will be with you in the war.
18:4 And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Inquire first, I pray you, for the word of
Yahweh.
18:5 Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, 400 men, and said to them,
Shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for
God will deliver it into the hand of the king.
18:6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may
inquire of him?
18:7 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may
inquire of Yahweh: but I hate him; for he never prophesies good concerning me, but
always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the
king say so.
18:8 Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Fetch quickly Micaiah the son of
Imla.
18:9 Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne,
arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of
Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
18:10 And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, Thus says
Yahweh, With these shall you push the Syrians, until they are consumed.
18:11 And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper;
for Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king.
18:12 And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, the
words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth: let your word therefore, I
pray you, be like one of theirs, and speak good.
18:13 And Micaiah said, as Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.
18:14 And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, shall we go to
Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper; and
they shall be delivered into your hand.
18:15 And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me
nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?
18:16 And he said, I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no
shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his
house in peace.
18:17 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell you that he would not
prophesy good concerning me, but evil?
18:18 And Micaiah said, Therefore hear ye the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting
upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
18:19 And Yahweh said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall
at Ramoth-gilead? And one spoke saying after this manner, and another saying after
that manner.
18:20 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Yahweh, and said, I will entice him.
And Yahweh said to him, With what?
18:21 And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his
prophets. And he said, You shall entice him, and shall prevail also: go forth, and do so.
18:22 Now therefore, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these your
prophets; and Yahweh has spoken evil concerning you.
18:23 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and struck Micaiah upon the
cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Yahweh from me to speak to you?
18:24 And Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an
inner chamber to hide yourself.
18:25 And the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the
governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son;
18:26 and say, Thus says the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread
of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
18:27 And Micaiah said, If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.
And he said, Hear, ye peoples, all of you.
18:28 So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
18:29 And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the
battle; but you put on your robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went
into the battle.
18:30 Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight
neither with the small nor great, but only with the king of Israel.
18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they
said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned around to fight against him: but
Jehoshaphat cried out, and Yahweh helped him; and God caused them to depart from
him.
18:32 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king
of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
18:33 And one man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the
joints of the armor: therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, and
carry me out of the host; for I am severely wounded.
18:34 And the battle increased that day: nevertheless the king of Israel stayed himself up
in his chariot against the Syrians until evening; and about the time of the going down of
the sun he died.
19:1 And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.
19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king
Jehoshaphat, Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because
of this thing, wrath is upon you from before Yahweh.
19:3 Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the
Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.
19:4 And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from
Beer-sheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of
their fathers.
19:5 And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,
19:6 and said to the judges, Consider what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for
Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.
19:7 Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is
no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.
19:8 Moreover in Jerusalem Jehoshaphat set up some of the Levites and the priests, and
of the heads of the fathers' houses of Israel, for the judgment of Yahweh, and for
controversies. And they returned to Jerusalem.
19:9 And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of Yahweh, faithfully, and
with a perfect heart.
19:10 And whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brethren that dwell in
their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and
ordinances, ye shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath
come upon you and upon your brethren. This do, and ye shall not be guilty.
19:11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Yahweh; and
Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters: also
the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and Yahweh be with the
good.
20:1 And it came to pass after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of
Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.
20:2 Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, A great multitude is coming against
you from beyond the sea from Syria; and, behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar (the same is
En-gedi).
20:3 And Jehoshaphat was afraid, and set himself to seek to Yahweh; and he proclaimed
a fast throughout all Judah.
20:4 And Judah gathered themselves together, to seek help from Yahweh: even out of all
the cities of Judah they came to seek Yahweh.
20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of
Yahweh, before the new court;
20:6 and he said, O Yahweh, the God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? and
are you not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? And in your hand is power and
might, so that none is able to withstand you.
20:7 Did not you, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people
Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend for ever?
20:8 And they dwelt in it, and have built you a sanctuary in it for your name, saying,
20:9 If evil comes upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand
before this house, and before you, (for your name is in this house,) and cry to you in our
affliction, and you will hear and save.
20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom you
would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, and they turned
aside from them, and destroyed them not;
20:11 behold, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you
have given us to inherit.
20:12 O our God, will you not judge them? for we have no might against this great
company that comes against us; neither do we know what to do: but our eyes are upon
you.
20:13 And all Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their
children.
20:14 Then in the midst of the assembly the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jahaziel son of
Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite, of the
sons of Asaph;
20:15 and he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king
Jehoshaphat: Thus says Yahweh to you, Fear ye not, neither be dismayed by reason of
this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
20:16 Tomorrow go ye down against them. Behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz;
and ye shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
20:17 You shall not need to fight in this battle. Set yourselves, stand ye still, and see
the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Fear not, neither be
dismayed: tomorrow go out against them: for Yahweh is with you.
20:18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshipping Yahweh.
20:19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the
Korahites, stood up to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel, with an exceedingly loud voice.
20:20 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa.
And as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye
inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Yahweh your God, thus shall ye be established;
believe his prophets, thus shall ye prosper.
20:21 And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed them that should
sing to Yahweh and give praise in holy array, as they went out before the army, and
should say, Give thanks to Yahweh; for his lovingkindness endures for ever.
20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set liers-in-wait against the
children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, that had come against Judah; and they were
smitten.
20:23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount
Seir, to utterly slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants
of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
20:24 And when Judah came to the watch-tower of the wilderness, they looked upon the
multitude; and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and there was no one
that escaped.
20:25 And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take the spoil of them, they found
among them in abundance both riches and dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they
stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in
taking the spoil, it was so much.
20:26 And on the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for
there they blessed Yahweh: therefore the name of that place was called The valley of
Beracah to this day.
20:27 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the
forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for Yahweh had made them to
rejoice over their enemies.
20:28 And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets to the house of
Yahweh.
20:29 And the fear of God was upon all the kingdoms of the countries, when they heard
that Yahweh fought against the enemies of Israel.
20:30 So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him rest round about.
20:31 And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was 35 years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned 25 years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of
Shilhi.
20:32 And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and turned not aside from it, doing that
which was right in the eyes of Yahweh.
20:33 However, the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set
their hearts to the God of their fathers.
20:34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in
the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.
20:35 And after this Jehoshaphat king of Judah joined himself with Ahaziah king of
Israel; the same did very wickedly:
20:36 and he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish; and they made the
ships in Ezion-geber.
20:37 Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat,
saying, Because you have joined yourself with Ahaziah, Yahweh has destroyed your
works. And the ships were broken, so that they were not able to go to Tarshish.
21:1 And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of
David: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.
21:2 And he had brethren, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah,
and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of
Israel.
21:3 And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things,
with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the
first-born.
21:4 Now when Jehoram was risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had
strengthened himself, he slew all his brethren with the sword, and divers also of the
princes of Israel.
21:5 Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight
years in Jerusalem.
21:6 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he
had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
21:7 Nevertheless Yahweh would not destroy the house of David, because of the
covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to
his children alway.
21:8 In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over
themselves.
21:9 Then Jehoram passed over with his captains, and all his chariots with him: and he
rose up by night, and smote the Edomites that surrounded him, and the captains of the
chariots.
21:10 So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day: then did Libnah revolt
at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his
fathers.
21:11 Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants
of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.
21:12 And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says
Yahweh, the God of David your father, Because you have not walked in the ways of
Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
21:13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, like as the house of Ahab did, and also have
slain your brethren of your father's house, who were better than yourself:
21:14 behold, Yahweh will smite with a great plague your people, and your children, and
your wives, and all your substance;
21:15 and you shall have great sickness by disease of your bowels, until your bowels fall
out by reason of the sickness, day by day.
21:16 And Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the
Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians:
21:17 and they came up against Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the
substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that
there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.
21:18 And after all this Yahweh smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.
21:19 And it came to pass, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell
out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore diseases. And his people made no
burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.
21:20 Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in
Jerusalem eight years: and he departed without being desired; and they buried him in the
city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.
22:1 And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead;
for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So
Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
22:2 Twenty-two years old17 was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one
year in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.
22:3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor
to do wickedly.
22:4 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did the house of Ahab; for
they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
22:5 He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of
Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth-gilead: and the Syrians wounded
Joram.
22:6 And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at
Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram
king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
22:7 Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when he
was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had
anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
22:8 And it came to pass, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab,
that he found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, ministering to
Ahaziah, and slew them.
22:9 And he sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and
they brought him to Jehu, and slew him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the son
of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart. And the house of Ahaziah had
no power to hold the kingdom.
22:10 Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose
and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and
stole him away from among the king's sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in
the bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada
the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him
not.
22:12 And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over
the land.
23:1 And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of
hundreds, azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the
17
2 Chron 22:2 – The Hebrew here says 42 years old; some early versions, Syriac and Arabic, and some
Septuagint mss, say 22, and some mss of the Septuagint say 20. In Hebrew it was easy to make a mistake
writing numbers. The parallel in II Kings 8:26 says 22 years old, and that is the correct number.
son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into
covenant with him.
23:2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah,
and the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
23:3 And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he
said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the
sons of David.
23:4 This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, of
the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;
23:5 and a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the
foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of Yahweh.
23:6 But let none come into the house of Yahweh, save the priests, and they that minister
of the Levites; they shall come in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the
charge of Yahweh.
23:7 And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in
his hand; and whosoever comes into the house, let him be slain: and be ye with the king
when he comes in, and when he goes out.
23:8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest
commanded: and they took every man his men, those that were to come in on the
sabbath; with those that were to go out on the sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest dismissed
not the courses.
23:9 And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and
bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
23:10 And he set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right
side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the
king round about.
23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him
the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they
said, Long live the king.
23:12 And when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she
came to the people into the house of Yahweh:
23:13 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the
captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew
trumpets; the singers also played on instruments of music, and led the singing of praise.
Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason! treason!
23:14 And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the
host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoso follows her, let him
be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Slay her not in the house of Yahweh.
23:15 So they made way for her; and she went to the entrance of the horse gate to the
king's house: and they slew her there.
23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, and all the people, and the king,
that they should be Yahweh's people.
23:17 And all the people went to the house of Baal, and broke it down, and broke his
altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
23:18 And Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under the hand of the
priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Yahweh, to offer the
burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with
singing, according to the order of David.
23:19 And he set the porters at the gates of the house of Yahweh, that none that was
unclean in anything should enter in.
23:20 And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the
people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of
Yahweh: and they came through the upper gate to the king's house, and set the king upon
the throne of the kingdom.
23:21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And Athaliah they
had slain with the sword.
24:1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign; and he reigned forty years in
Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Zibiah, of Beer-sheba.
24:2 And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada
the priest.
24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
24:4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to restore the house of
Yahweh.
24:5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out to the
cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year
to year; and see that ye hasten the matter. However, the Levites hastened it not.
24:6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, Why have you not
required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the
servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?
24:7 For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and
also all the dedicated things of the house of Yahweh did they bestow upon the Baalim.
24:8 So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the
house of Yahweh.
24:9 And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring in for Yahweh
the tax that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness.
24:10 And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the
chest, until they had made an end.
24:11 And it was so, that, at what time the chest was brought to the king's officers by the
hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king's scribe and
the chief priest's officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place
again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.
24:12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the
house of Yahweh; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Yahweh,
and also such as wrought iron and brass to repair the house of Yahweh.
24:13 So the workmen wrought, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands,
and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.
24:14 And when they had made an end, they brought the rest of the money before the
king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house of Yahweh, even vessels
with which to minister and to offer, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And
they offered burnt offerings in the house of Yahweh continually all the days of Jehoiada.
24:15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died; a hundred and thirty years
old was he when he died.
24:16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done
good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
24:17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to
the king. Then the king hearkened to them.
24:18 And they forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the
Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
24:19 Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again to Yahweh; and they testified
against them: but they would not give ear.
24:20 And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he
stood above the people, and said to them, Thus says God, Why transgress ye the
commandments of Yahweh, so that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken
Yahweh, he has also forsaken you.
24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment
of the king in the court of the house of Yahweh.
24:22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had
done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Yahweh look upon it, and
require it.
24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the army of the Syrians came up
against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the
people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them to the king of Damascus.
24:24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Yahweh
delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God
of their fathers. So they executed judgment upon Joash.
24:25 And when they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), his own
servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew
him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him
not in the sepulchres of the kings.
24:26 And these are they that conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the
Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.
24:27 Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the
rebuilding of the house of God, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of
the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.
25:1 Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.
25:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, but not with a perfect heart.
25:3 Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his
servants that had killed the king his father.
25:4 But he put not their children to death, but did according to that which is written in
the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die
for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for
his own sin.
25:5 Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their
fathers' houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and
Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them
three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and
shield.
25:6 He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for a hundred
talents of silver.
25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go
with you; for Yahweh is not with Israel, specifically, with all the children of Ephraim.
25:8 But if you will go, do valiantly, be strong for the battle: God will cast you down
before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to cast down.
25:9 And Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents
which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, Yahweh is
able to give you much more than this.
25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, that is, the army that had come to him out of
Ephraim, to go home again: therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and
they returned home in fierce anger.
25:11 And Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of
Salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.
25:12 And other ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away alive, and brought
them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all
were broken in pieces.
25:13 But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with
him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth-horon, and smote
of them three thousand, and took much spoil.
25:14 Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the
Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods,
and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense to them.
25:15 Wherefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a
prophet, who said to him, Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have
not delivered their own people out of your hand?
25:16 And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said to him, Have we
made you of the king's counsel? forbear; why should you be smitten? Then the
prophet forbare, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you
have done this, and have not hearkened to my counsel.
25:17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took advice, and sent to Joash, the son of Jehoahaz
the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, Come, let us look one another in the face.
25:18 And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that
was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my
son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the
thistle.
25:19 You say, Lo, you have smitten Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast: abide
now at home; why should you meddle to your hurt, that you should fall, even you, and
Judah with you?
25:20 But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the
hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.
25:21 So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one
another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
25:22 And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.
25:23 And Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of
Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of
Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
25:24 And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house
of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and
returned to Samaria.
25:25 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of
Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
25:26 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in
the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?
25:27 Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following Yahweh they made
a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to
Lachish, and slew him there.
25:28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of
Judah.
26:1 And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him
king in the room of his father Amaziah.
26:2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
26:3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned 52 years in
Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jechiliah, of Jerusalem.
father Amaziah had done.
26:5 And he set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in
the vision of God: and as long as he sought Yahweh, God caused him to prosper.
26:6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of
Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of
Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
26:7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in
Gur-baal, and the Meunim.
26:8 And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the
entrance of Egypt; for he became exceedingly strong.
26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate,
and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.
26:10 And he built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had
much cattle; in the lowland also, and in the plain: and he had husbandmen and
vinedressers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved husbandry.
26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, that went out to war by bands,
according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the
officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.
26:12 The whole number of the heads of fathers' houses, even the mighty men of valor,
was two thousand and six hundred.
26:13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand
and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.
26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and
helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.
26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by skilful men, to be on the towers
and upon the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name
spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he
trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into the temple of Yahweh to burn
incense upon the altar of incense.
26:17 And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh,
that were valiant men:
26:18 and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It pertains not to you, Uzziah,
to burn incense to Yahweh, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to
burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for you have trespassed; neither shall it be for your
honor from Yahweh God.
26:19 Then Uzziah was angry; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while
he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke forth in his forehead before the priests in
the house of Yahweh, beside the altar of incense.
26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he
was leprous on his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from there; indeed, he
himself hasted also to go out, because Yahweh had smitten him.
26:21 And Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate
house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh: and Jotham his son
was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
26:22 Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, did Isaiah the prophet, the son of
Amoz, write.
26:23 So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of
burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son
27:1 Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.
father Uzziah had done: however, he entered not into the temple of Yahweh. And the
people did yet corruptly.
27:3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built
much.
27:4 Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built
castles and towers.
27:5 He fought also with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them.
And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten
thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of
Ammon render to him, in the second year also, and in the third.
27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he ordered his ways before Yahweh his God.
27:7 Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, behold, they are
written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
27:8 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years
in Jerusalem.
27:9 And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and
Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in
Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his
father;
28:2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for
the Baalim.
28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his
children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out
before the children of Israel.
28:4 And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under
every green tree.
28:5 Wherefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and
they smote him, and carried away of his a great multitude of captives, and brought them
to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote
him with a great slaughter.
28:6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah a hundred and twenty thousand in one
day, all of them valiant men; because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
28:7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam
the ruler of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
28:8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred
thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and
brought the spoil to Samaria.
28:9 But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out to meet
the host that came to Samaria, and said to them, Behold, because Yahweh, the God of
your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and ye have
slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven.
28:10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for
bondmen and bondwomen to you: but are there not even with you trespasses of your own
against Yahweh your God?
28:11 Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that ye have taken captive of
your brethren; for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is upon you.
28:12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, azariah the son of Johanan,
Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son
of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
28:13 and said to them, You shall not bring in the captives here: for ye purpose that
which will bring upon us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our
trespass; for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
28:14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the
assembly.
28:15 And the men that have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and
with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them,
and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them
upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm-trees, to their brethren: then
they returned to Samaria.
28:16 At that time did king Ahaz send to the kings of Assyria to help him.
28:17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of
Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with the towns
thereof, and Timnah with the towns thereof, Gimzo also and the towns thereof: and they
dwelt there.
28:19 For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had dealt
wantonly in Judah, and trespassed sore against Yahweh.
28:20 And Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him, and distressed him, but
strengthened him not.
28:21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of Yahweh, and out of the house of
the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria: but it helped him not.
28:22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, this same
king Ahaz.
28:23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which smote him; and he said, Because
the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they
may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
28:24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the
vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Yahweh; and he made
him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
28:25 And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and
provoked to anger Yahweh, the God of his fathers.
28:26 Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in
the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
28:27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem;
for they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son
29:1 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine
and twenty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of
Zechariah.
29:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David
his father had done.
29:3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of
Yahweh, and repaired them.
29:4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the
broad place on the east,
29:5 and said to them, Hear me, ye Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the
house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy
place.
29:6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh
our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of
Yahweh, and turned their backs.
29:7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not
burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.
29:8 Wherefore the wrath of Yahweh was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he has
delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see
with your eyes.
29:9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our
wives are in captivity for this.
29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his
fierce anger may turn away from us.
29:11 My sons, be not now negligent; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to
minister to him, and that ye should be his ministers, and burn incense.
29:12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of
the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah
the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son
of Joah;
29:13 and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph,
Zechariah and Mattaniah;
29:14 and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun,
Shemaiah and Uzziel.
29:15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according
to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of
Yahweh.
29:16 And the priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and
brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of
the house of Yahweh. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook
Kidron.
29:17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth
day of the month came they to the porch of Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of
Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
29:18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace, and said, We have
cleansed all the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels
thereof, and the table of showbread, with all the vessels thereof.
29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away when he
trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; and, behold, they are before the altar of
Yahweh.
29:20 Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went
up to the house of Yahweh.
29:21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he-
goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he
commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of Yahweh.
29:22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on
the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also
the lambs, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
29:23 And they brought near the he-goats for the sin offering before the king and the
assembly; and they laid their hands upon them:
29:24 and the priests killed them, and they made a sin offering with their blood upon the
altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt offering
and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
29:25 And he set the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, with psalteries, and
with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and
Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of Yahweh by his prophets.
29:26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the
trumpets.
29:27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when
the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began also, and the trumpets, together with
the instruments of David king of Israel.
29:28 And all the assembly worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters
sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with
him bowed themselves and worshipped.
29:30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing
praises to Yahweh with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang
praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves to
Yahweh; come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of Yahweh.
And the assembly brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many as were of a
willing heart brought burnt offerings.
29:32 And the number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy
bullocks, a hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to
Yahweh.
29:33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings:
therefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the
priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify
themselves than the priests.
29:35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings,
and with the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of
Yahweh was set in order.
29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, because of that which God had prepared
for the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and
Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, to keep the
passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
30:2 For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem,
to keep the passover in the second month.
30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified
themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to
Jerusalem.
30:4 And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
30:5 So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer-
sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover to Yahweh, the God of
Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.
30:6 So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel
and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, You children of
Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to
the remnant that are escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
30:7 And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against
Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.
30:8 Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh,
and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever, and serve Yahweh your
God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
30:9 For if ye turn again to Yahweh, your brethren and your children shall find
compassion before them that led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for
Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if
ye return to him.
30:10 So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and
Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.
30:11 Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled
themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
30:12 Also upon Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the
commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Yahweh.
30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened
bread in the second month, a very great assembly.
30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars
for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
30:15 Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the
priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt
offerings into the house of Yahweh.
30:16 And they stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the
man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the
Levites.
30:17 For there were many in the assembly that had not sanctified themselves: therefore
the Levites had the charge of killing the passovers for every one that was not clean, to
sanctify them to Yahweh.
30:18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and
Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it is
written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Yahweh pardon every
one
30:19 that sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, though he be not
cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
30:20 And Yahweh hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.
30:21 And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of
unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised
Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahweh.
30:22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites that had good understanding in
the service of Yahweh. So they did eat throughout the feast for the seven days, offering
sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
30:23 And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept
other seven days with gladness.
30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings a thousand
bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand
bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
30:25 And all the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the
assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners that came out of the land of Israel,
and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.
30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of
David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.
30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was
heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.
31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of
Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the
high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh,
until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to
his possession, into their own cities.
31:2 And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their
courses, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt
offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the
gates of the camp of Yahweh.
31:3 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, that is,
for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and
for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Yahweh.
31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of
the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahweh.
31:5 And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in
abundance the first-fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase
of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
31:6 And the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also
brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were
consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them by heaps.
31:7 In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them
in the seventh month.
31:8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh,
and his people Israel.
31:9 Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
31:10 And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since
the people began to bring the oblations into the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and had
enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is
this great store.
31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Yahweh; and they
prepared them.
31:12 And they brought in the oblations and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully:
and over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second.
31:13 And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and
Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of
Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah
the ruler of the house of God.
31:14 And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was over the
freewill-offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of Yahweh, and the most holy
things.
31:15 And under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, amariah, and
Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brethren by
courses, as well to the great as to the small:
31:16 besides them that were reckoned by genealogy of males, from three years old and
upward, even every one that entered into the house of Yahweh, as the duty of every day
required, for their service in their offices according to their courses;
31:17 and them that were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their fathers' houses,
and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their courses;
31:18 and them that were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and
their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust
they sanctified themselves in holiness.
31:19 Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, that were in the fields of the suburbs of their
cities, in every city, there were men that were mentioned by name, to give portions to all
the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogy among the
Levites.
31:20 And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah; and he wrought that which was good
and right and faithful before Yahweh his God.
31:21 And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law,
and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
32:1 After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and
entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for
himself.
32:2 And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to
fight against Jerusalem,
32:3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the
fountains which were without the city; and they helped him.
32:4 So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and
the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of
Assyria come, and find much water?
32:5 And he took courage, and built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it
up to the towers, and the other wall without, and strengthened Millo in the city of David,
and made weapons and shields in abundance.
32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the
broad place at the gate of the city, and spoke comfortably to them, saying,
32:7 Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria,
nor for all the multitude that is with him; for there is a greater with us than with him:
32:8 with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Yahweh our God to help us, and to fight
our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of
Judah.
32:9 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (now he
was before Lachish, and all his power with him,) to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all
Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,
32:10 Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide the
siege in Jerusalem?
32:11 Does not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst,
saying, Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
32:12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and
commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and upon it
shall ye burn incense?
32:13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands?
Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my
hand?
32:14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly
destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to
deliver you out of my hand?
32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner,
neither believe ye him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his
people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God
deliver you out of my hand?
32:16 And his servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant
Hezekiah.
32:17 He wrote also letters, to rail on Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against
him, saying, as the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people
out of my hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of my hand.
32:18 And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the people of Jerusalem
that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
32:19 And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth,
which are the work of men's hands.
32:20 And Hezekiah the king, and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of
this, and cried to heaven.
32:21 And Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the
leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of
face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came
forth from his own bowels slew him there with the sword.
32:22 Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of
Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all others, and guided them on
every side.
32:23 And many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah
king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then onward.
32:24 In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed to Yahweh; and he
spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
32:25 But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart
was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
32:26 Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh came not upon them in the days
of Hezekiah.
32:27 And Hezekiah had exceedingly much riches and honor: and he provided him
treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields,
and for all manner of goodly vessels;
32:28 store-houses also for the increase of grain and new wine and oil; and stalls for all
manner of beasts, and flocks in folds.
32:29 Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in
abundance; for God had given him very much substance.
32:30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and
brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah
prospered in all his works.
32:31 But in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him
to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might
know all that was in his heart.
32:32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written
in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and
Israel.
32:33 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the
sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him
honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and
five years in Jerusalem.
33:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the
nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and
he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of
heaven, and served them.
33:4 And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, whereof Yahweh said, In Jerusalem
shall my name be for ever.
33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of
Yahweh.
33:6 He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of
Hinnom; and he practised augury, and used enchantments, and practised sorcery, and
dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the
sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
33:7 And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of
which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I
have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
33:8 neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have
appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded
them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances given by Moses.
33:9 And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil
more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
33:10 And Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no heed.
33:11 Wherefore Yahweh brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of
Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to
Babylon.
33:12 And when he was in distress, he besought Yahweh his God, and humbled himself
greatly before the God of his fathers.
33:13 And he prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and
brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh
he was God.
33:14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of
Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he circled Ophel about with
it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified
cities of Judah.
33:15 And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and
all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and
cast them out of the city.
33:16 And he built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered upon it sacrifices of peace
offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.
33:17 Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their
God.
33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of
the seers that spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are
written among the acts of the kings of Israel.
33:19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass,
and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven
images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and
Amon his son reigned in his stead.
33:21 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two
years in Jerusalem.
33:22 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father;
and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and
served them.
33:23 And he humbled not himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled
himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.
33:25 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and
the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
34:1 Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one
years in Jerusalem.
34:2 And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of
David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after
the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and
Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten
images.
34:4 And they broke down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images
that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images,
and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon
the graves of them that had sacrificed to them.
34:5 And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and
Jerusalem.
34:6 And so did he in the cities of Manasseh and Ephraim and Simeon, even to Naphtali,
in their ruins round about.
34:7 And he broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into
powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and
returned to Jerusalem.
34:8 Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house,
he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the
son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God.
34:9 And they came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought
into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of
the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and
Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
34:10 And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the
house of Yahweh; and the workmen that wrought in the house of Yahweh gave it to mend
and repair the house;
34:11 even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and
timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had
destroyed.
34:12 And the men did the work faithfully: and the overseers of them were Jahath and
Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of
the Kohathites, to set it forward; and others of the Levites, all that were skilful with
instruments of music.
34:13 Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and set forward all that did the work in
every manner of service: and of the Levites there were scribes, and officers, and porters.
34:14 And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh,
Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of Yahweh given by Moses.
34:15 And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the
law in the house of Yahweh. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
34:16 And Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the
king, saying, all that was committed to your servants, they are doing.
34:17 And they have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Yahweh, and
have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.
34:18 And Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest has delivered me a
book. And Shaphan read therein before the king.
34:19 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the law, that he rent his
clothes.
34:20 And the king commanded Hilkiah, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Abdon the
son of Micah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,
34:21 Go ye, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah,
concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is
poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do
according to all that is written in this book.
34:22 So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the
prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the
wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to
that effect.
34:23 And she said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that
sent you to me,
34:24 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the
inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read
before the king of Judah.
34:25 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they
might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath
poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.
34:26 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus shall ye say to
him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,
34:27 because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before God, when you
heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and have humbled
yourself before me, and have rent your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard
you, says Yahweh.
34:28 Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in
peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon
the inhabitants thereof. And they brought back word to the king.
34:29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
34:30 And the king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great
and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was
found in the house of Yahweh.
34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after
Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all
his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in
this book.
34:32 And he caused all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And
the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their
fathers.
34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to
the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve
Yahweh their God. All his days they departed not from following Yahweh, the God of
their fathers.
35:1 And Josiah kept a passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on
the fourteenth day of the first month.
35:2 And he set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the
house of Yahweh.
35:3 And he said to the Levites that taught all Israel, that were holy to Yahweh, Put the
holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; there shall
no more be a burden upon your shoulders: now serve Yahweh your God, and his people
Israel.
35:4 And prepare yourselves after your fathers' houses by your courses, according to the
writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.
35:5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers' houses of your
brethren the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a fathers' house
of the Levites.
35:6 And kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do
according to the word of Yahweh by Moses.
35:7 And Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of
them for the passover offerings, to all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand,
and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.
35:8 And his princes gave for a freewill-offering to the people, to the priests, and to the
Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the
priests for the passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three
hundred oxen.
35:9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel
and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the passover-offerings five
thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
35:10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by
their courses, according to the king's commandment.
35:11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they
received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.
35:12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give them according to the
divisions of the fathers' houses of the children of the people, to offer to Yahweh, as it is
written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.
35:13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy
offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all
the children of the people.
35:14 And afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests
the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night:
therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.
35:15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the
commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the
porters were at every gate: they needed not to depart from their service; for their brethren
the Levites prepared for them.
35:16 So all the service of Yahweh was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and
to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of Yahweh, according to the commandment of king
Josiah.
35:17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the
feast of unleavened bread seven days.
35:18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the
prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the
priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
35:19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.
35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to
fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
35:21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of
Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war;
and God has commanded me to make haste: forbear you from meddling with God, who is
with me, that he destroy you not.
35:22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that
he might fight with him, and hearkened not to the words of Neco from the mouth of God,
and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
35:23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me
away; for I am sore wounded.
35:24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that
he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchres of
his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women
spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in
Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
35:26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is
written in the law of Yahweh,
35:27 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel
and Judah.
36:1 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in
his father's stead in Jerusalem.
36:2 Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three
months in Jerusalem.
36:3 And the king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land a hundred
talents of silver and a talent of gold.
36:4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and
changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to
Egypt.
36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God.
36:6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to
carry him to Babylon.
36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahweh to Babylon, and
put them in his temple at Babylon.
36:8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that
which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and
Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
36:9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months
and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
36:10 And at the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to
Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Yahweh, and made Zedekiah his brother
king over Judah and Jerusalem.
36:11 Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem:
36:12 and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God; he humbled not
himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of Yahweh.
36:13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by
God; he stiffened his neck,18 and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God
of Israel.
36:14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after
all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had
hallowed in Jerusalem.
36:15 And Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up
early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place:
36:16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his
prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
36:17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young
men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young
man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.
36:18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the
house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to
Babylon.
36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt
all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
36:20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; and they
were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
36:21 to fulfil the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed
its sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.
36:22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the
mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of
Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in
writing, saying,
18
"stiffened his neck" means he chose to be stubborn.
36:23 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, all the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God
of heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is
in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with
him, and let him go up.
End of 2 Chronicles
The Book of Ezra
Ezra
1:1 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth
of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,
so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing,
saying,
1:2 Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, all the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God of
heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in
Judah.
1:3 Whosoever there is among you of all his people, his God be with him, and let him go
up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he
is God), which is in Jerusalem.
1:4 And whosoever is left, in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help
him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the freewill-
offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
1:5 Then rose up the heads of fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and
the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh
which is in Jerusalem.
1:6 And all they that were round about them strengthened their hands with vessels of
silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, besides all that
was willingly offered.
1:7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which
Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
1:8 even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the
treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.
1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, a thousand platters of silver,
nine and twenty knives,
1:10 thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other
vessels a thousand.
1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All
these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from
Babylon to Jerusalem.
2:1 Now these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those
that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away
to Babylon, and that returned to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his city;
2:2 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan,
Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
2:3 The children of Parosh, 2,172.
2:4 The children of Shephatiah, 372.
2:5 The children of Arah, 775.
2:6 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, 2,812.
2:7 The children of Elam, 1,254.
2:8 The children of Zattu, 945.
2:9 The children of Zaccai, 760.
2:10 The children of Bani, 642.
2:11 The children of Bebai, 623.
2:12 The children of Azgad, 1,222.
2:13 The children of Adonikam, 666.
2:14 The children of Bigvai, 2,056.
2:15 The children of Adin, 454.
2:16 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, 98.
2:17 The children of Bezai, 323.
2:18 The children of Jorah, 112.
2:19 The children of Hashum, 223.
2:20 The children of Gibbar, 95.
2:21 The children of Beth-lehem, 123.
2:22 The men of Netophah, 56.
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2:23 The men of Anathoth, 128.
2:24 The children of Azmaveth, 42.
2:25 The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743.
2:26 The children of Ramah and Geba, 621.
2:27 The men of Michmas, 122.
2:28 The men of Beth-el and Ai, 223.
2:29 The children of Nebo, 52.
2:30 The children of Magbish, 156.
2:31 The children of the other Elam, 1,254.
2:32 The children of Harim, 320.
2:33 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 725.
2:34 The children of Jericho, 345.
2:35 The children of Senaah, 3,630.
2:36 The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, 973.
2:37 The children of Immer, 1,052.
2:38 The children of Pashhur, 1,247.
2:39 The children of Harim, 1,017.
2:40 The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, 74.
2:41 The singers: the children of Asaph, 128.
2:42 The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the
children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai,
in all 139.
2:43 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of
Tabbaoth,
2:44 the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,
2:45 the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub,
2:46 the children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan,
2:47 the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
2:48 the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,
2:49 the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
2:50 the children of Asnah, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephisim,
2:51 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
2:52 the children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
2:53 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,
2:54 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
2:55 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of
Hassophereth, the children of Peruda,
2:56 the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
2:57 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-
hazzebaim, the children of Ami.
2:58 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were 392.
2:59 And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, addan, and
Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were
of Israel:
2:60 the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, 652.
2:61 And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz,
the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and
was called after their name.
2:62 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they
were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
2:63 And the governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till
there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
2:64 The whole assembly together was 42,360,
2:65 besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were 7,337: and
they had 200 singing men and singing women.
2:66 Their horses were 736; their mules, 245;
2:67 their camels, 435; their asses, 6,720.
2:68 And some of the heads of fathers' houses, when they came to the house of Yahweh
which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place:
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2:69 they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work seventy-one thousand
darics of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
2:70 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the
porters, and the Nethinim, dwelt in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
3:1 And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities,
the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.
3:2 Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel
the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer
burnt offerings upon it, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.
3:3 And they set the altar upon its base; for fear was upon them because of the peoples of
the countries: and they offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, even burnt offerings
morning and evening.
3:4 And they kept the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt
offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;
3:5 and afterward the continual burnt offering, and the offerings of the new moons, and of
all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered
a freewill-offering to Yahweh.
3:6 From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings to
Yahweh: but the foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid.
3:7 They gave money also to the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and
oil, to those of Sidon, and to those of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea,
to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus king of Persia.
3:8 Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the
second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and
the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the
captivity to Jerusalem, and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to
have the oversight of the work of the house of Yahweh.
3:9 Then stood Jeshua with his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of
Judah, together, to have the oversight of the workmen in the house of God: the sons of
Henadad, with their sons and their brethren the Levites.
3:10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, they set the
priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to
praise Yahweh, after the order of David king of Israel.
3:11 And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks to Yahweh, saying, For
he is good, for his lovingkindness endures for ever toward Israel. And all the people
shouted with a great shout, when they praised Yahweh, because of the foundation of the
house of Yahweh being laid.
3:12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, the old men that
had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes,
wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
3:13 such that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of
the weeping of the people. For the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was
heard afar off.
4:1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the
captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel;
4:2 then they drew near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers' houses, and said to
them, Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as ye do; and we sacrifice to him
since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.
4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' houses of Israel, said
to them, You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves
together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has
commanded us.
4:4 Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled
them in building,
4:5 and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus
king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.
4:6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation
against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
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4:7 And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his
companions, to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the
Syrian character, and set forth in the Syrian tongue.
4:8 Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to
Artaxerxes the king in this sort:
4:9 then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their
companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the
Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
4:10 and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over, and set
in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the country beyond the River, and so forth.
4:11 This is the copy of the letter that they sent to Artaxerxes the king: Your servants the
men beyond the River, and so forth.
4:12 Be it known to the king, that the Jews that came up from you are come to us to
Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls,
and repaired the foundations.
4:13 Be it known now to the king, that, if this city be built, and the walls finished, they
will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.
4:14 Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not meet for us to see the king's
dishonor, therefore have we sent and certified the king;
4:15 that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: so shall you find
in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings
and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; for which
cause was this city laid waste.
4:16 We certify the king that, if this city be built, and the walls finished, by this means
you shall have no portion beyond the River.
4:17 Then sent the king an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe,
and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and in the rest of the country
beyond the River: Peace, and so forth.
4:18 The letter which ye sent to us has been plainly read before me.
4:19 And I decreed, and search has been made, and it is found that this city of old time
has made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made
therein.
4:20 There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the
country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid to them.
4:21 Make ye now a decree to cause these men to cease, and that this city be not built,
until a decree shall be made by me.
4:22 And take heed that you are not slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of
the kings?
4:23 Then when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and
Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews,
and made them to cease by force and power.
4:24 Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and it ceased until
the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
5:1 Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to
the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel prophesied
they to them.
5:2 Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and
began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem; and with them were the prophets
of God, helping them.
5:3 At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-
bozenai, and their companions, and said thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build
this house, and to finish this wall?
5:4 Then we told them after this manner, what the names of the men were that were
making this building.
5:5 But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them
cease, till the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter
concerning it.
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5:6 The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-
bozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to
Darius the king;
5:7 they sent a letter to him, in which was written thus: To Darius the king, all peace.
5:8 Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the
great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work
goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.
5:9 Then asked we those elders, and said to them thus, Who gave you a decree to build
this house, and to finish this wall?
5:10 We asked them their names also, to certify you, that we might write the names of the
men that were at the head of them.
5:11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven
and earth, and are building the house that was built these many years ago, which a great
king of Israel built and finished.
5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them
into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this
house, and carried the people away into Babylon.
5:13 But in the first year of Cyrus king of Babylon, Cyrus the king made a decree to build
this house of God.
5:14 And the gold and silver vessels also of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar
took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought into the temple of Babylon,
those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to
one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;
5:15 and he said to him, Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in
Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place.
5:16 Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations of the house of God
which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now has it been in building, and yet
it is not completed.
5:17 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's
treasure-house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of
Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure
to us concerning this matter.
6:1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the
archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
6:2 And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a
roll, and therein was thus written for a record:
6:3 In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made a decree: Concerning the
house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they offer sacrifices,
and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof sixty cubits, and the
breadth thereof sixty cubits;
6:4 with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be
given out of the king's house.
6:5 And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar
took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought to Babylon, be restored,
and brought again to the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to its place; and you
shall put them in the house of God.
6:6 Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your
companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, be ye far from there:
6:7 let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of
the Jews build this house of God in its place.
6:8 Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to these elders of the Jews for the building
of this house of God: that of the king's goods, even of the tribute beyond the River,
expenses be given with all diligence to these men, that they be not hindered.
6:9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for
burnt offerings to the God of heaven; also wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the
word of the priests that are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
6:10 that they may offer sacrifices of sweet savor to the God of heaven, and pray for the
life of the king, and of his sons.
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6:11 Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let a beam be pulled
out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened upon it; and let his house be
made a dunghill for this:
6:12 and the God that has caused his name to dwell there overthrow all kings and peoples
that shall put forth their hand to alter the same, to destroy this house of God which is at
Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with all diligence.
6:13 Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their
companions, because that Darius the king had sent, did accordingly with all diligence.
6:14 And the elders of the Jews built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai
the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they built and finished it, according to
the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius,
and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
6:15 And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the
sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
6:16 And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of
the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.
6:17 And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two
hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats,
according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
6:18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the
service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.
6:19 And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the
first month.
6:20 For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were
pure: and they killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their
brethren the priests, and for themselves.
6:21 And the children of Israel that were come again out of the captivity, and all such as
had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek
Yahweh, the God of Israel, did eat,
6:22 and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for Yahweh had made
them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their
hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
7:1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of
Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
7:2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
7:3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
7:4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
7:5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief
priest;
7:6 this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses,
which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request,
according to the hand of Yahweh his God upon him.
7:7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites,
and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of
Artaxerxes the king.
7:8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the
king.
7:9 For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon; and on the
first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God
upon him.
7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in
Israel statutes and ordinances.
7:11 Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the
scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes
to Israel:
7:12 Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of
heaven, perfect and so forth.
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7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and their priests and the
Levites, in my realm, that are minded of their own free will to go to Jerusalem, go with
you.
7:14 Forasmuch as you are sent of the king and his seven counsellors, to inquire
concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of your God which is in your hand,
7:15 and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely
offered to the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,
7:16 and all the silver and gold that you shall find in all the province of Babylon, with the
freewill-offering of the people, and of the priests, offering willingly for the house of their
God which is in Jerusalem;
7:17 therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bullocks, rams, lambs,
with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them upon the altar of
the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
7:18 And whatsoever shall seem good to you and to your brethren to do with the rest of
the silver and the gold, that do ye after the will of your God.
7:19 And the vessels that are given you for the service of the house of your God, deliver
you before the God of Jerusalem.
7:20 And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of your God, which you shall
have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king's treasure-house.
7:21 And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers that are
beyond the River, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of
heaven, shall require of you, it be done with all diligence,
7:22 to a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred measures of wheat, and to a hundred
baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
7:23 Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the
house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king
and his sons?
7:24 Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers,
porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose
tribute, custom, or toll, upon them.
7:25 And you, Ezra, after the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint
magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people that are beyond the River, all such
as know the laws of your God; and teach ye him that knows them not.
7:26 And whosoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let
judgment be executed upon him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or to
banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
7:27 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the
king's heart, to beautify the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem;
7:28 and has extended lovingkindness to me before the king, and his counsellors, and
before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened according to the hand of
Yahweh my God upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with
me.
8:1 Now these are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of them
that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:
8:2 Of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom. Of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel. Of the sons of
David, Hattush.
8:3 Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were
reckoned by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty.
8:4 Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two
hundred males.
8:5 Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.
8:6 And of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.
8:7 And of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah; and with him seventy males.
8:8 And of the sons of Shephatiah, Zebadiah the son of Michael; and with him eighty
males.
8:9 Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and
eighteen males.
8:10 And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him a hundred and
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8:11 And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty and eight
males.
8:12 And of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him a hundred
and ten males.
8:13 And of the sons of Adonikam, that were the last; and these are their names:
Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.
8:14 And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.
8:15 And I gathered them together to the river that runs to Ahava; and there we encamped
three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of
Levi.
8:16 Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and
for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for
Joiarib, and for Elnathan, who were teachers.
8:17 And I sent them forth to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia; and I told them what
they should say to Iddo, and his brethren the Nethinim, at the place Casiphia, that they
should bring to us ministers for the house of our God.
8:18 And according to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of
discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his
sons and his brethren, eighteen;
8:19 and Hashabiah, and with him Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their
sons, twenty;
8:20 and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the
Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.
8:21 Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves
before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all
our substance.
8:22 For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us
against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of
our God is upon all them that seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against
all them that forsake him.
8:23 So we fasted and besought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.
8:24 Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and
ten of their brethren with them,
8:25 and weighed to them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for
the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his princes, and all Israel
there present, had offered:
8:26 I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels a
hundred talents; of gold a hundred talents;
8:27 and twenty bowls of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass,
precious as gold.
8:28 And I said to them, You are holy to Yahweh, and the vessels are holy; and the silver
and the gold are a freewill-offering to Yahweh, the God of your fathers.
8:29 Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and
the Levites, and the princes of the fathers' houses of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers
of the house of Yahweh.
8:30 So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the
vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.
8:31 Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go
to Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of
the enemy and the lier-in-wait by the way.
8:32 And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
8:33 And on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the
house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him
was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and
Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levite;
8:34 the whole by number and by weight: and all the weight was written at that time.
8:35 The children of the captivity, that were come out of exile, offered burnt offerings to
the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven
lambs, twelve he-goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering to Yahweh.
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8:36 And they delivered the king's commissions to the king's satraps, and to the
governors beyond the River: and they furthered the people and the house of God.
9:1 Now when these things were done, the princes drew near to me, saying, The people
of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples
of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites,
the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the
Amorites.
9:2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the
holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yes, the hand of the
princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.
9:3 And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out the hair
of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
9:4 Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel,
because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening
oblation.
9:5 And at the evening oblation I arose from my humiliation, even with my garment and
my robe rent; and I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
9:6 and I said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for
our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens.
9:7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our
iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of
the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this
day.
9:8 And now for a little moment grace has been shown from Yahweh our God, to leave
us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten
our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
9:9 For we are bondmen; yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has
extended lovingkindness to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to
set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah
and in Jerusalem.
9:10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken your
commandments,
9:11 which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, to
which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the
lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their
filthiness:
9:12 now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to
your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat
the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
9:13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing
that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us
such a remnant,
9:14 shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that
do these abominations? would not you be angry with us till you hadst consumed us, so
that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
9:15 O Yahweh, the God of Israel, you are righteous; for we are left a remnant that is
escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before you in our guiltiness; for none can stand
before you because of this.
10:1 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down
before the house of God, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great
assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.
10:2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to
Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the
peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.
10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and
such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at
the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
10:4 Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you: be of good courage, and
do it.
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10:5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to
swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.
10:6 Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of
Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came there, he did eat no bread, nor drink
water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.
10:7 And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem to all the children of
the captivity, that they should gather themselves together to Jerusalem;
10:8 and that whosoever came not within three days, according to the counsel of the
princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from
the assembly of the captivity.
10:9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem
within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month: and all
the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this
matter, and for the great rain.
10:10 And Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, and have
married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.
10:11 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his
pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign
women.
10:12 Then all the assembly answered and said with a loud voice, as you have said
concerning us, so must we do.
10:13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand
outside: neither is this a work of one day or two; for we have greatly transgressed in this
matter.
10:14 Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all them that are in
our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the
elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned
from us, until this matter be despatched.
10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against
this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.
10:16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads
of fathers' houses, after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set
apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
10:17 And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first
day of the first month.
10:18 And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign
women: namely, of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah,
and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
10:19 And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty,
they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.
10:20 And of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
10:21 And of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and
Uzziah.
10:22 And of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and
Elasah.
10:23 And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (the same is Kelita),
Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.
10:24 And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.
10:25 And of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and
Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.
10:26 And of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and
Jeremoth, and Elijah.
10:27 And of the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, and Jeremoth, and Zabad,
and Aziza.
10:28 And of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, athlai.
10:29 And of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal,
Jeremoth.
10:30 And of the sons of Pahath-moab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah,
Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.
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10:31 And of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
10:32 Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
10:33 Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh,
Shimei.
10:34 Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, amram, and Uel,
10:35 Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,
10:36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
10:37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,
10:38 and Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
10:39 and Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
10:40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
10:41 Azarel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
10:42 Shallum, amariah, Joseph.
10:43 Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.
10:44 All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had
children.
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Nehemiah
1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it came to pass in the month
Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,
1:2 that Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked
them concerning the Jews that had escaped, that were left of the captivity, and concerning
Jerusalem.
1:3 And they said to me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province
are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the
gates thereof are burned with fire.
1:4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and
mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
1:5 and said, I beseech you, O Yahweh, the God of heaven, the great and terrible God,
that keeps covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his
commandments:
1:6 Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may hearken to the prayer
of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of
Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have
sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned:
1:7 we have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor
the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.
1:8 Remember, I beseech you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses,
saying, If ye trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:
1:9 but if ye return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your
outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and
will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.
1:10 Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your
great power, and by your strong hand.
1:11 O Lord, I beseech you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant,
and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and prosper, I pray
you, your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was
cupbearer to the king.
2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king,
when wine was before him, that I took up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I had
not previously been sad in his presence.
2:2 And the king said to me, Why is your countenance sad, seeing you are not sick? this
is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid.
2:3 And I said to the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be
sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and the gates thereof
are consumed with fire?
2:4 Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of
heaven.
2:5 And I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favor in
your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I
may build it.
2:6 And the king said to me (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall your
journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set
him a time.
2:7 Moreover I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the
governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come to Judah;
2:8 and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to
make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of
the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to
the good hand of my God upon me.
2:9 Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king's letters.
Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
2:10 And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of
it, it grieved them exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the
children of Israel.
2:11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
2:12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what
my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save
the beast that I rode upon.
2:13 And I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the
dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates
thereof were consumed with fire.
2:14 Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king's pool: but there was no place for
the beast that was under me to pass.
2:15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back,
and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.
2:16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to
the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the
work.
2:17 Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste,
and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of
Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
2:18 And I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me, as also of the
king's words that he had spoken to me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So
they strengthened their hands for the good work.
2:19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and
Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What
is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
2:20 Then answered I them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us;
therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor
memorial, in Jerusalem.
3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they built the
sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even to the tower of Hammeah
they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel.
3:2 And next to him built the men of Jericho. And next to them built Zaccur the son of
Imri.
3:3 And the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid the beams thereof, and set
up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.
3:4 And next to them repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz. And next
to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel. And next to
them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.
3:5 And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the
work of their lord.
3:6 And the old gate repaired Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of
Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the bolts
thereof, and the bars thereof.
3:7 And next to them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the
men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, that appertained to the throne of the governor beyond the
River.
3:8 Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. And next to him
repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the broad
wall.
3:9 And next to them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of half the district of
Jerusalem.
3:10 And next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, over against his house.
And next to him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabneiah.
3:11 Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hasshub the son of Pahath-moab, repaired another
portion, and the tower of the furnaces.
3:12 And next to him repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district
of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.
3:13 The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set
up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits of the
wall to the dung gate.
3:14 And the dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of
Beth-haccherem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars
thereof.
3:15 And the fountain gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district
of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and
the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even to the stairs
that go down from the city of David.
3:16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth-
zur, to the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and
to the house of the mighty men.
3:17 After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next to him repaired
Hashabiah, the ruler of half the district of Keilah, for his district.
3:18 After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the
district of Keilah.
3:19 And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another
portion, over against the ascent to the armory at the turning of the wall.
3:20 After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the
turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.
3:21 After him repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz another portion,
from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib.
3:22 And after him repaired the priests, the men of the Plain.
3:23 After them repaired Benjamin and Hasshub over against their house. After them
repaired Azariah the son of Maaseiah the son of Ananiah beside his own house.
3:24 After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another portion, from the house of
Azariah to the turning of the wall, and to the corner.
3:25 Palal the son of Uzai repaired over against the turning of the wall, and the tower that
stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After
him Pedaiah the son of Parosh repaired.
3:26 (Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward
the east, and the tower that stands out.)
3:27 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, over against the great tower that
stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.
3:28 Above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his own house.
3:29 After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his own house. And after
him repaired Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate.
3:30 After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of
Zalaph, another portion. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over
against his chamber.
3:31 After him repaired Malchijah one of the goldsmiths to the house of the Nethinim,
and of the merchants, over against the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the
corner.
3:32 And between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and
the merchants.
4:1 But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was
angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
4:2 And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these
feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? Will they make
an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are
burned?
4:3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are
building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.
4:4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own
head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;
4:5 and cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before you; for
they have provoked you to anger before the builders.
4:6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together to half the height thereof:
for the people had a mind to work.
4:7 But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the
Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went
forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;
4:8 and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to
cause confusion therein.
4:9 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night,
because of them.
4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much
rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.
4:11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the
midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
4:12 And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt by them came, they said to us ten
times from all places, You must return to us.
4:13 Therefore set I in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in the open places, I
set there the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
4:14 And I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of
the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and
fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
4:15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had
brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one to his
work.
4:16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that half of my servants wrought in the
work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail;
and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
4:17 They all built the wall and they that bore burdens laded themselves; every one with
one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other held his weapon;
4:18 and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so built. And he
that sounded the trumpet was by me.
4:19 And I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, The work is
great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another:
4:20 in what place soever ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye there to us; our God
will fight for us.
4:21 So we wrought in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the
morning till the stars appeared.
4:22 Likewise at the same time said I to the people, Let every one with his servant lodge
within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and may labor in the day.
4:23 So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that
followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one went with his weapon to the water.
5:1 Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the
Jews.
5:2 For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain,
that we may eat and live.
5:3 Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and
our houses: let us get grain, because of the famine.
5:4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute upon our
fields and our vineyards.
5:5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and,
lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our
daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other
men have our fields and our vineyards.
5:6 And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said
to them, You exact usury, every one of his brother. And I held a great assembly against
them.
5:8 And I said to them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that
were sold to the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold to
us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.
5:9 Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our
God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
5:10 And I likewise, my brethren and my servants, do lend them money and grain. I
pray you, let us leave off this usury.
5:11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their
oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the
new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.
5:12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we
do, even as you say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would
do according to this promise.
5:13 Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and
from his labor, that performs not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied.
And all the assembly said, amen, and praised Yahweh. And the people did according to
this promise.
5:14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of
Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king,
that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.
5:15 But the former governors that were before me were chargeable to the people, and
took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore
rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
5:16 Yes, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all
my servants were gathered there to the work.
5:17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, a hundred and fifty
men, besides those that came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
5:18 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also
fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this
I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this
people.
5:19 Remember to me, O my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
6:1 Now it came to pass, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem
the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no
breach left therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)
6:2 that Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in one of
the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.
6:3 And I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot
come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?
6:4 And they sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same
manner.
6:5 Then sent Sanballat his servant to me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter
in his hand,
6:6 in which was written, It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says it, that you
and the Jews plan to rebel; for which reason you are building the wall: and you would be
their king, according to these words.
6:7 And you have also appointed prophets to preach about you at Jerusalem, saying,
There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these
words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.
6:8 Then I sent word to him, saying, There are no such things done like you are saying,
but you manufacture them out of your own heart.
6:9 For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from
the work, that it be not done. But now, O God, strengthen my hands.
6:10 And I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who
was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple,
and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay you; yes, in the night
will they come to slay you.
6:11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being such as I,
would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
6:12 And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy
against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
6:13 For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they
might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.
6:14 Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and
also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
6:15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in 52 days.
6:16 And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard of it, that all the nations that were
about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this
work was wrought of our God.
6:17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and the
letters of Tobiah came to them.
6:18 For there were many in Judah sworn to him, because he was the son-in-law of
Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam
the son of Berechiah to wife.
6:19 Also they spoke of his good deeds before me, and reported my words to him. And
Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear.
7:1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the
porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
7:2 that I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the castle, charge over
Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.
7:3 And I said to them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and
while they stand on guard, let them shut the doors, and bar ye them: and appoint watches
of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against
his house.
7:4 Now the city was wide and large; but the people in it were few, and the houses were
not built.
7:5 And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the
people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the
genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:
7:6 These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that
had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away,
and that returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one to his city;
7:7 who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani,
Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the
people of Israel:
7:8 The children of Parosh, 2,172.
7:9 The children of Shephatiah, 372.
7:10 The children of Arah, 652.
7:11 The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, 2,818.
7:12 The children of Elam, 1,254.
7:13 The children of Zattu, 845.
7:14 The children of Zaccai, 760.
7:15 The children of Binnui, 648.
7:16 The children of Bebai, 628.
7:17 The children of Azgad, 2,322.
7:18 The children of Adonikam, 667.
7:19 The children of Bigvai, 2,067.
7:20 The children of Adin, 655.
7:21 The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, 98.
7:22 The children of Hashum, 328.
7:23 The children of Bezai, 324.
7:24 The children of Hariph, 112.
7:25 The children of Gibeon, 95.
7:26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188.
7:27 The men of Anathoth, 128.
7:28 The men of Beth-azmaveth, 42.
7:29 The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, 743.
7:30 The men of Ramah and Geba, 621.
7:31 The men of Michmas, 122.
7:32 The men of Beth-el and Ai, 123.
7:33 The men of the other Nebo, 52.
7:34 The children of the other Elam, 1,254.
7:35 The children of Harim, 320.
7:36 The children of Jericho, 345.
7:37 The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, 721.
7:38 The children of Senaah, 3,930.
7:39 The priests: The children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, 973.
7:40 The children of Immer, 1,052.
7:41 The children of Pashhur, 1,247.
7:42 The children of Harim, 1,017.
7:43 The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, 74.
7:44 The singers: the children of Asaph, 148.
7:45 The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon,
the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, 138.
7:46 The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of
Tabbaoth,
7:47 the children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
7:48 the children of Lebana, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai,
7:49 the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,
7:50 the children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
7:51 the children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah.
7:52 The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,
7:53 the children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,
7:54 the children of Bazlith, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha,
7:55 the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,
7:56 the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
7:57 The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth,
the children of Perida,
7:58 the children of Jaala, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,
7:59 the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-
hazzebaim, the children of Amon.
7:60 All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety
and two.
7:61 And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, addon, and
Immer; but they could not show their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of
Israel:
7:62 The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred
forty and two.
7:63 And of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of
Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after
their name.
7:64 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was
not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.
7:65 And the governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till
there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
7:66 The whole assembly together was forty and two thousand three hundred and sixty,
7:67 besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven
thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing
men and singing women.
7:68 Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and
five;
7:69 their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred
and twenty.
7:70 And some from among the heads of fathers' houses gave to the work. The
governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and
thirty priests' garments.
7:71 And some of the heads of fathers' houses gave into the treasury of the work twenty
thousand darics of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pounds of silver.
7:72 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and
two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
7:73 So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the
people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh
month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
8:1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that
was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law
of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
8:2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly, both men and women, and
all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
8:3 And he read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early
morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those that could
understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law.
8:4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the
purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and
Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and
Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
8:5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the
people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
8:6 and Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. And all the people answered, amen, amen,
with the lifting up of their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped Yahweh
with their faces to the ground.
8:7 Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah,
Kelita, azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand
the law: and the people stood in their place.
8:8 And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so
that they understood the reading.
8:9 And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites
that taught the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to Yahweh your God;
mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.
8:10 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send
portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord: neither be
ye grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.
8:11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy;
neither be ye grieved.
8:12 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to
make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
8:13 And on the second day were gathered together the heads of fathers' houses of all the
people, the priests, and the Levites, to Ezra the scribe, even to give attention to the words
of the law.
8:14 And they found written in the law, how that Yahweh had commanded by Moses,
that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
8:15 and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem,
saying, Go forth to the mount, and fetch olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and
myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is
written.
8:16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one
upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and
in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Ephraim.
8:17 And all the assembly of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths,
and dwelt in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day had not
the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.
8:18 Also day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read in the book of the law of
God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly,
according to the ordinance.
9:1 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled
with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.
9:2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and
confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Yahweh their God
a fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped Yahweh
their God.
9:4 Then stood up upon the stairs of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah,
Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice to Yahweh their God.
9:5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah,
Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless Yahweh your God from everlasting to
everlasting; and blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and
praise.
9:6 You are Yahweh, even you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens,
with all their host, the earth and all things that are upon it, the seas and all that is in them,
and you preserve them all; and the host of heaven worships you.
9:7 You are Yahweh the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of
the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,
9:8 and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the
land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the
Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
9:9 And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Red
Sea,
9:10 and showed signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the
people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and you made a
name for yourself, which remains to this day.
9:11 And you did divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the
sea on the dry land; and their pursuers you did cast into the depths, as a stone into the
mighty waters.
9:12 Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to
give them light in the way in which they should go.
9:13 You came down also upon mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave
them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
9:14 and made known to them your holy sabbath, and commanded them commandments,
and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
9:15 and gave them bread from heaven for their hunger, and brought forth water for them
out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the
land which you had sworn to give them.
9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to
your commandments,
9:17 and refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among
them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their
bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and
abundant in lovingkindness, and forsook them not.
9:18 Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is your God that
brought you up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
9:19 yet you in your manifold mercies forsook them not in the wilderness: the pillar of
cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of
fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
9:20 You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and withheld not your manna from
their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
9:21 Yes, forty years did you sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing;
their clothes became not old, and their feet swelled not.
9:22 Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you did allot after their
portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and
the land of Og king of Bashan.
9:23 Their children also you multiplied as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the
land concerning which you did say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
9:24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the
inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings,
and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
9:25 And they took fortified cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all good
things, cisterns hewn out, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they
did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
9:26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law
behind their back, and slew your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to
you, and they wrought great provocations.
9:27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed
them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven;
and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviours who saved them out of
the hand of their adversaries.
9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before you; therefore left you them in the
hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned,
and cried to you, you heard from heaven; and many times did you deliver them according
to your mercies,
9:29 and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they
dealt proudly, and hearkened not to your commandments, but sinned against your
ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them,) and withdrew the shoulder, and
hardened their neck, and would not hear.
9:30 Yet many years did you bear with them, and testified against them by your Spirit
through your prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gave you them into the
hand of the peoples of the lands.
9:31 Nevertheless in your manifold mercies you did not make a full end of them, nor
forsake them; for you are a gracious and merciful God.
9:32 Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest
covenant and lovingkindness, let not all the travail seem little before you, that has come
upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our
fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
9:33 Nevertheless you are just in all that is come upon us; for you have dealt truly, but we
have done wickedly;
9:34 neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor
hearkened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you did testify
against them.
9:35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you
gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they
from their wicked works.
9:36 Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to
eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.
9:37 And it yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our
sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we
are in great distress.
9:38 And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our
Levites, and our priests, seal to it.
10:1 Now those that sealed were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of Hacaliah, and
Zedekiah,
10:2 Seraiah, azariah, Jeremiah,
10:3 Pashhur, amariah, Malchijah,
10:4 Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch,
10:5 Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,
10:6 Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,
10:7 Meshullam, abijah, Mijamin,
10:8 Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah; these were the priests.
10:9 And the Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad,
Kadmiel;
10:10 and their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
10:11 Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,
10:12 Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
10:13 Hodiah, Bani, Beninu.
10:14 The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,
10:15 Bunni, azgad, Bebai,
10:16 Adonijah, Bigvai, adin,
10:17 Ater, Hezekiah, azzur,
10:18 Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,
10:19 Hariph, anathoth, Nobai,
10:20 Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
10:21 Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,
10:22 Pelatiah, Hanan, anaiah,
10:23 Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,
10:24 Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,
10:25 Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
10:26 and Ahiah, Hanan, anan,
10:27 Malluch, Harim, Baanah.
10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the
Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the
law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one that had knowledge,
and understanding;
10:29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath,
to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and
do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
10:30 and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their
daughters for our sons;
10:31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell,
that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would
forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
10:32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a
shekel for the service of the house of our God;
10:33 for the showbread, and for the continual meal offering, and for the continual burnt
offering, for the sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things,
and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of
our God.
10:34 And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to
bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed,
year by year, to burn upon the altar of Yahweh our God, as it is written in the law;
10:35 and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all
manner of trees, year by year, to the house of Yahweh;
10:36 also the first-born of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the
firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, to the priests
that minister in the house of our God;
10:37 and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and
the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of
the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites,
take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
10:38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take
tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the
chambers, into the treasure-house.
10:39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of
the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, to the chambers, where are the vessels of the
sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not
forsake the house of our God.
11:1 And the princes of the people dwelt in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast
lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other
cities.
11:2 And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell in
Jerusalem.
11:3 Now these are the chiefs of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of
Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, that is, Israel, the priests, and the
Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.
11:4 And in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of
Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah,
the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;
11:5 and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of
Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.
11:6 All the sons of Perez that dwelt in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant
men.
11:7 And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed,
the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of
Jeshaiah.
11:8 And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.
11:9 And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was
second over the city.
11:10 Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin,
11:11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of
Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God,
11:12 and their brethren that did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty and two;
and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of
Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,
11:13 and his brethren, chiefs of fathers' houses, two hundred forty and two; and
Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,
11:14 and their brethren, mighty men of valor, a hundred twenty and eight; and their
overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.
11:15 And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of
Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;
11:16 and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of
the outward business of the house of God;
11:17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the
chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer, and Bakbukiah, the second among his brethren;
and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
11:18 All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.
11:19 Moreover the porters, akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the
gates, were a hundred seventy and two.
11:20 And the residue of Israel, of the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah,
every one in his inheritance.
11:21 But the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.
11:22 The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of
Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the singers, over
the business of the house of God.
11:23 For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled
provision for the singers, as every day required.
11:24 And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah,
was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.
11:25 And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt in
Kiriath-arba and the towns thereof, and in Dibon and the towns thereof, and in Jekabzeel
and the villages thereof,
11:26 and in Jeshua, and in Moladah, and Beth-pelet,
11:27 and in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and the towns thereof,
11:28 and in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in the towns thereof,
11:29 and in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,
11:30 Zanoah, adullam, and their villages, Lachish and the fields thereof, azekah and the
towns thereof. So they encamped from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom.
11:31 The children of Benjamin also dwelt from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija,
and at Beth-el and the towns thereof,
11:32 at Anathoth, Nob, ananiah,
11:33 Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim,
11:34 Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
11:35 Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.
11:36 And of the Levites, certain courses in Judah were joined to Benjamin.
12:1 Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
12:2 Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,
12:3 Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth,
12:4 Iddo, Ginnethoi, abijah,
12:5 Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah,
12:6 Shemaiah, and Joiarib, Jedaiah.
12:7 Sallu, amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their
brethren in the days of Jeshua.
12:8 Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah,
who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.
12:9 Also Bakbukiah and Unno, their brethren, were over against them according to their
offices.
12:10 And Jeshua begat Joiakim, and Joiakim begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,
12:11 and Joiada begat Jonathan, and Jonathan begat Jaddua.
12:12 And in the days of Joiakim were priests, heads of fathers' houses: of Seraiah,
Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
12:13 of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;
12:14 of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;
12:15 of Harim, adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;
12:16 of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;
12:17 of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;
12:18 of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;
12:19 and of Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;
12:20 of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;
12:21 of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.
12:22 As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there
were recorded the heads of fathers' houses; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the
Persian.
12:23 The sons of Levi, heads of fathers' houses, were written in the book of the
chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
12:24 And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of
Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and give thanks, according to
the commandment of David the man of God, watch next to watch.
12:25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, akkub, were porters
keeping the watch at the store-houses of the gates.
12:26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the
days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest the scribe.
12:27 And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all
their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with
thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.
12:28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain
round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites;
12:29 also from Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers
had built them villages round about Jerusalem.
12:30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people,
and the gates, and the wall.
12:31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great
companies that gave thanks and went in procession; whereof one went on the right hand
upon the wall toward the dung gate:
12:32 and after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,
12:33 and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,
12:34 Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,
12:35 and certain of the priests' sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the
son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of
Asaph;
12:36 and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and
Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the
scribe was before them.
12:37 And by the fountain gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of
the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water
gate eastward.
12:38 And the other company of them that gave thanks went to meet them, and I after
them, with the half of the people, upon the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even to
the broad wall,
12:39 and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the
tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still
in the gate of the guard.
12:40 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I,
and the half of the rulers with me;
12:41 and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and
Hananiah, with trumpets;
12:42 and Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and
Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud, with Jezrahiah their
overseer.
12:43 And they offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them
rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of
Jerusalem was heard even afar off.
12:44 And on that day were men appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for the
heave-offerings, for the first-fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the
fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah
rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites that waited.
12:45 And they kept the charge of their God, and the charge of the purification, and so
did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon
his son.
12:46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and
songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.
12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the
portions of the singers and the porters, as every day required: and they set apart that
which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.
13:1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and
therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the
assembly of God for ever,
13:2 because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired
Balaam against them, to curse them: even so our God turned the curse into a blessing.
13:3 And it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all
the mixed multitude.
13:4 Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the
house of our God, being allied to Tobiah,
13:5 had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal offerings,
the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil,
which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and
the heave-offerings for the priests.
13:6 But in all this time I was not at Jerusalem; for in the two and thirtieth year of
Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king: and after certain days asked I leave of the
king,
13:7 and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah,
in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
13:8 And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of
the chamber.
13:9 Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and there brought I again the
vessels of the house of God, with the meal offerings and the frankincense.
13:10 And I perceived that the portions of the Levites had not been given them; so that
the Levites and the singers, that did the work, were fled every one to his field.
13:11 Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken?
And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
13:12 Then brought all Judah the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil to the
treasuries.
13:13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the
scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the
son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to
their brethren.
13:14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I
have done for the house of my God, and for the observances thereof.
13:15 In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine-presses on the sabbath, and
bringing in sheaves, and loading asses with them; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all
manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified
to them in the day they sold food.
13:16 There dwelt men of Tyre also within in, who brought in fish, and all manner of
wares, and sold on the sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
13:17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this
that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
13:18 Did not your fathers do the same, and then did not our God bring all this evil upon
us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
13:19 And it came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the
sabbath, I commanded that the doors be shut, and commanded that they not be opened till
after the sabbath: and some of my servants I set over the gates, that there should be no
cargo brought in on the sabbath day.
13:20 So the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or
twice.
13:21 Then I testified against them, and said to them, Why lodge ye around the wall? if
ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time on they came no more on the
sabbath.
13:22 And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they
should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember on my account,
O my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your lovingkindness.
13:23 In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon,
and of Moab:
13:24 and their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the
Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
13:25 And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and
plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your
daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.
13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was
there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all
Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.
13:27 Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in
marrying foreign women?
13:28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to
Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
13:29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the
covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
13:30 Thus cleansed I them from all foreigners, and appointed charges for the priests and
for the Levites, every one in his work;
13:31 and for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember
me, O my God, for good.
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Esther
1:1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this is the Ahasuerus who reigned
from India all the way to Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces),
1:2 that in those days, when Ahasuerus the king sat on the throne of his kingdom, which
was in Shushan the fortress,
1:3 in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; with
the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, all before him;
1:4 as he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent
majesty for many days, even 180 days.
1:5 And when these days were fulfilled, the king made a feast for all the people that were
present in Shushan the fortress both great and small, for seven days, in the court of the
garden of the king's palace.
1:6 There were hangings of white cloth, of green, and of blue, fastened with cords of fine
linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the couches were of gold and silver,
upon a pavement of red, and white, and yellow, and black marble.
1:7 And they gave them drink in vessels of gold (the vessels being diverse one from
another), and royal wine in abundance, according to the bounty of the king.
1:8 And the drinking was according to this law: “There is no compulsion;” for the king
had given orders to all the officers of his house, that each should do as each one wished
in this regard.
1:9 And Vashti the queen also made a feast for the women in the royal house which
belonged to king Ahasuerus.
1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded
Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs
that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
1:11 to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show to the
peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was lovely to look upon.
1:12 But Vashti the queen refused to come at the king's commandment by the eunuchs:
therefore the king became very angry, and his anger burned within him.
1:13 Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times, (for so was the king's
manner toward all that knew law and judgment;
1:14 and the men next to him were Carshena, Shethar, admatha, Tarshish, Meres,
Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's
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face, and sat first in the kingdom),
1:15 What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the
bidding of the king Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?
1:16 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen has not
done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the peoples that are in
all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
1:17 For this deed of the queen will go abroad to all women, to make their husbands
contemptible in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded
Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she did not come.
1:18 And this day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of
the queen say the same to all the king's princes. So will there arise much contempt and
wrath.
1:19 If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be
written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so it not be altered, that Vashti
may come no longer before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to
another who is better than she.
1:20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all
his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, high and low
alike.
1:21 And this saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the
word of Memucan:
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1:22 for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province in its own
writing, to every people in their own language, that every man be master in his own
houshold, and speak according to the language of his own people.
2:1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered
Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
2:2 Then said the king's servants that ministered to him, Let there be fair young virgins
sought for the king:
2:3 and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may
gather together all the beautiful young virgins to Shushan the fortress, to the house of the
women, to the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, keeper of the women; and let
cosmetics be given to them;
2:4 and let the maiden that pleases the king be queen in place of Vashti. And this
pleased the king; and he did so.
2:5 There was a certain Jew in Shushan the fortress, whose name was Mordecai, the son
of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,
2:6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives that had been carried
away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had
carried away.
2:7 And he had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had
neither father nor mother, and the maiden was lovely and beautiful; and when her father
and mother were dead, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
2:8 So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree were heard, and
when many maidens were gathered together to Shushan the fortress, to the custody of
Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the
women.
2:9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him; and he speedily
gave her her cosmetics, with her portion of food, and the seven maidens who were chosen
for her out of the king's house: and he trasnsferred her and her maidens to the best place
in the house of the women.
2:10 Esther had not made known her people or kindred; for Mordecai had commanded
her not to make it known.
2:11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know
how Esther did, and what would become of her.
2:12 Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, once it
had been done to her according to the law for the women twelve months (for so were the
days of their beautifications accomplished, that is, six months with oil of myrrh, and six
months with sweet odors and with the things for the beautifying of the women),
2:13 then in this wise came the maiden to the king: whatsoever she desired was given her
to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house.
2:14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of
the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch, who kept the concubines: she
came in to the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and she were called by
name.
2:15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who
had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in to the king, she required nothing but
what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther
obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her.
2:16 So Esther was taken to king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month,
which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
2:17 And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained favor and
kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her
head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
2:18 Then the king made a great feast to all his princes and his servants, even Esther's
feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the bounty of
the king.
2:19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was
sitting in the king's gate.
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2:20 Esther had not yet made known her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had
charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought
up with him.
2:21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, two of the king's
eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, of those that kept the threshold, were angry, and sought to
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assassinate the king Ahasuerus.
2:22 And the thing became known to Mordecai, who showed it to Esther the queen; and
Esther told the king of it in Mordecai's name.
2:23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, and it was found to be so, they were
both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
3:1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the
Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
3:2 And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed down, and did
reverence to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai
bowed not down, nor did him reverence.
3:3 Then the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, Why
transgress you the king's commandment?
3:4 Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he hearkened not to them,
that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told
them that he was a Jew.
3:5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence, then
was Haman full of wrath.
3:6 But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to
him the people of Mordecai: therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were
throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
3:7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus,
they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to
the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
3:8 And Haman said to king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and
dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; and their laws are
different from those of every other people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it
is not to the king's profit to tolerate them.
3:9 If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten
thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king's
business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
3:10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of
Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
3:11 And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with
them as it seems good to you.
3:12 Then were the king's scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof;
and there was written according to all that Haman commanded to the king's satraps, and
to the governors that were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to
every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language;
in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king's ring.
3:13 And letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to
cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even
upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the
spoil of them for a prey.
3:14 A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was
published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.
3:15 The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment, and the decree was given
out in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of
Shushan was perplexed.
4:1 Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on
sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a
bitter cry;
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4:2 and he came right up to the king's gate: for no one may enter within the king's gate
clothed with sackcloth.
4:3 And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there
was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many
lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4:4 And Esther's maidens and her eunuchs came and told it to her; and the queen was
exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcloth
from off him; but he did not take it.
4:5 Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs, whom he had appointed to
attend upon her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it
was.
4:6 So Hathach went forth to Mordecai to the broad place of the city, which was before
the king's gate.
4:7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the
money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy
them.
4:8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan
to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to charge her that she
should go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for
her people.
4:9 And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
4:10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai saying:
4:11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that
whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is
not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the
king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to
come in to the king these thirty days.
4:12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
4:13 Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther: Think not to yourself that you shall
escape in the king's house any more than the rest of the Jews.
4:14 For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance
arise to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish: and who
knows whether you are not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
4:15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,
4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and
neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like
manner; and so will I go in to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish,
I perish.
4:17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded
him.
5:1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood
in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon
his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house.
5:2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she
obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in
his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.
5:3 Then said the king to her, What will you, queen Esther? and what is your request?
it shall be given you even to the half of the kingdom.
5:4 And Esther said, If it seem good to the king, let the king and Haman come this day to
the banquet that I have prepared for him.
5:5 Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that it may be done as Esther has
said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
5:6 And the king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, What is your petition? and it
shall be granted you: and what is your request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall
be performed.
5:7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is:
5:8 if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my
petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I
shall prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.
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5:9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and glad of heart: but when Haman saw
Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up nor moved for him, he was filled with
wrath against Mordecai.
5:10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his
friends and Zeresh his wife.
5:11 And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his
children, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had
advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
5:12 Haman said moreover, Yes, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king
to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow also am I invited by her
together with the king.
5:13 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's
gate.
5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made fifty
cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king that Mordecai may be hanged upon it:
then go you in merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and
he caused the gallows to be made.
6:1 On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of
records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
6:2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the
king's eunuchs, of those that kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the king
Ahasuerus.
6:3 And the king said, What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?
Then said the king's servants that ministered to him, There is nothing done for him.
6:4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward
court of the king's house, to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he
had prepared for him.
6:5 And the king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman stands in the court. And the
king said, Let him come in.
6:6 So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom
the king delights to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king
delight to do honor more than to myself?
6:7 And Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
6:8 let royal apparel be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king
rides upon, and on the head of which a crown royal is set:
6:9 and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most
noble princes, that they may array the man with it whom the king delights to honor, and
cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him,
Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.
6:10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as you
have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail
of all that you have spoken.
6:11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him
to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done to
the man whom the king delights to honor.
6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house,
mourning and having his head covered.
6:13 And Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had
befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife to him, If Mordecai, before
whom you have begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, you shall not prevail against
him, but shall surely fall before him.
6:14 While they were yet talking with him, came the king's eunuchs, and hasted to bring
Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
7:1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
7:2 And the king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is
your petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted you: and what is your request?
even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
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7:3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in your sight, O king,
and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my
request:
7:4 for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if
we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the
adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.
7:5 Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is
he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
7:6 And Esther said, an adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then
Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
7:7 And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace
garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw
that there was evil determined against him by the king.
7:8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine;
and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he
even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth,
they covered Haman's face.
7:9 Then said Harbonah, one of the eunuchs that were before the king, Behold also, the
gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the
king, stands in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him upon it.
7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then
was the king's wrath pacified.
8:1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy to
Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was
to her.
8:2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to
Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
8:3 And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought
him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had
devised against the Jews.
8:4 Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. So Esther arose, and stood
before the king.
8:5 And she said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing
seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the
letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy
the Jews that are in all the king's provinces:
8:6 for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? or how can I
endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
8:7 Then the king Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I
have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows,
because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
8:8 Write ye also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the
king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's
ring, may no man reverse.
8:9 Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the three
and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded
to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are
from India to Ethiopia, a hundred twenty and seven provinces, to every province
according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, and to the Jews
according to their writing, and according to their language.
8:10 And he wrote the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king's ring, and
sent letters by post on horseback, riding on swift steeds that were used in the king's
service, bred of the stud:
8:11 wherein the king granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves
together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the
power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women,
and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
8:12 upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth
day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
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8:13 A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was
published to all the peoples, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge
themselves on their enemies.
8:14 So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king's service went
out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; and the decree was
given out in Shushan the palace.
8:15 And Mordecai went forth from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and
white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple: and the
city of Shushan shouted and was glad.
8:16 The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honor.
8:17 And in every province, and in every city, wherever the king's commandment and his
decree came, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a good day. And many from
among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen upon
them.
9:1 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the
same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on
the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them, (whereas it was turned
to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them,)
9:2 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of
the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand
them; for the fear of them was fallen upon all the peoples.
9:3 And all the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and they that
did the king's business, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai was fallen upon
them.
9:4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went forth throughout all
the provinces; for the man Mordecai became greater and greater.
9:5 And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter
and destruction, and did what they would to them that hated them.
9:6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
9:7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
9:8 and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
9:9 and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha,
9:10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, slew they; but on
the spoil they laid not their hand.
9:11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought
before the king.
9:12 And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five
hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they
done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? and it shall be
granted you: or what is your request further? and it shall be done.
9:13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in
Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be
hanged upon the gallows.
9:14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and a decree was given out in Shushan;
and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
9:15 And the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth
day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men in Shushan; but on the spoil
they laid not their hand.
9:16 And the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together,
and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of them that hated
them seventy and five thousand; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.
9:17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of
the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
9:18 But the Jews that were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof,
and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made
it a day of feasting and gladness.
9:19 Therefore do the Jews of the villages, that dwell in the unwalled towns, make the
fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of
sending portions one to another.
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9:20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews that were in all the
provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,
9:21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the
fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
9:22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was
turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they
should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another,
and gifts to the poor.
9:23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to
them;
9:24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had
plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume
them, and to destroy them;
9:25 but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked
device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that
he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
9:26 Wherefore they called these days Purim, after the name of Pur. Therefore because
of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and
that which had come to them,
9:27 the Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as
joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days
according to the writing thereof, and according to the appointed time thereof, every year;
9:28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation,
every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail
from among the Jews, nor the remembrance of them perish from their seed.
9:29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with
all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
9:30 And he sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the
kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
9:31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the
Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves
and for their seed, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.
9:32 And the commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was
written in the book.
10:1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
10:2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness
of Mordecai, whereto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and
accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking
peace to all his seed.
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Job
1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect
and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.
1:2 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five
hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; such that
this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
1:4 And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they
sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and
sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according
to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and
renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
1:6 Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves
before Yahweh, that Satan also came among them.
1:7 And Yahweh said to Satan, From where have you come? Then Satan answered
Yahweh, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in
it.
1:8 And Yahweh said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? for there is no
one like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and turns
away from evil.
1:9 Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, Does Job fear God for nothing?
1:10 Have you not made a hedge all around him, and around his house, and around all
that he has, on every side? you have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is
increased in the land.
1:11 But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to
your face.
1:12 And Yahweh said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power; only on his
person put not forth your hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh.
1:13 And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine
in their eldest brother's house,
1:14 that there came a messenger to Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses
feeding beside them;
1:15 and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away: yes, they have slain the
servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.
1:16 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is
fallen from heaven, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them;
and I only am escaped alone to tell you.
1:17 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made
three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and slain the
servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.
1:18 While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, Your sons and your
daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house;
1:19 and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four
corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am
escaped alone to tell you.
1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the
ground, and worshipped;
1:21 and he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there:
Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away; blessed be the name of Yahweh.
1:22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
2:1 Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves
before Yahweh, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Yahweh.
2:2 And Yahweh said to Satan, From where have you come? And Satan answered
Yahweh, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in
it.
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2:3 And Yahweh said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job? for there is no
one like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and turns
away from evil: and he still holds fast his integrity, though you moved me against him, to
destroy him without cause.
2:4 And Satan answered Yahweh, and said, Skin for skin, yes, all that a man has he will
give for his life.
2:5 But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce
you to your face.
2:6 And Yahweh said to Satan, Behold, he is in your hand; only spare his life.
2:7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Yahweh, and smote Job with sore boils
from the sole of his foot to his crown.
2:8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he sat among the ashes.
2:9 Then said his wife to him, Do you still hold fast your integrity? renounce God, and
die.
2:10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? shall
we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did
not sin with his lips.
2:11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they
came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and
Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him
and to comfort him.
2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their
voice, and wept; and they rent every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads
toward heaven.
2:13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none
spoke a word to him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
3:2 And Job answered and said:
3:3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child
conceived.
3:4 Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light
shine upon it.
3:5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon
it; Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
3:6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of
the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
3:7 Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.
3:8 Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
3:9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none;
Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hid trouble from my
eyes.
3:11 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother
bore me?
3:12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
3:13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I
been at rest,
3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
3:15 Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:
3:16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants that never saw light.
3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
3:18 There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
3:19 The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master.
3:20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
3:21 Who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
3:22 Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
3:24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.
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3:25 For the thing which I fear comes upon me, and that which I am afraid of comes to
me.
3:26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes.
4:1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
4:2 If one assay to commune with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold
himself from speaking?
4:3 Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.
4:4 Your words have upholden him that was falling, and you have made firm the feeble
knees.
4:5 But now it is come to you, and you faintest; It touches you, and you are troubled.
4:6 Is not your fear of God your confidence, and the integrity of your ways your hope?
4:7 Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the
upright cut off?
4:8 According as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.
4:9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger are they consumed.
4:10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young
lions, are broken.
4:11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered
abroad.
4:12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and my ear received a whisper thereof.
4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,
4:14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake.
4:15 Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.
4:16 It stood still, but I could not discern the appearance thereof; A form was before my
eyes: There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
4:17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his
Maker?
4:18 Behold, he puts no trust in his servants; And his angels he charges with folly:
4:19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust,
Who are crushed before the moth!
4:20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any
regarding it.
4:21 Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.
5:1 Call now; is there any that will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you
turn?
5:2 For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any
to deliver them:
5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns; And the snare
gapes for their substance.
5:6 For affliction comes not forth from the dust, Neither does trouble spring out of the
ground;
5:7 But man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
5:8 But as for me, I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause;
5:9 Who does great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
5:10 Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields;
5:11 So that he sets up on high those that are low, and those that mourn are exalted to
safety.
5:12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their
enterprise.
5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried
headlong.
5:14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
5:15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the
mighty.
5:16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not you the
chastening of the Almighty.
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5:18 For he makes sore, and binds up; He wounds, and his hands make whole.
5:19 He will deliver you in six troubles; Yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
5:20 In famine he will redeem you from death; And in war from the power of the sword.
5:21 You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shall you be afraid of
destruction when it comes.
5:22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh; Neither shall you be afraid of the beasts
of the earth.
5:23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field
shall be at peace with you.
5:24 And you shall know that your tent is in peace; And you shall visit your fold, and
shall miss nothing.
5:25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of
the earth.
5:26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain comes in in its
season.
5:27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know you it for your good.
6:1 Then Job answered and said,
6:2 Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
6:3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been
rash.
6:4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinks
up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
6:5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or lows the ox over his fodder?
6:6 Can that which has no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white
of an egg?
6:7 My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
6:8 Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long
for!
6:9 Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut
me off!
6:10 And be it still my consolation, Yes, let me exult in pain that spares not, That I have
not denied the words of the Holy One.
6:11 What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be
patient?
6:12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?
6:13 Is it not that I have no help in me, and that wisdom is driven quite from me?
6:14 To him that is ready to faint kindness should be shown from his friend; Even to him
that forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass
away;
6:16 Which are black by reason of the ice, and in which the snow hides itself:
6:17 What time they grow warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of
their place.
6:18 The caravans that travel by the way of them turn aside; They go up into the waste,
and perish.
6:19 The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.
6:20 They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came there, and were
confounded.
6:21 For now ye are nothing; You see a terror, and are afraid.
6:22 Did I say, Give to me? Or, Offer a present for me of your substance?
6:23 Or, Deliver me from the adversary's hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the
oppressors?
6:24 Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand the way in which I
have erred.
6:25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?
6:26 Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are
as wind?
6:27 Yes, ye would cast lots upon the fatherless, and make merchandise of your friend.
6:28 Now therefore be pleased to look upon me; For surely I shall not lie to your face.
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6:29 Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yes, return again, my cause is righteous.
6:30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
7:1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a
hireling?
7:2 As a servant that earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling that looks for his
wages:
7:3 So am I made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to
me.
7:4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of
tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day.
7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closes up, and breaks out
afresh.
7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7:7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
7:8 The eye of him that sees me shall behold me no more; Your eyes shall be upon me,
but I shall not be.
7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he that goes down to Sheol shall
come up no more.
7:10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
7:11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will
complain in the bitterness of my soul.
7:12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That you set a watch over me?
7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;
7:14 Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
7:15 So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than these my bones.
7:16 I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
7:17 What is man, that you should magnify him, and that you should set your mind upon
him,
7:18 And that you should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
7:19 How long will you not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my
spittle?
7:20 If I have sinned, what do I to you, O you watcher of men? Why have you set me as
a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself?
7:21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For
now shall I lie down in the dust; And you will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
8:1 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
8:2 How long will you speak these things? And how long shall the words of your mouth
be like a mighty wind?
8:3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
8:4 If your children have sinned against him, and he has delivered them into the hand of
their transgression;
8:5 If you would seek diligently to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty;
8:6 If you wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for you, and make the
habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
8:7 And though your beginning was small, Yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8:8 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and apply yourself to that which their
fathers have searched out:
8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a
shadow);
8:10 Shall not they teach you, and tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
8:11 Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water?
8:12 Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withers before any other herb.
8:13 So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish:
8:14 Whose confidence shall break in sunder, and whose trust is a spider's web.
8:15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it
shall not endure.
8:16 He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.
8:17 His roots are wrapped about the stone-heap, He beholds the place of stones.
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8:18 If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen
you.
8:19 Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.
8:20 Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers.
8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting.
8:22 They that hate you shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be
no more.
9:2 Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?
9:3 If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him,
and prospered?-
9:5 him that removes the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturns them in his
anger;
9:6 That shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble;
9:7 That commands the sun, and it rises not, and seals up the stars;
9:8 That alone stretches out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea;
9:9 That makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south;
9:10 That does great things past finding out, Yes, marvellous things without number.
9:11 Lo, he goes by me, and I see him not: He passes on also, but I perceive him not.
9:12 Behold, he seizes the prey, who can hinder him? Who will say to him, What do
you?
9:13 God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.
9:14 How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication
to my judge.
9:16 If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened
to my voice.
9:17 For he breaks me with a tempest, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
9:18 He will not allow me to take my breath, But fills me with bitterness.
9:19 If we speak of strength, lo, he is mighty! And if of justice, Who, he says, will
summon me?
9:20 Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me: Though I be perfect, it
shall prove me perverse.
9:21 I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.
9:22 It is all one; therefore I say, He destroys the perfect and the wicked.
9:23 If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.
9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covers the faces of the judges
thereof: If it be not he, who then is it?
9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,
9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoops on the prey.
9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad countenance, and be of
good cheer;
9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.
9:29 I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
9:31 Yet will you plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes shall abhor me.
9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come
together in judgment.
9:33 There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand upon us both.
9:34 Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid:
9:35 Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.
10:1 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in
the bitterness of my soul.
10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; Show me why you are contending with me.
10:3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your
hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
10:4 Have you eyes of flesh? Or see you as man sees?
10:5 Are your days as the days of man, Or your years as man's days,
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10:6 That you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin,
10:7 Although you know that I am not wicked, and there is none that can deliver out of
your hand?
10:8 Your hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet you do
destroy me.
10:9 Remember, I beseech you, that you have fashioned me as clay; And will you bring
me into dust again?
10:10 Have you not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
10:11 You have clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and
sinews.
10:12 You have granted me life and lovingkindness; And your visitation has preserved
my spirit.
10:13 Yet these things you did hide in your heart; I know that this is with you:
10:14 If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from my iniquity.
10:15 If I be wicked, woe to me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head;
Being filled with ignominy, and looking upon my affliction.
10:16 And if my head exalt itself, you hunt me as a lion; And again you show yourself
marvellous upon me.
10:17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation upon me:
Changes and warfare are with me.
10:18 Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost,
and no eye had seen me.
10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the
womb to the grave.
10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a
little,
10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the
shadow of death;
10:22 The land dark as midnight, The land of the shadow of death, without any order, and
where the light is as midnight.
11:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
11:2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be
justified?
11:3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? And when you mockest, shall
no man make you ashamed?
11:4 For you say, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in your eyes.
11:5 But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,
11:6 And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in
understanding. Know therefore that God exacts of you less than your iniquity deserves.
11:7 Can you by searching find out God? Can you find out the Almighty to perfection?
11:8 It is high as heaven; what can you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know?
11:9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
11:10 If he pass through, and shut up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?
11:11 For he knows false men: He sees iniquity also, even though he consider it not.
11:12 But vain man is void of understanding, Yes, man is born as a wild donkey's colt.
11:13 If you set your heart aright, and stretch out your hands toward him;
11:14 If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not unrighteousness dwell in
your tents.
11:15 Surely then shall you lift up your face without spot; Yes, you shall be stedfast, and
shall not fear:
11:16 For you shall forget your misery; You shall remember it as waters that are passed
away,
11:17 And your life shall be clearer than the noonday; Though there be darkness, it
shall be as the morning.
11:18 And you shall be secure, because there is hope; Yes, you shall search about you,
and shall take your rest in safety.
11:19 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid; Yes, many shall make
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11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee; And their
hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.
12:2 No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.
12:3 But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yes, who knows
not such things as these?
12:4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he
answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
12:5 In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for
them whose foot slips.
12:6 The tents of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand
God brings abundantly.
12:7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach you; And the birds of the heavens, and
they shall tell you:
12:8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you; And the fishes of the sea shall declare
to you.
12:9 Who knows not in all these, That the hand of Yahweh has wrought this,
12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
12:11 Does not the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?
12:12 With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
12:13 With God is wisdom and might; He has counsel and understanding.
12:14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again; He shuts up a man, and there
can be no opening.
12:15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and
they overturn the earth.
12:16 With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
12:17 He leads counsellors away stripped, and judges makes he fools.
12:18 He looses the bond of kings, and he binds their loins with a girdle.
12:19 He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.
12:20 He removes the speech of the trusty, and takes away the understanding of the
elders.
12:21 He pours contempt upon princes, and looses the belt of the strong.
12:22 He uncovers deep things out of darkness, And brings out to light the shadow of
death.
12:23 He increases the nations, and he destroys them: He enlarges the nations, and he
leads them captive.
12:24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes
them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
12:25 They grope in the dark without light; And he makes them to stagger like a drunken
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13:1 Lo, my eye has seen all this, Mine ear has heard and understood it.
13:2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you.
13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
13:4 But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.
13:5 Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And that would be your wisdom.
13:6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
13:7 Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
13:8 Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?
13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will ye deceive
him?
13:10 He will surely reprove you if ye do secretly show partiality.
13:11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
13:12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, your defences are defences of clay.
13:13 Hold your peace, leave me alone, that I may speak; and let come on me what will.
13:14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
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13:15 Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways
before him.
13:16 This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.
13:17 Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears.
13:18 Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.
13:19 Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give
up the ghost.
13:20 Only do not two things to me; Then will I not hide myself from your face:
13:21 Withdraw your hand far from me; And let not your terror make me afraid.
13:22 Then call you, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer you me.
13:23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and
my sin.
13:24 Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?
13:25 Will you harass a driven leaf? And will you pursue the dry stubble?
13:26 For you write bitter things against me, and cause me to inherit the iniquities of my
youth:
13:27 You put my feet also in the stocks, and mark all my paths; You set a bound to the
soles of my feet:
13:28 Though I am like a rotten thing that consumes, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
14:1 Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
14:2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: He flees also as a shadow, and
continues not.
14:3 And do you open your eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
14:5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with you, and you
have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
14:6 Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his
day.
14:7 For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the
tender branch thereof will not cease.
14:8 Though the root thereof grow old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the
ground;
14:9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
14:10 But man dies, and is laid low: Yes, man gives up the ghost, and where is he?
14:11 as the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up;
14:12 So man lies down and rises not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,
Nor be roused out of their sleep.
14:13 Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your
wrath be past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till
my release should come.
14:15 You would call, and I would answer you: You would have a desire to the work of
your hands.
14:16 But now you number my steps: Do you not watch over my sin?
14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you fasten up my iniquity.
14:18 But the mountain falling comes to nought; And the rock is removed out of its
place;
14:19 The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the
earth: So you destroy the hope of man.
14:20 You prevail for ever against him, and he passes; You change his countenance, and
send him away.
14:21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; And they are brought low, but he
perceives it not of them.
14:22 But his flesh upon him has pain, and his soul within him mourns.
15:2 Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east
wind?
15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches with which he can do no
good?
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15:4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
15:5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
15:6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.
15:7 Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
15:8 Have you heard the secret counsel of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
15:9 What know you, that we know not? What do you understand, which is not in us?
15:10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your
father.
15:11 Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word that is gentle toward
you?
15:12 Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,
15:13 That against God you turn your spirit, and let words go out of your mouth?
15:14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he
should be righteous?
15:15 Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones; Yes, the heavens are not clean in his
sight:
15:16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, a man that drinks iniquity like
water!
15:17 I will show you, hear you me; And that which I have seen I will declare:
15:18 (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
15:19 To whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them):
15:20 The wicked man travails with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are
laid up for the oppressor.
15:21 A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
15:22 He believes not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the
sword.
15:23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knows that the day of
darkness is ready at his hand.
15:24 Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to
the battle.
15:25 Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly
against the Almighty;
15:26 He runs upon him with a stiff neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;
15:27 Because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat upon his loins;
15:28 And he has dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were
ready to become heaps;
15:29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their
possessions be extended on the earth.
15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, and by the
breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
15:31 Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.
15:32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
15:33 He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the
olive-tree.
15:34 For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of
bribery.
15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their heart prepares deceit.
16:2 I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
16:3 Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
16:4 I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words
together against you, and shake my head at you.
16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage
your grief.
16:6 Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?
16:7 But now he has made me weary: You have made desolate all my company.
16:8 And you have laid fast hold on me, which is a witness against me: And my leanness
rises up against me, It testifies to my face.
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16:9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He has gnashed upon me with his
teeth: Mine adversary sharpens his eyes upon me.
16:10 They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek
reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
16:11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
16:12 I was at ease, and he broke me asunder; Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and
dashed me to pieces: He has also set me up for his mark.
16:13 His archers compass me round about; He splits my kidneys asunder, and does not
spare; He pours out my gall upon the ground.
16:14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; He runs upon me like a giant.
16:15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.
16:16 My face is red with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;
16:17 Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.
16:18 O earth, cover you not my blood, and let my cry have no resting-place.
16:19 Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he that vouches for me is on high.
16:20 My friends scoff at me: But my eye pours out tears to God,
16:21 That he would maintain the right of a man with God, and of a son of man with his
neighbor!
16:22 For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
17:1 My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is ready for me.
17:2 Surely there are mockers with me, and my eye dwells upon their provocation.
17:3 Give now a pledge, be surety for me with yourself; Who is there that will strike
hands with me?
17:4 For you have hid their heart from understanding: Therefore shall you not exalt them.
17:5 He that denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
17:6 But he has made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
17:7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.
17:8 Upright men shall be astonished at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against
the godless.
17:9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, and he that has clean hands shall grow
stronger and stronger.
17:10 But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.
17:11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.
17:12 They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near to the darkness.
17:13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
17:14 If I have said to corruption, You are my father; To the worm, You are my mother,
and my sister;
17:15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
17:16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.
18:2 How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
18:3 Why are we counted as beasts, and are become unclean in your sight?
18:4 You that tear yourself in your anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall
the rock be removed out of its place?
18:5 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
18:6 The light shall be dark in his tent, and his lamp above him shall be put out.
18:7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him
down.
18:8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils.
18:9 A gin shall take him by the heel, and a snare shall lay hold on him.
18:10 A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
18:11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.
18:12 His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and calamity shall be ready at his side.
18:13 The members of his body shall be devoured, Yes, the first-born of death shall
devour his members.
18:14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts; And he shall be brought to the
king of terrors.
18:15 There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered
upon his habitation.
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18:16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
18:17 His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the
street.
18:18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
18:19 He shall have neither son nor son's son among his people, Nor any remaining
where he sojourned.
18:20 They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before were
affrighted.
18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, and this is the place of him that
knows not God.
19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
19:3 These ten times have ye reproached me: You are not ashamed that ye deal hardly
with me.
19:4 And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remains with myself.
19:5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
19:6 Know now that God has subverted me in my cause, and has enveloped me with his
net.
19:7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.
19:8 He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
19:9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
19:10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope has he
plucked up like a tree.
19:11 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him as one of his
adversaries.
19:12 His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round
about my tent.
19:13 He has put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintances wholly estranged from
me.
19:14 My kinsfolk have disowned me, my familiar friends have forgotten me.
19:15 They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me as a stranger; I am an alien
in their sight.
19:16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer, Though I entreat him with my
mouth.
19:17 My breath is strange to my wife, and my supplication to the children of my own
mother.
19:18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
19:19 All my familiar friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
19:20 My bone cleaves to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my
teeth.
19:21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God has
touched me.
19:22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
19:23 Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
19:24 That with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!
19:25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand up upon the
earth:
19:26 And after my skin, even this body, is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see
God;
19:27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, and my eyes shall behold, and not as a
stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
19:28 If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in
me;
19:29 Be ye afraid of the sword: For wrath brings the punishments of the sword, That ye
may know there is a judgment.
20:1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
20:2 Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in
me.
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20:3 I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame; And the spirit of my
understanding answers me.
20:4 Know you not this of old time, Since man was placed upon earth,
20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a
moment?
20:6 Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds;
20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say,
Where is he?
20:8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away
as a vision of the night.
20:9 The eye which saw him shall see him no more; Neither shall his place any more
behold him.
20:10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor, and his hands shall give back his
wealth.
20:11 His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.
20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,
20:13 Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;
20:14 Yet his food in his bowels is turned, It is the gall of asps within him.
20:15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them back up; God will cast
them out of his belly.
20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper's tongue shall slay him.
20:17 He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.
20:18 That which he labored for shall he give back, and shall not swallow it down;
According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.
20:19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; He has violently taken away a house,
and he shall not build it up.
20:20 Because he knew no contentedness within him, He shall not save anything of that
in which he delights.
20:21 There was nothing left that he did not devour; Therefore his prosperity shall not
endure.
20:22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in narrows: The hand of every one that
is in misery shall come upon him.
20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath upon
him, and will rain it upon him while he is eating.
20:24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of brass shall strike him through.
20:25 He draws it forward, and it comes out of his body; Yes, the glittering point comes
out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.
20:26 All darkness is stored up to be his treasures: A fire not blown by man shall devour
him; It shall consume that which is left in his tent.
20:27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
20:28 The increase of his house shall depart; His goods shall flow away in the day of his
wrath.
20:29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance appointed for
him by God.
21:2 Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.
21:3 Allow me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.
21:6 Even when I remember I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.
21:7 Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, grow mighty in power?
21:8 Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their
eyes.
21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.
21:10 Their bull gendereth, and fails not; Their cow calveth, and casts not her calf.
21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
21:12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
21:13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.
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21:14 And they say to God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of your
ways.
21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we
have, if we pray to him?
21:16 Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
21:17 How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes
upon them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?
21:18 That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?
21:19 You say, God lays up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it to
himself, that he may know it:
21:20 Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the
Almighty.
21:21 For what cares he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut
off?
21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those that are high?
21:23 One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:
21:24 His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened.
21:25 And another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
21:26 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.
21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.
21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the
wicked dwelt?
21:29 Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,
21:30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the
day of wrath?
21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has
done?
21:32 Yet shall he be borne to the grave, and men shall keep watch over the tomb.
21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, and all men shall draw after him, as
there were innumerable before him.
21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remains only
falsehood?
22:2 Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he that is wise is profitable to himself.
22:3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or is it gain to him, that
you make your ways perfect?
22:4 Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you, That he enters with you into
judgment?
22:5 Is not your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
22:6 For you have taken pledges of your brother for no reason, and stripped the naked of
their clothing.
22:7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from
the hungry.
22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.
22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been
broken.
22:10 Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden fear troubles you,
22:11 Or darkness, so that you cannot see, and abundance of waters cover you.
22:12 Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high
they are!
22:13 And you say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
22:14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he sees not; And he walks on the vault
of heaven.
22:15 Will you keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?
22:16 Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a
stream,
22:17 Who said to God, Depart from us; and, What can the Almighty do for us?
22:18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: But the counsel of the wicked is far
from me.
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22:19 The righteous see it, and are glad; And the innocent laugh them to scorn,
22:20 Saying, Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, and the remnant of them
the fire has consumed.
22:21 Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come to you.
22:22 Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, If you put away
unrighteousness far from your tents.
22:24 And lay you your treasure in the dust, and the gold of Ophir among the stones of
the brooks;
22:25 And the Almighty will be your treasure, and precious silver to you.
22:26 For then shall you delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to
God.
22:27 You shall make your prayer to him, and he will hear you; And you shall pay your
vows.
22:28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to you; And light shall
shine upon your ways.
22:29 When they cast you down, you shall say, There is lifting up; And the humble
person he will save.
22:30 He will deliver even him that is not innocent: Yes, he shall be delivered through the
cleanness of your hands.
23:2 Even today is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
23:3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!
23:4 I would set my cause in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
23:5 I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would
say to me.
23:6 Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? Nay; but he would give
heed to me.
23:7 There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my
judge.
23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; And backward, but I cannot perceive him;
23:9 On the left hand, when he does work, but I cannot behold him; He hides himself on
the right hand, that I cannot see him.
23:10 But he knows the way that I take; When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
23:11 My foot has held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
23:12 I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the
words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
23:13 But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desires, even
that he does.
23:14 For he performs that which is appointed for me: And many such things are with
him.
23:15 Therefore am I terrified at his presence; When I consider, I am afraid of him.
23:16 For God has made my heart faint, and the Almighty has terrified me;
23:17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick
darkness from my face.
24:1 Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him
see his days?
24:2 There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed
them.
24:3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox for a
pledge.
24:4 They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
24:5 Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for
food; The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
24:6 They cut their provender in the field; And they glean the vintage of the wicked.
24:7 They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.
24:8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a
shelter.
24:9 There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor;
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24:10 So that they go about naked without clothing, and being hungry they carry the
sheaves.
24:11 They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread their winepresses, and
suffer thirst.
24:12 From out of the populous city men groan, And the soul of the wounded cries out:
Yet God regards not the folly.
24:13 These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor
abide in the paths thereof.
24:14 The murderer rises with the light; He kills the poor and needy; And in the night he
is as a thief.
24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me:
And he disguises his face.
24:16 In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time;
They know not the light.
24:17 For the morning is to all of them as thick darkness; For they know the terrors of the
thick darkness.
24:18 Swiftly they pass away upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the
earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.
24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: So does Sheol those that have sinned.
24:20 The womb shall forget him; The worm shall feed sweetly on him; He shall be no
more remembered; And unrighteousness shall be broken as a tree.
24:21 He devours the barren that bears not, and does not good to the widow.
24:22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power: He rises up that has no assurance of
life.
24:23 God gives them to be in security, and they rest upon it; And his eyes are upon their
ways.
24:24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yes, they are brought low,
they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
24:25 And if it be not so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech nothing
worth?
25:2 Dominion and fear are with him; He makes peace in his high places.
25:3 Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom does not his light arise?
25:4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a
woman?
25:5 Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight:
25:6 How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!
26:2 How have you helped him that is without power! How have you saved the arm that
has no strength!
26:3 How have you counselled him that has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound
knowledge!
26:4 To whom have you uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from you?
26:5 They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.
26:6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth upon nothing.
26:8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.
26:9 He incloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it.
26:10 He has described a boundary upon the face of the waters, To the confines of light
and darkness.
26:11 The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke.
26:12 He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through
Rahab.
26:13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished; His hand has pierced the swift serpent.
26:14 Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of
him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
27:1 And Job again took up his parable, and said,
27:2 As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my
soul:
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27:3 (For my life is yet whole in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils);
27:4 Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
27:5 Far be it from me that I should justify you: Till I die I will not put away my integrity
from me.
27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproach me
so long as I live.
27:7 Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him that rises up against me be as the
unrighteous.
27:8 For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God takes away
his soul?
27:9 Will God hear his cry, When trouble comes upon him?
27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
27:11 I will teach you concerning the hand of God; That which is with the Almighty will
I not conceal.
27:12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; Why then are ye become altogether vain?
27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors,
which they receive from the Almighty:
27:14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; And his offspring shall not be
satisfied with bread.
27:15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death, and his widows shall make no
lamentation.
27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
27:17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the
silver.
27:18 He builds his house as the moth, and as a booth which the keeper makes.
27:19 He lies down rich, but he shall not be gathered to his fathers; He opens his eyes,
and he is not.
27:20 Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest steals him away in the night.
27:21 The east wind carries him away, and he departs; And it sweeps him out of his
place.
27:22 For God shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.
27:23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
28:1 Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.
28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is molten out of the stone.
28:3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, The stones of
obscurity and of thick darkness.
28:4 He breaks open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the
foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.
28:5 As for the earth, out of it comes bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by
fire.
28:6 The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.
28:7 That path no bird of prey knows, Neither has the falcon's eye seen it:
28:8 The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor has the fierce lion passed thereby.
28:9 He puts forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturns the mountains by the roots.
28:10 He cuts out channels among the rocks; And his eye sees every precious thing.
28:11 He binds the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid brings he
forth to light.
28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
28:13 Man knows not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.
28:14 The deep says, It is not in me; And the sea says, It is not with me.
28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
28:16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
28:17 Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine
gold.
28:18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yes, the price of wisdom is above
rubies.
28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
28:20 From where then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding?
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28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the birds of the
heavens.
28:22 Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.
28:23 God understands the way thereof, and he knows the place thereof.
28:24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven;
28:25 To make a weight for the wind: Yes, he metes out the waters by measure.
28:26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
28:27 Then did he see it, and declare it; He established it, yes, and searched it out.
28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; And to depart
from evil is understanding.
29:1 And Job again took up his parable, and said,
29:2 Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
29:3 When his lamp shined upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;
29:4 As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was upon my tent;
29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were about me;
29:6 When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured me out streams of oil!
29:7 When I went forth to the gate to the city, When I prepared my seat in the street,
29:8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;
29:9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;
29:10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their
mouth.
29:11 For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave
witness to me:
29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, The fatherless also, that had none to help
him.
29:13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the
widow's heart to sing for joy.
29:14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.
29:15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
29:16 I was a father to the needy: And the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
29:17 And I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, and plucked the prey out of his teeth.
29:18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand:
29:19 My root is spread out to the waters, and the dew lies all night upon my branch;
29:20 My glory is fresh in me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.
29:21 To me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel.
29:22 After my words they spoke not again; And my speech distilled upon them.
29:23 And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wide as for
the latter rain.
29:24 I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance
they cast not down.
29:25 I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that
comforts the mourners.
30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained
to set with the dogs of my flock.
30:2 Yes, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe
age is perished.
30:3 They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of
wasteness and desolation.
30:4 They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
30:5 They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;
30:6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
30:7 Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.
30:8 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men; They were scourged out of the
land.
30:9 And now I am become their song, Yes, I am a byword to them.
30:10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
30:11 For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle
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30:12 Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up
against me their ways of destruction.
30:13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, even men that have no helper.
30:14 As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves
upon me.
30:15 Terrors are turned upon me; They chase my honor as the wind; And my welfare is
passed away as a cloud.
30:16 And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon
me.
30:17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no
rest.
30:18 By God's great force is my garment disfigured; It binds me about as the collar of
my coat.
30:19 He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
30:20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me: I stand up, and you gaze at me.
30:21 You are turned to be cruel to me; With the might of your hand you persecutest me.
30:22 You lift me up to the wind, you causest me to ride upon it; And you dissolvest
me in the storm.
30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all
living.
30:24 Yet does not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry
for help?
30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the
needy?
30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came
darkness.
30:27 My heart is troubled, and rests not; Days of affliction are come upon me.
30:28 I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
30:29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
30:30 My skin is black, and falls from me, and my bones are burned with heat.
30:31 Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that
weep.
31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?
31:2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on
high?
31:3 Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, and disaster to the workers of iniquity?
31:4 Does not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
31:5 If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hasted to deceit
31:6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know my integrity);
31:7 If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any
spot has cleaved to my hands:
31:8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
31:9 If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
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31:10 Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
31:11 For that would be a heinous crime; Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by
the judges:
31:12 For it is a fire that consumes to Destruction, and would root out all my increase.
31:13 If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they
contended with me;
31:14 What then shall I do when God rises up? And when he visiteth, what shall I
answer him?
31:15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in
the womb?
31:16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow
to fail,
31:17 Or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten thereof
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31:18 (Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided
from my mother's womb);
31:19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering;
31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he has not been warmed with the fleece of
my sheep;
31:21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the
gate:
31:22 Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, and my arm be broken from the
bone.
31:23 For calamity from God is a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I can do
nothing.
31:24 If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, You are my
confidence;
31:25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten
much;
31:26 If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,
31:27 And my heart has been secretly enticed, and my mouth has kissed my hand:
31:28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied
the God that is above.
31:29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when
evil found him;
31:30 (Yes, I have not allowed by mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
31:31 If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that has not been filled with
his meat?
31:32 (The sojourner has not lodged in the street; But I have opened my doors to the
traveller);
31:33 If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my
bosom,
31:34 Because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, So
that I kept silence, and went not out of the door-
31:35 Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer
me); And that I had the indictment which my adversary has written!
31:36 Surely I would carry it upon my shoulder; I would bind it to me as a crown:
31:37 I would declare to him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near to him.
31:38 If my land cries out against me, and the furrows thereof weep together;
31:39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof
to lose their life:
31:40 Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job
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32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
32:2 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of
Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.
32:3 Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no
answer, and yet had condemned Job.
32:4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
32:5 And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his
wrath was kindled.
32:6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are
very old; Wherefore I held back, and durst not show you my opinion.
32:7 I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
32:8 But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives them
understanding.
32:9 It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand justice.
32:10 Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will show my opinion.
32:11 Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, Whilst ye searched
out what to say.
32:12 Yes, I attended to you, and, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that
answered his words, among you.
32:13 Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:
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32:14 For he has not directed his words against me; Neither will I answer him with your
speeches.
32:15 They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.
32:16 And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they stand still, and answer no
more?
32:17 I also will answer my part, I also will show my opinion.
32:18 For I am full of words; The spirit within me constrains me.
32:19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to
burst.
32:20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed; I will open my lips and answer.
32:21 Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person; Neither will I give flattering titles
to any man.
32:22 For I know not to give flattering titles; Else would my Maker soon take me away.
33:1 But now, Job, I pray you, hear my speech, and hearken to all my words.
33:2 Behold now, I have opened my mouth; My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
33:3 My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they
shall speak sincerely.
33:4 The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
33:5 If you can, answer you me; Set your words in order before me, stand forth.
33:6 Behold, I am toward God even as you are: I also am formed out of the clay.
33:7 Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid, Neither shall my pressure be heavy
upon you.
33:8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words,
saying,
33:9 I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
33:10 Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:
33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.
33:12 Behold, I will answer you, in this you are not just; For God is greater than man.
33:13 Why do you strive against him, For that he gives not account of any of his matters?
33:14 For God speaks once, Yes twice, though man regards it not.
33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, In
slumberings upon the bed;
33:16 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
33:17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man;
33:18 He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
33:19 He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with continual strife in his bones;
33:20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; And his bones that were not
seen stick out.
33:22 Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.
33:23 If there be with him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, To show to
man what is right for him;
33:24 Then God is gracious to him, and says, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I
have found a ransom.
33:25 His flesh shall be fresher than a child's; He returns to the days of his youth.
33:26 He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, So that he sees his face with joy: And
he restores to man his righteousness.
33:27 He sings before men, and says, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right,
and it gained me nothing:
33:28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the
light.
33:29 Lo, all these things does God work, Twice, yes thrice, with a man,
33:30 To bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the
living.
33:31 Mark well, O Job, hearken to me: Hold your peace, and I will speak.
33:32 If you have anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify you.
33:33 If not, hearken you to me: Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.
34:1 Moreover Elihu answered and said,
34:2 Hear my words, ye wise men; and give ear to me, ye that have knowledge.
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34:3 For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
34:4 Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.
34:5 For Job has said, I am righteous, and God has taken away my right:
34:6 Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I
am without transgression.
34:7 What man is like Job, Who drinks up scoffing like water,
34:8 Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?
34:9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
34:10 Therefore hearken to me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he
should do wickedness, and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
34:11 For the work of a man will he render to him, and cause every man to find
according to his ways.
34:12 Yes, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert
justice.
34:13 Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who has disposed the whole world?
34:14 If he set his heart upon himself, If he gather to himself his spirit and his breath;
34:15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again to dust.
34:16 If now you have understanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words.
34:17 Shall even one that hates justice govern? And will you condemn him that is
righteous and mighty?-
34:18 him that says to a king, You are vile, Or to nobles, You are wicked;
34:19 That respects not the persons of princes, Nor regards the rich more than the poor;
For they all are the work of his hands.
34:20 In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, and
the mighty are taken away without hand.
34:21 For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his goings.
34:22 There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide
themselves.
34:23 For he needs not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in
judgment.
34:24 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their
stead.
34:25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works; And he overturns them in the night,
so that they are destroyed.
34:26 He srikes them as wicked men In the open sight of others;
34:27 Because they turned aside from following him, and would not have regard in any
of his ways:
34:28 So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him, and he heard the cry of the
afflicted.
34:29 When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hides his face,
who then can behold him? Alike whether it be done to a nation, or to a man:
34:30 That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people.
34:31 For has any said to God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:
34:32 That which I see not teach you me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?
34:33 Shall his recompense be as you will, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and
not I: Therefore speak what you know.
34:34 Men of understanding will say to me, Yes, every wise man that hears me:
34:35 Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without wisdom.
34:36 Would that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.
34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin; He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his
words against God.
35:1 Moreover Elihu answered and said,
35:2 Think you this to be your right, Or do you say, My righteousness is more than
God's,
35:3 That you say, What advantage will it be to me? And, What profit shall I have,
more than if I had sinned?
35:4 I will answer you, and your companions along with you.
35:5 Look to the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than you.
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35:6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? And if your
transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
35:7 If you be righteous, what do you give him? Or what receives he from your hand?
35:8 Your wickedness may hurt another man like you; And your righteousness may profit
some son of man.
35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason
of the arm of the mighty.
35:10 But no one says, Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,
35:11 Who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser
than the birds of the heavens?
35:12 There they cry, but no one gives answer, Because of the pride of evil men.
35:13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, Neither will the Almighty regard it.
35:14 How much less when you say you behold him not, that the cause is before him, and
you are waiting for him!
35:15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, and does not closely watch
arrogance;
35:16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplies words without
knowledge.
36:1 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
36:2 Allow me a little, and I will show you; For I have yet somewhat to say on God's
behalf.
36:3 I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.
36:4 For truly my words are not false: One that is perfect in knowledge is with you.
36:5 Behold, God is mighty, and despises not any: He is mighty in strength of
understanding.
36:6 He preserves not the life of the wicked, But gives to the afflicted their right.
36:7 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He
sets them for ever, and they are exalted.
36:8 And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of afflictions;
36:9 Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved
themselves proudly.
36:10 He opens also their ear to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.
36:11 If they hearken and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, and their
years in pleasures.
36:12 But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without
knowledge.
36:13 But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he binds
them.
36:14 They die in youth, and their life perishes among the unclean.
36:15 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
36:16 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress Into a broad place, where there is no
straitness; And that which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
36:17 But you are full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold on
you.
36:18 For let not wrath stir you up against chastisements; Neither let the greatness of the
ransom turn you aside.
36:19 Will your cry avail, that you be not in distress, Or all the forces of your strength?
36:20 Desire not the night, When peoples are cut off in their place.
36:21 Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this have you chosen rather than affliction.
36:22 Behold, God does loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like him?
36:23 Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, You have wrought
unrighteousness?
36:24 Remember that you magnify his work, About which men have sung.
36:25 All men have looked upon it; Man beholds it afar off.
36:26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is
unsearchable.
36:27 For he draws up the drops of water, Which distill in rain from his vapor,
36:28 Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.
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36:29 Yes, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his
pavilion?
36:30 Behold, he spreads his light around him; And he covers the bottom of the sea.
36:31 For by these he judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.
36:32 He covers his hands with the lightning, and gives it a charge that it strikes the
mark.
36:33 The noise of tells about him, The cattle also concerning the storm that comes up.
37:1 Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
37:2 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, and the sound that goes out of his mouth.
37:3 He sends it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightening to the ends of the earth.
37:4 After it a voice roareth; He thunders with the voice of his majesty; And he restrains
not the lightnings when his voice is heard.
37:5 God thunders marvellously with his voice; Great things does he, which we cannot
comprehend.
37:6 For he says to the snow, Fall you on the earth; Likewise to the shower of rain, and to
the showers of his mighty rain.
37:7 He seals up the hand of every man, That all men whom he has made may know it.
37:8 Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.
37:9 Out of the chamber of the south comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
37:10 By the breath of God ice is given; And the breadth of the waters is straitened.
37:11 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture; He spreads abroad the cloud of his
lightning:
37:12 And it is turned round about by his guidance, That they may do whatsoever he
commands them Upon the face of the habitable world,
37:13 Whether it be for correction, or for his land, Or for lovingkindness, that he cause it
to come.
37:14 Hearken to this, O Job: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
37:15 Do you know how God lays his charge upon them, and causes the lightning of his
cloud to shine?
37:16 Do you know the balancings of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is
perfect in knowledge?
37:17 How your garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the south wind?
37:18 Can you with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?
37:19 Teach us what we shall say to him; For we cannot set our speech in order by
reason of darkness.
37:20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were
swallowed up?
37:21 And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind passes,
and clears them.
37:22 Out of the north comes golden splendor: God has upon him terrible majesty.
37:23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out He is excellent in power; And in
justice and plenteous righteousness he will not afflict.
37:24 Men do therefore fear him: He regards not any that are wise of heart.
38:1 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
38:2 Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge?
38:3 Gird up now your loins like a man; For I will demand of you, and declare you to me.
38:4 Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have
understanding.
38:5 Who determined the measures thereof, if you know? Or who stretched the line
upon it?
38:6 Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone
thereof,
38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
38:8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the
womb;
38:9 When I made clouds the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling-band for
it,
38:10 And marked out for it my bound, and set bars and doors,
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38:11 And said, Hitherto shall you come, but no further; And here shall your proud
waves be stayed?
38:12 Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the
dayspring to know its place;
38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?
38:14 It is changed as clay under the seal; And all things stand forth as a garment:
38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm is broken.
38:16 Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses
of the deep?
38:17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the
shadow of death?
38:18 Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.
38:19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the
place thereof,
38:20 That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should discern the paths
to the house thereof?
38:21 Doubtless, you know, for you were then born, and the number of your days is
great!
38:22 Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, Or have you seen the treasures of the
hail,
38:23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and
war?
38:24 By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
38:25 Who has cleft a channel for the waterflood, Or the way for the lightning of the
thunder;
38:26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is
no man;
38:27 To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, and to cause the tender grass to spring
forth?
38:28 Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
38:29 Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has
gendered it?
38:30 The waters hide themselves and become like stone, and the face of the deep is
frozen.
38:31 Can you bind the cluster of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion?
38:32 Can you lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or can you guide the Bear
with her train?
38:33 Know you the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish the dominion thereof
in the earth?
38:34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
38:35 Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
38:36 Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the
mind?
38:37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of
heaven,
38:38 When the dust runs into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?
38:39 Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,
38:40 When they crouch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
38:41 Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry to God, and wander
for lack of food?
39:1 Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or can you mark
when the hinds do calve?
39:2 Can you number the months that they fulfil? Or know you the time when they
bring forth?
39:3 They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They cast out their pains.
39:4 Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and
return not again.
39:5 Who has sent out the wild donkey free? Or who has loosed the bonds of the swift
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39:6 Whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling-place?
39:7 He scorns the tumult of the city, Neither hears he the shoutings of the driver.
39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searches after every green thing.
39:9 Will the wild-ox be content to serve you? Or will he abide by your crib?
39:10 Can you bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the
valleys after you?
39:11 Will you trust him, because his strength is great? Or will you leave to him your
labor?
39:12 Will you confide in him, that he will bring home your seed, and gather the grain of
your threshing-floor?
39:13 The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of
love?
39:14 For she leaves her eggs on the earth, and warms them in the dust,
39:15 And forgets that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may trample them.
39:16 She deals hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be
in vain, she is without fear;
39:17 Because God has deprived her of wisdom, Neither has he imparted to her
understanding.
39:18 What time she lifts up herself on high, She scorns the horse and his rider.
39:19 Have you given the horse his might? Have you clothed his neck with the
quivering mane?
39:20 Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrible.
39:21 He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength: He goes out to meet the armed
men.
39:22 He mocks at fear, and is not dismayed; Neither turns he back from the sword.
39:23 The quiver rattles against him, The flashing spear and the javelin.
39:24 He swallows the ground with fierceness and rage; Neither believes he that it is the
voice of the trumpet.
39:25 As oft as the trumpet sounds he says, aha! And he smells the battle afar off, The
thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
39:26 Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soareth, (And) stretches her wings toward the
south?
39:27 Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes her nest on high?
39:28 On the cliff she dwells, and makes her home, Upon the point of the cliff, and the
stronghold.
39:29 From there she spies out the prey; Her eyes behold it afar off.
39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood: And where the slain are, there is she.
40:1 Moreover Yahweh answered Job, and said,
40:2 Shall he that finds fault contend with the Almighty? He that argues with God, let
him answer it.
40:3 Then Job answered Yahweh, and said,
40:4 Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer you? I lay my hand upon my
mouth.
40:5 Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.
40:6 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
40:7 Gird up your loins now like a man: I will demand of you, and declare you to me.
40:8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be
justified?
40:9 Or have you an arm like God? And can you thunder with a voice like him?
40:10 Deck yourself now with excellency and dignity; And array yourself with honor and
majesty.
40:11 Pour forth the overflowings of your anger; And look upon every one that is proud,
and abase him.
40:12 Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; And tread down the wicked
where they stand.
40:13 Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the hidden place.
40:14 Then will I also confess of you That your own right hand can save you.
40:15 Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as you; He eats grass as an ox.
40:16 Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the muscles of his belly.
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40:17 He moves his tail like a cedar: The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
40:18 His bones are as tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.
40:19 He is the chief of the ways of God: He only that made him gives him his sword.
40:20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do
play.
40:21 He lies under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen.
40:22 The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him
about.
40:23 Behold, if a river overflows, he trembles not; He is confident, though a Jordan
swell even to his mouth.
40:24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a
snare?
41:1 Can you draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a
cord?
41:2 Can you put a rope into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
41:3 Will he make many supplications to you? Or will he speak soft words to you?
41:4 Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for a servant for ever?
41:5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens?
41:6 Will the bands of fishermen make traffic of him? Will they part him among the
merchants?
41:7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, Or his head with fish-spears?
41:8 Lay your hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more.
41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of
him?
41:10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up; Who then is he that can stand before me?
41:11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the
whole heaven is mine.
41:12 I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his
goodly frame.
41:13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.
41:15 his strong scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal.
41:16 One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.
41:17 They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they cannot be
sundered.
41:18 His sneezings flash forth light, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
41:19 Out of his mouth go burning torches, and sparks of fire leap forth.
41:20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot and burning rushes.
41:21 His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes forth from his mouth.
41:22 In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.
41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together: They are firm upon him; they cannot be
moved.
41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone; Yes, firm as the nether millstone.
41:25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid: By reason of consternation they
are beside themselves.
41:26 If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the
pointed shaft.
41:27 He counts iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee; with him, sling-stones are turned into stubble.
41:29 Clubs are counted as stubble: He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.
41:30 His underparts are as sharp pot shards: He spreads as it were a threshing-wain upon
the mire.
41:31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot: He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
41:32 He makes a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.
41:33 Upon earth there is not his like, That is made without fear.
41:34 He beholds everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride.
42:1 Then Job answered Yahweh, and said,
42:2 I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
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42:3 Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that
which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
42:4 Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak; I will demand of you, and declare you to me.
42:5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear; But now my eye sees you:
42:6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
42:7 And it was so, that, after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to
Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for
ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
42:8 Now therefore, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant
Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you;
for him will I accept, that I deal not with you after your folly; for ye have not spoken of
me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
42:9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went,
and did according as Yahweh commanded them: and Yahweh accepted Job.
42:10 And Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: and
Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.
42:11 Then came there to him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had
been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they
bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought upon
him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold.
42:12 So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And he had
fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a
thousand she-asses.
42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemimah: and the name of the second, Keziah;
and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.
42:15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their
father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
42:16 And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons'
sons, even four generations.
42:17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
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Psalms
Book I
Psalm 1
1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way
of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers:
1:2 But his delight is in the law of Yahweh; and on his law does he meditate day and
night.
1:3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in
its season, whose leaf also does not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.
1:4 The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
1:5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation
of the righteous.
1:6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous; but the way of the wicked shall perish.
Psalm 2
2:1 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate a vain thing?
2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against
Yahweh, and against his anointed, saying,
2:3 Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
2:4 He that sits in the heavens will laugh: the Lord will have them in derision.
2:5 Then will he speak to them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure:
2:6 Yet I have set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
2:7 I will tell of the decree: Yahweh said to me, You are my son; this day have I begotten
you.
2:8 Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of
the earth for your possession.
2:9 You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel.
2:10 Now therefore be wise, O ye kings: Be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
2:11 Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
2:12 Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish in the way; for his wrath will soon be
kindled. Blessed are all they that take refuge in him.
Psalm 3
A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
3:1 Yahweh, how increased are my adversaries! Many are they that rise up against me.
3:2 Many there are that say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah
3:3 But you, O Yahweh, are a shield about me; my glory and the lifter of my head.
3:4 I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah
3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awoke; for Yahweh sustains me.
3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people that have set themselves against me
round about.
3:7 Arise, O Yahweh; save me, O my God: For you have smitten all my enemies upon
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the cheek bone; You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
3:8 Salvation belongs to Yahweh: Your blessing be upon your people. Selah.
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made the wicked powerless, as when you break the teeth of a predatory animal.
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Psalm 4
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.
4:1 Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness. You have set me free when I
was in distress. Have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
4:2 O ye sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? How long will
ye love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah
4:3 But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear
when I call to him.
4:4 Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still.
Selah
4:5 Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in Yahweh.
4:6 Many there are that say, Who will show us any good? Yahweh, lift up the light of
your countenance upon us.
4:7 You have put gladness in my heart, more than they get when their grain and their new
wine are increased.
4:8 In peace will I both lay me down and sleep; For you, Yahweh, you alone make me
dwell in safety.
Psalm 5
For the Chief Musician; with the Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.
5:1 Give ear to my words, O Yahweh; consider my meditation.
5:2 Hearken to the voice of my cry, my King, and my God; for unto you do I pray.
5:3 O Yahweh, in the morning you shall hear my voice; in the morning I will order my
prayer unto you, and will keep watch.
5:4 For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness. Evil shall not sojourn with
you.
5:5 The arrogant shall not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.
5:6 You will destroy them that speak lies: Yahweh abhors the blood-thirsty and deceitful
man.
5:7 But as for me, in the abundance of your lovingkindness will I come into your house:
In your fear will I worship toward your holy temple.
5:8 Lead me, O Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies; Make your way
straight before my face.
5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is destruction itself;
Their throat is an open grave; They flatter with their tongue.
5:10 Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in
the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against you.
5:11 But let all those that take refuge in you rejoice, Let them ever shout for joy, because
you defend them: Let those also that love your name be joyful in you.
5:12 For you will bless the righteous; O Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as
with a shield.
Psalm 6
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments, set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of
David.
6:1 O Yahweh, rebuke me not in your anger, Neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
6:2 Have mercy upon me, O Yahweh; for I am withered away: O Yahweh, heal me; for
my bones are troubled.
6:3 My soul also is sore troubled: And you, O Yahweh, how long?
6:4 Return, O Yahweh, deliver my soul: Save me for your lovingkindness' sake.
6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of you: In Sheol who shall give you thanks?
6:6 I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch
with my tears.
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6:7 My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my adversaries.
6:8 Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; For Yahweh has heard the voice of my
weeping.
6:9 Yahweh has heard my supplication; Yahweh will receive my prayer.
6:10 All my enemies shall be put to shame and sore troubled: They shall turn aback, they
shall be put to shame asuddenly.
Psalm 7
Shiggaion of David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush a
Benjamite.
7:1 O Yahweh my God, in you do I take refuge: Save me from all them that pursue me,
and deliver me,
7:2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
7:3 O Yahweh my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
7:4 If I have repaid evil to him that was at peace with me; (Yes, I have delivered him that
without cause was my adversary;)
7:5 Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it; yes, let him tread my life down to the
earth, and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
7:6 Arise, O Yahweh, in your anger; lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries,
and awake for me; you have commanded judgment.
7:7 And let the congregation of the peoples compass you about; and over them return
thou on high.
7:8 Yahweh ministers judgment to the peoples: Judge me, O Yahweh, according to my
righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
7:9 O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous.
For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.
7:10 My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.
7:11 God is a righteous judge; Yes, a God that has indignation every day.
7:12 If a man turn not, He will whet his sword; He has bent his bow, and made it ready.
7:13 He has also prepared for him the instruments of death; He makes his arrows fiery
shafts.
7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity; Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought forth
falsehood.
7:15 He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon
his own pate.
7:17 I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to
the name of Yahweh Most High.
Psalm 8
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David.
8:1 O Yahweh, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth, who have set your
glory upon the heavens!
8:2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you established strength, because of
your adversaries, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.
8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars,
which you have ordained;
8:4 What is man, that you are mindful of him? And the son of man, that you visit him?
8:5 For you have made him but a little lower than God, and you crown him with glory
and honor.
8:6 You cause him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all
things under his feet:
8:7 All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field,
8:8 The birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatsoever passes through the paths
of the seas.
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8:9 O Yahweh, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!
Psalm 9
For the Chief Musician; set to Muthlabben. A Psalm of David.
9:1 I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart; I will show forth all your
marvellous works.
9:2 I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O you Most High.
9:3 When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish at your presence.
9:4 For you have maintained my right and my cause; you sit in the throne judging
righteously.
9:5 You have rebuked the nations, you have destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out
their name for ever and ever.
9:6 The enemy have come to an end, they are desolate for ever; and the cities which you
have overthrown, the very remembrance of them is perished.
9:7 But Yahweh sits as king for ever: He has prepared his throne for judgment;
9:8 And he will judge the world in righteousness, he will minister judgment to the
peoples in uprightness.
9:9 Yahweh also will be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble;
9:10 And they that know your name will put their trust in you; for you, Yahweh, have not
forsaken them that seek you.
9:11 Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
9:12 For he that makes inquisition for blood remembers them; he forgets not the cry of
the poor.
9:13 Have mercy upon me, O Yahweh; behold my affliction which I suffer by them that
hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death;
9:14 that I may show forth all your praise. In the gates of the daughter of Zion I will
rejoice in your salvation.
9:15 The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid, their
own foot is taken.
9:16 Yahweh has made himself known, he has executed judgment: the wicked man is
snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah
9:17 The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
9:18 For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish
for ever.
9:19 Arise, O Yahweh; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in your sight.
9:20 Put them in fear, O Yahweh: let the nations know themselves to be but men. Selah
Psalm 10
10:1 Why do you stand afar off, O Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of
trouble?
10:2 In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices
that they have conceived.
10:3 For the wicked person boasts of his heart's desire, and the covetous renounces, yes,
he spurns Yahweh.
10:4 The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, says, He will not require it. All his
thoughts are, There is no God.
10:5 His ways are firm at all times; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for
all his adversaries, he puffs at them.
10:6 He says in his heart, I shall not be moved; to all generations I shall not be in
adversity.
10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief
and iniquity.
10:8 He sits in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places does he murder the
innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.
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10:9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his covert; He lies in wait to catch the poor: He does
catch the poor, when he draws him in his net.
10:10 He croucheth, he bows down, and the helpless fall by his strong ones.
10:11 He says in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides his face; he will never see it.
10:12 Arise, O Yahweh; O God, lift up your hand: Forget not the poor.
10:13 Why does the wicked spurn God, and say in his heart, You will not require it?
10:14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand:
The helpless commits himself to you; You have been the helper of the fatherless.
10:15 Break you the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness
till you find none.
10:16 Yahweh is King for ever and ever: The nations are perished out of his land.
10:17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the meek: You will prepare their heart, you
will cause your ear to hear;
10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be
terrible no more.
Psalm 11
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.
11:1 In Yahweh do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your
mountain;
11:2 For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that
they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;
11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
11:4 Yahweh is in his holy temple; Yahweh, his throne is in heaven; his eyes behold, his
eyelids try, the children of men.
11:5 Yahweh tries the righteous; but the wicked and him that loves violence his soul
hates.
11:6 Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be
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their destiny.
11:7 For Yahweh is righteous; he loves righteousness: The upright shall behold his face.
Psalm 12
For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David.
12:1 Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases; For the faithful fail from among the
children of men.
12:2 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a
double heart, do they speak.
12:3 Yahweh will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaks great things;
12:4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord
over us?
12:5 Because of the oppression of the poor, because of the sighing of the needy one, Now
will I arise, says Yahweh; I will set him in the safety he pants for.
12:6 The words of Yahweh are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace of clay, purified
seven times.
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12:7 You will keep us, O Yahweh. You will protect us from this generation for ever.
12:8 The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
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For "shall be their destiny," the Hebrew idiom is "shall be the portion of their cup." Compare Revelation
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The original KJV of 1611 says in a marginal note that this pronoun in the Hebrew is singular, that it means
"him." The "them" in the KJV therefore is referring to the godly, the poor, and the needy mentioned in v. 5, as
just a more idiomatic expression. The same with the pronoun "us" here. This verse is clearly not referring to
"the words of God," but to the godly person. It is the godly person that David is saying God will perserve. It
is high time for those who use the KJV’s mistranslation of this verse as a basis for doctrine, to repent of their
false teaching.
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Psalm 13
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
13:1 How long, O Yahweh? will you forget me for ever? How long will you hide
your face from me?
13:2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
13:3 Consider and answer me, O Yahweh my God: Lighten my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep
of death;
13:4 Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed against him; Lest my adversaries rejoice when
I am moved.
13:5 But I have trusted in your lovingkindness; My heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
13:6 I will sing to Yahweh, Because he has dealt bountifully with me.
Psalm 14
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David.
14:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done
abominable works; there is none that does good.
14:2 Yahweh looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were
any that did understand, that did seek after God.
14:3 They are all gone aside; they are together become filthy; there is none that does
good, no, not one.
14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat
bread, and call not upon Yahweh?
14:5 There were they in great fear; for God is in the generation of the righteous.
14:6 You put to shame the counsel of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.
14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When Yahweh brings back
the captivity of his people, then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Psalm 15
A Psalm of David.
15:1 Yahweh, who shall sojourn in your tabernacle? Who shall dwell in your holy hill?
15:2 He that walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart;
15:3 He that slanders not with his tongue, Nor does evil to his friend, Nor takes up a
reproach against his neighbor;
15:4 In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honors them that fear Yahweh; He
that swears to his own hurt, and changes not;
15:5 He that puts not out his money to interest, Nor takes reward against the innocent.
He that does these things shall never be moved.
Psalm 16
Michtam of David.
16:1 Preserve me, O God; for in you do I take refuge.
16:2 O my soul, you have said to Yahweh, You are my Lord: I have no good beyond you.
16:3 As for the saints that are in the earth, They are the excellent in whom is all my
delight.
16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for another god: Their drink
offerings of blood will I not offer, Nor take their names upon my lips.
16:5 Yahweh is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: You maintain my lot.
16:6 The lines are fallen to me in pleasant places; Yes, I have a goodly heritage.
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16:7 I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel; Yes, my heart instructs me in the
night seasons.
16:8 I have set Yahweh always before me: Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be
moved.
16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices; My flesh also shall dwell in
safety.
16:10 For you will not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither will you allow your holy one to
see corruption.
16:11 You will show me the path of life: In your presence is fulness of joy; In your right
hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Psalm 17
A Prayer of David.
17:1 Hear the right, O Yahweh, attend to my cry; Give ear to my prayer, that goes not out
of feigned lips.
17:2 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; Let your eyes look upon equity.
17:3 You have proved my heart; you have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and
find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
17:4 As for the works of men, by the word of your lips I have kept me from the ways of
the violent.
17:5 My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
17:6 I have called upon you, for you will answer me, O God: Incline your ear to me and
hear my speech.
17:7 Show your marvellous lovingkindness, O you that save by your right hand them that
take refuge in you From those that rise up against them.
17:8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
17:9 From the wicked that oppress me, My deadly enemies, that compass me about.
17:10 They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.
17:11 They have now surrounded our steps; They set their eyes to cast us down to the
earth.
17:12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in
secret places.
17:13 Arise, O Yahweh, Confront him, cast him down: Deliver my soul from the
wicked by your sword;
17:14 From men by your hand, O Yahweh, From men of the world, whose portion is in
this life, and whose belly you fill with your treasure: They are satisfied with children, and
leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
17:15 As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I
awake, with beholding your form.
Psalm 18
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to
Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all
his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said,
18:1 I love you, O Yahweh, my strength.
18:2 Yahweh is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom
I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
18:3 I will call upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from my
enemies.
18:4 The cords of death encompassed me, and the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
18:5 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.
18:6 In my distress I called upon Yahweh, and cried to my God: He heard my voice out
of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears.
18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations also of the mountains quaked
And were shaken, because he was angry.
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18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals
were kindled by it.
18:9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.
18:10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yes, he soared upon the wings of the
wind.
18:11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of
waters, thick clouds of the skies.
18:12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
18:13 Yahweh also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.
18:14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yes, lightnings manifold, and
discomfited them.
18:15 Then the channels of waters appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid
bare, at your rebuke, O Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
18:16 He sent from on high, he took me; He drew me out of many waters.
18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me; for they
were too mighty for me.
18:18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Yahweh was my stay.
18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted
in me.
18:20 Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the
cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
18:21 For I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not wickedly departed from my
God.
18:22 For all his ordinances were before me, and I put not away his statutes from me.
18:23 I was also perfect with him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
18:24 Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, according
to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
18:25 With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; With the perfect man you will
show yourself perfect;
18:26 With the pure you will show yourself pure; And with the perverse you will show
yourself froward.
18:27 For you will save the afflicted people; But the haughty eyes you will bring down.
18:28 For you will light my lamp: Yahweh my God will lighten my darkness.
18:29 For by you I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall.
18:30 As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Yahweh is tried; He is a shield for all
them that take refuge in him.
18:31 For who is God, save Yahweh? And who is a rock, besides our God,
18:32 The God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect?
18:33 He makes my feet like hinds' feet: And sets me upon my high places.
18:34 He teaches my hands to war; So that my arms do bend a bow of brass.
18:35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation; And your right hand has
holden me up, and your gentleness has made me great.
18:36 You have enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.
18:37 I will pursue my enemies, and overtake them; Neither will I turn again till they are
consumed.
18:38 I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall
under my feet.
18:39 For you have girded me with strength for the battle: You have subdued under me
those that rose up against me.
18:40 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, That I might cut off them
that hate me.
18:41 They cried, but there was none to save; Even to Yahweh, but he answered them
not.
18:42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the
mire of the streets.
18:43 You have delivered me from the strivings of the people; You have made me the
head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.
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18:44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me; The foreigners shall submit
themselves to me.
18:45 The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.
18:46 Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation,
18:47 Even the God that executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
18:48 He rescues me from my enemies; Yes, you lift me up above them that rise up
against me; You deliver me from the violent man.
18:49 Therefore I will give thanks to you, O Yahweh, among the nations, and will sing
praises to your name.
18:50 Great deliverance gives he to his king, and shows lovingkindness to his anointed,
To David and to his seed, for evermore.
Psalm 19
19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows his handiwork.
19:2 Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night imparts knowledge.
19:3 There is no speech or language; their voice is not heard.
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19:4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the
world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun,
19:5 which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing as a strong man
to run his course.
19:6 His going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it; and
there is nothing hidden from its heat.
19:7 The law of Yahweh is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Yahweh is sure,
making wise the simple.
19:8 The precepts of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart: The commandment of
Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes.
19:9 The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring for ever: The ordinances of Yahweh are true,
and righteous altogether.
19:10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than
honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.
19:11 Moreover by them is your servant warned: In keeping them there is great reward.
19:12 Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.
19:13 Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion
over me: Then shall I be upright, and I shall be clear from great transgression.
19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in your
sight, O Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer.
Psalm 20
20:1 May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble; The name of the God of Jacob set
you up on high;
20:2 Send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion;
20:3 Remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt-sacrifice; Selah
20:4 May he grant you your heart's desire, and fulfil all your counsel.
20:5 We will triumph in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our
banners: Yahweh fulfil all your petitions.
20:6 Now know I that Yahweh saves his anointed; He will answer him from his holy
heaven With the saving strength of his right hand.
20:7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will make mention of the name
of Yahweh our God.
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“line” is the reading of the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and “sound” is the reading of the Septuagint and Syriac.
A measuring line makes sense in the context of “setting a tabernacle in them.” But the renderings with
“sound” also make sense.
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20:8 They are bowed down and fallen; But we are risen, and stand upright.
20:9 Save, Yahweh: Let the King answer us when we call.
Psalm 21
21:1 The king shall joy in your strength, O Yahweh; And in your salvation how greatly
shall he rejoice!
21:2 You have given him his heart's desire, and have not withheld the request of his lips.
Selah
21:3 For you meet him with the blessings of goodness: You set a crown of fine gold on
his head.
21:4 He asked life of you, you gave it to him, Even length of days for ever and ever.
21:5 His glory is great in your salvation: Honor and majesty do you lay upon him.
21:6 For you make him most blessed for ever: You make him glad with joy in your
presence.
21:7 For the king trusts in Yahweh; And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he
shall not be moved.
21:8 Your hand will find out all your enemies; Your right hand will find out those that
hate you.
21:9 You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger: Yahweh will
swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
21:10 Their fruit will you destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children
of men.
21:11 For they intended evil against you; They conceived a device which they are not
able to perform.
21:12 For you will make them turn their back; You will make ready with your bowstrings
against their face.
21:13 Be thou exalted, O Yahweh, in your strength: So will we sing and praise your
power.
Psalm 22
For the Chief Musician; set to Aijaleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David.
22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping
me, and from the words of my groaning?
22:2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but you answer not; And in the night season, and
am not silent.
22:3 But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel.
22:4 Our fathers trusted in you: They trusted, and you did deliver them.
22:5 They cried to you, and were delivered: They trusted in you, and were not put to
shame.
22:6 But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
22:7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out their lip, they shake their
head, saying,
22:8 Commit yourself to Yahweh; Let him deliver him: Let him rescue him, seeing he
delights in him.
22:9 But you are he that took me out of the womb; You did make me trust when I was
upon my mother's breasts.
22:10 I was cast upon you from the womb; You are my God since my mother bore me.
22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; For there is no one to help.
22:12 Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me around.
22:13 They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
22:14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax;
It is melted within me.
22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaves to my jaws; And
you have brought me into the dust of death.
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22:16 For dogs have encircled me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They
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pierced my hands and my feet.
22:17 I can count all my bones; They look and stare upon me.
22:18 They part my garments among them, and upon my clothing they cast lots.
22:19 But be not far off, O Yahweh: O you my succor, make haste to help me.
22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword, My dear life from the power of the dog.
22:21 Save me from the lion's mouth; Yes, from the horns of the wild oxen you have
answered me.
22:22 I will declare your name to my brethren: In the midst of the assembly will I praise
you.
22:23 You that fear Yahweh, praise him; All ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; And stand
in awe of him, all ye the seed of Israel.
22:24 For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Neither has he
hid his face from him; But when he cried to him, he heard.
22:25 Of you comes my praise in the great assembly: I will pay my vows before them
that fear him.
22:26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied; They shall praise Yahweh that seek after him:
Let your heart live for ever.
22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh; and all the kindreds
of the nations shall worship before you.
22:28 For the kingdom is Yahweh's; and he is the ruler over the nations.
22:29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust
shall bow before him, even he that cannot keep his soul alive.
22:30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the next generation.
22:31 They shall come and shall declare his righteousness To a people that shall be born,
that he has done it.
Psalm 23
A Psalm of David.
23:1 Yahweh is my shepherd; I shall not want.
23:2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters.
23:3 He restores my soul: He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for
you are with me; Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
23:5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies: You have anointed
my head with oil; My cup is running over.
23:6 Surely goodness and lovingkindness shall follow me all the days of my life; And I
shall dwell in the house of Yahweh for ever.
Psalm 24
A Psalm of David.
24:1 The earth is Yahweh's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell
therein.
24:2 For he has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of Yahweh? And who shall stand in his holy place?
24:4 He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; Who has not lifted up his soul to
falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
24:5 He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, and righteousness from the God of his
salvation.
24:6 This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek your face, even Jacob.
Selah
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A Hebrew manuscript older than the Masoretic text has been found that confirms this reading of the
Septuagint.
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24:7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: and the
King of glory will come in.
24:8 Who is the King of glory? Yahweh strong and mighty, Yahweh mighty in battle.
24:9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; Yes, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: and the King
of glory will come in.
24:10 Who is this King of glory? Yahweh of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah
Psalm 25
[A Psalm] of David.
25:1 To you, O Yahweh, do I lift up my soul.
25:2 O my God, in you have I trusted, Let me not be put to shame; Let not my enemies
triumph over me.
25:3 Yes, none that wait for you shall be put to shame: Those shall be put to shame who
deal treacherously without cause.
25:4 Show me your ways, O Yahweh; Teach me your paths.
25:5 Guide me in your truth, and teach me; For you are the God of my salvation; For you
do I wait all the day.
25:6 Remember, O Yahweh, your tender mercies and your lovingkindness; For they have
been ever of old.
25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: According to your
lovingkindness remember thou me, For your goodness' sake, O Yahweh.
25:8 Good and upright is Yahweh: Therefore will he instruct sinners in the way.
25:9 The meek will he guide in justice; And the meek will he teach his way.
25:10 All the paths of Yahweh are lovingkindness and truth To such as keep his covenant
and his testimonies.
25:11 For your name's sake, O Yahweh, Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
25:12 What man is he that fears Yahweh? Him shall he instruct in the way that he shall
choose.
25:13 His soul shall dwell at ease; And his seed shall inherit the land.
25:14 The friendship of Yahweh is with them that fear him; and he will show them his
covenant.
25:15 Mine eyes are ever toward Yahweh; For he will pluck my feet out of the net.
25:16 Turn thou to me, and have mercy upon me; For I am desolate and afflicted.
25:17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged: Oh bring me out of my distresses.
25:18 Consider my affliction and my travail; And forgive all my sins.
25:19 Consider my enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.
25:20 Oh keep my soul, and deliver me: Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in
you.
25:21 Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.
25:22 Redeem Israel, O God, Out all of his troubles.
Psalm 26
[A Psalm] of David.
26:1 Judge me, O Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted also in
Yahweh without wavering.
26:2 Examine me, O Yahweh, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.
26:3 For your lovingkindness is before my eyes; And I have walked in your truth.
26:4 I have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers.
26:5 I hate the assembly of evil-doers, and will not sit with the wicked.
26:6 I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass your altar, O Yahweh;
26:7 That I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all your wondrous
works.
26:8 Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, and the place where your glory dwells.
26:9 Gather not my soul with sinners, Nor my life with men of blood;
26:10 In whose hands is wickedness, and their right hand is full of bribes.
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26:11 But as for me, I will walk in my integrity: Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
26:12 My foot stands in an even place: In the congregations will I bless Yahweh.
Psalm 27
[A Psalm] of David.
27:1 Yahweh is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength
of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
27:2 When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, Even my adversaries and my
foes, they stumbled and fell.
27:3 Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: Though war
should rise against me, even then will I be confident.
27:4 One thing have I asked of Yahweh, and that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the
house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to inquire
in his temple.
27:5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion: In the covert of his
tabernacle will he hide me; He will lift me up upon a rock.
27:6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me. And I will
offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
27:7 Hear, O Yahweh, when I cry with my voice: Have mercy also upon me, and answer
me.
27:8 When you said, Seek ye my face; My heart said to you, your face, Yahweh, will I
seek.
27:9 Hide not your face from me; put not your servant away in anger: you have been my
help; Cast me not off, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.
27:11 Teach me your way, O Yahweh; and lead me in a plain path, because of my
enemies.
27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of my adversaries: For false witnesses are risen up
against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
27:13 I would have fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of Yahweh in the
land of the living.
27:14 Wait for Yahweh: Be strong, and let your heart take courage; Yes, you wait for
Yahweh.
Psalm 28
[A Psalm] of David.
28:1 To you, O Yahweh, will I call: My rock, be not deaf to me; Lest, if you be silent to
me, I become like those that go down into the pit.
28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry to you, When I lift up my hands
toward your holy oracle.
28:3 Draw me not away along with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity; who
speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
28:4 Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings:
Give them after the operation of their hands; Render to them their desert.
28:5 Because they regard not the works of Yahweh, Nor the operation of his hands, He
will break them down and not build them up.
28:6 Blessed be Yahweh, Because he has heard the voice of my supplications.
28:7 Yahweh is my strength and my shield; My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped:
Therefore my heart greatly rejoices; And with my song will I praise him.
28:8 Yahweh is their strength, and he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.
28:9 Save your people, and bless your inheritance: Be their shepherd also, and bear them
up for ever.
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Psalm 29
A Psalm of David.
29:1 Ascribe to Yahweh, O ye sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
29:2 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due his name; worship Yahweh in holy array.
29:3 The voice of Yahweh is upon the waters: the God of glory thunders, even Yahweh
upon many waters.
29:4 The voice of Yahweh is powerful; the voice of Yahweh is full of majesty.
29:5 The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars; yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of
Lebanon.
29:6 He makes them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.
29:7 The voice of Yahweh splits the flames of fire.
29:8 The voice of Yahweh shakes the wilderness; Yahweh shakes the wilderness of
Kadesh.
29:9 The voice of Yahweh causes the deer to calve, and strips the forests bare: And in his
temple everything says, Glory.
29:10 Yahweh sat as King at the Flood; Yes, Yahweh sits as King for ever.
29:11 Yahweh will give strength to his people; Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
Psalm 30
A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. [A Psalm] of David.
30:1 I will extol you, O Yahweh; for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes
to rejoice over me.
30:2 O Yahweh my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.
30:3 O Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me alive, that I
should not go down to the pit.
30:4 Sing praise to Yahweh, O ye saints of his, and give thanks to his holy name.
30:5 For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a life-time: Weeping may tarry
for the night, But joy comes in the morning.
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30:6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved.
30:7 You, Yahweh, of your favor had made my mountain to stand strong. You hid your
face; I was troubled.
30:8 I cried to you, O Yahweh; And to Yahweh I made supplication:
30:9 What profit is there in my destruction, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust
praise you? shall it declare your truth?
30:10 Hear, O Yahweh, and have mercy upon me: Yahweh, be thou my helper.
30:11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have put off my
sackcloth, and girded me with gladness,
30:12 to the end that my glory may sing praise to you, and not be silent. O Yahweh my
God, I will give thanks to you for ever.
Psalm 31
31:1 In you, O Yahweh, do I take refuge; Let me never be put to shame: Deliver me in
your righteousness.
31:2 Bow down your ear to me; deliver me speedily: Be thou to me a strong rock, a house
of defence to save me.
31:3 For you are my rock and my fortress; Therefore for your name's sake lead me and
guide me.
31:4 Pluck me out of the net that they have laid secretly for me; For you are my
stronghold.
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He committed a great sin, in saying this. That is why God then hid himself from him. Verse 9 soon
after, was a theme of Jesus: "What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, but lose his very self?"
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31:5 Into your hand I commend my spirit: You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, you God
of truth.
31:6 I hate them that regard lying vanities; But I trust in Yahweh.
31:7 I will be glad and rejoice in your lovingkindness; For you have seen my affliction:
You have known my soul in adversities;
31:8 And you have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a
large place.
31:9 Have mercy upon me, O Yahweh, for I am in distress: Mine eye wastes away with
grief, yes, my soul and my body as well.
31:10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing: My strength fails
because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.
31:11 Because of all my adversaries I am become a reproach, Yes, to my neighbors
exceedingly, and a fear to my acquaintance: those who did see me outside fled away from
me.
31:12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
31:13 For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took
counsel together against me, They devised to take away my life.
31:14 But I trusted in you, O Yahweh: I said, You are my God.
31:15 My times are in your hand: Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from
them that persecute me.
31:16 Make your face to shine upon your servant: Save me in your lovingkindness.
31:17 Let me not be put to shame, O Yahweh; for I have called upon you: Let the wicked
be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.
31:18 Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride
and contempt.
31:19 Oh how great is your goodness, Which you have laid up for them that fear you,
Which you have wrought for them that take refuge in you, Before the sons of men!
31:20 In the cover of your presence will you hide them from the plottings of man: You
will keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
31:21 Blessed be Yahweh; For he has shown me his marvellous lovingkindness in a
strong city.
31:22 As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before your eyes: Nevertheless you
heard the voice of my supplications When I cried to you.
31:23 Oh love Yahweh, all ye his saints: Yahweh preserves the faithful, and plentifully
repays him that deals proudly.
31:24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye who hope in Yahweh.
Psalm 32
[A Psalm] of David. Maschil.
32:1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
32:2 Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh imputes not iniquity, and in whose spirit there
is no guile.
32:3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all the day long.
32:4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me: my moisture was changed as with
the drought of summer. Selah
32:5 I acknowledged my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not hide: I said, I will confess
my transgressions to Yahweh. And you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
32:6 For this let every one that is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found:
Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach to him.
32:7 You are my hiding-place; you will preserve me from trouble; you will compass me
about with songs of deliverance. Selah
32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will counsel you
with my eye upon you.
32:9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; whose
trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, else they will not come near to you.
32:10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; but he that trusts in Yahweh, lovingkindness
shall compass him about.
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32:11 Be glad in Yahweh, and rejoice, ye righteous; and shout for joy, all ye that are
upright in heart.
Psalm 33
33:1 Rejoice in Yahweh, O ye righteous: Praise is comely for the upright.
33:2 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre: Sing praises to him with the harp of ten
strings.
33:3 Sing to him a new song; Play skillfully with a loud noise.
33:4 For the word of Yahweh is right; And all his work is done in faithfulness.
33:5 He loves righteousness and justice: The earth is full of the lovingkindness of
Yahweh.
33:6 By the word of Yahweh were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the
breath of his mouth.
33:7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap: He lays up the deeps in store-
houses.
33:8 Let all the earth fear Yahweh: Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of
him.
33:9 For he spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.
33:10 Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the thoughts of the
peoples to be of no effect.
33:11 The counsel of Yahweh stands fast for ever, The thoughts of his heart to all
generations.
33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, The people whom he has chosen for
his own inheritance.
33:13 Yahweh looks from heaven; He beholds all the sons of men;
33:14 From the place of his habitation he looks forth Upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
33:15 He that fashions the hearts of them all, That considers all their works.
33:16 There is no king saved by the multitude of an army: A mighty man is not delivered
by great strength.
33:17 A horse is a vain thing for safety; Neither does he deliver any by his great power.
33:18 Behold, the eye of Yahweh is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his
lovingkindness;
33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
33:20 Our soul has waited for Yahweh: He is our help and our shield.
33:21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, Because we have trusted in his holy name.
33:22 Let your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, be upon us, according as we have hoped in
you.
Psalm 34
A Psalm of David; when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, who drove him
away, and he departed.
34:1 I will bless Yahweh at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
34:2 My soul shall make its boast in Yahweh: The meek shall hear of it, and be glad.
34:3 Oh magnify Yahweh with me, and let us exalt his name together.
34:4 I sought out Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
34:5 They looked to him, and were radiant; and their faces shall never be confounded.
34:6 This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
34:7 The angel of Yahweh encamps round about those who fear him, and delivers them.
34:8 Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good: Blessed is the man that takes refuge in him.
34:9 Oh fear Yahweh, ye his saints; for there is no lack to them that fear him.
34:10 The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they that seek Yahweh shall not go
without any good thing.
34:11 Come, ye children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
34:12 What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
34:13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking guile.
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34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; Seek peace, and pursue it.
34:15 The eyes of Yahweh are toward the righteous, and his ears are open to their cry.
34:16 The face of Yahweh is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of
them from the earth.
34:17 The righteous cried, and Yahweh heard, and delivered them out of all their
troubles.
34:18 Yahweh is near to them that are of a broken heart, and saves such as are of a
contrite spirit.
34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous; But Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
34:20 He preserves all his bones: Not one of them is broken.
34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked; And they that hate the righteous shall be condemned.
34:22 Yahweh redeems the soul of his servants; And none of them that take refuge in him
shall be condemned.
Psalm 35
[A Psalm] of David.
35:1 Strive thou, O Yahweh, with them that strive with me: Fight thou against them that
fight against me.
35:2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help.
35:3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against those who pursue me: Say to my
soul, I am your salvation.
35:4 Let them be put to shame and brought to dishonor that seek after my soul: Let them
be turned back and confounded that devise my hurt.
35:5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, and the angel of Yahweh driving them on.
35:6 Let their way be dark and slippery, and the angel of Yahweh pursuing them.
35:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit; Without cause have they
dug a pit for my soul.
35:8 Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he has hid catch
himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
35:9 And my soul shall be joyful in Yahweh: It shall rejoice in his salvation.
35:10 All my bones shall say, Yahweh, who is like you, Who delivers the poor from him
that is too strong for him, Yes, the poor and the needy from him that robs him?
35:11 Unrighteous witnesses rise up; They ask me about things that I know not.
35:12 They repay me evil for good, To the bereaving of my soul.
35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul
with fasting; And my prayer returned into my own bosom.
35:14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down
mourning, as one that bewails his mother.
35:15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects
gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; They tore at me, and they
ceased not:
35:16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
35:17 Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, My
dear life from the lions.
35:18 I will give you thanks in the great assembly: I will praise you among much people.
35:19 Let not them who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; Neither let those
wink with the eye who hate me without a cause.
35:20 For they speak not peace; But they devise deceitful words against those who are
quiet in the land.
35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, aha, aha, our eye has
seen it.
35:22 You have seen it, O Yahweh; keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
35:23 Stir up yourself, and awake to the justice due to me, Even to my cause, my God
and my Lord.
35:24 Judge me, O Yahweh my God, according to your righteousness; And let them not
rejoice over me.
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35:25 Let them not say in their heart, aha, this is what we wanted: Let them not say, We
have swallowed him up.
35:26 Let them be put to shame and confounded together that rejoice at my hurt: Let
them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.
35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: Yes, let them
say continually, Yahweh be magnified, Who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
35:28 And my tongue shall talk of your righteousness And of your praise all the day long.
Psalm 36
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David the servant of Yahweh.
36:1 The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, There is no fear of God
before his eyes.
36:2 For he flatters himself in his own eyes, thinking that his iniquity will not be found
out and be hated.
36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He has ceased to be wise and to do
good.
36:4 He devises iniquity upon his bed; He sets himself in a way that is not good; He does
not abhor evil.
36:5 Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, is in the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the
skies.
36:6 Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; Your judgments are a great deep:
O Yahweh, you preserve man and beast.
36:7 How precious is your lovingkindness, O God! And the children of men take refuge
under the shadow of your wings.
36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; And you will
make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
36:9 For with you is the fountain of life: In your light shall we see light.
36:10 Oh continue your lovingkindness to them that know you, and your righteousness to
the upright in heart.
36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive
me away.
36:12 There are the workers of iniquity fallen: They are thrust down, and shall not be
able to rise.
Psalm 37
[A Psalm] of David.
37:1 Fret not yourself because of evil-doers, Neither be envious against them that work
unrighteousness.
37:2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
37:3 Trust in Yahweh, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on his faithfulness.
37:4 Delight yourself also in Yahweh; And he will give you the desires of your heart.
37:5 Commit your way to Yahweh; Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.
37:6 And he will cause your righteousness to go forth as the light, and your justice as the
noon-day.
37:7 Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him: Fret not yourself because of him who
prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not yourself, it tends only to evil-doing.
37:9 For evil-doers shall be cut off; But those that wait for Yahweh, they shall inherit the
land.
37:10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yes, you shall diligently consider
his place, and he shall not be there.
37:11 But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance
of peace.
37:12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.
37:13 The Lord will laugh at him; For He sees that his day is coming.
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37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the
poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.
37:15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
37:16 Better is a little that the righteous person has, than the abundance of many wicked.
37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; But Yahweh upholds the righteous.
37:18 Yahweh knows the days of the perfect; And their inheritance shall be for ever.
37:19 They shall not be put to shame in the time of evil; And in the days of famine they
shall be satisfied.
37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Yahweh shall be as the fat of
lambs: They shall consume; In smoke shall they consume away.
37:21 The wicked borrows, and pays not back; But the righteous deals graciously, and
gives.
37:22 For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land; And they that are cursed by
him shall be cut off.
37:23 A man's goings are established from Yahweh; And he delights in his way.
37:24 Though he may fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For Yahweh upholds him
with his hand.
37:25 I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,
Nor his seed begging bread.
37:26 All the day long he deals graciously, and lends; And his seed is blessed.
37:27 Depart from evil, and do good; And abide for evermore.
37:28 For Yahweh loves justice, and forsakes not his saints; They are preserved for ever:
But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.
37:30 The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
37:31 The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide.
37:32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him.
37:33 Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.
37:34 Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land:
When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
37:35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its
native soil.
37:36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yes, I sought him, but he could not be
found.
37:37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; For there is a happy end to the man
of peace.
37:38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall
be cut off.
37:39 But the salvation of the righteous is of Yahweh; He is their stronghold in the time
of trouble.
37:40 And Yahweh helps them, and rescues them; He rescues them from the wicked, and
saves them, Because they have taken refuge in him.
Psalm 38
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
38:1 O Yahweh, rebuke me not in your wrath; Neither chasten me in your hot
displeasure.
38:2 For your arrows stick fast in me, and your hand presses me sore.
38:3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; Neither is there any
health in my bones because of my sin.
38:4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: As a heavy burden they are too heavy for
me.
38:5 My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, Because of my foolishness.
38:6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
38:7 For my loins are filled with burning; And there is no soundness in my flesh.
38:8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my
heart.
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38:9 Lord, all my desire is before you; And my groaning is not hidden from you.
38:10 My heart throbs, my strength fails me: As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone
from me.
38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague; And my kinsmen stand afar
off.
38:12 Those also who seek after my life lay snares for me; And those who seek my hurt
speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long.
38:13 But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am like a mute man who opens not his mouth.
38:14 Yes, I am as a man that hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
38:15 For in you, O Yahweh, do I hope: You will answer, O Lord my God.
38:16 For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slips, they magnify themselves
against me.
38:17 For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.
38:18 For I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
38:19 But my enemies are lively, and are strong; And those who hate me wrongfully are
multiplied.
38:20 They also who render evil for good Are adversaries to me, because I follow the
thing that is good.
38:21 Forsake me not, O Yahweh: O my God, be not far from me.
38:22 Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation.
Psalm 39
For the Chief Musician, Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my
mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.
39:2 I was mute in silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.
39:3 My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned: Then spoke I with
my tongue:
39:4 Yahweh, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; Let me
know how frail I am.
39:5 Behold, you have made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing
before you: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah
39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show; Surely they are disquieted in vain: He heaps
up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in you.
39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: Make me not the reproach of the foolish.
39:9 I was mute, I opened not my mouth; Because you did it.
39:10 Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.
39:11 When you with rebukes do correct man for iniquity, You cause his beauty to
consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
39:12 Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and give ear to my cry; Hold not your peace at my
tears: For I am a stranger with you, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
39:13 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, Before I go away from here, and be no
more.
Psalm 40
40:1 I waited patiently for Yahweh; And he inclined to me, and heard my cry.
40:2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet
upon a rock, and established my goings.
40:3 And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: Many shall see it,
and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
40:4 Blessed is the man that makes Yahweh his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such
as turn aside to lies.
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40:5 Many, O Yahweh my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your
thoughts which are to us-ward; They cannot be set in order for you. If I would declare
and speak of them, they would be more than can be numbered.
40:6 Sacrifice and offering you have no delight in; My ears you have opened: Burnt-
offering and sin offering you have not required.
40:7 Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me:
40:8 I delight to do your will, O my God; Yes, your law is within my heart.
40:9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not
refrain my lips, O Yahweh, you know.
40:10 I have not hid your righteousness within my heart; I have declared your
faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your lovingkindness and your truth
from the great assembly.
40:11 Withhold not thou your tender mercies from me, O Yahweh; Let your
lovingkindness and your truth continually preserve me.
40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; My iniquities have overtaken me,
so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart
has failed me.
40:13 Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Yahweh.
40:14 Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to
destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor Who delight in my hurt.
40:15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame That say to me, aha, aha.
40:16 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: Let such as love your
salvation say continually, Yahweh be magnified.
40:17 But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinks upon me: You are my help and my
deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalm 41
41:1 Blessed is he that considers the poor: Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
41:2 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the
earth; And do not deliver him into the will of his enemies.
41:3 Yahweh will support him upon the couch of languishing: You make all his bed in
his sickness.
41:4 I said, O Yahweh, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; for I have sinned against
you.
41:5 My enemies speak evil against me, saying, When will he die, and his name perish?
41:6 And if he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood; His heart gathers iniquity to itself:
When he goes abroad, he tells it.
41:7 All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.
41:8 An evil disease, say they, cleaves fast to him; And now that he lies he shall rise up
no more.
41:9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted
up his heel against me.
41:10 But you, O Yahweh, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.
41:11 By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over
me.
41:12 And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me before your face for
ever.
41:13 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From everlasting and to everlasting.
Amen, and Amen.
Book II
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Psalm 42
For the Chief Musician. Maschil of the sons of Korah.
42:1 As the deer pants after the water brooks, so pants my soul after you, O God.
42:2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before
God?
42:3 My tears have been my food day and night, as they continually say to me, Where is
your God?
42:4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I went with the
throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude
keeping holyday.
42:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? why are you disquieted within me? Hope
thou in God; for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
42:6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore do I remember you from the
land of the Jordan, and the Hermons, from the hill Mizar.
42:7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of your waterfalls: all your waves and your billows
are gone over me.
42:8 Yet Yahweh will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; and in the night his
song shall be with me, even a prayer to the God of my life.
42:9 I will say to God my rock, Why have you forgotten me? Why go I mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?
42:10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, as they continually say
to me, Where is your God?
42:11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, who is the help of my countenance, and my
God.
Psalm 43
43:1 Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me
from the deceitful and unjust man.
43:2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you cast me off? Why go I
mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
43:3 Oh send out your light and your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to your
holy hill, and to your tabernacles.
43:4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy. And upon the harp
will I praise you, O God, my God.
43:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my
God.
Psalm 44
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
44:1 We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in
their days, in the days of old.
44:2 You did drive out the nations with your hand; but our fathers you did plant: You did
afflict the peoples; but them you did spread abroad.
44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword. Neither did their own
arm save them; but rather by your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your
countenance. Because you were favorable to them.
44:4 You are my King, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.
44:5 Through you will we push down our adversaries: through your name will we tread
them under who rise up against us.
44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
44:7 Rather you have saved us from our adversaries, and have put those to shame who
hate us.
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44:8 In God have we made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to your
name for ever. Selah
44:9 But now you have cast us off, and brought us to dishonor, and do not go forth with
our armies.
44:10 You cause us to turn back from the adversary; and those that hate us take spoil for
themselves.
44:11 You have made us like sheep appointed for food, and scattered us among the
nations.
44:12 You sell your people for nothing, and not increased your wealth by their price.
44:13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those round
about us.
44:14 You make us a byword among the nations, a cause for shaking of the head among
the peoples.
44:15 All the day long is my dishonor before me, and the shame of my face has covered
me,
44:16 because of the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the
enemy and the avenger.
44:17 All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten you, neither have we dealt
falsely in your covenant.
44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way
44:19 because you have sore broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the
shadow of death.
44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange
god,
44:21 will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
44:22 Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter.
44:23 Awake, why do you sleep, O Lord? Arise, do not cast us off for ever.
44:24 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves to the ground.
44:26 Rise up as our help, and redeem us for your lovingkindness' sake.
Psalm 45
For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
A Song of loves.
45:1 My heart overflows with a goodly matter; I speak the things which I have made
touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
45:2 You are fairer than the children of men; Grace is poured into your lips: Therefore
God has blessed you for ever.
45:3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, Your glory and your majesty.
45:4 And in your majesty ride on prosperously, Because of truth and meekness and
righteousness: And your right hand shall teach you terrible things.
45:5 Your arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under you; They are in the heart of the
king's enemies.
45:6 Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of your
kingdom.
45:7 You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, your God, has
anointed you With the oil of gladness above your fellows.
45:8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia; Out of ivory palaces
stringed instruments have made you glad.
45:9 Kings' daughters are among your honorable women: At your right hand does stand
the queen in gold of Ophir.
45:10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; Forget also your own
people, and your father's house:
45:11 So will the king desire your beauty; For he is your lord; and reverence you him.
45:12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; The rich among the people
shall entreat your favor.
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45:13 The king's daughter within the palace is all glorious: Her clothing is inwrought
with gold.
45:14 She shall be led to the king in broidered work: The virgins her companions that
follow her Shall be brought to you.
45:15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be led: They shall enter into the king's
palace.
45:16 Instead of your fathers shall be your children, Whom you shall make princes in all
the earth.
45:17 I will make your name to be remembered in all generations: Therefore shall the
peoples give you thanks for ever and ever.
Psalm 46
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah; set to Alamoth. A Song.
46:1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
46:2 Therefore will we not fear, though the earth does change, and though the mountains
be shaken into the heart of the seas;
46:3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with
the swelling of it. Selah
46:4 There is a river, the streams of which make glad the city of God, The holy place of
the tabernacles of the Most High.
46:5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God will help her, and that right
early.
46:6 The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth
melted.
46:7 Yahweh of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
46:8 Come, behold the works of Yahweh, What desolations he has made in the earth.
46:9 He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth; He breaks the bow, and cuts the
spear in sunder; He burns the chariots in the fire.
46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the nations, I will be
exalted in the earth.
46:11 Yahweh of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah
Psalm 47
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
47:1 Oh clap your hands, all ye peoples; Shout to God with the voice of triumph.
47:2 For Yahweh Most High is fearsome; He is a great King over all the earth.
47:3 He subdues peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
47:4 He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah
47:5 God is gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet.
47:6 Sing praise to God, sing praises: Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
47:7 For God is the King of all the earth: Sing ye praises with understanding.
47:8 God reigns over the nations: God sits upon his holy throne.
47:9 The princes of the peoples are gathered together To be the people of the God of
Abraham: For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted.
Psalm 48
A Song; a Psalm of the sons of Korah.
48:1 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised, In the city of our God, in his holy
mountain.
48:2 Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, Is mount Zion, on the sides of the
north, The city of the great King.
48:3 God has made himself known in her citadels for a refuge.
48:4 For, lo, the kings assembled themselves, They passed by together.
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48:5 They saw it, then were they amazed; They were dismayed, they hastened away.
48:6 Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in labor.
48:7 With the east wind You break the ships of Tarshish.
48:8 As we have heard, so have we seen In the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our
God: God will establish it for ever. Selah
48:9 We have thought on your lovingkindness, O God, In the midst of your temple.
48:10 As is your name, O God, So is your praise to the ends of the earth: Your right hand
is full of righteousness.
48:11 Let mount Zion be glad, Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your
judgments.
48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her; Number the towers thereof;
48:13 Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her citadels: That ye may tell it to the
generation following.
48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever: He will be our guide even unto death.
Psalm 49
49:1 Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,
49:2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
49:3 My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of
understanding.
49:4 I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
49:5 Why should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasses me
about?
49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
49:7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for
him;
49:8 (For the redemption of their life is costly, and it fails for ever;)
49:9 That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.
49:10 For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, and leave
their wealth to others.
49:11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their
dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.
49:12 But man being in honor abides not: He is like the beasts that perish.
49:13 This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah
49:14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the
upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for
Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.
49:15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me.
Selah
49:16 Be you not afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased.
49:17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after
him.
49:18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise you, when you do well
for yourself,)
49:19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.
49:20 Man that is in honor, and understands not, Is like the beasts that perish.
Psalm 50
A Psalm of Asaph.
50:1 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of
the sun to the going down thereof.
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.
50:3 Our God comes, and does not keep silence: A fire devours before him, and it is very
tempestuous round about him.
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50:4 He calls to the heavens above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people:
50:5 Gather my saints together to me, Those that have made a covenant with me by
sacrifice.
50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. Selah
50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify to you: I am God,
even your God.
50:8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; And your burnt offerings are continually
before me.
50:9 I will take no bullock out of your house, Nor he-goats out of your folds.
50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
50:11 I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine.
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you; For the world is mine, and the fulness
thereof.
50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving; And pay your vows to the Most High:
50:15 And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
50:16 But to the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, and that
you have taken my covenant in your mouth,
50:17 Seeing you hate instruction, and cast my words behind you?
50:18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have been partaker with
adulterers.
50:19 You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
50:20 You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother's son.
50:21 These things have you done, and I kept silence; You thought that I was altogether
such a one as yourself: But I will reprove you, and set them in order before your eyes.
50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none
to deliver:
50:23 Whoso offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me; And to him that orders his
way aright Will I show the salvation of God.
Psalm 51
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came to him, after
he had gone in to Bathsheba.
51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: According to the
multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
51:3 For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me.
51:4 Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; That
you may be justified when you speak, and be clear when you judge.
51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
51:6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts; And in the hidden part you will make
me to know wisdom.
51:7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than
snow.
51:8 Cause me to hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may
rejoice.
51:9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.
51:11 Cast me not away from your presence; And take not your holy Spirit from me.
51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation; And uphold me with a willing spirit.
51:13 Then will I teach transgressors your ways; And sinners shall be converted to you.
51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, you God of my salvation; And my tongue
shall sing aloud of your righteousness.
51:15 O Lord, open thou my lips; And my mouth shall show forth your praise.
51:16 For you delight not in sacrifice; else would I give it: You have no pleasure in burnt
offering.
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51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and contrite heart, O God, you
will not despise.
51:18 Do good in your good pleasure to Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
51:19 Then will you delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, In burnt offering and in
whole burnt offering: Then will they offer bullocks upon your altar.
Psalm 52
For the Chief Musician. Maschil of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul,
and said to him, David is come to the house of Abimelech.
52:1 Why do you boast yourself in mischief, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of
God endures continually.
52:2 Your tongue devises very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
52:3 You love evil more than good, and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah
52:4 You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
52:5 God will likewise destroy you for ever; He will take you up, and pluck you out of
your tent, and root you out of the land of the living. Selah
52:6 The righteous also shall see it, and fear, and shall laugh at him, saying,
52:7 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, But trusted in the abundance of
his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
52:8 But as for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the house of God: I trust in the
lovingkindness of God for ever and ever.
52:9 I will give you thanks for ever, because you have done it; And I will hope in your
name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.
Psalm 53
For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David.
53:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done
abominable iniquity; There is none that does good.
53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any
that did understand, That did seek after God.
53:3 Every one of them is gone back; they are together become filthy; There is none that
does good, no, not one.
53:4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat
bread, and call not upon God?
53:5 There they were in great fear, where no fear was; For God has scattered the bones of
him that encamps against you: You have put them to shame, because that God has
rejected them.
53:6 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God brings back the
captivity of his people, Then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
Psalm 54
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David; when the Ziphites
came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself with us?
54:1 Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me in your might.
54:2 Hear my prayer, O God; Give ear to the words of my mouth.
54:3 For strangers are risen up against me, and violent men have sought after my soul:
They have not set God before them. Selah
54:4 Behold, God is my helper: The Lord is of them that uphold my soul.
54:5 He will repay the evil to my enemies: Destroy thou them in your truth.
54:6 With a freewill-offering will I sacrifice to you: I will give thanks to your name, O
Yahweh, for it is good.
54:7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble; And my eye has seen my desire upon my
enemies.
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Psalm 55
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. Maschil of David.
55:1 Give ear to my prayer, O God; And hide not yourself from my supplication.
55:2 Attend to me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
55:3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For
they cast iniquity upon me, and in anger they persecute me.
55:4 My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
55:5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
55:6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! Then would I fly away, and be at rest.
55:7 Lo, then would I wander far off, I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah
55:8 I would hasten me to a shelter, from the stormy wind and tempest.
55:9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue; for I have seen violence and strife in the
city.
55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief
are in the midst of it.
55:11 Wickedness is in the midst of it: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
55:12 For it was not an enemy that reproached me. That I could have endured.
Neither was it he who hated me that magnified himself against me; then I would have
hidden from him:
55:13 But it was you, a man my peer, my companion, and my familiar friend.
55:14 We took sweet counsel together; we walked in the house of God with the throng.
55:15 Let death come suddenly upon them, Let them go down alive into Sheol; for
wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
55:16 As for me, I will call upon God; and Yahweh will save me.
55:17 Evening, and morning, and at noonday, will I complain, and moan; and He will
hear my voice.
55:18 He has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle that was against me; for they
were many that strove with me.
55:19 God will hear, and respond to them, even He that abides of old, Selah The men
who make no changes, and who fear not God.
55:20 He has put forth his hands against those who were at peace with him: he has
profaned his covenant.
55:21 His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war: his words were softer than
oil, yet they were drawn swords.
55:22 Cast your burden upon Yahweh, and he will sustain you: He will never allow the
righteous to be moved.
55:23 But you, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and
deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in you.
Psalm 56
For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam:
when the Philistines took him in Gath.
56:1 Be merciful to me, O God; for man would swallow me up: All the day long he with
fighting oppresses me.
56:2 My enemies would swallow me up all the day long; for they are many that fight
proudly against me.
56:3 What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
56:4 In God (I will praise his word), In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What
can flesh do to me?
56:5 All the day long they twist my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
56:6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, even as
they have waited for my soul.
56:7 Shall they escape by iniquity? In anger cast down the peoples, O God.
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56:8 You number my wanderings: Put thou my tears into your bottle; Are they not in
your ledger?
56:9 Then shall my enemies turn back in the day that I call. This I know, that God is for
me.
56:10 In God (I will praise his word), In Yahweh (I will praise his word),
56:11 In God have I put my trust, I will not be afraid; What can man do to me?
56:12 Your vows are upon me, O God: I will render thank offerings to you.
56:13 For you have delivered my soul from death: Have you not delivered my feet from
falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Psalm 57
For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tash-heth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when he
fled from Saul, in the cave.
57:1 Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me; For my soul takes refuge in you: Yes,
in the shadow of your wings will I take refuge, Until these calamities be overpast.
57:2 I will cry to God Most High, to God that performs all things for me.
57:3 He will send from heaven, and save me, When he who would swallow me up
reproaches; Selah God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.
57:4 My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men,
whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
57:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; Let your glory be above all the earth.
57:6 They have prepared a net for my steps; My soul is bowed down: They have dug a pit
before me; They are fallen into the midst of it themselves. Selah
57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
57:8 Awake up, my glory; awake, harp and lyre: I myself will awake right early.
57:9 I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples: I will sing praises to you
among the nations.
57:10 For your lovingkindness is great unto the heavens, and your truth unto the skies.
57:11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; Let your glory be above all the earth.
Psalm 58
For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam.
58:1 Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of
men?
58:2 Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the
earth.
58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born,
speaking lies.
58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: They are like the deaf adder that stops
her ear,
58:5 Which hearkens not to the voice of charmers, Charming never so wisely.
58:6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Break out the great teeth of the young
lions, O Yahweh.
58:7 Let them melt away as water that runs apace: When he aims his arrows, let them be
as though they were cut off.
58:8 Let them be as a snail which melts and passes away, Like the untimely birth of a
woman, that has not seen the sun.
58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the
green and the burning alike.
58:10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in
the blood of the wicked;
58:11 So that men shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous: Truly there is a
God that judges in the earth.
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Psalm 59
For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when
Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.
59:1 Deliver me from my enemies, O my God: Set me on high from them that rise up
against me.
59:2 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from the bloodthirsty men.
59:3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against
me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Yahweh.
59:4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: Awake thou to help me, and
behold.
59:5 Even you, O Yahweh God of hosts, the God of Israel, arise to visit all the nations:
Be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah
59:6 They return at evening, they howl like a dog, and go round about the city.
59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, say they,
will hear?
59:8 But you, O Yahweh, will laugh at them; You will have all the nations in derision.
59:9 Because of his strength I will give heed to you; For God is my high tower.
59:10 My God with his lovingkindness will meet me: God will let me see my desire upon
my enemies.
59:11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by your power, and bring them
down, O Lord our shield.
59:12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in
their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak.
59:13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more: And let
them know that God rules in Jacob, To the ends of the earth. Selah
59:14 And at evening let them return, let them howl like a dog, and go round about the
city.
59:15 They shall wander up and down for food, and tarry all night if they be not satisfied.
59:16 But I will sing of your strength; Yes, I will sing aloud of your lovingkindness in the
morning: For you have been my high tower, and a refuge in the day of my distress.
59:17 To you, O my strength, will I sing praises: For God is my high tower, the God of
my mercy.
Psalm 60
For the Chief Musician; [set to] Shushan Eduth. Michtam of David, to teach; and when
he strove with Aram-naharaim and with Aram-zobah, and Joab returned, and smote of
Edom in the Valley of Salt twelve thousand.
60:1 O God you have cast us off, you have broken us down; You have been angry; oh
restore us again.
60:2 You have made the land to tremble; you have rent it: Heal the breaches thereof; for
it shakes.
60:3 You have shown your people hard things: You have made us to drink the wine of
staggering.
60:4 You have given a banner to them that fear you, That it may be displayed because of
the truth. Selah
60:5 That your beloved may be delivered, Save with your right hand, and answer us.
60:6 God has spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and portion out
the valley of Succoth.
60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head;
Judah is my sceptre.
60:8 Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my shoe: Philistia, shout you because
of me.
60:9 Who will bring me into the strong city? Who has led me to Edom?
60:10 Have not you, O God, cast us off? And you go not forth, O God, with our hosts.
60:11 Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.
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60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly; For he it is that will tread down our
adversaries.
Psalm 61
For the Chief Musician; on a stringed instrument. [A Psalm] of David.
61:1 Hear my cry, O God; Attend to my prayer.
61:2 From the end of the earth will I call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed: Lead
me to the rock that is higher than I.
61:3 For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.
61:4 I will dwell in your tabernacle for ever: I will take refuge in the cover of your wings.
Selah
61:5 For you, O God, have heard my vows: You have given me the heritage of those that
fear your name.
61:6 You will prolong the king's life; His years shall be as many generations.
61:7 He shall abide before God for ever: Oh prepare lovingkindness and truth, that they
may preserve him.
61:8 So will I sing praise to your name for ever, That I may daily perform my vows.
Psalm 62
For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthan. A Psalm of David.
62:1 My soul waits in silence for God only: From him comes my salvation.
62:2 He only is my rock and my salvation: He is my high tower; I shall not be greatly
moved.
62:3 How long will ye set upon a man, That ye may slay him, all of you, Like a leaning
wall, like a tottering fence?
62:4 They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They
bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah
62:5 My soul, wait thou in silence for God only; For my expectation is from him.
62:6 He only is my rock and my salvation: He is my high tower; I shall not be moved.
62:7 With God is my salvation and my glory. The rock of my strength, and my refuge,
is in God.
62:8 Trust in him at all times, ye people; Pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge
for us. Selah
62:9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the
balances they will go up; They are together lighter than a breath.
62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not
your heart upon it.
62:11 God has spoken once, Twice have I heard this, That power belongs to God.
62:12 Also to you, O Lord, belongs lovingkindness; For you render to every man
according to his work.
Psalm 63
A Psalm of David when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
63:1 O God, you are my God; earnestly will I seek you: My soul thirsts for you, my flesh
longs for you, In a dry and weary land, where no water is.
63:2 So have I looked upon you in the sanctuary, To see your power and your glory.
63:3 Because your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise you.
63:4 So will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.
63:5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; And my mouth shall praise
you with joyful lips;
63:6 When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate upon you in the night-watches.
63:7 For you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.
63:8 My soul follows hard after you: Your right hand upholds me.
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63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth.
63:10 They shall be given over to the power of the sword: They shall be a portion for
foxes.
63:11 But the king shall rejoice in God: Every one that swears by him shall glory; For the
mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.
Psalm 64
64:1 Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint: Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
64:2 Hide me from the secret counsel of evil-doers, From the tumult of the workers of
iniquity;
64:3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter
words,
64:4 That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him,
and fear not.
64:5 They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares
privily; They say, Who will see them?
64:6 They search out iniquities; We have accomplished, say they, a diligent search: And
the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.
64:7 But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
64:8 So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see
them shall wag the head.
64:9 And all men shall fear; And they shall declare the work of God, and shall wisely
consider of his doing.
64:10 The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him; And all the
upright in heart shall glory.
Psalm 65
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm. A song of David.
65:1 Praise waits for you, O God, in Zion; And to you shall the vow be performed.
65:2 O you that hear prayer, To you shall all flesh come.
65:3 Iniquities prevail against me: As for our transgressions, you will forgive them.
65:4 Blessed is the man whom you choose, and cause to approach you, That he may
dwell in your courts: We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, Your holy
temple.
65:5 By terrible things you will answer us in righteousness, Oh God of our salvation, You
that are the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the
sea:
65:6 Who by his strength sets fast the mountains, Being girded about with might;
65:7 Who stills the roaring of the seas, The roaring of their waves, and the tumult of the
peoples.
65:8 They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at your tokens: You cause the
outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
65:9 You visit the earth, and water it, You greatly enrich it; The river of God is full of
water: You provide them grain, when you have so prepared the earth.
65:10 You water its furrows abundantly; You settle the ridges thereof: You make it soft
with showers; You bless the springing thereof.
65:11 You crown the year with your goodness; And your paths drop fatness.
65:12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness; And the hills are girded with joy.
65:13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered over with grain;
They shout for joy, they also sing.
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Psalm 66
For the Chief Musician. A song, a Psalm.
66:1 Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth:
66:2 Sing forth the glory of his name: Make his praise glorious.
66:3 Say to God, How terrible are your works! Through the greatness of your power shall
your enemies submit themselves to you.
66:4 All the earth shall worship you, and shall sing to you; They shall sing to your name.
Selah
66:5 Come, and see the works of God; He is terrible in his doing toward the children of
men.
66:6 He turned the sea into dry land; They went through the river on foot: There did we
rejoice in him.
66:7 He rules by his might for ever; His eyes observe the nations: Let not the rebellious
exalt themselves. Selah
66:8 Oh bless our God, ye peoples, and make the voice of his praise to be heard;
66:9 Who holds our soul in life, and permits not our feet to be moved.
66:10 For you, O God, have proved us: You have tried us, as silver is tried.
66:11 You brought us into the net; You layed a sore burden upon our loins.
66:12 You did cause men to ride over our heads; We went through fire and through
water; But you brought us out into a wealthy place.
66:13 I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will pay you my vows,
66:14 Which my lips uttered, and my mouth spoke, when I was in distress.
66:15 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fatlings, With the incense of rams; I will offer
bullocks with goats. Selah
66:16 Come, and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he has done for my
soul.
66:17 I cried to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue.
66:18 If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear:
66:19 But verily God has heard; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.
66:20 Blessed be God, Who has not turned away my prayer, Nor his lovingkindness from
me.
Psalm 67
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm, a song.
67:1 God be merciful to us, and bless us, and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah
67:2 That your way may be known upon earth, Your salvation among all nations.
67:3 Let the peoples praise you, O God; Let all the peoples praise you.
67:4 Oh let the nations be glad and sing for joy; For you will judge the peoples with
equity, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah
67:5 Let the peoples praise you, O God; Let all the peoples praise you.
67:6 The earth has yielded its increase: God, even our own God, will bless us.
67:7 God will bless us; And all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Psalm 68
For the Chief Musician; A Psalm of David, a song.
68:1 Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; Let those also who hate him flee before
him.
68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: As wax melts before the fire, So let
the wicked perish at the presence of God.
68:3 But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God: Yes, let them rejoice with
gladness.
68:4 Sing to God, sing praises to his name: Cast up a highway for him that rides through
the deserts; His name is Yahweh; and exult ye before him.
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68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.
68:6 God sets the solitary in families: He brings out the prisoners into prosperity; But the
rebellious dwell in a parched land.
68:7 O God, when you went forth before your people, When you did march through the
wilderness; Selah
68:8 The earth trembled, The heavens also dropped rain at the presence of God: Yon
Sinai trembled at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
68:9 You, O God, did send a plentiful rain, You did confirm your inheritance, when it
was weary.
68:10 Your congregation dwelt therein: You, O God, did prepare of your goodness for
the poor.
68:11 The Lord gives the word: The women that publish the tidings are a great host.
68:12 Kings of armies flee, they flee; And she that tarries at home divides the spoil.
68:13 When ye lie among the sheepfolds, It is as the wings of a dove covered with silver,
and her pinions with yellow gold.
68:14 When the Almighty scattered kings therein, It was as when it snows in Zalmon.
68:15 A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A high mountain is the mountain of
Bashan.
68:16 Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, at the mountain which God has desired
for his abode? Yes, Yahweh will dwell in it for ever.
68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands upon thousands; The
Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the sanctuary.
68:18 You have ascended on high, you have led away captives; You have distributed
gifts among men, Yes, among the rebellious also, that Yahweh God might dwell with
them.
68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, Even the God who is our
salvation. Selah
68:20 God is to us a God of deliverances; And to Yahweh the Lord belongs escape from
death.
68:21 But God will smite through the head of his enemies, The hairy scalp of such a one
as goes on still in his guiltiness.
68:22 The Lord said, I will bring back from Bashan, I will bring them back from the
depths of the sea;
68:23 That you may crush them, dipping your foot in blood, That the tongue of your dogs
may have its portion from your enemies.
68:24 They have seen your goings, O God, Even the goings of my God, my King, into
the sanctuary.
68:25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels
playing with timbrels.
68:26 Bless ye God in the congregations, Even the Lord, ye that are of the fountain of
Israel.
68:27 There is little Benjamin their ruler, The princes of Judah and their council, The
princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
68:28 Your God has commanded your strength: Strengthen, O God, that which you have
wrought for us.
68:29 Because of your temple at Jerusalem Kings shall bring presents to you.
68:30 Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, The multitude of the bulls, with the calves of
the peoples, Trampling under foot the pieces of silver: He has scattered the peoples that
delight in war.
68:31 Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall haste to stretch out her hands to
God.
68:32 Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth; Oh sing praises to the Lord; Selah
68:33 To him that rides upon the heaven of heavens, which are of old; Lo, he utters his
voice, a mighty voice.
68:34 Ascribe ye strength to God: His excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the
skies.
68:35 O God, you are terrible out of your holy places: The God of Israel, he gives
strength and power to his people. Blessed be God.
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Psalm 69
For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshanim. [A Psalm] of David.
69:1 Save me, O God; For the waters are come in to my soul.
69:2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where
the floods overflow me.
69:3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: My eyes fail while I wait for my
God.
69:4 They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head: They that
would cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty: That which I did not steal I
have to restore.
69:5 O God, you know my foolishness; And my sins are not hidden from you.
69:6 Let not them that wait for you be put to shame through me, O Lord Yahweh of
hosts: Let not those that seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel.
69:7 Because for your sake I have borne reproach; Shame has covered my face.
69:8 I am become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother's children.
69:9 For the zeal of your house has consumed me; And the reproaches of them that
reproach you are fallen upon me.
69:10 When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach.
69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
69:12 They that sit in the gate talk of me; And I am the song of the drunkards.
69:13 But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh. In an acceptable time, O God, in
the abundance of your lovingkindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
69:14 Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that
hate me, and out of the deep waters.
69:15 Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep swallow me up; And let
not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
69:16 Answer me, O Yahweh; for your lovingkindness is good: According to the
multitude of your tender mercies turn thou to me.
69:17 And hide not your face from your servant; For I am in distress; answer me
speedily.
69:18 Draw near to my soul, and redeem it: Ransom me because of my enemies.
69:19 You know my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: My adversaries are all
before you.
69:20 Reproach has broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some
to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
69:21 They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to
drink.
69:22 Let their table before them become a snare; And when they are in peace, let it
become a trap.
69:23 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; And cause their loins
continually to shake.
69:24 Pour out your indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of your anger overtake
them.
69:25 Let their habitation be desolate; Let none dwell in their tents.
69:26 For they persecute him whom you have smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of
those whom you have wounded.
69:27 Add iniquity to their iniquity; And let them not come into your righteousness.
69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
69:29 But I am poor and sorrowful: Let your salvation, O God, set me up on high.
69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.
69:31 And it will please Yahweh better than an ox, Or a bullock that has horns and hoofs.
69:32 The meek have seen it, and are glad: You that seek after God, let your heart live.
69:33 For Yahweh hears the needy, and despises not his prisoners.
69:34 Let heaven and earth praise him, The seas, and everything that moves therein.
69:35 For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah; And they shall abide there,
and have it in possession.
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69:36 The seed also of his servants shall inherit it; And those who love his name shall
dwell therein.
Psalm 70
For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David; to bring to remembrance.
70:1 Make haste, O God, to deliver me; Make haste to help me, O Yahweh.
70:2 Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be
turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.
70:3 Let them be turned back by reason of their shame That say, aha, aha.
70:4 Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you; And let such as love your
salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
70:5 But I am poor and needy; Make haste to me, O God: You are my help and my
deliverer; O Yahweh, make no tarrying.
Psalm 71
71:1 In you, O Yahweh, do I take refuge: Let me never be put to shame.
71:2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me: Bow down your ear to me, and
save me.
71:3 Be to me a rock of habitation, to which I may continually resort: You have given
commandment to save me; For you are my rock and my fortress.
71:4 Rescue me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, Out of the hand of the
unrighteous and cruel man.
71:5 For you are my hope, O Lord Yahweh: You are my trust from my youth.
71:6 By you have I been holden up since the womb; You are he that took me out of my
mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of you.
71:7 I am as a wonder to many; But you are my strong refuge.
71:8 My mouth shall be filled with your praise, and with your honor all the day.
71:9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength fails.
71:10 For my enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take
counsel together,
71:11 Saying, God has forsaken him: Pursue and take him; for there is no one to deliver.
71:12 O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me.
71:13 Let them be put to shame and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; Let them
be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.
71:14 But I will hope continually, and will praise you yet more and more.
71:15 My mouth shall tell of your righteousness, and of your salvation all the day; For I
know not the numbers thereof.
71:16 I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh: I will make mention of your
righteousness, even of yours only.
71:17 O God, you have taught me from my youth; And all this far have I declared your
wondrous works.
71:18 Yes, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have
declared your strength to the next generation, Your might to every one that is to come.
71:19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high; You who have done great things, O
God, who is like you?
71:20 You, who have shown us many and sore troubles, Will revive us again, and will
bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
71:21 Increase thou my greatness, and turn again and comfort me.
71:22 I will also praise you with the psaltery, Even your truth, O my God: To you will I
sing praises with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.
71:23 My lips shall shout for joy when I sing praises to you; And my soul, which you
have redeemed.
71:24 My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long; For they are put to
shame, for they are confounded, that seek my hurt.
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Psalm 72
[A Psalm] of Solomon.
72:1 Give the king your judgments, O God, and your righteousness to the king's son.
72:2 He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
72:3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the hills, in righteousness.
72:4 He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, and will
break in pieces the oppressor.
72:5 They shall fear you while the sun remains, and so long as the moon, throughout all
generations.
72:6 He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
72:7 In his days shall the righteous flourish, and abundance of peace, till the moon be no
more.
72:8 He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the
earth.
72:9 They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; And his enemies shall lick
the dust.
72:10 The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render tribute: The kings of Sheba and
Seba shall offer gifts.
72:11 Yes, all kings shall fall down before him; All nations shall serve him.
72:12 For he will deliver the needy when he cries, and the poor, that has no helper.
72:13 He will have pity on the poor and needy, and the souls of the needy he will save.
72:14 He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence; And precious will their
blood be in his sight:
72:15 And they shall live; and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: And men shall
pray for him continually; They shall bless him all the day long.
72:16 There shall be abundance of grain in the earth upon the top of the mountains; The
fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the
earth.
72:17 His name shall endure for ever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun:
And men shall be blessed in him; All nations shall call him happy.
72:18 Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel, Who only does wondrous things:
72:19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever; And let the whole earth be filled with
his glory. Amen, and Amen.
72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
BOOK III
Psalm 73
A Psalm of Asaph.
73:1 Surely God is good to Israel, even to such as are pure in heart.
73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well near slipped.
73:3 For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
73:4 For there are no pangs in their death; but their strength is firm.
73:5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
73:6 Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covers them as a garment.
73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
73:8 They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: they speak loftily.
73:9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the
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earth.
73:10 Therefore his people return here: and waters of a full cup are drained by them.
73:11 And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
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73:12 Behold, these are the wicked; and, though always at ease, they increase in riches.
73:13 Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence;
73:14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
73:15 If I had said, I will speak thus; behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation
of your children.
73:16 When I thought how I might understand this, it was too painful for me;
73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God, and considered their latter end.
73:18 Surely you set them in slippery places: you cast them down to destruction.
73:19 How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with
terrors.
73:20 As a dream when one awakes, so, O Lord, when you awake, you will despise their
image.
73:21 For my soul was grieved, and I was pricked in my heart:
73:22 So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before you.
73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: you hold my right hand.
73:24 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is none upon earth that I desire
besides you.
73:26 My flesh and my heart fails; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion
for ever.
73:27 For, lo, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that
play the harlot, departing from you.
73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have made the Lord Yahweh my
refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Psalm 74
Maschil of Asaph.
74:1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? Why does your anger smoke against
the sheep of your pasture?
74:2 Remember your congregation, which you have gotten of old, which you have
redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; and mount Zion, in which you have dwelt.
74:3 Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the
sanctuary.
74:4 Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly; They have set up their
ensigns for signs.
74:5 They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.
74:6 And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.
74:7 They have set your sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of your
name by casting it to the ground.
74:8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up
all the synagogues of God in the land.
74:9 We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any
that knows how long.
74:10 How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your
name for ever?
74:11 Why draw you back your hand, even your right hand? Pluck it out of your bosom
and consume them.
74:12 Yet God is my King of old, Working salvation in the midst of the earth.
74:13 You did divide the sea by your strength: You broke the heads of the sea-monsters
in the waters.
74:14 You broke the heads of leviathan in pieces; You gave him to be food to the people
inhabiting the wilderness.
74:15 You did split fountain and flood: You dried up mighty rivers.
74:16 The day is yours, the night also is yours: You have prepared the light and the sun.
74:17 You have set all the borders of the earth: You have made summer and winter.
74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O Yahweh, and that a foolish
people has blasphemed your name.
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74:19 Oh deliver not the soul of your turtle-dove to the wild beast: Forget not the life of
your poor for ever.
74:20 Have respect to the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the
habitations of violence.
74:21 Oh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise your name.
74:22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproaches
you all the day.
74:23 Forget not the voice of your adversaries: The tumult of those that rise up against
you ascends continually.
Psalm 75
For the Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tash-heth. A Psalm of Asaph; a song.
75:1 We give thanks to you, O God; We give thanks, for your name is near: Men tell of
your wondrous works.
75:2 When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly.
75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it.
Selah
75:4 I said to the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly; And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
75:5 Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck.
75:6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, comes lifting
up.
75:7 But God is the judge: He puts down one, and lifts up another.
75:8 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, and the wine foams; It is full of mixture,
and he pours out of the same: Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall
drain them, and drink them.
75:9 But I will declare for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; But the horns of the righteous shall
be lifted up.
Psalm 76
For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a song.
76:1 In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel.
76:2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling-place in Zion.
76:3 There he broke the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle.
Selah
76:4 Glorious are you and excellent, From the mountains of prey.
76:5 The stouthearted are made a spoil, They have slept their sleep; And none of the men
of might have found their hands.
76:6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, Both chariot and horse are cast into a deep sleep.
76:7 You, even you, are to be feared; And who may stand in your sight when once you
are angry?
76:8 You did cause sentence to be heard from heaven; The earth feared, and was still,
76:9 When God arose to judgment, To save all the meek of the earth. Selah
76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: The residue of wrath shall you gird upon
you.
76:11 Vow, and pay to Yahweh your God: Let all that are round about him bring presents
to him that ought to be feared.
76:12 He will cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Psalm 77
For the Chief Musician; after the manner of Jeduthan. A Psalm of Asaph.
77:1 I will cry to God with my voice, Even to God with my voice; and he will give ear to
me.
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77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night,
and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.
77:3 I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.
Selah
77:4 You hold my eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
77:5 I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.
77:6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart; And my
spirit makes diligent search.
77:7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more?
77:8 Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Does his promise fail for evermore?
77:9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Selah
77:10 And I said, This is my infirmity; But I will remember the years of the right hand of
the Most High.
77:11 I will make mention of the deeds of Yahweh; For I will remember your wonders of
old.
77:12 I will meditate also upon all your work, and muse on your doings.
77:13 Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is a great god like to God?
77:14 You are the God that do wonders: You have made known your strength among the
peoples.
77:15 You have with your arm redeemed your people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph.
Selah
77:16 The waters saw you, O God; The waters saw you, they were afraid: The depths also
trembled.
77:17 The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Your arrows also went
abroad.
77:18 The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the
world: The earth trembled and shook.
77:19 Your way was in the sea, and your paths in the great waters, and your footsteps
were not known.
77:20 You led your people like a flock, By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 78
Maschil of Asaph.
78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
78:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
78:4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the
praises of Yahweh, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
78:5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, Which he
commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;
78:6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be
born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,
78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, But keep his
commandments,
78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation
that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of
battle.
78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
78:11 And they forgat his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shown them.
78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the
field of Zoan.
78:13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand
as a heap.
78:14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
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78:15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the
depths.
78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
78:17 Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the
desert.
78:18 And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
78:19 Yes, they spoke against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the
wilderness?
78:20 Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; Can
he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?
78:21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, and
anger also went up against Israel;
78:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.
78:23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;
78:24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them food from heaven.
78:25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
78:26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the
south wind.
78:27 He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, and winged birds as the sand of the
seas:
78:28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.
78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.
78:30 They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their
mouths,
78:31 When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the fattest of them, and
smote down the young men of Israel.
78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not in his wondrous works.
78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in terror.
78:34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought
God earnestly.
78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their
redeemer.
78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
78:37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
78:38 But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: Yes, many a
time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
78:39 And he remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and comes
not again.
78:40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
78:41 And they turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
78:42 They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the
adversary;
78:43 How he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan,
78:44 And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which
destroyed them.
78:46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore-trees with frost.
78:48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,
a band of angels of evil.
78:50 He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their
life over to the pestilence,
78:51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of
Ham.
78:52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like
a flock.
78:53 And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their
enemies.
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78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his
right hand had gotten.
78:55 He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by
line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
78:56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his
testimonies;
78:57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside
like a deceitful bow.
78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy
with their graven images.
78:59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;
78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the adversary's hand.
78:62 He gave his people over also to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
78:63 Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.
78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
78:65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouts by reason
of wine.
78:66 And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
78:67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
78:69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he has established
for ever.
78:70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
78:71 From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd
of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
78:72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them
by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalm 79
A Psalm of Asaph.
79:1 O God, the nations are come into your inheritance; Your holy temple have they
defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
79:2 The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be food to the birds of the
heavens, The flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.
79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was no one
to bury them.
79:4 We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to them who are
round about us.
79:5 How long, O Yahweh? will you be angry for ever? Shall your jealousy burn like
fire?
79:6 Pour out your wrath upon the nations that know you not, and upon the kingdoms
that call not upon your name.
79:7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his habitation.
79:8 Remember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let your tender mercies
speedily meet us; For we are brought very low.
79:9 Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; And deliver us, and
forgive our sins, for your name's sake.
79:10 Why should the nations say, Where is their God? Let the avenging of the blood
of your servants which is shed Be known among the nations in our sight.
79:11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you: According to the greatness of your
power preserve those that are appointed to death;
79:12 And render to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, with which
they have reproached you, O Lord.
79:13 So we your people and sheep of your pasture Will give you thanks for ever: We
will show forth your praise to all generations.
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Psalm 80
For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph.
80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You that lead Joseph like a flock; You that sit above
the cherubim, shine forth.
80:2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might, and come to save
us.
80:3 Turn us again, O God; And cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
80:4 O Yahweh God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your
people?
80:5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large
measure.
80:6 You make us a strife to our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.
80:7 Turn us again, O God of hosts; and cause your face to shine, and we shall be saved.
80:8 You brought a vine out of Egypt: You drove out the nations, and planted it.
80:9 You prepared room before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.
80:10 The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were
like cedars of God.
80:11 It sent out its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the River.
80:12 Why have you broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do
pluck it?
80:13 The boar out of the wood ravages it, and the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
80:14 Turn again, we beseech you, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold,
and visit this vine,
80:15 And the stock which your right hand planted, and the branch that you made strong
for yourself.
80:16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of your
countenance.
80:17 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, Upon the son of man whom you
made strong for yourself.
80:18 So shall we not go back from you: Quicken us, and we will call upon your name.
80:19 Turn us again, O Yahweh God of hosts; Cause your face to shine, and we shall be
saved.
Psalm 81
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. [A Psalm] of Asaph.
81:1 Sing aloud to God our strength: Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
81:2 Raise a song, and bring here the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.
81:3 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast-day.
81:4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
81:5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt,
Where I heard a language that I knew not.
81:6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.
81:7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of
thunder; I proved you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you: O Israel, if you would hearken to me!
81:9 There shall no strange god be among you; Neither shall you worship any foreign
god.
81:10 I am Yahweh your God, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt: Open your
mouth wide, and I will fill it.
81:11 But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would not submit to me.
81:12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their
own counsels.
81:13 Oh that my people would hearken to me, That Israel would walk in my ways!
81:14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
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81:15 The haters of Yahweh would cower themselves before him, and their doom would
endure for ever.
81:16 He would feed them also with the finest of the wheat; And with honey out of the
rock would I satisfy you.
Psalm 82
A Psalm of Asaph.
82:1 God stands in the congregation of God; He judges among the gods.
82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah
82:3 Judge the poor and fatherless: Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
82:4 Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
82:5 They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All
the foundations of the earth are shaken.
82:6 I said, Ye are gods, and all of you sons of the Most High.
82:7 Nevertheless ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; For you shall inherit all the nations.
Psalm 83
A song. A Psalm of Asaph.
83:1 O God, do not keep silence: Hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.
83:2 For, lo, your enemies make a tumult; And they that hate you have lifted up the head.
83:3 They take crafty counsel against your people, and consult together against your
hidden ones.
83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of
Israel may be no more in remembrance.
83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent; Against you do they make a
covenant:
83:6 The tents of Edom29 and the Ishmaelites;30 Moab, and the Hagarenes;
83:7 Gebal,31 and Ammon,32 and Amalek; Philistia33 with the inhabitants of Tyre:34
83:8 Assyria35 also is joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah
83:9 Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
83:10 Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.
83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yes, all their princes like Zebah and
Zalmunna;
83:12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God.
83:13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.
83:14 As the fire that burns the forest, and as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
83:15 So pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
83:16 Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, O Yahweh.
83:17 Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; Yes, let them be confounded and
perish;
83:18 That they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High
over all the earth.
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Edom means Jordan down through Arabia.
30
Ishmaelites and Hagarenes, means the descendants of Ishmael, and the descendants of Hagar; that is, Arabs.
31
Northern Lebanon.
32
Ammon means Jordan.
33
Philistia means Gaza and Palestine.
34
Tyre means Lebanon.
35
Assyria here means Syria and Iraq.
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Psalm 84
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
84:1 How amiable are your tabernacles, O Yahweh of hosts!
84:2 My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of Yahweh; My heart and my flesh cry
out to the living God.
84:3 Yes, the sparrow has found her a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where
she may lay her young, Even your altars, O Yahweh of hosts, My King, and my God.
84:4 Blessed are they that dwell in your house: They will be still praising you. Selah
84:5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; In whose heart are the highways to
Zion.
84:6 Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yes, the
early rain covers it with blessings.
84:7 They go from strength to strength; Every one of them appears before God in Zion.
84:8 O Yahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah
84:9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of your anointed.
84:10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a
doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
84:11 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield: Yahweh will give grace and glory; No good
thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
84:12 O Yahweh of hosts, Blessed is the man that trusts in you.
Psalm 85
85:1 Yahweh, you have been favorable to your land; You have brought back the captivity
of Jacob.
85:2 You have forgiven the iniquity of your people; You have covered all their sin.
Selah
85:3 You have taken away all your wrath; You have turned yourself from the fierceness
of your anger.
85:4 Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.
85:5 Will you be angry with us for ever? Will you draw out your anger to all
generations?
85:6 Will you not quicken us again, That your people may rejoice in you?
85:7 Show us your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, and grant us your salvation.
85:8 I will hear what God Yahweh will speak; For he will speak peace to his people, and
to his saints: But let them not turn again to folly.
85:9 Surely his salvation is near them that fear him, That glory may dwell in our land.
85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
85:11 Truth springs out of the earth; And righteousness has looked down from heaven.
85:12 Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good; And our land shall yield its increase.
85:13 Righteousness shall go before him, and shall make his footsteps a way to walk in.
Psalm 86
A Prayer of David
86:1 Bow down your ear, O Yahweh, and answer me; For I am poor and needy.
86:2 Preserve my soul; for I am godly: O thou my God, save your servant that trusts in
you.
86:3 Be merciful to me, O Lord; For to you do I cry all the day long.
86:4 Rejoice the soul of your servant; For to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
86:5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving-kindness to all
them that call upon you.
86:6 Give ear, O Yahweh, to my prayer; And hearken to the voice of my supplications.
86:7 In the day of my trouble I will call upon you; For you will answer me.
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86:8 There is none like you among the gods, O Lord; Neither are there any works like
your works.
86:9 All nations whom you have made shall come and worship before you, O Lord; And
they shall glorify your name.
86:10 For you are great, and do wondrous things: You are God alone.
86:11 Teach me your way, O Yahweh; I will walk in your truth: Unite my heart to fear
your name.
86:12 I will praise you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart; And I will glorify your
name for evermore.
86:13 For great is your lovingkindness toward me; And you have delivered my soul from
the lowest Sheol.
86:14 O God, the proud are risen up against me, and a company of violent men have
sought after my soul, and have not set you before them.
86:15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in
lovingkindness and truth.
86:16 Oh turn to me, and have mercy upon me; Give your strength to your servant, and
save the son of your handmaid.
86:17 Show me a token for good, That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame,
Because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.
Psalm 87
A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song.
87:1 His foundation is in the holy mountains.
87:2 Yahweh loves the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
87:3 Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah
87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon as among them that know me: Behold,
Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia: This one was born there.
87:5 Yes, of Zion it shall be said, This one and that one was born in her; And the Most
High himself will establish her.
87:6 Yahweh will count, when he writes up the peoples, This one was born there. Selah
87:7 They that sing as well as they that dance shall say, all my fountains are in you.
Psalm 88
A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth.
Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.
88:1 O Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
88:2 Let my prayer enter into your presence; Incline your ear to my cry.
88:3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.
88:4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that has no help,
88:5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom you remember
no more, and they are cut off from your hand.
88:6 You have laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
88:7 Your wrath lies hard upon me, and you have afflicted me with all your waves.
Selah
88:8 You have put my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an abomination to
them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
88:9 My eye wastes away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon you, O
Yahweh; I have spread forth my hands to you.
88:10 Will you show wonders to the dead? Shall they that are deceased arise and praise
you? Selah
88:11 Shall your lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or your faithfulness in
Destruction?
88:12 Shall your wonders be known in the dark? And your righteousness in the land of
forgetfulness?
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88:13 But to you, O Yahweh, have I cried; And in the morning shall my prayer come
before you.
88:14 Yahweh, why do you cast off my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?
88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: While I suffer your terrors I am
distracted.
88:16 Your fierce wrath is gone over me; Your terrors have cut me off.
88:17 They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about
together.
88:18 Lover and friend have you put far from me, and my acquaintance into darkness.
Psalm 89
Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.
89:1 I will sing of the lovingkindness of Yahweh for ever: With my mouth will I make
known your faithfulness to all generations.
89:2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever; Your faithfulness will you establish
in the very heavens.
89:3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn to David my servant:
89:4 Your seed will I establish for ever, and build up your throne to all generations.
Selah
89:5 And the heavens shall praise your wonders, O Yahweh; Your faithfulness also in the
assembly of the holy ones.
89:6 For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the
mighty is like Yahweh,
89:7 A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, and to be feared above all them
that are round about him?
89:8 O Yahweh God of hosts, Who is a mighty one, like unto you, O Yahweh? And
your faithfulness is round about you.
89:9 You rule the pride of the sea: When the waves thereof arise, you still them.
89:10 You have broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; You have scattered your
enemies with the arm of your strength.
89:11 The heavens are yours, the earth also is yours: The world and the fulness thereof,
you have founded them.
89:12 The north and the south, you have created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your
name.
89:13 You have a mighty arm; Strong is your hand, and high is your right hand.
89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne: Lovingkindness and
truth go before your face.
89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Yahweh, in the
light of your countenance.
89:16 In your name do they rejoice all the day; And in your righteousness are they
exalted.
89:17 For you are the glory of their strength; And in your favor our horn shall be exalted.
89:18 For our shield belongs to Yahweh; And our king to the Holy One of Israel.
89:19 Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, I have laid help upon one that is
mighty; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.
89:20 I have found David my servant; With my holy oil have I anointed him:
89:21 With whom my hand shall be established; Mine arm also shall strengthen him.
89:22 The enemy shall not exact from him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him.
89:23 And I will beat down his adversaries before him, and smite them that hate him.
89:24 But my faithfulness and my lovingkindness shall be with him; And in my name
shall his horn be exalted.
89:25 I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.
89:26 He shall cry to me, You are my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.
89:27 I also will make him my first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.
89:28 My lovingkindness will I keep for him for evermore; And my covenant shall stand
fast with him.
89:29 His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
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89:30 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my ordinances;
89:31 If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments;
89:32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
89:33 But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor allow my faithfulness
to fail.
89:34 My covenant will I not break, Nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
89:35 Once have I sworn by my holiness: I will not lie to David:
89:36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as the faithful witness in the sky.
Selah
89:38 But you have cast off and rejected, You have been angry with your anointed.
89:39 You have abhorred the covenant of your servant: You have profaned his crown to
the ground.
89:40 You have broken down all his hedges; You have brought his strongholds to ruin.
89:41 All that pass by the way rob him: He is become a reproach to his neighbors.
89:42 You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies
to rejoice.
89:43 Yes, you turn back the edge of his sword, and have not made him to stand in the
battle.
89:44 You have made his brightness to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.
89:45 The days of his youth have you shortened: You have covered him with shame.
Selah
89:46 How long, O Yahweh? will you hide yourself for ever? How long shall your
wrath burn like fire?
89:47 Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity have you created all the
children of men!
89:48 What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from
the power of Sheol? Selah
89:49 Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, Which you swore to David in your
faithfulness?
89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; How I do bear in my bosom the
reproach of all the mighty peoples,
89:51 With which your enemies have reproached, O Yahweh, With which they have
reproached the footsteps of your anointed.
89:52 Blessed be Yahweh for evermore. Amen, and Amen.
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Psalm 90
A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
90:1 Lord, you have been our dwelling-place In all generations.
90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever you had formed the earth and the
world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
90:3 You turn man to dust, and say, Return, ye children of Adam.
90:4 For a thousand years in your sight are as but the day just gone past, and as a watch
in the night.
90:5 You carry them away as by a flood; they are like a dream: In the morning they are
like grass which springs up--
90:6 In the morning it flourishes and grows up, in the evening it fades and withers away.
90:7 For we are destroyed by your anger, and by your wrath we are troubled.
90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
90:9 For all our days are passed away under your wrath: We finish our years as a sigh.
90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet
the best of them are but labor and sorrow. For soon they are gone, and we fly away.
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90:11 Who knows the power of your anger, and your wrath according to the fear that is
due you?
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90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
90:13 Return, O Yahweh! How long? And may you feel sorry about your servants.
90:14 Oh satisfy us in the morning with your lovingkindness, That we may rejoice and be
glad all our days.
90:15 Make us glad as many days as in which you have afflicted us, and as many years as
in which we have seen evil.
90:16 Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory show upon their children.
90:17 And let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us; And establish the work of our
hands upon us; Yes, the work of our hands, establish it.
Psalm 91
91:1 He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of
the Almighty.
91:2 I will say of Yahweh, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust.
91:3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.
91:4 He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings shall you take refuge: His
truth is a shield and a buckler.
91:5 You shall not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day;
91:6 for the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor for the destruction that wastes at
noonday.
91:7 A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall
not come near to you.
91:8 Only with your eyes shall you behold, and see the reward of the wicked.
91:9 For you, O Yahweh, are my refuge! You have made the Most High your habitation;
91:10 There shall no evil befall you, neither shall any plague come near your tent.
91:11 For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.
91:12 They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
91:13 You shall tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the serpent shall you
trample underfoot.
91:14 Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on
high, because he has known my name.
91:15 He shall call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble: I will
deliver him, and honor him.
91:16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.
Psalm 92
A Psalm, a Song for the sabbath day.
92:1 It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, and to sing praises to your name, O
Most High;
92:2 To show forth your lovingkindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every
night,
92:3 With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery; With a solemn sound upon
the harp.
92:4 For you, Yahweh, have made me glad through your work: I will triumph in the
works of your hands.
92:5 How great are your works, O Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.
92:6 A brutish man knows not; Neither does a fool understand this:
92:7 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do
flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
92:8 But you, O Yahweh, are on high for evermore.
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92:9 For, lo, your enemies, O Yahweh, For, lo, your enemies shall perish; All the workers
of iniquity shall be scattered.
92:10 But my horn have you exalted like the horn of the wild-ox: I am anointed with
fresh oil.
92:11 My eye also has seen my desire on my enemies, My ears have heard my desire for
the evil-doers that rise up against me.
92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in
Lebanon.
92:13 They are planted in the house of Yahweh; They shall flourish in the courts of our
God.
92:14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall be full of sap and green:
92:15 To show that Yahweh is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in
him.
Psalm 93
93:1 Yahweh reigns; he is clothed with majesty; Yahweh is clothed with strength; he has
girded himself with it: The world also is established, such that it cannot be moved.
93:2 Your throne is established of old: You are from everlasting.
93:3 The floods have lifted up, O Yahweh, The floods have lifted up their voice; The
floods lift up their waves.
93:4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is
mighty.
93:5 Your testimonies are very sure: Holiness becomes your house, O Yahweh, for ever
more.
Psalm 94
94:1 O Yahweh, you God to whom vengeance belongs, You God to whom vengeance
belongs, shine forth.
94:2 Lift up yourself, you judge of the earth: Render to the proud their desert.
94:3 Yahweh, how long shall the wicked, How long shall the wicked triumph?
94:4 They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
94:5 They break in pieces your people, O Yahweh, and afflict your heritage.
94:6 They slay the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.
94:7 And they say, Yahweh will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.
94:8 Consider, ye brutish among the people. And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed the eye, shall he not see?
94:10 He that chastises the nations, shall not he correct, Even he that teaches man
knowledge?
94:11 Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, That they are vanity.
94:12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O Yahweh, and teach out of your law;
94:13 That you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be dug for the
wicked.
94:14 For Yahweh will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
94:15 For judgment shall return to righteousness; And all the upright in heart shall follow
it.
94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evil-doers? Who will stand up for me against
the workers of iniquity?
94:17 Unless Yahweh had been my help, my soul had soon dwelt in silence.
94:18 When I said, My foot slips; your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, held me up.
94:19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me your comforts delight my soul.
94:20 Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which frames mischief
by statute?
94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the
innocent blood.
94:22 But Yahweh has been my high tower, and my God the rock of my refuge.
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94:23 And he has brought upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their
own wickedness; Yahweh our God will cut them off.
Psalm 95
95:1 Oh come, let us sing to Yahweh; Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our
salvation.
95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; Let us make a joyful noise to
him with psalms.
95:3 For Yahweh is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
95:4 In his hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the mountains are his as
well.
95:5 The sea is his, and he made it; And his hands formed the dry land.
95:6 Come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before Yahweh who is our
Maker:
95:7 For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Today, oh that ye would hear his voice!
95:8 Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness;
95:9 When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work.
95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, It is a people that do
err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
95:11 Wherefore I swore in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.
Psalm 96
96:1 Oh sing to Yahweh a new song: Sing to Yahweh, all the earth.
96:2 Sing to Yahweh, bless his name; Show forth his salvation from day to day.
96:3 Declare his glory among the nations, His marvellous works among all the peoples.
96:4 For great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised: He is to be feared above all gods.
96:5 For all the gods of the peoples are idols; But Yahweh made the heavens.
96:6 Honor and majesty are before him: Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
96:7 Ascribe to Yahweh, ye kindreds of the peoples, ascribe to Yahweh glory and
strength.
96:8 Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due his name: Bring an offering, and come into his
courts.
96:9 Oh worship Yahweh in holy array: Tremble before him, all the earth.
96:10 Say among the nations, Yahweh reigns: The world also is established that it cannot
be moved: He will judge the peoples with equity.
96:11 Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; Let the sea roar, and the fulness
thereof;
96:12 Let the field exult, and all that is therein; Then shall all the trees of the wood sing
for joy
96:13 Before Yahweh; for he comes, For he comes to judge the earth: He will judge the
world with righteousness, and the peoples with his truth.
Psalm 97
97:1 Yahweh reigns; let the earth rejoice; Let the multitude of isles be glad.
97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: Righteousness and justice are the
foundation of his throne.
97:3 A fire goes before him, and burns up his adversaries round about.
97:4 His lightnings lightened the world: The earth saw, and trembled.
97:5 The mountains melted like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the
Lord of the whole earth.
97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples have seen his glory.
97:7 Let all those be put to shame who serve graven images, That boast themselves of
idols: Worship him, all ye gods.
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97:8 Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced, Because of your
judgments, O Yahweh.
97:9 For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth: You are exalted far above all
gods.
97:10 O ye that love Yahweh, hate evil: He preserves the souls of his saints; He delivers
them out of the hand of the wicked.
97:11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
97:12 Be glad in Yahweh, ye righteous; And give thanks to his holy memorial name.
Psalm 98
A Psalm.
98:1 Oh sing to Yahweh a new song; For he has done marvellous things: His right hand,
and his holy arm, have wrought salvation for him.
98:2 Yahweh has made known his salvation: His righteousness has he openly shown in
the sight of the nations.
98:3 He has remembered his lovingkindness and his faithfulness toward the house of
Israel: All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
98:4 Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth: Break forth and sing for joy, yes, sing
praises.
98:5 Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp; With the harp and the voice of melody.
98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet Make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
98:7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein;
98:8 Let the floods clap their hands; Let the hills sing for joy together
98:9 Before Yahweh; for he comes to judge the earth: He will judge the world with
righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Psalm 99
99:1 Yahweh reigns; let the peoples tremble: He sits above the cherubim; let the earth be
moved.
99:2 Yahweh is great in Zion; And he is high above all the peoples.
99:3 Let them praise your great and terrible name: Holy is he.
99:4 The king's strength also loves justice; You do establish equity; You execute justice
and righteousness in Jacob.
99:5 Exalt ye Yahweh our God, and worship at his footstool: Holy is he.
99:6 Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his
name; They called upon Yahweh, and he answered them.
99:7 He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud: They kept his testimonies, and the statute
that he gave them.
99:8 You answered them, O Yahweh our God: You were a God that forgave them,
Though you took vengeance of their doings.
99:9 Exalt ye Yahweh our God, and worship at his holy hill; For Yahweh our God is
holy.
Psalm 100
A Psalm of thanksgiving.
100:1 Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all ye lands.
100:2 Serve Yahweh with gladness: Come before his presence with singing.
100:3 Know ye that Yahweh, he is God: It is he that has made us, and we are his; We are
his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: Give thanks
to him, and bless his name.
100:5 For Yahweh is good; his lovingkindness endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all
generations.
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Psalm 101
A Psalm of David.
101:1 I will sing of lovingkindness and justice: To you, O Yahweh, will I sing praises.
101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way: Oh when will you come to me? I
will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
101:3 I will set no base thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It
shall not cleave to me.
101:4 A perverse heart shall depart from me: I will know no evil thing.
101:5 Whoso privately slanders his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that has a high look
and a proud heart will I not endure.
101:6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: He
that walks in a perfect way, he shall minister to me.
101:7 He that works deceit shall not dwell within my house: He that speaks falsehood
shall not be established before my eyes.
101:8 Morning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the
workers of iniquity from the city of Yahweh.
Psalm 102
A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and pours out his complaint before
Yahweh.
102:1 Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and let my cry come to you.
102:2 Hide not your face from me in the day of my distress: Incline your ear to me; In the
day when I call, answer me speedily.
102:3 For my days consume away like smoke, and my bones are burned as a firebrand.
102:4 My heart is smitten like grass, and withered; For I forget to eat my bread.
102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am become as an owl of the waste places.
102:7 I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the house-top.
102:8 My enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.
102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
102:10 Because of your indignation and your wrath: For you have taken me up, and cast
me away.
102:11 My days are like a shadow that is declining; And I am withered like grass.
102:12 But you, O Yahweh, will abide for ever; And your memorial name to all
generations.
102:13 You will arise, and have mercy upon Zion; For it is time to have pity upon her,
Yes, the set time is come.
102:14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity upon her dust.
102:15 So the nations shall fear the name of Yahweh, and all the kings of the earth your
glory.
102:16 For Yahweh has built up Zion; He has appeared in his glory.
102:17 He has regarded the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
102:18 This shall be written for the generation to come; And a people which shall be
created shall praise Yahweh.
102:19 For he has looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven did
Yahweh behold the earth;
102:20 To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To set free those that are appointed to death;
102:21 That men may declare the name of Yahweh in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
102:22 When the peoples are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.
102:23 He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days.
102:24 I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: Your years are
throughout all generations.
102:25 Of old did you lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of
your hands.
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102:26 They shall perish, but you shall endure; Yes, all of them shall grow old like a
garment; As a vesture shall you change them, and they shall be changed:
102:27 But you are the same, and your years shall have no end.
102:28 The children of your servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established
before you.
Psalm 103
[A Psalm] of David.
103:1 Bless Yahweh, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless his holy name.
103:2 Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
103:3 Who forgives all your iniquities; Who heals all your diseases;
103:4 Who redeems your life from destruction; Who crowns you with lovingkindness and
tender mercies;
103:5 Who satisfies your desire with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the
eagle.
103:6 Yahweh executes righteous acts, and judgments for all that are oppressed.
103:7 He made known his ways to Moses, His doings to the children of Israel.
103:8 Yahweh is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
103:9 He will not always chide; Neither will he keep his anger for ever.
103:10 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our
iniquities.
103:11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his lovingkindness toward
them that fear him.
103:12 As far as the east is from the west, So far has he removed our transgressions from
us.
103:13 Like as a father pities his children, So Yahweh pities them that fear him.
103:14 For he knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.
103:15 As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
103:16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no
more.
103:17 But the lovingkindness of Yahweh is from everlasting to everlasting upon them
that fear him, and his righteousness to children's children;
103:18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his precepts to do them.
103:19 Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens; And his kingdom rules over
all.
103:20 Bless Yahweh, ye his angels, That are mighty in strength, that fulfil his word,
Hearkening to the voice of his word.
103:21 Bless Yahweh, all ye his hosts, You ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
103:22 Bless Yahweh, all ye his works, In all places of his dominion: Bless Yahweh, O
my soul.
Psalm 104
104:1 Bless Yahweh, O my soul. O Yahweh my God, you are very great; You are
clothed with honor and majesty:
104:2 Who cover yourself with light as with a garment; Who stretch out the heavens like
a curtain;
104:3 Who lays the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who makes the clouds his
chariot; Who walks upon the wings of the wind;
104:4 Who makes winds his messengers; Flames of fire his ministers;
104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved for ever.
104:6 You covered it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the
mountains.
104:7 At your rebuke they fled; At the voice of your thunder they hastened away
104:8 (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) To the place which you had
founded for them.
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104:9 You have set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to
cover the earth.
104:10 He sends forth springs into the valleys; They run among the mountains;
104:11 They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild asses quench their thirst.
104:12 By them the birds of the heavens have their habitation; They sing among the
branches.
104:13 He waters the mountains from his chambers: The earth is filled with the fruit of
your works.
104:14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man; That
he may bring forth food out of the earth,
104:15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and
bread that strengthens man's heart.
104:16 The trees of Yahweh are filled with moisture, The cedars of Lebanon, which he
has planted;
104:17 Where the birds make their nests: As for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
104:18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; The rocks are a refuge for the badger.
104:19 He appointed the moon for seasons: The sun knows his going down.
104:20 You make darkness, and it is night, during which all the beasts of the forest creep
forth.
104:21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.
104:22 The sun arises, they get them away, and lay themselves down in their dens.
104:23 Man goes forth to his work And to his labor until the evening.
104:24 O Yahweh, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all:
The earth is full of your riches.
104:25 Yonder is the sea, great and wide, in which are things creeping innumerable, both
small and great beasts.
104:26 There go the ships; There is leviathan, whom you have formed to play therein.
104:27 These wait all for you, That you may give them their food in due season.
104:28 You give to them, they gather; You open your hand, they are satisfied with good.
104:29 You hide your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die, and
return to their dust.
104:30 You send forth your Spirit, they are created; And you renew the face of the
ground.
104:31 Let the glory of Yahweh endure for ever; Let Yahweh rejoice in his works:
104:32 Who looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they
smoke.
104:33 I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have
any being.
104:34 Let your meditation be sweet to him: I will rejoice in Yahweh.
104:35 Let sinners be consumed out of the earth. And let the wicked be no more.
Bless Yahweh, O my soul. Praise ye Yahweh.
Psalm 105
105:1 Oh give thanks to Yahweh, call upon his name; Make known among the peoples
his doings.
105:2 Sing to him, sing praises to him; Talk ye of all his marvelous works.
105:3 Glory ye in his holy name: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek Yahweh.
105:4 Seek ye Yahweh and his strength; Seek his face evermore.
105:5 Remember his marvellous works that he has done, His wonders, and the judgments
of his mouth,
105:6 O ye seed of Abraham his servant, Ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
105:7 He is Yahweh our God: His judgments are in all the earth.
105:8 He has remembered his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a
thousand generations,
105:9 The covenant which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac,
105:10 And confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting
covenant,
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105:11 Saying, To you will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
105:12 When they were but a few men in number, Yes, very few, and sojourners in it.
105:13 And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.
105:14 He allowed no man to do them wrong; Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
105:15 Saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.
105:16 And he called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.
105:17 He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:
105:18 His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in chains of iron,
105:19 Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of Yahweh tried him.
105:20 The king sent and released him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
105:21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance;
105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.
105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
105:24 And he increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their
adversaries.
105:25 He turned their heart to hate his people, To deal subtly with his servants.
105:26 He sent Moses his servant, and Aaron whom he had chosen.
105:27 They set among them his signs, and wonders in the land of Ham.
105:28 He sent darkness, and made it dark; And they rebelled not against his words.
105:29 He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
105:30 Their land swarmed with frogs In the chambers of their kings.
105:31 He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and lice in all their borders.
105:32 He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
105:33 He struck their vines also and their fig-trees, and broke the trees of their borders.
105:34 He spoke, and the locust came, and the grasshopper, and that without number,
105:35 And did eat up every herb in their land, and did eat up the fruit of their ground.
105:36 He struck also all the first-born in their land, The chief of all their strength.
105:37 And he brought them forth with silver and gold; And there was not one feeble
person among his tribes.
105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed; For the fear of them had fallen upon them.
105:39 He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night.
105:40 They asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
105:41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran in the dry places like a river.
105:42 For he remembered his holy word, and Abraham his servant.
105:43 And he brought forth his people with joy, his chosen with singing.
105:44 And he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the labor of the peoples
in possession:
105:45 That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise ye Yahweh.
Psalm 106
106:1 Praise ye Yahweh. Oh give thanks to Yahweh; for he is good; For his
lovingkindness endures forever.
106:2 Who can utter the mighty acts of Yahweh, Or show forth all his praise?
106:3 Blessed are they that keep justice, and he that does righteousness at all times.
106:4 Remember me, O Yahweh, with the favor that you bear to your people; Oh visit me
with your salvation,
106:5 That I may see the prosperity of your chosen, That I may rejoice in the gladness of
your nation, That I may glory with your inheritance.
106:6 We have sinned along with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have done
wickedly.
106:7 Our fathers understood not your wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the
multitude of your lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
106:8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, That he might make his mighty
power to be known.
106:9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the
depths, as through a wilderness.
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106:10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them
from the hand of the enemy.
106:11 And the waters covered their adversaries; There was not one of them left.
106:12 Then believed they his words; They sang his praise.
106:13 They soon forgot his works; They waited not for his counsel,
106:14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
106:15 And he gave them their request, But sent leanness into their soul.
106:16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of Yahweh.
106:17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; The flame burned up the wicked.
106:19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.
106:20 Thus they exchanged their glory For the likeness of an ox that eats grass.
106:21 They forgot God their Saviour, Who had done great things in Egypt,
106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea.
106:23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had not Moses his chosen stood
before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
106:24 Yes, they despised the pleasant land, They believed not his word,
106:25 But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not to the voice of Yahweh.
106:26 Therefore he swore to them, That he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
106:27 And that he would overthrow their seed among the nations, and scatter them in
the lands.
106:28 They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
106:29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their doings; And the plague broke in upon
them.
106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment; And so the plague was stayed.
106:31 And that was reckoned to him for righteousness, To all generations for evermore.
106:32 They angered him also at the waters of Meribah, So that it went ill with Moses on
their account;
106:33 Because they were rebellious against his spirit, and he spoke unadvisedly with his
lips.
106:34 They did not destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them,
106:35 But mingled themselves with the nations, and learned their works,
106:36 And served their idols, Which became a snare to them.
106:37 Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,
106:38 And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.
106:39 Thus were they defiled with their works, and played the harlot in their doings.
106:40 Therefore was the wrath of Yahweh kindled against his people, and he abhorred
his inheritance.
106:41 And he gave them into the hand of the nations; And they that hated them ruled
over them.
106:42 Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under
their hand.
106:43 Many times did he deliver them; But they were rebellious in their counsel, and
were brought low in their iniquity.
106:44 Nevertheless he regarded their distress, When he heard their cry:
106:45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the
multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
106:46 He made them also to be pitied By all those that carried them captive.
106:47 Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from among the nations, To give
thanks to your holy name, and to triumph in your praise.
106:48 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, amen. Praise ye Yahweh.
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Psalm 107
107:1 O give thanks to Yahweh; for he is good; for his lovingkindness endures for ever.
107:2 Let the redeemed of Yahweh say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the
adversary,
107:3 And gathered out of the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and
from the south.
107:4 Some wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; they found no city of habitation.
107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
107:6 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their
distresses,
107:7 He led them also by a straight way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
107:8 Oh that men would praise Yahweh for his lovingkindness, and for his wonderful
works to the children of men!
107:9 For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good.
107:10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and
iron,
107:11 because they rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the
Most High:
107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was
no one to help.
107:13 Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saved them out of their
distresses.
107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bonds
asunder.
107:16 For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron asunder.
107:17 Some were fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities,
they are afflicted.
107:18 Their soul abhors any kind of food; and they draw near to the gates of death.
107:19 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saves them out of their
distresses.
107:20 He sends his word, and heals them, and delivers them from their traps.
107:22 And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with
singing.
107:23 Some, who go down to the sea in ships, who do business in great waters,
107:24 These see the works of Yahweh, and his wonders in the deep.
107:25 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves of it.
107:26 They mount up to the sky, they go back down to the depths: and their soul melts
away from the trouble.
107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
107:28 Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brings them out of their
distresses.
107:29 He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves of it are still.
107:30 Then are they glad because they are quiet; so he brings them to their desired
haven.
107:32 Let them exalt him also in the assembly of the people, and praise him in the seat
of the elders.
107:33 He turns rivers into a wilderness, and watersprings into a thirsty ground;
107:34 A fruitful land into a salt desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in
it.
107:35 He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into watersprings.
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107:36 And there he causes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city of
habitation,
107:37 and sow fields, and plant vineyards, and get them fruits of increase.
107:38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and does not allow their
cattle to decrease.
107:39 Again, some are diminished and bowed down, through oppression, trouble, and
sorrow.
107:40 He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the waste, where
there is no way.
107:41 Yet sets he the needy on high from affliction, and makes for him families like a
flock.
107:42 The upright shall see it, and be glad; and all iniquity shall shut her mouth.
107:43 Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; and they will consider the
lovingkindnesses of Yahweh.
Psalm 108
A Song, a Psalm of David.
108:1 My heart is fixed, O God; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises, even with my glory.
108:2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake right early.
108:3 I will give thanks to you, O Yahweh, among the peoples; And I will sing praises to
you among the nations.
108:4 For your lovingkindness is great above the heavens; And your truth reaches to the
skies.
108:5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens, and your glory above all the earth.
108:6 That your beloved may be delivered, Save with your right hand, and answer us.
108:7 God has spoken in his holiness: I will exult; I will divide Shechem, and portion out
the valley of Succoth.
108:8 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defense of my head; Judah
is my sceptre.
108:9 Moab is my washpot; Upon Edom will I cast my shoe; Over Philistia will I shout.
108:10 Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?
108:11 Have you not cast us off, O God? And you do not go forth, O God, with our
hosts.
108:12 Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.
108:13 Through God we shall do valiantly: For he it is that will tread down our
adversaries.
Psalm 109
For the Chief Musicion. A Psalm of David.
109:1 Hold not your peace, O God of my praise;
109:2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me:
They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.
109:3 They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me
without a cause.
109:4 For my love they are my adversaries: But I give myself to prayer.
109:5 And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
109:6 Set a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
109:7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin.
109:8 Let his days be few; And let another take his office.
109:9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
109:10 Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their
desolate places.
109:11 Let the extortioner catch all that he has; And let strangers make spoil of his labor.
109:12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him; Neither let there be any to have pity
on his fatherless children.
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109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted
out.
109:14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with Yahweh; And let not the sin of
his mother be blotted out.
109:15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, That he may cut off the memory of them
from the earth;
109:16 Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy
man, and the broken in heart, to slay them.
109:17 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him; And he delighted not in blessing, and it
was far from him.
109:18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his
inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.
109:19 Let it be to him as the raiment with which he covers himself, and for the girdle
with which he is girded continually.
109:20 This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, and of those who speak evil
against my soul.
109:21 But deal thou with me, O Yahweh the Lord, for your name's sake: Because your
lovingkindness is good, deliver me;
109:22 For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
109:23 I am gone like the shadow when it declines: I am tossed up and down as the
locust.
109:24 My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh fails of fatness.
109:25 I am become also a reproach to them: When they see me, they shake their head.
109:26 Help me, O Yahweh my God; Oh save me according to your lovingkindness:
109:27 That they may know that this is your hand; That you, Yahweh, have done it.
109:28 Let them curse, but bless you: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But
your servant shall rejoice.
109:29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor, and let them cover themselves
with their own shame as with a robe.
109:30 I will give great thanks to Yahweh with my mouth; Yes, I will praise him among
the multitude.
109:31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, To save him from those who
judge his soul.
Psalm 110
A Psalm of David.
110:1 Yahweh says to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, Until I make your enemies your
footstool.
110:2 Yahweh will send forth the rod of your strength out of Zion: Rule thou in the midst
of your enemies.
110:3 Your people offer themselves willingly In the day of your power, in holy array:
Out of the womb of the morning You have the dew of your youth.
110:4 Yahweh has sworn, and will not repent: You are a priest for ever After the order of
Melchizedek.
110:5 The Lord at your right hand Will strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
110:6 He will judge among the nations, He will fill the places with dead bodies; He will
strike through the head in many countries.
110:7 He will drink of the brook in the way: Therefore will he lift up the head.
Psalm 111
111:1 Praise ye Yahweh. I will give thanks to Yahweh with my whole heart, In the
council of the upright, and in the congregation.
111:2 The works of Yahweh are great, Sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
111:3 His work is honor and majesty; And his righteousness endures for ever.
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111:4 He has made his wonderful works to be remembered: Yahweh is gracious and
merciful.
111:5 He has given food to them that fear him: He will ever be mindful of his covenant.
111:6 He has shown his people the power of his works, In giving them the heritage of the
nations.
111:7 The works of his hands are truth and justice; All his precepts are sure.
111:8 They are established for ever and ever; They are done in truth and uprightness.
111:9 He has sent redemption to his people; He has commanded his covenant for ever:
Holy and reverend is his name.
111:10 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all
they that do his commandments: His praise endures for ever.
Psalm 112
112:1 Praise ye Yahweh. Blessed is the man that fears Yahweh, That delights greatly
in his commandments.
112:2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: The generation of the upright shall be blessed.
112:3 Wealth and riches are in his house; And his righteousness endures for ever.
112:4 To the upright there arises light in the darkness: He is gracious, and merciful, and
righteous.
112:5 Well is it with the man that deals graciously and lends; He shall maintain his cause
in judgment.
112:6 For he shall never be moved; The righteous shall be had in everlasting
remembrance.
112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: His heart is fixed, trusting in Yahweh.
112:8 His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, Until he see his desire upon his
adversaries.
112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the needy; His righteousness endures for ever:
His horn shall be exalted with honor.
112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt
away: The desire of the wicked shall perish.
Psalm 113
113:1 Praise ye Yahweh. Praise, O ye servants of Yahweh, Praise the name of Yahweh.
113:2 Blessed be the name of Yahweh From this time forth and for evermore.
113:3 From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same Yahweh's name is to be
praised.
113:4 Yahweh is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
113:5 Who is like Yahweh our God, That has his seat on high,
113:6 That humbles himself to behold The things that are in heaven and in the earth?
113:7 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the dunghill;
113:8 That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.
113:9 He makes the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children.
Praise ye Yahweh.
Psalm 114
114:1 When Israel went forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange
language;
114:2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion.
114:3 The sea saw it, and fled; The Jordan was driven back.
114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs.
114:5 What ails you, O sea, that you flee? You Jordan, that you turn back?
114:6 You mountains, that ye skip like rams; You little hills, like lambs?
114:7 Tremble, you earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of
Jacob,
114:8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.
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Psalm 115
115:1 Not to us, O Yahweh, not to us, But to your name give glory, For your
lovingkindness, and for your truth's sake.
115:2 Why should the nations say, Where is now their God?
115:3 But our God is in the heavens: He has done whatsoever he pleased.
115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
115:5 They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;
115:6 They have ears, but they hear not; Noses have they, but they smell not;
115:7 They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither
speak they through their throat.
115:8 They that make them shall be like to them; Yes, every one that trusts in them.
115:9 O Israel, trust in Yahweh: He is their help and their shield.
115:10 O house of Aaron, trust ye in Yahweh: He is their help and their shield.
115:11 You that fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh: He is their help and their shield.
115:12 Yahweh has been mindful of us; he will bless us: He will bless the house of
Israel; He will bless the house of Aaron.
115:13 He will bless them that fear Yahweh, Both small and great.
115:14 May Yahweh increase you more and more, You and your children.
115:15 Blessed are ye of Yahweh, Who made heaven and earth.
115:16 The heavens are the heavens of Yahweh; But the earth he has given to the
children of men.
115:17 The dead praise not Yahweh, Neither any that go down into silence;
115:18 But we will bless Yahweh From this time forth and for evermore. Praise ye
Yahweh.
Psalm 116
116:1 I love Yahweh, because he hears My voice and my supplications.
116:2 Because he has inclined his ear to me, Therefore will I call upon him as long as I
live.
116:3 The cords of death compassed me, and the pains of Sheol got hold upon me: I
found trouble and sorrow.
116:4 Then called I upon the name of Yahweh: O Yahweh, I beseech you, deliver my
soul.
116:5 Gracious is Yahweh, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful.
116:6 Yahweh preserves the simple: I was brought low, and he saved me.
116:7 Return to your rest, O my soul; For Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you.
116:8 For you have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, and my feet from
falling.
116:9 I will walk before Yahweh In the land of the living.
116:10 I believe, for I will speak: I was greatly afflicted:
116:11 I said in my haste, all men are liars.
116:12 What shall I render to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?
116:13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of Yahweh.
116:14 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, Yes, in the presence of all his people.
116:15 Precious in the sight of Yahweh Is the death of his saints.
116:16 O Yahweh, truly I am your servant: I am your servant, the son of your handmaid;
You have loosed my bonds.
116:17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of
Yahweh.
116:18 I will pay my vows to Yahweh, Yes, in the presence of all his people,
116:19 In the courts of Yahweh's house, In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise ye
Yahweh.
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Psalm 117
117:1 O praise Yahweh, all ye nations; Laud him, all ye peoples.
117:2 For his lovingkindness is great toward us; And the truth of Yahweh endures for
ever. Praise ye Yahweh.
Psalm 118
118:1 Oh give thanks to Yahweh; for he is good; For his lovingkindness endures for ever.
118:2 Let Israel now say, That his lovingkindness endures for ever.
118:3 Let the house of Aaron now say, That his lovingkindness endures for ever.
118:4 Let them now that fear Yahweh say, That his lovingkindness endures for ever.
118:5 Out of my distress I called upon Yahweh: Yahweh answered me and set me in a
large place.
118:6 Yahweh is on my side; I will not fear: What can man do to me?
118:7 Yahweh is on my side among them that help me: Therefore shall I see my desire
upon them that hate me.
118:8 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh Than to put confidence in man.
118:9 It is better to take refuge in Yahweh Than to put confidence in princes.
118:10 All nations surrounded me: In the name of Yahweh I will cut them off.
118:11 They surrounded me; yes, they surrounded me: In the name of Yahweh I will cut
them off.
118:12 They surrounded me like bees; They are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the
name of Yahweh I will cut them off.
118:13 You did thrust hard at me that I might fall; But Yahweh helped me.
118:14 Yahweh is my strength and my song; And is become my salvation.
118:15 The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous: The right hand
of Yahweh does valiantly.
118:16 The right hand of Yahweh is exalted: The right hand of Yahweh does valiantly.
118:17 I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of Yahweh.
118:18 Yahweh has chastened me severely; But he has not given me over to death.
118:19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter into them, I will give thanks to
Yahweh.
118:20 This is the gate of Yahweh; The righteous shall enter into it.
118:21 I will give thanks to you; for you have answered me, and are become my
salvation.
118:22 The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner.
118:23 This is Yahweh's doing; It is marvellous in our eyes.
118:24 This is the day which Yahweh has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.
118:25 Save now, we beseech you, O Yahweh: O Yahweh, we beseech you, send now
prosperity.
118:26 Blessed be he that comes in the name of Yahweh: We have blessed you out of the
house of Yahweh.
118:27 Yahweh is God, and he has given us light: Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to
the horns of the altar.
118:28 You are my God, and I will give thanks to you: You are my God, I will exalt you.
118:29 Oh give thanks to Yahweh; for he is good. His lovingkindness endures for ever.
Psalm 119
ALEPH - ‫א‬
119:1 Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of Yahweh.
119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek him with the whole heart.
119:3 Yes, they do no unrighteousness; They walk in his ways.
119:4 You have commanded us your precepts, That we should observe them diligently.
119:5 Oh that my ways were established To observe your statutes!
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119:6 Then I shall not be put to shame, When I have respect unto all your
commandments.
119:7 I will give thanks to you with uprightness of heart, When I learn your righteous
judgments.
119:8 I will observe your statutes: Oh forsake me not utterly.
BETH - ‫ב‬
119:9 With what shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according
to your word.
119:10 With my whole heart have I sought you: Oh let me not wander from your
commandments.
119:11 Your word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against you.
119:12 Blessed are you, O Yahweh: Teach me your statutes.
119:13 With my lips have I declared All the ordinances of your mouth.
119:14 I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches.
119:15 I will meditate on your precepts, and have respect unto your ways.
119:16 I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word.
GIMEL - ‫ג‬
119:17 Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live; So will I observe your word.
119:18 Open thou my eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of your law.
119:19 I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not your commandments from me.
119:20 My soul breaks for the longing that it has unto your ordinances at all times.
119:21 You have rebuked the proud that are cursed, That do wander from your
commandments.
119:22 Take away from me reproach and contempt; For I have kept your testimonies.
119:23 Princes also sat and talked against me; But your servant did meditate on your
statutes.
119:24 Your testimonies also are my delight And my counsellors.
DALETH - ‫ד‬
119:25 My soul cleaves to the dust: Quicken thou me according to your word.
119:26 I declared my ways, and you answered me: Teach me your statutes.
119:27 Make me to understand the way of your precepts: So shall I meditate on your
wondrous works.
119:28 My soul melts for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according to your word.
119:29 Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me your law graciously.
119:30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness: Your ordinances have I set before me.
119:31 I cleave to your testimonies: O Yahweh, put me not to shame.
119:32 I will run the way of your commandments, When you shall enlarge my heart.
HE - ‫ה‬
119:33 Teach me, O Yahweh, the way of your statutes; And I shall keep it to the end.
119:34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law; Yes, I shall observe it with my
whole heart.
119:35 Make me to go in the path of your commandments; For therein do I delight.
119:36 Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
119:37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and give me life in your ways.
119:38 Confirm to your servant your word, which is so you may be feared.
119:39 Turn away my reproach of which I am afraid; For your ordinances are good.
119:40 Behold, I have longed after your precepts: Give me life in your righteousness.
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VAV - ‫ו‬
119:41 Let your lovingkindnesses also come to me, O Yahweh, Even your salvation,
according to your word.
119:42 So shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me; For I trust in your word.
119:43 And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; For I have hoped in your
ordinances.
119:44 So shall I observe your law continually For ever and ever.
119:45 And I shall walk at liberty; For I have sought your precepts.
119:46 I will also speak of your testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame.
119:47 And I will delight myself in your commandments, Which I have loved.
119:48 I will lift up my hands also to your commandments, which I have loved; And I
will meditate on your statutes.
ZAYIN - ‫ז‬
119:49 Remember the word to your servant, Because you have made me to hope.
119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction; For your word has given me life.
119:51 The proud have had me greatly in derision: Yet I have not swerved from your law.
119:52 I have remembered your ordinances of old, O Yahweh, and have comforted
myself.
119:53 Hot indignation has taken hold on me, Because of the wicked that forsake your
law.
119:54 Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage.
119:55 I have remembered your name, O Yahweh, in the night, and have observed your
law.
119:56 This I have had, Because I have kept your precepts.
HETH - ‫ח‬
119:57 Yahweh is my portion: I have said that I would observe your words.
119:58 I entreated your favor with my whole heart: Be merciful to me according to your
word.
119:59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet toward your testimonies.
119:60 I made haste, and delayed not, to observe your commandments.
119:61 The cords of the wicked have wrapped me round; But I have not forgotten your
law.
119:62 At midnight I will rise to give thanks to you Because of your righteous
ordinances.
119:63 I am a companion of all them that fear you, and of them that observe your
precepts.
119:64 The earth, O Yahweh, is full of your lovingkindness: Teach me your statutes.
TETH - ‫ט‬
119:65 You have dealt well with your servant, O Yahweh, according to your word.
119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge; For I have believed in your
commandments.
119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray; But now I observe your word.
119:68 You are good, and do good; Teach me your statutes.
119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep your
precepts.
119:70 Their heart is as fat as grease; But I delight in your law.
119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; That I may learn your statutes.
119:72 The law of your mouth is better to me Than thousands of gold and silver.
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YODH - ‫י‬
119:73 Your hands have made me and fashioned me: Give me understanding, that I may
learn your commandments.
119:74 They that fear you shall see me and be glad, Because I have hoped in your word.
119:75 I know, O Yahweh, that your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness you
have afflicted me.
119:76 Let, I pray you, your lovingkindness be for my comfort, according to your word
to your servant.
119:77 Let your tender mercies come to me, that I may live; For your law is my delight.
119:78 Let the proud be put to shame; For they have overthrown me wrongfully: But I
will meditate on your precepts.
119:79 Let those that fear you turn to me; And they shall know your testimonies.
119:80 Let my heart be perfect in your statutes, That I be not put to shame.
KAPH - ‫כ‬
119:81 My soul faints for your salvation; But I hope in your word.
119:82 My eyes fail for your word, While I say, When will you comfort me?
119:83 For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet I do not forget your statutes.
119:84 How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on
them that persecute me?
119:85 The proud have dug pits for me, who are not according to your law.
119:86 All your commandments are faithful: They persecute me wrongfully; help thou
me.
119:87 They had almost consumed me upon earth; But I forsook not your precepts.
LAMEDH - ‫ל‬
119:88 Give me life in your lovingkindness; So shall I observe the testimony of your
mouth.
119:89 For ever, O Yahweh, Your word is settled in heaven.
119:90 Your faithfulness is to all generations: You have established the earth, and it
abides.
119:91 They abide this day according to your ordinances; For all things are your
servants.
119:92 Unless your law had been my delight, I should then have perished in my
affliction.
119:93 I will never forget your precepts; For with them you have given me life.
119:94 I am yours, save me; For I have sought your precepts.
119:95 The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me; But I will consider your
testimonies.
MEM - ‫מ‬
119:96 I have seen an end of all perfection; But your commandment is exceedingly
broad.
119:97 Oh how love I your law! It is my meditation all the day.
119:98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies; For they are ever with
me.
119:99 I have more understanding than all my teachers; For your testimonies are my
meditation.
119:100 I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept your precepts.
119:101 I have refrained my feet from every evil way, That I might observe your word.
119:102 I have not turned aside from your ordinances; For you have taught me.
119:103 How sweet are your words to my taste! Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
119:104 Through your precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way.
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NUN - ‫נ‬
119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and light to my path.
119:106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will observe your righteous
ordinances.
119:107 I am afflicted very much: Give me life, O Yahweh, according to your word.
119:108 Accept, I beseech you, the freewill-offerings of my mouth, O Yahweh, and teach
me your ordinances.
119:109 My soul is continually in my hand; Yet I do not forget your law.
119:110 The wicked have laid a snare for me; Yet I have not gone astray from your
precepts.
119:111 Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of
my heart.
119:112 I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes For ever, even to the end.
SAMEKH - ‫ס‬
119:113 I hate them that are of a double mind; But your law do I love.
119:114 You are my hiding-place and my shield: I hope in your word.
119:115 Depart from me, ye evil-doers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.
119:116 Uphold me according to your word, that I may live; And let me not be ashamed
of my hope.
119:117 Hold me up, and I shall be safe, and shall have respect for your statutes
continually.
119:118 You have set at nought all them that go astray from your statutes; For their
deceit is falsehood.
119:119 You put away all the wicked of the earth like dross: Therefore I love your
testimonies.
119:120 My flesh trembles for fear of you; And I am afraid of your judgments.
AYIN - ‫ע‬
119:121 I have done justice and righteousness: Leave me not to my oppressors.
119:122 Be surety for your servant for good: Let not the proud oppress me.
119:123 My eyes fail for your salvation, and for your righteous word.
119:124 Deal with your servant according to your lovingkindness, and teach me your
statutes.
119:125 I am your servant; give me understanding, That I may know your testimonies.
119:126 It is time for Yahweh to work; For they have made void your law.
119:127 Therefore I love your commandments Above gold, yes, above fine gold.
119:128 Therefore I esteem all your precepts concerning all things to be right; And I hate
every false way.
PE - ‫פ‬
119:129 Your testimonies are wonderful; Therefore does my soul keep them.
119:130 The opening of your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.
119:131 I opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed for your commandments.
119:132 Turn thou to me, and have mercy upon me, as is your way with those that love
your name.
119:133 Establish my footsteps in your word; And let not any iniquity have dominion
over me.
119:134 Redeem me from the oppression of man: So will I observe your precepts.
119:135 Make your face to shine upon your servant; And teach me your statutes.
119:136 Streams of water run down my eyes, Because they observe not your law.
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TSADHE - ‫צ‬
119:137 Righteous are you, O Yahweh, and upright are your judgments.
119:138 You have appointed your testimonies in righteousness And all faithfulness.
119:139 My zeal has consumed me, Because my adversaries have forgotten your words.
119:140 Your word is very pure; Therefore your servant loves it.
119:141 I am small and despised; Yet I do not forget your precepts.
119:142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is truth.
119:143 Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; Yet your commandments are my
delight.
119:144 Your testimonies are righteous for ever: Give me understanding, and I shall live.
QOPH - ‫ק‬
119:145 I have called with my whole heart; answer me, O Yahweh: I will keep your
statutes.
119:146 I have called to you; save me, and I shall observe your testimonies.
119:147 I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in your words.
119:148 My eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on your word.
119:149 Hear my voice according to your lovingkindness: Make me alive, O Yahweh,
according to your ordinances.
119:150 They draw near that follow after wickedness; They are far from your law.
119:151 You are near, O Yahweh; And all your commandments are truth.
119:152 Of old have I known from your testimonies, That you have founded them for
ever.
RESH - ‫ר‬
119:153 Consider my affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget your law.
119:154 Plead thou my cause, and redeem me: Quicken me according to your word.
119:155 Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not your statutes.
119:156 Great are your tender mercies, O Yahweh: Give me life according to your
ordinances.
119:157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries; Yet I have not swerved from your
testimonies.
119:158 I beheld the treacherous, and was grieved, Because they observe not your word.
119:159 Consider how I love your precepts: Give me life, O Yahweh, according to your
lovingkindness.
119:160 The sum of your word is truth; And every one of your righteous ordinances
endures for ever.
SHIN - ‫ש‬
119:161 Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart stands in awe of your
words.
119:162 I rejoice at your word, as one that finds great spoil.
119:163 I hate and abhor falsehood; But your law do I love.
119:164 Seven times a day do I praise you, Because of your righteous ordinances.
119:165 Great peace have they that love your law; And they have no occasion of
stumbling.
119:166 I have hoped for your salvation, O Yahweh, and have done your
commandments.
119:167 My soul has observed your testimonies; And I love them exceedingly.
119:168 I have observed your precepts and your testimonies; For all my ways are before
you.
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TAV - ‫ת‬
119:169 Let my cry come near before you, O Yahweh: Give me understanding according
to your word.
119:170 Let my supplication come before you: Deliver me according to your word.
119:171 Let my lips utter praise; For you teach me your statutes.
119:172 Let my tongue sing of your word; For all your commandments are righteousness.
119:173 Let your hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen your precepts.
119:174 I have longed for your salvation, O Yahweh; And your law is my delight.
119:175 Let my soul live, and it shall praise you; And let your ordinances help me.
119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek your servant; For I do not forget your
commandments.
Psalm 120
A Song of Ascents.
120:1 In my distress I cried to Yahweh, and he answered me.
120:2 Deliver my soul, O Yahweh, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.
120:3 What shall be given to you, and what shall be done more to you, You deceitful
tongue?
120:4 Sharp arrows of the mighty, With coals of juniper.
120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, That I dwell among the tents of Kedar!
120:6 My soul has long had her dwelling With him that hates peace.
120:7 I am for peace: But when I speak, they are for war.
Psalm 121
A Song of Ascents.
121:1 I will lift up my eyes to the hills: From where shall my help come?
121:2 My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
121:3 He will not let your foot be moved: he who keeps you will not slumber.
121:4 Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
121:5 Yahweh he is your keeper: Yahweh is your shade at your right hand.
121:6 The sun will not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.
121:7 Yahweh will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
121:8 Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for
evermore.
Psalm 122
A Song of Ascents; of David.
122:1 I was glad when they said to me, Let us go to the house of Yahweh.
122:2 And now our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.
122:3 Jerusalem, you are built as a city compact together;
122:4 To which the tribes go up, even the tribes of Yahweh; it is an ordinance for Israel,
to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
122:5 For there, thrones for judgment are set, the thrones of the house of David.
122:6 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: They shall prosper who love you.
122:7 Peace be within your walls, and security within your towers.
122:8 For my brethren and companions' sakes, I will now say, Peace be within you.
122:9 For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God I will seek your welfare.
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Psalm 123
A Song of Ascents.
123:1 To you do I lift up my eyes, O you sitting in the heavens.
123:2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a
maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh our God, till he has mercy
upon us.
123:3 Have mercy upon us, O Yahweh, have mercy upon us. For we have had more
than our fill of contempt.
123:4 Our soul has had more than its fill of the scoffing of those who are at ease, and of
the contempt of the proud.
Psalm 124
124:1 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, Let Israel now say,
124:2 If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;
124:3 Then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against
us;
124:4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream gone over our soul;
124:5 The proud waters then would have gone over our soul.
124:6 Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
124:7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken,
and we have escaped.
124:8 Our help is in the name of Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 125
A Song of Ascents.
125:1 They that trust in Yahweh are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but remains
for ever.
125:2 As the mountains are all around Jerusalem, so Yahweh is around his people from
this time forth and for evermore.
125:3 For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; That the
righteous put not forth their hands toward iniquity.
125:4 Do good, O Yahweh, to those that are good, and to them that are upright in their
hearts.
125:5 But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them forth
with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
Psalm 126
A Song of Ascents.
126:1 When Yahweh brought back those that returned to Zion, we were similar to people
dreaming.
126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: Then they
were saying among the nations, Yahweh has done great things for them.
126:3 Yahweh has done great things for us, for which we are glad.
126:4 Turn aback our captivity, O Yahweh, as the streams in the South.
126:5 Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy.
126:6 He who goes forth and weeps, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless return again
with joy, bringing his sheaves along with him.
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Psalm 127
A Song of Ascents; of Solomon.
127:1 Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh
keeps the city, the watchman stays awake all in vain.
127:2 In vain you rise up early, and get your rest late, to eat the bread of toil. For He
gives to his beloved in sleep.
127:3 Lo, children are a heritage from Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is a reward.
127:4 As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children out of youth.
127:5 Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them: They shall not be put to shame,
when they speak with their enemies in the gate.
Psalm 128
A Song of Ascents.
128:1 Blessed is every one who has fear of Yahweh, who walks in his ways.
128:2 For you shall eat the labor of your hands. Happy shall you be, and it shall be well
with you.
128:3 Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your
children like olive plants, round about your table.
128:4 Behold, thus shall that man be blessed who has fear for Yahweh.
128:5 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion; and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the
days of your life.
128:6 Yes, may you see your children's children. Peace be upon Israel.
Psalm 129
A Song of Ascents.
129:1 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,
129:2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed
against me.
129:3 The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.
129:4 Yahweh is righteous: He has cut asunder the cords of the wicked.
129:5 Let them be put to shame and turned backward, all they who hate Zion.
129:6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
129:7 With which the reaper fills not his hand, nor he that binds sheaves, his bosom.
129:8 Neither do they who pass by say, The blessing of Yahweh be upon you; We bless
you in the name of Yahweh.
Psalm 130
A Song of Ascents.
130:1 Out of the depths have I cried to you, O Yahweh.
130:2 O Lord, hear my voice: Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my
supplications.
130:3 If you, Yahweh, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?
130:4 But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared.
130:5 I wait for Yahweh, my soul does wait, and in his word do I hope.
130:6 My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning; Yes, more
than watchmen do for the morning.
130:7 O Israel, hope in Yahweh; for with Yahweh there is lovingkindness, and with Him
there is plenteous redemption.
130:8 And He will redeem Israel From all his iniquities.
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Psalm 131
131:1 Yahweh, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in
great matters, or in things too wonderful for me.
131:2 Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like
a weaned child is my soul within me.
131:3 O Israel, hope in Yahweh from this time forth and for evermore.
Psalm 132
A Song of Ascents.
132:1 Yahweh, remember for David all his affliction;
132:2 How he swore to Yahweh, and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob:
132:3 Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
132:4 I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids,
132:5 Until I find out a place for Yahweh, a tabernacle for the Mighty One of Jacob.
132:6 Lo, we heard about it in Ephrathah: we found it in the field of the wood.
132:7 We will go into his tabernacles; we will worship at his footstool.
132:8 Arise, O Yahweh, into your resting place; you, and the ark of your strength.
132:9 Let your priest be clothed with righteousness; and your saints shout for joy.
132:10 For your servant David's sake turn not away the face of your anointed.
132:11 Yahweh has sworn to David in truth; He will not turn from it: “Someone from the
fruit of your body will I set upon your throne.”
132:12 If your children will keep my covenant, and my testimony that I shall teach them,
their children also shall sit upon your throne for evermore.
132:13 For Yahweh has chosen Zion; He has desired it for his habitation.
132:14 This is my resting place for ever: Here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
132:15 I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
132:16 Her priests also will I clothe with salvation; And her saints shall shout aloud for
joy.
132:17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for my
anointed.
132:18 His enemies I will clothe with shame; But upon himself his crown will flourish.
Psalm 133
133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
133:2 It is like the precious oil upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's
beard; that came down upon the skirt of his garments;
133:3 Like the dew of Hermon, that comes down upon the mountains of Zion: For there
Yahweh commanded the blessing, even everlasting life.
Psalm 134
A Song of Ascents.
134:1 Behold, bless ye Yahweh, all ye servants of Yahweh, who by night stand in the
house of Yahweh.
134:2 Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, and bless ye Yahweh.
134:3 May Yahweh bless you out of Zion; even He who made heaven and earth.
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Psalm 135
135:1 Praise ye Yahweh. Praise ye the name of Yahweh; Praise him, O ye servants of
Yahweh,
135:2 Ye that stand in the house of Yahweh, In the courts of the house of our God.
135:3 Praise ye Yahweh; for Yahweh is good: Sing praises to his name; for it is pleasant.
135:4 For Yahweh has chosen Jacob to himself, and Israel for his own possession.
135:5 For I know that Yahweh is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.
135:6 Whatsoever Yahweh pleased, that has he done, In heaven and in earth, in the seas
and in all deeps;
135:7 Who causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; Who makes lightnings
for the rain; Who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;
135:8 Who smote the first-born of Egypt, Both of man and beast;
135:9 Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, O Egypt, Upon Pharaoh, and
upon all his servants;
135:10 Who smote many nations, and slew mighty kings,
135:11 Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of
Canaan,
135:12 And gave their land for a heritage, a heritage to Israel his people.
135:13 Your name, O Yahweh, endures for ever; Your memorial name, O Yahweh,
throughout all generations.
135:14 For Yahweh will judge his people, and repent himself concerning his servants.
135:15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
135:16 They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;
135:17 They have ears, but they hear not; Neither is there any breath in their mouths.
135:18 Those who make them shall be like to them; Yes, every one that trusts in them.
135:19 O house of Israel, bless ye Yahweh: O house of Aaron, bless ye Yahweh:
135:20 O house of Levi, bless ye Yahweh: You that fear Yahweh, bless ye Yahweh.
135:21 Blessed be Yahweh out of Zion, Who dwells at Jerusalem. Praise ye Yahweh.
Psalm 136
136:1 Oh give thanks to Yahweh; for he is good; For his lovingkindness endures for ever.
136:2 Oh give thanks to the God of gods; For his lovingkindness endures for ever.
136:3 Oh give thanks to the Lord of lords; For his lovingkindness endures for ever:
136:4 To him who alone does great wonders; For his lovingkindness endures for ever:
136:5 To him that by understanding made the heavens; For his lovingkindness endures
for ever:
136:6 To him that spread forth the earth above the waters; For his lovingkindness endures
for ever:
136:7 To him that made great lights; For his lovingkindness endures for ever:
136:8 The sun to rule by day; For his lovingkindness endures for ever;
136:9 The moon and stars to rule by night; For his lovingkindness endures for ever:
136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their first-born; For his lovingkindness endures for
ever;
136:11 And brought out Israel from among them; For his lovingkindness endures for
ever;
136:12 With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm; For his lovingkindness endures
for ever:
136:13 To him that divided the Red Sea in sunder; For his lovingkindness endures for
ever;
136:14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it; For his lovingkindness endures
for ever;
136:15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea; For his lovingkindness
endures for ever:
136:16 To him that led his people through the wilderness; For his lovingkindness endures
for ever:
136:17 To him that smote great kings; For his lovingkindness endures for ever;
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136:18 And slew famous kings; For his lovingkindness endures for ever:
136:19 Sihon king of the Amorites; For his lovingkindness endures forever;
136:20 And Og king of Bashan; For his lovingkindness endures for ever;
136:21 And gave their land for a heritage; For his lovingkindness endures for ever;
136:22 Even a heritage to Israel his servant; For his lovingkindness endures for ever:
136:23 Who remembered us in our low estate; For his lovingkindness endures for ever;
136:24 And has delivered us from our adversaries; For his lovingkindness endures for
ever:
136:25 Who gives food to all flesh; For his lovingkindness endures for ever.
136:26 Oh give thanks to the God of heaven; For his lovingkindness endures for ever.
Psalm 137
137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yes, we wept, When we remembered
Zion.
137:2 Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hung up our harps.
137:3 For there those who led us captive required of us songs, and they who wasted us
required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
137:4 How shall we sing Yahweh's song In a foreign land?
137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, Let my right hand forget her skill.
137:6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember you not; If I prefer
not Jerusalem Above my chiefest joy.
137:7 Remember, O Yahweh, against the children of Edom The day of Jerusalem; Who
said, Raze it, raze it, Even to the foundation thereof.
137:8 O daughter of Babylon, that are to be destroyed, Happy shall he be, that rewards
you As you have served to us.
137:9 Happy shall he be, that takes and dashes your little ones Against the rock.
Psalm 138
A [Psalm] of David.
138:1 I will give you thanks with my whole heart: Before the gods will I sing praises to
you.
138:2 I will worship toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your name for your
lovingkindness and for your truth: For you have magnified above all else your word and
your name.
138:3 In the day that I called, you answered me, You did encourage me with strength in
my soul.
138:4 All the kings of the earth shall give you thanks, O Yahweh, For they have heard the
words of your mouth.
138:5 Yes, they shall sing of the ways of Yahweh; For great is the glory of Yahweh.
138:6 For though Yahweh is high, yet he has regard to the lowly; But the haughty he
knows from afar.
138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me; You will stretch forth
your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand will save me.
138:8 Yahweh will perfect that which concerns me: Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh,
endures for ever; Forsake not the works of your own hands.
Psalm 139
139:1 O Yahweh, you have searched me, and known me.
139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.
139:3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
139:4 For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Yahweh, you know it altogether.
139:5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain to it.
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139:7 To where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you
are there.
139:9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
139:10 Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
139:11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, and the light about me shall be
night;
139:12 Even the darkness hides not from you, But the night shines as the day: The
darkness and the light are both alike to you.
139:13 For you did form my inward parts: You did cover me in my mother's womb.
139:14 I will give thanks to you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are
your works; And that my soul knows right well.
139:15 My frame was not hidden from you, When I was made in secret, and curiously
wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
139:16 Your eyes did see my unformed substance; And in your book they were all
written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them.
139:17 How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of
them!
139:18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I
am still with you.
139:19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye
bloodthirsty men.
139:20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your nam in vain.
139:21 Do I not hate them, O Yahweh, that hate you? And am I not grieved with those
that rise up against you?
139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become my enemies.
139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;
139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 140
140:1 Deliver me, O Yahweh, from the evil man; Preserve me from the violent man:
140:2 Those who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves
together for war.
140:3 They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips.
Selah
140:4 Keep me, O Yahweh, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from the violent
man: Who have purposed to thrust aside my steps.
140:5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net beside the
way; They have set snares for me. Selah
140:6 I said to Yahweh, You are my God: Give ear to the voice of my supplications, O
Yahweh.
140:7 O Yahweh the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You have covered my head in
the day of battle.
140:8 Grant not, O Yahweh, the desires of the wicked; Further not his evil device, lest
they exalt themselves. Selah
140:9 As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips
cover them.
140:10 Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits,
from where they shall not rise.
140:11 An evil speaker shall not be established in the earth: Evil shall hunt the violent
man to overthrow him.
140:12 I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the
needy.
140:13 Surely the righteous shall give thanks to your name: The upright shall dwell in
your presence.
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Psalm 141
A Psalm of David.
141:1 Yahweh, I have called upon you; make haste to me: Give ear to my voice, when I
call to you.
141:2 Let my prayer be set forth as incense before you; The lifting up of my hands as the
evening sacrifice.
141:3 Set a watch, O Yahweh, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips.
141:4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To practice deeds of wickedness With men
that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties.
141:5 Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; And let him reprove me, it shall
be as oil upon the head; Let not my head refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall my
prayer continue.
141:6 Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock; And they shall hear my
words; for they are sweet.
141:7 As when one plows and separates the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of
Sheol.
141:8 For my eyes are toward you, O Yahweh the Lord: In you do I take refuge; leave
not my soul defenseless.
141:9 Keep me from the trap which they have laid for me, and from the snares of the
workers of iniquity.
141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, While I pass on by safely.
Psalm 142
Maschil of David, when he was in the cave; a Prayer.
142:1 I cry with my voice to Yahweh; With my voice to Yahweh do I make supplication.
142:2 I pour out my complaint before him; I show before him my trouble.
142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in
which I walk They have hidden a snare for me.
142:4 Look on m right hand, and see; For there is no man that knows me: Refuge has
failed me; No man cares for my soul.
142:5 I cried to you, O Yahweh; I said, You are my refuge, My portion in the land of the
living.
142:6 Attend to my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For
they are stronger than I.
142:7 Bring my soul out of prison, That I may give thanks to your name: The righteous
shall surround me; For you will deal bountifully with me.
Psalm 143
A Psalm of David.
143:1 Hear my prayer, O Yahweh; give ear to my supplications: In your faithfulness
answer me, and in your righteousness.
143:2 And enter not into judgment with your servant; For in your sight no man living is
righteous.
143:3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; He has smitten my life down to the ground:
He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
143:4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.
143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all your doings; I muse on the work of
your hands.
143:6 I spread forth my hands to you: My soul thirsts after you, as a weary land. Selah
143:7 Make haste to answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails: Hide not your face from me,
Lest I become like them that go down into the pit.
143:8 Cause me to hear your lovingkindness in the morning; For in you do I trust: Cause
me to know the way in which I should walk; For I lift up my soul to you.
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143:9 Deliver me, O Yahweh, from my enemies: I flee to you to hide me.
143:10 Teach me to do your will; For you are my God: Your Spirit is good; Lead me in
the land of uprightness.
143:11 Give me life, O Yahweh, for your name's sake: In your righteousness bring my
soul out of trouble.
143:12 And in your lovingkindness cut off my enemies, and destroy all them that afflict
my soul; For I am your servant.
Psalm 144
[A Psalm] of David.
144:1 Blessed be Yahweh my rock, Who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to
fight:
144:2 My lovingkindness, and my fortress, My high tower, and my deliverer; My shield,
and he in whom I take refuge; Who subdues my people under me.
144:3 Yahweh, what is man, that you take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that
you make account of him?
144:4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passes away.
144:5 Bow your heavens, O Yahweh, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they
shall smoke.
144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out your arrows, and discomfit them.
144:7 Stretch forth your hand from above; Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters,
Out of the hand of aliens;
144:8 Whose mouth speaks deceit, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
144:9 I will sing a new song to you, O God: Upon a psaltery of ten strings will I sing
praisesto you.
144:10 You are he that gives salvation to kings; Who rescues David his servant from the
hurtful sword.
144:11 Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of aliens, Whose mouth speaks deceit,
and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
144:12 When our sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth, and our daughters as
corner-stones hewn after the fashion of a palace;
144:13 When our garners are full, affording all manner of store, and our sheep bring forth
thousands and ten thousands in our fields;
144:14 When our oxen are well laden; When there is no breaking in, and no going forth,
and no outcry in our streets:
144:15 Happy is the people that is in such a case; Yes, happy is the people whose God is
Yahweh.
Psalm 145
[A Psalm of] praise; of David.
145:1 I will extol you, my God, O King; And I will bless your name for ever and ever.
145:2 Every day will I bless you; And I will praise your name for ever and ever.
145:3 Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised; And his greatness is unsearchable.
145:4 One generation shall laud your works to another, and shall declare your mighty
acts.
145:5 Of the glorious majesty of your honor, and of your wondrous works, will I
meditate.
145:6 And men shall speak of the might of your terrible acts; And I will declare your
greatness.
145:7 They shall utter the memory of your great goodness, and shall sing of your
righteousness.
145:8 Yahweh is gracious, and merciful; Slow to anger, and of great lovingkindness.
145:9 Yahweh is good to all; And his tender mercies are over all his works.
145:10 All your works shall give thanks to you, O Yahweh; And your saints shall bless
you.
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145:11 They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power;
145:12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glory of the majesty
of his kingdom.
145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout
all generations.
145:14 Yahweh upholds all that fall, and raises up all those that are bowed down.
145:15 The eyes of all wait for you; And you give them their food in due season.
145:16 You open your hand, and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
145:17 Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and gracious in all his works.
145:18 Yahweh is near to all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth.
145:19 He will fulfil the desire of those that fear him; He also will hear their cry and will
save them.
145:20 Yahweh preserves all them that love him; But all the wicked will he destroy.
145:21 My mouth shall speak the praise of Yahweh; And let all flesh bless his holy name
for ever and ever.
Psalm 146
146:1 Praise ye Yahweh. Praise Yahweh, O my soul.
146:2 While I live I will praise Yahweh: I will sing praises to my God while I have any
being.
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146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
146:4 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts will
perish.
146:5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh his
God:
146:6 He who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is; who keeps truth for
ever;
146:7 who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh
releases the prisoners;
146:8 Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind; Yahweh raises up those that are bowed down;
Yahweh loves the righteous;
146:9 Yahweh preserves the sojourners; He upholds the fatherless and widow; but the
way of the wicked he turns upside down.
146:10 Yahweh will reign for ever; your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise ye
Yahweh.
Psalm 147
147:1 Praise ye Yahweh; For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and
praise is comely.
147:2 Yahweh does build up Jerusalem; He gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
147:3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
147:4 He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names.
147:5 Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite.
147:6 Yahweh upholds the meek: He brings the wicked down to the ground.
147:7 Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving; Sing praises upon the harp to our God,
147:8 Who covers the heavens with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes
grass to grow upon the mountains.
147:9 He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry out.
147:10 He delights not in the strength of the horse: He takes no pleasure in the legs of a
man.
147:11 Yahweh takes pleasure in them that fear him, In those that hope in his
lovingkindness.
147:12 Praise Yahweh, O Jerusalem; Praise your God, O Zion.
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147:13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your children
within you.
147:14 He makes peace in your borders; He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
147:15 He sends out his commandment upon earth; His word runs very swiftly.
147:16 He gives snow like wool; He scatters the hoar-frost like ashes.
147:17 He casts forth his ice like morsels: Who can stand before his cold?
147:18 He sends out his word, and melts them: He causes his wind to blow, and the
waters flow.
147:19 He shows his word to Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
147:20 He has not dealt so with any other nation; And as for his ordinances, they have
not known them. Praise ye Yahweh.
Psalm 148
148:1 Praise ye Yahweh. Praise ye Yahweh from the heavens: Praise him in the
heights.
148:2 Praise ye him, all his angels: Praise ye him, all his host.
148:3 Praise ye him, sun and moon: Praise him, all ye stars of light.
148:4 Praise him, ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens.
148:5 Let them praise the name of Yahweh; For he commanded, and they were created.
148:6 He has also established them for ever and ever: He has made a decree which shall
not pass away.
148:7 Praise Yahweh from the earth, You sea-monsters, and all deeps.
148:8 Fire and hail, snow and vapor; Stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
148:9 Mountains and all hills; Fruitful trees and all cedars;
148:10 Beasts and all cattle; Creeping things and flying birds;
148:11 Kings of the earth and all peoples; Princes and all judges of the earth;
148:12 Both young men and virgins; Old men and children:
148:13 Let them praise the name of Yahweh; For his name alone is exalted; His glory is
above the earth and the heavens.
148:14 And he has lifted up the horn of his people, The praise of all his saints; Even of
the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise ye Yahweh.
Psalm 149
149:1 Praise ye Yahweh. Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise in the assembly
of the saints.
149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: Let the children of Zion be joyful in their
King.
149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance: Let them sing praises to him with timbrel
and harp.
149:4 For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people: He will adorn the meek with salvation.
149:5 Let the saints exult in glory: Let them sing for joy upon their beds.
149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
149:7 To execute vengeance upon the nations, and punishments upon the peoples;
149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
149:9 To execute upon them the judgment written: This honor have all his saints. Praise
ye Yahweh.
Psalm 150
150:1 Praise ye Yahweh. Praise God in his sanctuary: Praise him in the firmament of
his power.
150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts: Praise him according to his excellent greatness.
150:3 Praise him with trumpet sound: Praise him with psaltery and harp.
150:4 Praise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe.
150:5 Praise him with loud cymbals: Praise him with high sounding cymbals.
150:6 Let everything that has breath praise Yahweh. Praise ye Yahweh.
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The Book of Proverbs
Proverbs
Chapter 1
1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
1:3 To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness and justice and equity;
1:4 To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion:
1:5 That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; and that the man of
understanding may attain to sound counsels:
1:6 To understand a proverb, and a figure, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
1:7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom
and instruction.
1:8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
1:9 For they shall be a chaplet of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.
1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood; let us lurk secretly for the
innocent without cause;
1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the
pit;
1:13 We shall find all precious substance; we shall fill our houses with spoil;
1:14 You shall cast your lot among us; we will have one common purse:
1:15 My son, walk not in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
1:16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
1:17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:
1:18 And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk stealthily for their own lives.
1:19 Such are the ways of every one that is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of the
owners thereof.
1:20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street; she utters her voice in the broad places;
1:21 She cries in the chief place of concourse; at the entrance of the gates, In the city, she
utters her words:
1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight
themselves in scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
1:23 Turn yourselves at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will
make known my words to you.
1:24 For I have before called, and ye have refused. I have stretched out my hand, and
no one regarded;
1:25 But rather ye have set at nought all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof,
1:26 I then will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when comes what you fear;
1:27 when your fear comes as a storm, and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind; when
distress and anguish come upon you.
1:28 Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but
they shall not find me;
1:29 because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Yahweh:
1:30 They would have none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with the result of
their own counsel.
1:32 For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the careless ease of fools shall
destroy them.
1:33 But whoso hearkens to me shall dwell securely, and be tranquil without fear of evil.
Chapter 2
2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with you;
2:2 So as to incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
2:3 Yes, if you cry after discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
2:4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
2:5 Then shall you understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
2:6 For Yahweh gives wisdom; out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding:
2:7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
2:8 That he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.
2:9 Then shall you understand righteousness and justice, and equity; yes, every good
path.
2:10 For wisdom shall enter into your heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to your
soul;
2:11 Discretion shall watch over you; understanding shall keep you:
2:12 To deliver you from the way of the evil, from the men that speak perverse things;
2:13 Who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
2:15 Who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
2:16 To deliver you from the prostitute, from the adulteress that flatters with her words;
2:17 That forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
2:18 For her house inclines toward death, and her paths to the dead;
2:19 None that go to her ever return, Neither do they attain to the paths of life:
2:20 That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out
of it.
Chapter 3
3:1 My son, forget not my law; But let your heart keep my commandments:
3:2 For length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.
3:3 Let not kindness and truth forsake you: Bind them about your neck; Write them upon
the tablet of your heart:
3:4 So shall you find favor and good understanding In the sight of God and man.
3:5 Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and lean not upon your own understanding:
3:6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths.
3:7 Be not wise in your own eyes; Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil:
3:8 It will be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones.
3:9 Honor Yahweh with your substance, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:
3:10 So shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your vats overflow with new wine.
3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of Yahweh; neither be weary of his reproof:
3:12 For whom Yahweh loves he reproves; just as a father the son in whom he delights.
3:13 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.
3:14 For the gaining of it is better than the gaining of silver, and the profit from it than
fine gold.
3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and none of the things you can desire are to be
compared to her.
3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that
retains her.
3:19 Yahweh by wisdom founded the earth. By understanding he established the
heavens.
3:20 By his knowledge the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
3:21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:
3:22 So shall they be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.
3:23 Then shall you walk in your way securely, and your foot shall not stumble.
3:24 When you lie down, you shall not be afraid. Yes, you shall lie down, and your
sleep shall be sweet.
3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes:
3:26 For Yahweh will be your confidence, and keep your foot from being taken.
3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your
hand to do it.
3:28 Say not to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give," when
you have it by you.
3:29 Devise not evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.
3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he has done you no harm.
3:31 Envy not the man of violence, and choose none of his ways.
3:32 For the perverse man is an abomination to Yahweh, but His friendship is with the
upright.
3:33 The curse of Yahweh is in the house of the wicked; but he blesses the habitation of
the righteous.
3:34 Surely He scoffs at the scoffers; but He gives grace to the lowly.
3:35 The wise shall inherit glory; but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Chapter 4
4:1 Hear, my sons, the instruction of a father, and pay attention to know understanding:
4:2 For I give you good doctrine; forsake ye not my law.
4:3 For I was a son to my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
4:4 And he taught me, and said to me: Let your heart retain my words; Keep my
commandments, and live;
4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my
mouth;
4:6 Forsake her not, and she will preserve you; Love her, and she will keep you.
4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; Yes, with all your getting get
understanding.
4:8 Exalt her, and she will promote you; She will bring you to honor, when you do
embrace her.
4:9 She will give to your head a chaplet of grace; A crown of beauty will she deliver to
you.
4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of your life shall be many.
4:11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in paths of uprightness.
4:12 When you go, your steps shall not be straitened; And if you runnest, you shall not
stumble.
4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is your life.
4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and walk not in the way of evil men.
4:15 Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
4:16 For they sleep not, without first doing evil; and their sleep is taken away, unless they
cause someone to fall.
4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
4:18 But the path of the righteous is as the dawning light, that shines more and more to
the perfect day.
4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not by what they stumble.
4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
4:21 Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.
4:22 For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.
4:24 Put away from you a wayward mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.
4:25 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.
4:26 Make level the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.
4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove your foot from evil.
Chapter 5
5:1 My son, attend to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding:
5:2 That you may preserve discretion, and your lips may keep knowledge.
5:3 For the lips of a prostitute drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
5:4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold of Sheol;
5:6 So that she finds not the level path of life: her ways are unstable, and she does not
know it.
5:7 Now therefore, my sons, hearken to me, and do not depart from the words of my
mouth.
5:8 Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house;
5:9 Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel;
5:10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors go to the house of an alien,
5:11 And you mourn at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
5:12 And say, How I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
5:13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who
instructed me!
5:14 I was almost in utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation.
5:15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
5:16 Should your springs be dispersed abroad, and streams of water in the streets?
5:17 Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
5:18 Let your fountain be blessed; and rejoice in the wife of your youth.
5:19 as a loving deer and a pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be
captivated always by her love.
5:20 For why should you, my son, be captivated by a prostitute, and embrace the bosom
of an adulteress?
5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh; and he consders all their paths.
5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his
sin.
5:23 He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go
astray.
Chapter 6
6:1 My son, if you are become surety for your neighbor, If you have stricken your hands
for a stranger;
6:2 You are snared with the words of your mouth, You are taken with the words of your
mouth.
6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, Seeing you are come into the hand of your
neighbor: Go, humble yourself, and importune your neighbor;
6:4 Give not sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids;
6:5 Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of
the fowler.
6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:
6:7 Which having no chief, Overseer, or ruler,
6:8 Provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
6:9 How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
6:10 A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to sleep:
6:11 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
6:12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walks with a perverse mouth;
6:13 That winks with his eyes, that speaks with his feet, That makes signs with his
fingers;
6:14 In whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who sows discord.
6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and
that without remedy.
6:16 There are six things which Yahweh hates; Yes, seven which are an abomination to
him:
6:17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
6:18 A heart that devises wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,
6:19 A false witness that utters lies, and he that sows discord among brethren.
6:20 My son, keep the commandment of your father, and forsake not the law of your
mother:
6:21 Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them about your neck.
6:22 When you walk, it shall lead you; When you are sleeping, it shall watch over you;
and when you are awake, it shall talk with you.
6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; And reproofs of instruction are
the way of life:
6:24 To keep you from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
6:25 Lust not after her beauty in your heart; Neither let her take you with her eyelids.
6:26 For on account of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread; And the adulteress
hunts for the precious life.
6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
6:28 Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
6:29 So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; Whosoever touches her shall not be
unpunished.
6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:
6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his
house.
6:32 He that commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He does it who
would destroy his own soul.
6:33 Wounds and dishonor shall he get; And his reproach shall not be wiped away.
6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
6:35 He will not regard any ransom; Neither will he rest content, though you give many
gifts.
Chapter 7
7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
7:2 Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of your eye.
7:3 Bind them upon your fingers; Write them upon the tablet of your heart.
7:4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister; And call understanding your kinswoman:
7:5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flatters
with her words.
7:6 For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
7:7 And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man
void of understanding,
7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,
7:9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the
darkness.
7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
7:11 She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:
7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lies in wait at every corner.
7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said to him:
7:14 Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows.
7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet you, Diligently to seek your face, and I have found
you.
7:16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of
Egypt.
7:17 I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with
loves.
7:19 For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:
7:20 He has taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon.
7:21 With her much fair speech she causes him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she
forces him along.
7:22 He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to
the correction of the fool;
7:23 Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird rushes to the snare, and knows not
that it is for his life.
7:24 Now therefore, my sons, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
7:25 Let not your heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.
7:26 For she has cast down many wounded: Yes, all her slain are a vast array.
7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
Chapter 8
8:1 Does not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice?
8:2 On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she stands;
8:3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she cries aloud:
8:4 To you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.
8:5 O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.
8:6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right
things.
8:7 For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8:8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse
in them.
8:9 They are all plain to him that understands, and right to them that find knowledge.
8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.
8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be
compared to it.
8:12 I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, and find out knowledge and discretion.
8:13 The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the
perverse mouth, do I hate.
8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
8:15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
8:16 By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
8:17 I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.
8:18 Riches and honor are with me; Yes, durable wealth and righteousness.
8:19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.
8:20 I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
8:21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their
treasuries.
8:22 Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.
8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.
8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains
abounding with water.
8:25 Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;
8:26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust
of the world.
8:27 When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of
the deep,
8:28 When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,
8:29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his
commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
8:30 Then I was by him, as a master workman; And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing
always before him,
8:31 Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.
8:32 Now therefore, my sons, hearken to me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.
8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
8:34 Blessed is the man that hears me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts
of my doors.
8:35 For whoso finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of Yahweh.
8:36 But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
Chapter 9
9:1 Wisdom has built her house; She has hewn out her seven pillars:
9:2 She has killed her beasts; She has mingled her wine; She has also furnished her table:
9:3 She has sent forth her maidens; She cries upon the highest places of the city:
9:4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in here: As for him that is void of understanding, she
says to him,
9:5 Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.
9:6 Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.
9:7 He who corrects a scoffer gains for himself reviling, and who reproves a wicked man,
a blot.
9:8 Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
9:9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: Teach a righteous man, and
he will increase in learning.
9:10 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom; And the knowledge of the Holy
One is understanding.
9:11 For by me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be
increased.
9:12 If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; And if you scoffest, you alone shall bear
it.
9:13 The foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knows nothing.
9:14 And she sits at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
9:15 To call to them that pass by, Who go right on their ways:
9:16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in here; And as for him that is void of understanding,
she says to him,
9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
9:18 But he knows not that the dead are there; That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.
Chapter 10
10:1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son is the
heaviness of his mother.
10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivers from death.
10:3 Yahweh will not allow the soul of the righteous to famish; But he thrusts away the
desire of the wicked.
10:4 He becomes poor that works with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent makes
rich.
10:5 He that gathers in summer is a wise son; But he that sleeps in harvest is a son that
causes shame.
10:6 Blessings are upon the head of the righteous; But violence covers the mouth of the
wicked.
10:7 The memory of the righteous is blessed; But the name of the wicked shall rot.
10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a prating fool shall fall.
10:9 He that walks uprightly walks surely; But he that perverts his ways shall be known.
10:10 He that winks with the eye causes sorrow; But a prating fool shall fall.
10:11 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; But violence covers the mouth of
the wicked.
10:12 Hatred stirs up strifes; But love covers all transgressions.
10:13 In the lips of him that has discernment wisdom is found; But a rod is for the back
of him that is void of understanding.
10:14 Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.
10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their
poverty.
10:16 The labor of the righteous tends to life; The increase of the wicked, to sin.
10:17 He is in the way of life that heeds correction; But he that forsakes reproof errs.
10:18 He that hides hatred is of lying lips; And he that utters a slander is a fool.
10:19 In the multitude of words there lacks not transgression; But he that refrains his lips
does wisely.
10:20 The tongue of the righteous is as choice silver: The heart of the wicked is little
worth.
10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many; But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
10:22 The blessing of Yahweh, it makes rich; And he adds no sorrow with it.
10:23 It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness; And so is wisdom to a man of
understanding.
10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him; And the desire of the righteous
shall be granted.
10:25 When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; But the righteous is an
everlasting foundation.
10:26 As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that
send him.
10:27 The fear of Yahweh prolongs days; But the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
10:28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladness; But the expectation of the wicked
shall perish.
10:29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the
workers of iniquity.
10:30 The righteous shall never be removed; But the wicked shall not dwell in the land.
10:31 The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom; But the perverse tongue shall be
cut off.
10:32 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable; But the mouth of the wicked
speaks perverseness.
Chapter 11
11:1 A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh; But a just weight is his delight.
11:2 When pride comes, then comes shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.
11:3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous
shall destroy them.
11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivers from death.
11:5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his
own wickedness.
11:6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them; But the treacherous shall be
taken in their own iniquity.
11:7 When a wicked man dies, his expectation shall perish; And the hope of iniquity
perishes.
11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked comes in his stead.
11:9 With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor; But through knowledge shall
the righteous be delivered.
11:10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; And when the wicked
perish, there is shouting.
11:11 By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted; but it is overthrown by the mouth
of the wicked.
11:12 He that despises his neighbor is void of wisdom; but a man of understanding holds
his peace.
11:13 He that goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; but he that is of a faithful spirit
conceals a matter.
11:14 Where no wise guidance is, the people falls; but in the multitude of counsellors
there is safety.
11:15 He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; but he that hates suretyship is
secure.
11:16 A gracious woman obtains honor; And violent men obtain riches.
11:17 The merciful man does good to his own soul; But he that is cruel troubles his own
flesh.
11:18 The wicked earns deceitful wages; But he that sows righteousness has a sure
reward.
11:19 He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain to life; And he that pursues evil
does it to his own death.
11:20 They that are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh; But such as are
perfect in their way are his delight.
11:21 Though hand join in hand, the evil man shall not be unpunished; But the seed of the
righteous shall be delivered.
11:22 as a ring of gold in a swine's snout, So is a fair woman that is without discretion.
11:23 The desire of the righteous is only good; But the expectation of the wicked is
wrath.
11:24 There is that scatters, and increases yet more; And there is that withholds more
than is proper, but it tends only to want.
11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat; And he that waters shall be watered also
himself.
11:26 He that withholds grain, the people shall curse him; But blessing shall be upon the
head of him that sells it.
11:27 He that diligently seeks good seeks favor; But he that searches after evil, it shall
come to him.
11:28 He that trusts in his riches shall fall; But the righteous shall flourish as the green
leaf.
11:29 He that troubles his own house shall inherit the wind; And the foolish shall be
servant to the wise of heart.
11:30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he that is wise wins souls.
11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: How much more the
wicked and the sinner!
Chapter 12
12:1 Whoso loves correction loves knowledge; But he that hates reproof is brutish.
12:2 A good man shall obtain favor of Yahweh; But a man of wicked devices will he
condemn.
12:3 A man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not
be moved.
12:4 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that makes ashamed is as
rottenness in his bones.
12:5 The thoughts of the righteous are just; But the counsels of the wicked are deceit.
12:6 The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright
shall deliver them.
12:7 The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.
12:8 A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; But he that is of a perverse
heart shall be despised.
12:9 Better is he that is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, Than he that honors himself,
and lacks bread.
12:10 A righteous man regards the life of his beast; But the tender mercies of the wicked
are cruel.
12:11 He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that follows after vain
persons is void of understanding.
12:12 The wicked desires the net of evil men; But the root of the righteous yields fruit.
12:13 In the transgression of the lips is a snare to the evil man; But the righteous shall
come out of trouble.
12:14 A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth; And the doings of a
man's hands shall be rendered to him.
12:15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he that is wise hearkens to counsel.
12:16 A fool's vexation is presently known; But a prudent man conceals shame.
12:17 He that utters truth shows forth righteousness; But a false witness, deceit.
12:18 There is that speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise
is health.
12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever; But a lying tongue is but for a
moment.
12:20 Deceit is in the heart of them that devise evil; But to the counsellors of peace is
joy.
12:21 There shall no mischief happen to the righteous; But the wicked shall be filled with
evil.
12:22 Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh; But they that deal truly are his delight.
12:23 A prudent man conceals knowledge; But the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; But the slothful shall be put under
taskwork.
12:25 Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it stoop; But a good word makes it glad.
12:26 The righteous is a guide to his neighbor; But the way of the wicked causes them to
err.
12:27 The slothful man roasts not that which he took in hunting; But the precious
substance of men is to the diligent.
12:28 In the way of righteousness is life; And in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Chapter 13
13:1 A wise son listens to his father's instruction; But a scoffer hears not rebuke.
13:2 A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; But the soul of the treacherous shall
eat violence.
13:3 He that guards his mouth keeps his life; But he that opens wide his lips shall have
destruction.
13:4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall
be made fat.
13:5 A righteous man hates lying; But a wicked man is loathsome, and comes to shame.
13:6 Righteousness guards him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthrows the
sinner.
13:7 There is that makes himself rich, yet has nothing: There is that makes himself poor,
yet has great wealth.
13:8 The ransom of a man's life is his riches; But the poor hears no threatening.
13:9 The light of the righteous rejoices; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
13:10 By pride comes only contention; But with the well-advised is wisdom.
13:11 Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathers by labor shall
have increase.
13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick; But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.
13:13 Whoso despises the word brings destruction on himself; But he that fears the
commandment shall be rewarded.
13:14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of
death.
13:15 Good understanding gives favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard.
13:16 Every prudent man works with knowledge; But a fool flaunts his folly.
13:17 A wicked messenger falls into evil; But a faithful ambassador is health.
13:18 Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses correction; But he that regards
reproof shall be honored.
13:19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; But it is an abomination to fools to
depart from evil.
13:20 Walk with wise men, and you shall be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart
for it.
13:21 Evil pursues sinners; But the righteous shall be recompensed with good.
13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children; And the wealth of the
sinner is laid up for the righteous.
13:23 Much food is in the tillage of the poor; But there is that is destroyed by reason of
injustice.
13:24 He that spares his rod hates his son; But he that loves him chastens him betimes.
13:25 The righteous person eats to the satisfying of his soul; But the belly of the wicked
shall want.
Chapter 14
14:1 Every wise woman builds her house; But the foolish plucks it down with her own
hands.
14:2 He that walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh; But he that is perverse in his ways
despises him.
14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod for his pride; But the lips of the wise shall
preserve them.
14:4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; But much increase is by the strength of the ox.
14:5 A faithful witness will not lie; But a false witness utters lies.
14:6 A scoffer seeks wisdom, and finds it not; But knowledge is easy to him that has
understanding.
14:7 Go into the presence of a foolish man, and you shall not perceive in him the lips of
knowledge.
14:8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the folly of fools is deceit.
14:9 A trespass offering mocks fools; But among the upright there is good will.
14:10 The heart knows its own bitterness; And a stranger does not intermeddle with its
joy.
14:11 The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall
flourish.
14:12 There is a way which seems right to a man; But the end thereof are the ways of
death.
14:13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of mirth is heaviness.
14:14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man shall be
satisfied from himself.
14:15 The simple believes every word; But the prudent man looks well to his going.
14:16 A wise man fears, and departs from evil; But the fool bears himself insolently, and
is confident.
14:17 He that is soon angry will deal foolishly; And a man of wicked devices is hated.
14:18 The simple inherit folly; But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
14:19 The evil bow down before the good; And the wicked, at the gates of the righteous.
14:20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbor; But the rich has many friends.
14:21 He that despises his neighbor sins; But he that has pity on the poor, happy is he.
14:22 Do they not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth shall be to them that devise
good.
14:23 In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lips tends only to penury.
14:24 The crown of the wise is their riches; But the folly of fools is only folly.
14:25 A true witness delivers souls; But he that utters lies causes deceit.
14:26 In the fear of Yahweh is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of
refuge.
14:27 The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of
death.
14:28 In the multitude of people is the king's glory; But in the want of people is the
destruction of the prince.
14:29 He that is slow to anger is of great understanding; But he that is hasty of spirit
exalts folly.
14:30 A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
14:31 He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker; But he that has mercy on the
needy honors him.
14:32 The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing; But the righteous has a refuge in his
death.
14:33 Wisdom rests in the heart of him that has understanding; But that which is in the
inward part of fools is made known.
14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation; But sin is a reproach to any people.
14:35 The king's favor is toward a servant that deals wisely; But his wrath will be against
him that causes shame.
Chapter 15
15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath; But a grievous word stirs up anger.
15:2 The tongue of the wise utters knowledge aright; But the mouth of fools pours out
folly.
15:3 The eyes of Yahweh are in every place, Keeping watch upon the evil and the good.
15:4 A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness in it is a breaking of the spirit.
15:5 A fool despises his father's correction; But he that regards reproof gains prudence.
15:6 In the house of the righteous is much treasure; But in the revenues of the wicked is
trouble.
15:7 The lips of the wise disperse knowledge; But the heart of the foolish not so.
15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh; But the prayer of the
upright is his delight.
15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh; But he loves him that follows
after righteousness.
15:10 There is grievous correction for him that forsakes the way; And he that hates
reproof shall die.
15:11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh: How much more then the hearts of the
children of men!
15:12 A scoffer loves not to be reproved; He will not go to the wise.
15:13 A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is
broken.
15:14 The heart of him that has understanding seeks knowledge; But the mouth of fools
feeds on folly.
15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil; But he that is of a cheerful heart has a
continual feast.
15:16 Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, Than great treasure and trouble along with
it.
15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred with it.
15:18 A wrathful man stirs up contention; But he that is slow to anger appeases strife.
15:19 The way of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns; But the path of the upright is
made a highway.
15:20 A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish man despises his mother.
15:21 Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding makes
straight his going.
15:22 Where there is no counsel, plans are disappointed; But in the multitude of
counsellors they are established.
15:23 A man has joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good it
is!
15:24 To the wise the way of life goes upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.
15:25 Yahweh will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the
widow.
15:26 Evil devices are an abomination to Yahweh; But pleasant words are pure.
15:27 He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house; But he that hates bribes shall live.
15:28 The heart of the righteous studies to answer; But the mouth of the wicked pours out
evil things.
15:29 Yahweh is far from the wicked; But he hears the prayer of the righteous.
15:30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart; And good tidings make the bones fat.
15:31 The ear that hearkens to the reproof of life Shall abide among the wise.
15:32 He that refuses correction despises his own soul; But he that hearkens to reproof
gains understanding.
15:33 The fear of Yahweh is the instruction of wisdom; And before honor goes humility.
Chapter 16
16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Yahweh weighs the spirits.
16:3 Commit your works to Yahweh, and your purposes shall be established.
16:4 Yahweh has made everything for its own end; Yes, even the wicked for the day of
evil.
16:5 Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: Though hand join in
hand, he shall not be unpunished.
16:6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for; And by the fear of Yahweh men depart
from evil.
16:7 When a man's ways please Yahweh, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with
him.
16:8 Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.
16:9 A man's heart devises his way; But Yahweh directs his steps.
16:10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; His mouth shall not transgress in
judgment.
16:11 A just balance and scales are Yahweh's; All the weights of the bag are his work.
16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness; For the throne is established
by righteousness.
16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; And they love the one who speaks right.
16:14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death; But a wise man will pacify it.
16:15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; And his favor is as a cloud of the latter
rain.
16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is rather
to be chosen than silver.
16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: He that keeps his way preserves
his soul.
16:18 Pride comes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
16:19 Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, Than to divide the spoil with the
proud.
16:20 He that gives heed to the word shall find good; And whoever trusts in Yahweh,
happy is he.
16:21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent; And the sweetness of the lips increases
learning.
16:22 Understanding is a well-spring of life to the one who has it; But the correction of
fools is their folly.
16:23 The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
16:24 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
16:25 There is a way which seems right to a man, But the end thereof are the ways of
death.
16:26 The appetite of the laboring man labors for him; For his mouth urges him to it.
16:27 A worthless man devises mischief; And in his lips there is as a scorching fire.
16:28 A perverse man scatters abroad strife; And a whisperer separates best friends.
16:29 A man of violence entices his neighbor, and leads him in a way that is not good.
16:30 He that shuts his eyes, it is to devise perverse things: He that compresses his lips
brings evil to pass.
16:31 The gray head is a crown of glory; It shall be found in the way of righteousness.
16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; And he that rules his spirit, than
he that takes a city.
16:33 The lot is cast into the lap; But the whole disposing thereof is of Yahweh.
Chapter 17
17:1 Better is a dry morsel, and quietness with it, Than a house full of feasting with strife.
17:2 A servant that deals wisely shall have rule over a son that causes shame, and shall
have part in the inheritance among the brethren.
17:3 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Yahweh tries the hearts.
17:4 An evil-doer gives heed to wicked lips; And a liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.
17:5 Whoso mocks the poor reproaches his Maker; And he that is glad at calamity shall
not be unpunished.
17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their
fathers.
17:7 Excellent speech does not fit a fool; Much less do lying lips a prince.
17:8 A bribe is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that has it; Wherever it turns, it
prospers.
17:9 He that covers a transgression seeks love; But he that harps on a matter separates
best friends.
17:10 A rebukeenters deeper into one that has understanding Than a hundred stripes into
a fool.
17:11 An evil man seeks only rebellion; Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against
him.
17:12 Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, Rather than a fool in his folly.
17:13 Whoso rewards evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.
17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: Therefore leave off
contention, before there is quarrelling.
17:15 He that justifies the wicked, and he that condemns the righteous, Both of them
alike are an abomination to Yahweh.
17:16 Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he has no
understanding?
17:17 A friend loves at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.
17:18 A man void of understanding srikes hands, and becomes surety in the presence of
his neighbor.
17:19 He loves transgression that loves strife: He that raises high his gate seeks
destruction.
17:20 He that has a wayward heart finds no good; And he that has a perverse tongue falls
into mischief.
17:21 He that begets a fool does it to his sorrow; And the father of a fool has no joy.
17:22 A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit dries up the bones.
17:23 A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, To pervert the ways of justice.
17:24 Wisdom is before the face of him that has understanding; But the eyes of a fool are
in the ends of the earth.
17:25 A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bore him.
17:26 Also to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to strike the noble for their
uprightness.
17:27 He who restrains his words has knowledge; and he who has a cool spirit is a man of
understanding.
17:28 Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he closes his lips, he is
considered intelligent.
Chapter 18
18:1 He that separates himself seeks his own desire, and rages against all sound wisdom.
18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, But only that his heart may reveal itself.
18:3 When the wicked comes, there comes also contempt, and with ignominy comes
reproach.
18:4 The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is as a
flowing brook.
18:5 To respect the person of the wicked is not good, Nor to turn aside the righteous in
judgment.
18:6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for stripes.
18:7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
18:8 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down into the
innermost parts.
18:9 He also that is slack in his work Is brother to him that is a destroyer.
18:10 The name of Yahweh is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it, and is safe.
18:11 The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own imagination.
18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor goes humility.
18:13 He that gives answer before he hears, It is folly and shame to him.
18:14 The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; But a broken spirit who can bear?
18:15 The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
18:16 A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.
18:17 He that pleads his cause first seems just; But his neighbor comes and searches him
out.
18:18 The lot causes contentions to cease, and parts between the mighty.
18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; And such contentions
are like the bars of a castle.
18:20 A man's belly shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; With the increase of his
lips shall he be satisfied.
18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the
fruit thereof.
18:22 Whoso finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from Yahweh.
18:23 The poor uses entreaties; But the rich answers roughly.
18:24 He that makes many friends does it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that
sticks closer than a brother.
Chapter 19
19:1 Better is the poor person who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his
lips and is a fool.
19:2 Also, that enthusiasm without knowledge is not good; and he that rushes with his
feet will err.
19:3 The foolishness of man subverts his way; And his heart frets against Yahweh.
19:4 Wealth adds many friends; But the poor is separated from his friend.
19:5 A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that utters lies shall not escape.
19:6 Many will entreat the favor of the liberal man; And every man is a friend to him that
gives gifts.
19:7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from
him! He pursues them with words, but they are gone.
19:8 He that obtains wisdom loves his own soul: He that keeps understanding shall find
good.
19:9 A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that utters lies shall perish.
19:10 Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over
princes.
19:11 The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger; And it is his glory to pass over a
transgression.
19:12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.
19:13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a
continual dropping.
19:14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from
Yahweh.
19:15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
19:16 He that keeps the commandment keeps his soul; But he that is careless of his ways
shall die.
19:17 He that has pity upon the poor lends to Yahweh, and his good deed will he pay him
again.
19:18 Chasten your son, seeing there is hope; nd set not your heart on his destruction.
19:19 A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if you deliver him, you must do it
yet again.
19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter end.
19:21 There are many devices in a man's heart; But the counsel of Yahweh, that shall
stand.
19:22 That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness; And a poor man is better
than a liar.
19:23 The fear of Yahweh tends to life; And he that has it shall abide satisfied; He shall
not be visited with evil.
19:24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, and will not so much as bring it to his
mouth again.
19:25 Smite a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; And reprove one that has
understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
19:26 He that does violence to his father, and chases away his mother, Is a son that
causes shame and brings reproach.
19:27 Cease, my son, to hear instruction Only to err from the words of knowledge.
19:28 A worthless witness mocks at justice; And the mouth of the wicked swallows
iniquity.
19:29 Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and stripes for the back of fools.
Chapter 20
20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever errs thereby is not wise.
20:2 The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provokes him to anger sins
against his own life.
20:3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling.
20:4 The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in
harvest, and have nothing.
20:5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; But a man of understanding will
draw it out.
20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can
find?
20:7 A righteous man that walks in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.
20:8 A king that sits on the throne of judgment Scatters away all evil with his eyes.
20:9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
20:10 Differing weights, and differing measures, Both of them alike are an abomination
to Yahweh.
20:11 Even a child makes himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and
whether it is right.
20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
20:13 Love not sleep, let you come to poverty; Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied
with bread.
20:14 It is bad, it is bad, says the buyer; But when he is gone his way, then he boasts.
20:15 There is gold, and abundance of rubies; But the lips of knowledge are a precious
jewel.
20:16 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety
for foreigners.
20:17 Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with
gravel.
20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel; And by wise guidance should you make
war.
20:19 He who goes around as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; Therefore keep not company
with him who opens wide his lips.
20:20 Whoso curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of
darkness.
20:21 An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; But the end thereof shall not
be blessed.
20:22 Say not you, I will recompense evil: Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.
20:23 Diverse weights are an abomination to Yahweh; And a false balance is not good.
20:24 A man's goings are of Yahweh; How then can man understand his way?
20:25 It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy, and after vows to make inquiry.
20:26 A wise king winnows the wicked, and brings the threshing-wheel over them.
20:27 The spirit of man is the lamp of Yahweh, Searching all his innermost parts.
20:28 Kindness and truth preserve the king; And his throne is upholden by kindness.
20:29 The glory of young men is their strength; And the beauty of old men is the gray
head.
20:30 Stripes that wound cleanse away evil; And strokes reach the innermost parts.
Chapter 21
21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of Yahweh as the watercourses: He turns it wherever
he will.
21:2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But Yahweh weighs the hearts.
21:3 To do righteousness and justice Is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
21:4 A high look, and a proud heart, even the lamp of the wicked, is sin.
21:5 The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But every one that is hasty
speeds only to want.
21:6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that
seek death.
21:7 The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do
justice.
21:8 The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceedingly crooked; But as for the pure,
his work is right.
21:9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in
a wide house.
21:10 The soul of the wicked desires evil: His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes.
21:11 When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise; And when the wise is
instructed, he receives knowledge.
21:12 The righteous man considers the house of the wicked, How the wicked are
overthrown to their ruin.
21:13 Whoso stops his ears at the cry of the poor, He also shall cry, but shall not be
heard.
21:14 A gift in secret pacifies anger; And a present in the bosom, strong wrath.
21:15 It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of
iniquity.
21:16 The man that wanders out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of
the dead.
21:17 He that loves pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loves wine and oil shall not be
rich.
21:18 The wicked are a ransom for the righteous; And the treacherous come in the stead
of the upright.
21:19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
21:20 There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise; But a foolish man
swallows it up.
21:21 He that follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and
honor.
21:22 A wise man scales the city of the mighty, and brings down the stronghold that
inspires its confidence.
21:23 Whoso keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.
21:24 The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name; He works in the arrogance of
pride.
21:25 The desire of the sluggard kills him; For his hands refuse to labor.
21:26 There is that covets greedily all the day long; But the righteous gives and withholds
not.
21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he brings it
with a wicked mind!
21:28 A false witness shall perish; But the man that hears shall speak so as to endure.
21:29 A wicked man hardens his face; But as for the upright, he establishes his ways.
21:30 There is no wisdom nor understanding Nor counsel against Yahweh.
21:31 The horse is prepared against the day of battle; But victory is of Yahweh.
Chapter 22
22:1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than
silver and gold.
22:2 The rich and the poor meet together: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
22:3 A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself; But the simple pass on, and suffer
for it.
22:4 The reward of humility and the fear of Yahweh is riches, and honor, and life.
22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse: He that keeps his soul shall be far
from them.
22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart
from it.
22:7 The rich rule over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.
22:8 He that sows iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.
22:9 He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he gives of his bread to the poor.
22:10 Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yes, strife and ignominy will
cease.
22:11 He that loves pureness of heart, For the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
22:12 The eyes of Yahweh preserve him that has knowledge; But he overthrows the
words of the treacherous man.
22:13 The sluggard says, There is a lion outside: I shall be slain in the streets.
22:14 The mouth of a strange woman is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Yahweh shall
fall in it.
22:15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive
it far from him.
22:16 He that oppresses the poor to increase his gain, and he that gives to the rich, shall
come only to want.
22:17 Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my
knowledge.
22:18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If they be established
together upon your lips.
22:19 That your trust may be in Yahweh, I have made them known to you this day, even
to you.
22:20 Have not I written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,
22:21 To make you know the certainty of the words of truth, That you may carry back
words of truth to them that send you?
22:22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
22:23 For Yahweh will plead their cause, and despoil of life those that despoil them.
22:24 Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man
you shall not go:
22:25 Lest you learn this ways, and get a snare to your soul.
22:26 Be you not one of them that strike hands, Or of them that are sureties for debts.
22:27 If you have not with which to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under
you?
22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, Which your fathers have set.
22:29 See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall not
stand before mean men.
Chapter 23
23:1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before you;
23:2 And put a knife to your throat, If you be a man given to appetite.
23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.
23:4 Weary not yourself to be rich; Cease from your own wisdom.
23:5 Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? For riches certainly make
themselves wings, Like an eagle that flies toward heaven.
23:6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, Neither desire you his dainties:
23:7 For as he thinks within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart
is not with you.
23:8 The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
23:9 Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
23:10 Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
23:11 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against you.
23:12 Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
23:13 Withhold not correction from the child; For if you beat him with the rod, he will
not die.
23:14 You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from Sheol.
23:15 My son, if your heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:
23:16 Yes, my heart will rejoice, When your lips speak right things.
23:17 Let not your heart envy sinners; But be in the fear of Yahweh all the day long:
23:18 For surely there is a reward; And your hope shall not be cut off.
23:19 Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
23:20 Be not among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
23:21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe
a man with rags.
23:22 Hearken to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is
old.
23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yes, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
23:24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begets a wise child will
have joy of him.
23:25 Let your father and your mother be glad, and let her that bore you rejoice.
23:26 My son, give me your heart; And let your eyes delight in my ways.
23:27 For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
23:28 Yes, she lies in wait as a robber, and increases the treacherous among men.
23:29 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? Who has
complaining? who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
23:30 Those who tarry long at the wine; Those who go to seek out mixed wine.
23:31 Look not upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes
down smoothly:
23:32 In the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
23:33 Your eyes shall behold strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
23:34 Yes, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lies
upon the top of a mast.
23:35 They have stricken me, shall you say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me,
and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
Chapter 24
24:1 Be not you envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them:
24:2 For their heart studies oppression, and their lips talk of mischief.
24:3 Through wisdom is a house built; And by understanding it is established;
24:4 And by knowledge are the chambers filled With all precious and pleasant riches.
24:5 A wise man is strong; Yes, a man of knowledge increases might
24:6 For by wise guidance you shall make your war; And in the multitude of
counsellors there is safety.
24:7 Wisdom is too high for a fool: He opens not his mouth in the gate.
24:8 He that devises to do evil, Men shall call him a mischief-maker.
24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin; And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
24:10 If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small.
24:11 Deliver them that are carried away to death, and those that are ready to be slain see
that you hold back.
24:12 If you say, Behold, we knew not this; Does not he that weighs the hearts consider
it? And he that keeps your soul, does not he know it? And shall not he render to every
man according to his work?
24:13 My son, eat you honey, for it is good; And the droppings of the honeycomb, which
are sweet to your taste:
24:14 So shall you know wisdom to be to your soul; If you have found it, then shall there
be a reward, and your hope shall not be cut off.
24:15 Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Destroy not
his resting-place:
24:16 For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises up again; But the wicked are
overthrown by calamity.
24:17 Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he is
overthrown;
24:18 Lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
24:19 Fret not yourself because of evil-doers; Neither be you envious at the wicked:
24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put
out.
24:21 My son, fear you Yahweh and the king; And company not with them that are given
to change:
24:22 For their calamity shall rise suddenly; And the destruction from them both, who
knows it?
24:23 These also are sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not
good.
24:24 He that says to the wicked, You are righteous; Peoples shall curse him, nations
shall abhor him:
24:25 But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon
them.
24:26 He kisses the lips who gives a right answer.
24:27 Prepare your work outside, and make things ready for you in the field; and only
afterwards build your house.
24:28 Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause; and deceive not with your
lips.
24:29 Say not, I will do the same to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man
according to his work.
24:30 I went by the field of the sluggard, and by the vineyard of the man void of
understanding;
24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, the face of it was covered with nettles,
and the stone wall for it was broken down.
24:32 Then I beheld, and considered well; I saw, and received instruction:
24:33 that a little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little more folding of the hands to
sleep;
24:34 so shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
Chapter 25
25:1 These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah
copied out.
25:2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing; but the glory of kings is to search out a
matter.
25:3 As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is
unsearchable.
25:4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there comes forth a vessel for the refiner:
25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in
righteousness.
25:6 Put not yourself forward in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of
great men:
25:7 For better it is that it be said to you, Come up here, than that you should be put
lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.
25:8 Do not go forth hastily to strive, in case you know not what to do in the end thereof,
when your neighbor has put you to shame.
25:9 Debate your cause with your neighbor himself, and disclose not the secret of
another;
25:10 lest he who hears it reviles you, and your infamy turns not away.
25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in network of silver.
25:12 As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an
obedient ear.
25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to those who
send him; for he refreshes the soul of his masters.
25:14 As clouds and wind without rain, so is he that boasts himself of his gifts falsely.
25:15 By long forbearing, is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaks the bone.
25:16 Have you found honey? Eat just as much as is sufficient for you, or you may be
filled with it, and vomit it.
25:17 Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor's house, so he not become weary of you,
and hate you.
25:18 A man that bears false witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a
sharp arrow.
25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot
out of joint.
25:20 As one that takes off a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda, so is he
that sings songs to a heavy heart.
25:21 If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water
to drink:
25:22 For you will heap coals of fire upon his head, and Yahweh will reward you.
25:23 The north wind brings forth rain: so does a backbiting tongue an angry
countenance.
25:24 It is better to dwell in the corner of an attic, than with a contentious woman in a
spacious house.
25:25 As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
25:26 As a troubled fountain, and a polluted spring, so is a righteous man that gives way
before the wicked.
25:27 It is not good to eat much honey: so also it is grievous for men to search out their
own glory.
25:28 He whose spirit is without restraint is like a city that is broken down and lacking
walls.
Chapter 26
26:1 As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, honor is not seemly for a fool.
26:2 As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, the curse that is
causeless alights not.
26:3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.
26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.
26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
26:6 He that sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet, and drinks in
damage.
26:7 The legs of the lame hang loose: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
26:8 As one that binds a stone in a sling, So is he that gives honor to a fool.
26:9 as a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard, So is a parable in the mouth of
fools.
26:10 as an archer that wounds all, So is he that hires a fool and he that hires them that
pass by.
26:11 As a dog that returns to his vomit, So is a fool that repeats his folly.
26:12 See you a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
26:13 The sluggard says, There is a lion in the way; A lion is in the streets.
26:14 as the door turns upon its hinges, So does the sluggard upon his bed.
26:15 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; It wearies him to bring it again to his
mouth.
26:16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit Than seven men that can render a reason.
26:17 He that passes by, and vexes himself with strife belonging not to him, Is like one
that takes a dog by the ears.
26:18 As a madman who casts firebrands, arrows, and death,
26:19 So is the man that deceives his neighbor, and says, am not I in sport?
26:20 For lack of wood the fire goes out; and where there is no whisperer, contention
ceases.
26:21 As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to inflame
strife.
26:22 The words of a whisperer are as dainty morsels, and they go down to the innermost
parts.
26:23 Fervent lips and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.
26:24 He that hates dissembles with his lips; but he lays up deceit within him:
26:25 When he speaks fair, believe him not; for there are seven abominations in his heart:
26:26 Though his hatred covers itself with guile, his wickedness shall be shown openly
before the assembly.
26:27 Whoever digs a pit shall fall into it; and he that rolls a stone, it shall roll back onto
him.
26:28 A lying tongue hates those whom it has wounded; and a flattering mouth works
ruin.
Chapter 27
27:1 Boast not yourself about tomorrow; for you know not what a day may bring forth.
27:2 Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own
lips.
27:3 A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than them
both.
27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
27:5 Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.
27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
27:7 The full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
27:8 As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man that wanders from his place.
27:9 Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of a man's friend that
comes of hearty counsel.
27:10 Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; and go not to your brother's
house in the day of your calamity: better is a neighbor that is near than a brother afar off.
27:11 My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, so I may answer him that reproaches
me.
27:12 A prudent man sees the evil, and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for
it.
27:13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety
for a foreign woman.
27:14 He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be
counted a curse to him.
27:15 A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman these are alike:
27:16 He that would restrain her restrains the wind; and his right hand encounters oil.
27:17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
27:18 Whoso tends the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that regards his master
shall be honored.
27:19 As in water face answers to face, so also the heart of man to man.
27:20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and the eyes of man are never satisfied.
27:21 The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; and a man is tried by his
praise.
27:22 Even if you bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, still his
foolishness will not depart from him.
27:23 Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds:
27:24 For riches are not for ever: nor does the crown endure to all generations?
27:25 The hay is carried, and the tender grass shows itself, and the herbs of the mountains
are gathered in.
27:26 The lambs are for your clothing, and the goats are the price of the field;
27:27 And there will be goats' milk enough for your food, for the food of your household,
and maintenance for your maidens.
Chapter 28
28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursues; But the righteous are as bold as a lion.
28:2 For the transgression of a land, many are the princes thereof; But by men of
understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.
28:3 A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a sweeping rain that leaves no food.
28:4 They who forsake the law praise the wicked, whereas such as keep the law contend
with them.
28:5 Evil men understand not justice; but they that seek Yahweh understand all things.
28:6 Better is the poor that walks in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his ways,
though he be rich.
28:7 Whoso keeps the law is a wise son; but he that is a companion of gluttons shames
his father.
28:8 He that augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him that has
pity on the poor.
28:9 He that turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
28:10 Whoso causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, shall fall himself into his
own pit; but the perfect shall inherit good.
28:11 The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that has understanding
searches him out.
28:12 When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men
hide themselves.
28:13 He that covers his transgressions shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and
forsakes them shall obtain mercy.
28:14 Happy is the man that fears always; but he that hardens his heart shall fall into
mischief.
28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear, is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
28:16 The prince that lacks understanding is also a great oppressor; but he that hates
covetousness shall prolong his days.
28:17 A man that is laden with the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man
stop him.
28:18 Whoso walks uprightly shall be delivered; but he that is perverse in his ways shall
fall at once.
28:19 He that tills his land shall have plenty of bread; but he that follows after vain things
shall have poverty enough.
28:20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that makes haste to be rich shall
not be unpunished.
28:21 To have respect of persons is not good; neither that a man should transgress for a
piece of bread.
28:22 He that has an evil eye rushes after riches, and knows not that lack shall come upon
him.
28:23 He that rebukes a man shall afterward find more favor than he that flatters with the
tongue.
28:24 Whoso robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression, the same is
the companion of a destroyer.
28:25 He that is of a greedy spirit stirs up strife; but he that puts his trust in Yahweh shall
be made fat.
28:26 He that trusts in his own heart is a fool; but whoso walks wisely, he shall be
delivered.
28:27 He that gives to the poor shall not lack; but he that hides his eyes shall have many a
curse.
28:28 When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; But when they perish, the righteous
increase.
Chapter 29
29:1 He that being often reproved hardens his neck Shall suddenly be destroyed, and that
without remedy.
29:2 When the righteous are increased, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man bears
rule, the people sigh.
29:3 Whoso loves wisdom rejoices his father; But he that keeps company with harlots
wastes his substance.
29:4 The king by justice establishes the land; But he that exacts gifts overthrows it.
29:5 A man that flatters his neighbor Spreads a net for his steps.
29:6 In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; but the righteous does sing and
rejoice.
29:7 The righteous takes knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked has not
understanding to know it.
29:8 Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away wrath.
29:9 If a wise man has a controversy with a foolish man, Whether he be angry or laugh,
there will be no rest.
29:10 The bloodthirsty hate him that is perfect; and as for the upright, they seek his life.
29:11 A fool utters all his anger; but a wise man keeps it back and stills it.
29:12 If a ruler hearkens to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.
29:13 The poor man and the oppressor meet together; Yahweh lightens the eyes of them
both.
29:14 The king that faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
29:15 The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left to himself causes shame to his
mother.
29:16 When the wicked are increased, transgression increases; but the righteous shall
look upon their fall.
29:17 Correct your son, and he will give you rest; yes, he will give delight to your soul.
29:18 Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but he that keeps the law,
happy is he.
29:19 A servant will not be corrected by words; for though he understand, he will not
give heed.
29:20 Do you see a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than
for him.
29:21 He that delicately brings up his servant from a child shall have him become a son
in the end.
29:22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in transgression.
29:23 A man's pride shall bring him low; but he that is of a lowly spirit shall obtain
honor.
29:24 Whoso is partner with a thief hates his own soul; he hears the adjuration and utters
nothing.
29:25 The fear of man brings a snare; but whoso puts his trust in Yahweh shall be safe.
29:26 Many seek the ruler's favor; But a man's judgment comes from Yahweh.
29:27 An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous; And he that is upright in the way
is an abomination to the wicked.
Chapter 30
30:1 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh; The oracle. The man says to Ithiel, to Ithiel
and Ucal:
30:2 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man;
30:3 And I have not learned wisdom, Neither have I the knowledge of the Holy One.
30:4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in
his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends
of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?
30:5 Every word of God is tried: He is a shield to them that take refuge in him.
30:6 Add you not to his words, Lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.
30:7 Two things have I asked of you; Deny me them not before I die:
30:8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed
me with the food that is needful for me:
30:9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is Yahweh? Or lest I be poor, and steal,
and use profanely the name of my God.
30:10 Slander not a servant to his master, Lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
30:11 There is a generation that curse their father, and bless not their mother.
30:12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from
their filthiness.
30:13 There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids are lifted up.
30:14 There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, To
devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
30:15 The leech has two daughters: Give, give. There are three things that are never
satisfied, Yes, four that never say, "Enough":
30:16 Sheol; and the barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire
that does not say, "Enough."
30:17 The eye that mocks at his father, and despises to obey his mother, The ravens of
the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
30:18 There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yes, four which I know not:
30:19 The way of an eagle in the air; The way of a serpent upon a rock; The way of a
ship in the midst of the sea; And the way of a man with a maiden.
30:20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats, and wipes her mouth, and says, I
have done nothing wrong.
30:21 For three things the earth does tremble, and for four, which it cannot bear:
30:22 For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;
30:23 For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her
mistress.
30:24 There are four things which are little upon the earth, But they are exceedingly wise:
30:25 The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer;
30:26 The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;
30:27 The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands;
30:28 The lizard takes hold with her hands, Yet is she in kings' palaces.
30:29 There are three things which are stately in their march, Yes, four which are stately
in going:
30:30 The lion, which is mightiest among beasts, and turns not away for any;
30:31 The greyhound; the he-goat also; And the king against whom there is no rising up.
30:32 If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, Or if you have thought evil, Lay
your hand upon your mouth.
30:33 For the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings
forth blood; So the forcing of wrath brings forth strife.
Chapter 31
31:1 The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him.
31:2 What, my son? and what, O son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows?
31:3 Give not your strength to women, Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
31:4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes to say,
Where is strong drink?
31:5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to any that is
afflicted.
31:6 Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul:
31:7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
31:8 Open your mouth for the mute, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.
31:9 Open your mouth, judge righteously, and minister justice to the poor and needy.
31:10 A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
31:11 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he shall have no lack of gain.
31:12 She does him good and not evil All the days of her life.
31:13 She seeks wool and flax, and works willingly with her hands.
31:14 She is like the merchant-ships; She brings her bread from afar.
31:15 She rises also while it is yet night, and gives food to her household, and their task
to her maidens.
31:16 She considers a field, and buys it; With the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.
31:17 She girds her loins with strength, and makes strong her arms.
31:18 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable: Her lamp goes not out by night.
31:19 She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
31:20 She stretches out her hand to the poor; Yes, she reaches forth her hands to the
needy.
31:21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household; For all her household are clothed
with scarlet.
31:22 She makes for herself carpets of tapestry; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
31:23 Her husband is known in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land.
31:24 She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers girdles to the merchant.
31:25 Strength and dignity are her clothing; And she laughs at the time to come.
31:26 She opens her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue.
31:27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and eats not the bread of idleness.
31:28 Her children rise up, and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her,
saying:
31:29 Many daughters have done worthily, But you excellest them all.
31:30 Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman that fears Yahweh, she shall be
praised.
31:31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.
End of Proverbs
Ecclesiastes or, the Preacher
Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher
Chapter 1
1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
1:2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
1:3 What profit has man from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
1:4 One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth abides for ever.
1:5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to its place where it rises.
1:6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns about to the north; it turns about
continually in its course, and the wind returns again to its circuits.
1:7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go,
there they go again.
1:8 All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with
seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
1:9 That which has been, is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that
which shall be done: and there is nothing new under the sun.
1:10 Is there anything of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has already been,
long ago, in the ages which were before us.
1:11 There is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any
remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come
after.
1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
1:13 And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is
done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God has given to the sons of men to be
exercised with it.
1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a
striving after wind.
1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be
numbered.
1:16 I communed with my own hear, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom more
than all that were before me in Jerusalem; yes, my heart has had great experience of
wisdom and knowledge.
1:17 And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I
perceived that this also was a striving after wind.
1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increases knowledge increases
sorrow.
Chapter 2
2:1 I said in my heart, Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure.
And, behold, this also was vanity.
2:2 I said of laughter, It is mad; and of mirth, What does it accomplish?
2:3 I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart still guiding me
with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what good thing it was for the
sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their life.
2:4 I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards;
2:5 I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;
2:6 I made me pools of water, with which to water the forest where trees were growing;
2:7 I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I
had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than all that were before me in
Jerusalem;
2:8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I
got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, musical
instruments, and that of all sorts.
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2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my
wisdom remained with me.
2:10 And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from
any joy; for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor; and this was my reward from all
my labor.
2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I
had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no
profit under the sun.
2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the
man do that comes after the king? even that which has been done long ago.
2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.
2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness: and yet I
perceived that the same event happens to them all.
2:15 Then said I in my heart, as it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and
why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, this also is vanity.
2:16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing
that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how does the wise man
die even as the fool!
2:17 So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous to me;
for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
2:18 And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it
to the man that shall be after me.
2:19 And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule
over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under
the sun. This also is vanity.
2:20 Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in
which I had labored under the sun.
2:21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with
skilfulness; yet to a man that has not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion.
This also is vanity and a great evil.
2:22 For what has a man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he
labors under the sun?
2:23 For all his days are but sorrows, and his travail is grief; yes, even in the night his
heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
2:24 There is nothing better for a man than to eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy
good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
2:25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?
2:26 For to the man that pleases him God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to
the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleases
God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Chapter 3
3:1 There is a season for everything, and a time for very purpose under heaven:
3:2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which
is planted;
3:3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
3:5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace,
and a time to refrain from embracing;
3:6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
3:7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
3:8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
3:9 What profit has he that works in that in which he labors?
3:10 I have seen the travail which God has given to the sons of men to be exercised with
it.
3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time: also he has set eternity in their hearts,
yet such that man cannot find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to
the end.
3:12 I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long
as they live.
3:13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the
gift of God.
3:14 I know that, whatsoever God does, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor
anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.
3:15 That which is has been long ago; and that which is to be has long ago been: and God
seeks again that which is passed away.
3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun, that in the place of justice, wickedness was
there; and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there.
3:17 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time
there for every purpose and for every work.
3:18 I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and
that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.
3:19 For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; even one thing befalls them: as
the one dies, so dies the other; yes, they have all one breath; and man has no preeminence
above the beasts: for all is vanity.
3:20 All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
3:21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the beast,
whether it goes downward to the earth?
3:22 Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his
works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him back to see what shall be after him?
Chapter 4
4:1 Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold,
the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their
oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
4:2 Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are
yet alive;
4:3 yes, better than them both did I esteem him that has not yet been, who has not seen
the evil work that is done under the sun.
4:4 Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his
neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
4:5 The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.
4:6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after
wind.
4:7 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
4:8 There is one that is alone, and he has not a second; yes, he has neither son nor
brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For
whom then, says he, do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yes, it
is a sore travail.
4:9 Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he
falls, and has not another to lift him up.
4:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?
4:12 And a man that prevails against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a
threefold cord is not quickly broken.
4:13 Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knows not how to
receive admonition any more.
4:14 For out of prison he came forth to be king; yes, even in his kingdom he was born
poor.
4:15 I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the
second, that stood up in his stead.
4:16 There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they
that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after
wind.
Chapter 5
5:1 Keep your foot when you go to the house of God; for to draw near to hear is better
than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.
5:2 Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter anything before
God; for God is in heaven, and you upon earth: therefore let your words be few.
5:3 For a dream comes with a multitude of business, and a fool's voice with a multitude
of words.
5:4 When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay
that which you vowest.
5:5 Better is it that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
5:6 Allow not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say before the angel, that it
was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your
hands?
5:7 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear you
God.
5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and
righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high
regards; and there are higher than they.
5:9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
5:10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance,
with increase: this also is vanity.
5:11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there
to the owner thereof, save the beholding of them with his eyes?
5:12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness
of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
5:13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the
owner thereof to his hurt:
5:14 and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he has begotten a son, there is
nothing in his hand.
5:15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and
shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
5:16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and
what profit has he that he labors for the wind?
5:17 All his days also he eats in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and has sickness and
wrath.
5:18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and to be comely is for one to eat and to
drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of
his life which God has given him: for this is his portion.
5:19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power
to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor-this is the gift of God.
5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answers him in
the joy of his heart.
Chapter 6
6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:
6:2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his
soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eats it;
this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
6:3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years
are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that
an untimely birth is better than he:
6:4 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with
darkness;
6:5 moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it; this has rest rather than the other:
6:6 yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go
to one place?
6:7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
6:8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? or what has the poor man, that
knows how to walk before the living?
6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and
a striving after wind.
6:10 Whatsoever has been, the name thereof was given long ago; and it is know what
man is; neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.
6:11 Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
6:12 For who knows what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which
he spends as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Chapter 7
7:1 A good name is better than precious oil; and the day of death, than the day of one's
birth.
7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that
is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
7:3 Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made
glad.
7:4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the
house of mirth.
7:5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
7:6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is
vanity.
7:7 Surely extortion makes the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroys the understanding.
7:8 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is
better than the proud in spirit.
7:9 Be not hasty in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
7:10 Say not you, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for you
do not inquire wisely concerning this.
7:11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yes, more excellent is it for them that see the
sun.
7:12 For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of
knowledge is, that wisdom preserves the life of him that has it.
7:13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he has made
crooked?
7:14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has
made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything
that shall be after him.
7:15 All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perishes in
his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongs his life in his evil-doing.
7:16 Be not righteous overmuch; neither make yourself overwise: why should you
destroy yourself?
7:17 Be not overmuch wicked, neither be you foolish: why should you die before your
time?
7:18 It is good that you should take hold of this; yes, also from that withdraw not your
hand: for he that fears God shall come forth from them all.
7:19 Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.
7:20 Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that does good, and sins not.
7:21 Also take not heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;
7:22 for oftentimes also your own heart knows that you yourself likewise have cursed
others.
7:23 All this have I proved in wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
7:24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep; who can find it out?
7:25 I turned about, and my heart was set to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom
and the reason of things, and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is
madness.
7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is traps and nets, and
whose hands are shackles. Whoso pleases God shall elude her; but the sinner shall be
captured by her.
7:27 Behold, this have I found, says the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out
the scheme.
7:28 Something my soul still seeks, but I have not found: One man among a thousand
have I found; but a woman among all those I have not found:
7:29 behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright, but they have sought out
many inventions.
Chapter 8
8:1 Who is as the wise man? and who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's
wisdom makes his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
8:2 I counsel you, Keep the king's command, and that in regard of the oath of God.
8:3 Be not hasty to go out of his presence; persist not in an evil thing: for he does
whatsoever pleases him.
8:4 For the king's word has power; and who may say to him, What do you?
8:5 Whoso keeps the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's heart
discerns time and judgment:
8:6 for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great
upon him:
8:7 for he knows not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
8:8 There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither has he
power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness
deliver him that is given to it.
8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun:
there is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
8:10 So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave; and they that had done right
went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.
8:11 Because sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the sons
of men is emboldened in them to do evil.
8:12 Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his days, yet surely I know
that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him:
8:13 but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are
as a shadow; because he fears not before God.
8:14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom
it happens according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it
happens according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
8:15 Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to
eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of
his life which God has given him under the sun.
8:16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon
the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),
8:17 then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done
under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it;
yes moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Chapter 9
9:1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise,
and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knows it not;
all is before them.
9:2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to
the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrifices and to him that
sacrifices not; as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that swears, as he that fears an oath.
9:3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also,
the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live,
and after that they go to the dead.
9:4 For to him that is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than
a dead lion.
9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have
they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
9:6 As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have
they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
9:7 Go your way, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for
God has already accepted your works.
9:8 Let your garments be always white; and let not your head lack oil.
9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which
he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life,
and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. For there is no work,
nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you will be going.
9:11 I returned, and I saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to
the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the men of understanding, nor
yet favor to only men of skill; but instead, time and chance happen to them all.
9:12 For a man does not know when his time is. Like the fishes that are captured in an
evil net, or as the birds that are caught in the snare, so also are the sons of men snared in a
calamitous time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
9:13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great to me:
9:14 There was a small city, and only few men within it; and there came a great king
against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom saved the city; yet
no man remembered that poor man.
9:16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is
despised, and his words are not heard.
9:17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him that rules among
fools.
9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
Chapter 10
10:1 Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little
folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
10:2 A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
10:3 Yes also, when the fool walks by the way, his understanding fails him, and he says
to every one that he is a fool.
10:4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against you, leave not your place; for gentleness
allays great offences.
10:5 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceeds
from the ruler:
10:6 folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in a low place.
10:7 I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking like servants upon the earth.
10:8 He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaks through a wall, a serpent shall
bite him.
10:9 Whoso hews out stones shall be hurt thereby; and he that splits wood is endangered
by it.
10:10 If the iron be blunt, and one does not whet the edge, then must he apply more
strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
10:11 If the serpent bite before it is charmed, then is there no advantage in the charmer.
10:12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow
up himself.
10:13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness; and the end of his talk is
mischievous madness.
10:14 A fool also multiplies words: yet man knows not what shall be; and that which
shall be after him, who can tell him?
10:15 The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he knows not how to go to the
city.
10:16 Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the
morning!
10:17 Happy are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes eat in
due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
10:18 By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.
10:19 A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life glad; and money answers
everything.
10:20 Revile not the king, no, not in your thought; and revile not the rich in your
bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which has wings
shall tell the matter.
Chapter 11
11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
11:2 Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you know not what evil shall be upon
the earth.
11:3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall
toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
11:4 He that observes the wind shall not sow; and he that regards the clouds shall not
reap.
11:5 As you know not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the
womb of her that is with child; even so you know not the work of God who does all.
11:6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening withhold not your hand; for you
know not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both shall be alike
good.
11:7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.
11:8 Yes, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the
days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of
your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know
you, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for
youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Chapter 12
12:1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come,
and the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them;
12:2 before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the
clouds return after the rain;
12:3 in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow
themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the
windows shall be darkened,
12:4 and the doors shall be shut in the street; when the sound of the grinding is low, and
one shall rise up at the voice of a bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought
low;
12:5 yes, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and
the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall
fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
12:6 before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is
broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
12:7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
12:8 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.
12:9 And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge;
yes, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
12:10 The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written
uprightly, even words of truth.
12:11 The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are the words of the
masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
12:12 And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end;
and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
12:13 This is the end of the matter; all has been heard: fear God, and keep his
commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
12:14 For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it
be good, or whether it be evil.
End of Ecclesiastes
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's
Song of Solomon
1:1 The Song of songs, which is Solomon's.
1:2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For your love is better than wine.
1:3 Your oils have a goodly fragrance; Your name is as oil poured forth; Therefore do the
virgins love you.
1:4 Draw me; we will run after you: The king has brought me into his chambers; We will
be glad and rejoice in you; We will make mention of your love more than of wine:
Rightly do they love you.
1:5 I am black, but comely, Oh ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the
curtains of Solomon.
1:6 Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun has scorched me. My
mother's sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; But my
own vineyard have I not kept.
1:7 Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, Where you feed your flock, Where you cause it
to rest at noon: For why should I be as one that is veiled Beside the flocks of your
companions?
1:8 If you know not, O you fairest among women, Go your way forth by the footsteps of
the flock, and feed your kids beside the shepherds' tents.
1:9 I have compared you, O my love, To a steed in Pharaoh's chariots.
1:10 Your cheeks are comely with plaits of hair, Your neck with strings of jewels.
1:11 We will make you plaits of gold With studs of silver.
1:12 While the king sat at his table, My spikenard sent forth its fragrance.
1:13 My beloved is to me as a bundle of myrrh, That lies between my breasts.
1:14 My beloved is to me as a cluster of henna-flowers In the vineyards of En-gedi.
1:15 Behold, you are fair, my love; Behold you are fair; Your eyes are as doves.
1:16 Behold, you are fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant: Also our couch is green.
1:17 The beams of our house are cedars, and our rafters are firs.
2:1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
2:2 As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.
2:3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I
sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
2:4 He brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me was love.
2:5 Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love.
2:6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand does embrace me.
2:7 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That
ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.
2:8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he comes, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping
upon the hills.
2:9 My beloved is like a roe or a young deer: Behold, he stands behind our wall; He looks
in at the windows; He glances through the lattice.
2:10 My beloved spoke, and said to me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
2:11 For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and gone;
2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, and the
voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;
2:13 The fig-tree ripens her green figs, and the vines are in blossom; They give forth their
fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
2:14 O my dove, that are in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the steep place, Let me
see your countenance, Let me hear your voice; For sweet is your voice, and your
countenance is comely.
2:15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, That spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in
blossom.
2:16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feeds his flock among the lilies.
2:17 Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be you like
a roe or a young deer Upon the mountains of Bether.
3:1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him
not.
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3:2 I said, I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broad ways I
will seek him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but I found him not.
3:3 The watchmen that go about the city found me; To whom I said, Saw ye him whom
my soul loves?
3:4 It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loves: I
held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, and
into the chamber of her that conceived me.
3:5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That
ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.
3:6 Who is this that comes up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with
myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?
3:7 Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; Sixty mighty men are around it, Of the mighty
men of Israel.
3:8 They all handle the sword, and are expert in war: Every man has his sword upon his
thigh, Because of fear in the night.
3:9 King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.
3:10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, The bottom thereof of gold, the seat of it of
purple, The midst thereof being paved with love, From the daughters of Jerusalem.
3:11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon, With the crown with
which his mother has crowned him In the day of his espousals, and in the day of the
gladness of his heart.
4:1 Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; Your eyes are as doves behind
your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of mount Gilead.
4:2 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that are newly shorn, Which are come up from the
washing, Whereof every one has twins, and none is bereaved among them.
4:3 Your lips are like a thread of scarlet, and your mouth is comely. Your temples are
like a piece of a pomegranate Behind your veil.
4:4 Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, Whereon there hang a
thousand bucklers, all the shields of the mighty men.
4:5 Your two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe, Which feed among the
lilies.
4:6 Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of
myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
4:7 You are all fair, my love; And there is no spot in you.
4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, With me from Lebanon: Look from the top
of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions' dens, From the mountains
of the leopards.
4:9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride; You have ravished my heart with
one of your eyes, With one chain of your neck.
4:10 How fair is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine!
And the fragrance of your oils than all manner of spices!
4:11 Your lips, O my bride, drop as the honeycomb: Honey and milk are under your
tongue; And the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
4:12 A garden shut up is my sister, my bride; A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
4:13 Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with
spikenard plants,
4:14 Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh
and aloes, with all the chief spices.
4:15 You are a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and flowing streams from
Lebanon.
4:16 Awake, O north wind; and come, you south; Blow upon my garden, that the spices
thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his precious fruits.
5:1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my
spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk.
Eat, O friends; Drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.
5:2 I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying,
Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew,
My locks with the drops of the night.
5:3 I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I
defile them?
5:4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my heart was moved for him.
5:5 I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands drops with myrrh, and my fingers
with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt.
5:6 I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My
soul had failed me when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him,
but he gave me no answer.
5:7 The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me;
The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.
5:8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I
am sick from love.
5:9 What is your beloved more than another beloved, O you fairest among women?
What is your beloved more than another beloved, That you do so adjure us?
5:10 My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.
5:11 His head is as the most fine gold; His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
5:12 His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and fitly set.
5:13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as banks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies,
dropping liquid myrrh.
5:14 His hands are as rings of gold set with beryl: His body is as ivory work overlaid
with sapphires.
5:15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like
Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
5:16 His mouth is most sweet; Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this
is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
6:1 Whither is your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? Whither has your
beloved turned him, That we may seek him with you?
6:2 My beloved is gone down to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens,
and to gather lilies.
6:3 I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine; He feeds his flock among the lilies,
6:4 You are fair, O my love, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as an army with
banners.
6:5 Turn away your eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is as a flock
of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead.
6:6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which are come up from the washing; Whereof
every one has twins, and none is bereaved among them.
6:7 Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
6:8 There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
6:9 My dove, my undefiled, is but one; She is the only one of her mother; She is the
choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; Yes, the
queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
6:10 Who is she that looks forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun,
Terrible as an army with banners?
6:11 I went down into the garden of nuts, To see the green plants of the valley, To see
whether the vine budded, and the pomegranates were in flower.
6:12 Before I was aware, my soul set me Among the chariots of my princely people.
6:13 Return, return, O Shulammite; Return, return, that we may look upon you. Why
will ye look upon the Shulammite, as upon the dance of Mahanaim?
7:1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince's daughter! Your rounded thighs are
like jewels, The work of the hands of a skilful workman.
7:2 Your body is like a round goblet, In which no mingled wine is wanting: Your waist is
like a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.
7:3 Your two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe.
7:4 Your neck is like the tower of ivory; Your eyes as the pools in Heshbon, By the gate
of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looks toward Damascus.
7:5 Your head upon you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple; The king is
held captive in its tresses.
7:6 How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights!
7:7 This your stature is like to a palm-tree, and your breasts to its clusters.
7:8 I said, I will climb up into the palm-tree, I will take hold of the branches thereof: Let
your breasts be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples,
7:9 And your mouth like the best wine, That goes down smoothly for my beloved,
Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.
7:10 I am my beloved's; And his desire is toward me.
7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; Let us lodge in the villages.
7:12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see whether the vine has budded, and its
blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower: There will I give you my love.
7:13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance; And at our doors are all manner of precious
fruits, new and old, Which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
8:1 Oh that you wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should
find you without, I would kiss you; Yes, and none would despise me.
8:2 I would lead you, and bring you into my mother's house, Who would instruct me; I
would cause you to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.
8:3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
8:4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until
he please.
8:5 Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under
the apple-tree I awakened you: There your mother was in travail with you, There was she
in travail that brought you forth.
8:6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm: For love is strong as death;
Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, a very flame of
Yahweh.
8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give
all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be despised.
8:8 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: What shall we do for our sister In the
day when she shall be spoken for?
8:9 If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We
will inclose her with boards of cedar.
8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like the towers of it. Then was I in his eyes as one that
found peace.
8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; He let out the vineyard to keepers; Every
one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
8:12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: You, O Solomon, shall have the
thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
8:13 You that dwell in the gardens, The companions hearken for your voice: Cause me to
hear it.
8:14 Make haste, my beloved, and be you like to a roe or to a young deer Upon the
mountains of spices.
End of Song of Solomon
The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
Isaiah
1:1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem,
in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Yahweh has spoken: I have nourished and
brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
1:3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel does not know,
my people does not consider.
1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal
corruptly! they have forsaken Yahweh, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they
are estranged and gone backward.
1:5 Why would ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is
sick, and the whole heart faint.
1:6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and
bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified
with oil.
1:7 Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour
it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of
cucumbers, as a besieged city.
1:9 Unless Yahweh of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as
Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.
1:10 Hear the word of Yahweh, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to the law of our God, ye
people of Gomorrah.
1:11 What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says Yahweh: I have had enough
of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of
bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
1:12 When ye come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample
my courts?
1:13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination to me; new moon and
sabbath, the calling of assemblies,- I cannot endure iniquity and then the solemn meeting.
1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they are a trouble to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; yes, when ye
make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
1:16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from
before my eyes; cease to do evil;
1:17 learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, adjudicate the cause of the
fatherless, plead for the widow.
1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, says Yahweh: though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
1:20 but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of
Yahweh has spoken it.
1:21 How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness
lodged in her, but now murderers.
1:22 Your silver is become dross, your wine mixed with water.
1:23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one of them loves
bribes, and follows after rewards: they adjudicate not for the fatherless, neither does the
cause of the widow come to them.
1:24 Therefore says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, ah, I will
relieve myself of my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies;
1:25 and I will turn my hand upon you, and thoroughly purge away your dross, and will
take away all your tin;
1:26 and I will restore your judges to how it was at the first, and your counsellors as at
the beginning: afterward you shall be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town.
1:27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her converts with righteousness.
1:28 But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and they that
forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be
confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
1:30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fades, and as a garden that has no water.
1:31 And the strong shall be as tinder, and his work as a spark; and they shall both alike
burn together, and no one shall quench them.
2:1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2:2 And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall
be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow to it.
2:3 And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of
Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will
walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh from
Jerusalem.
2:4 And he will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation
shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
2:5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
2:6 For you have forsaken your people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with
customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with
the children of foreigners.
2:7 And their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures;
their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.
2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which
their own fingers have made.
2:9 And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low: therefore
forgive them not.
2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide you in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and
from the glory of his majesty.
2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be
bowed down, and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:12 For there shall be a day of Yahweh of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and
upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;
2:13 and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks
of Bashan,
2:14 and upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
2:15 and upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall,
2:16 and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant imagery.
2:17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be
brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
2:18 And the idols shall utterly pass away.
2:19 And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from
before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake
mightily the earth.
2:20 In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which
have been made for them to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
2:21 to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from
before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake
mightily the earth.
2:22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for in what way is he to be
accounted of?
3:1 For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, does take away from Jerusalem and from
Judah stay and staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water;
3:2 the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and
the elder;
3:3 the captain of fifty, and the honorable man, and the counsellor, and the expert
artificer, and the skilful enchanter.
3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his
neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against
the honorable.
3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, You have
clothing, be you our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand;
3:7 in that day shall he lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is
neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people.
3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are
against Yahweh, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
3:9 The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they declare their sin
as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe to their soul! for they have done evil to themselves.
3:10 Say ye of the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of
their doings.
3:11 Woe to the wicked! it shall be ill with him; for what his hands have done shall be
done to him.
3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my
people, they that lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
3:13 Yahweh stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.
3:14 Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes
thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:
3:15 what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? says the
Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
3:16 Moreover Yahweh said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with
outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a
tinkling with their feet;
3:17 therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of
Zion, and Yahweh will lay bare their secret parts.
3:18 In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, and the lobes, and the
crescents;
3:19 the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers;
3:20 the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the
amulets;
3:21 the rings, and the nose-jewels;
3:22 the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels;
3:23 the hand-mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the veils.
3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness; and
instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe, a
girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.
3:25 Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.
3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the
ground.
4:1 And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our
own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by your name; take you away
our reproach.
4:2 In that day shall the branch of Yahweh be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the
land shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
4:3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remains in
Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in
Jerusalem;
4:4 when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall
have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof, by the spirit of justice, and by
the spirit of burning.
4:5 And Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of mount Zion, and over her
assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over
all the glory shall be spread a covering.
4:6 And there shall be a pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a
refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.
5:1 Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My
wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
5:2 and he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest
vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein: and he
looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
5:3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between
me and my vineyard.
5:4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? why,
when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5:5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge
thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be
trodden down:
5:6 and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers
and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
5:7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his
pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but,
behold, a cry.
5:8 Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and
ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
5:9 In my ears says Yahweh of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even
great and fair, without inhabitant.
5:10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an
ephah.
5:11 Woe to them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink;
that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!
5:12 And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are in their feasts; but
they regard not the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his
hands.
5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their
honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
5:14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and
their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoices among them,
descend into it.
5:15 And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is humbled, and the eyes of
the lofty are humbled:
5:16 but Yahweh of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in
righteousness.
5:17 Then shall the lambs feed as in their pasture, and the waste places of the fat ones
shall wanderers eat.
5:18 Woe to them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a
cart rope;
5:19 that say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the
counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!
5:20 Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light
for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
5:21 Woe to them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
5:22 Woe to them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong
drink;
5:23 that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous
from him!
5:24 Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down
in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust;
because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts, and despised the word of the
Holy One of Israel.
5:25 Therefore is the anger of Yahweh kindled against his people, and he has stretched
forth his hand against them, and has smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their
dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned
away, but his hand is stretched out still.
5:26 And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them from the
end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.
5:27 None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither
shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:
5:28 whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent; their horses' hoofs shall be
accounted as flint, and their wheels as a whirlwind:
5:29 their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yes, they shall
roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.
5:30 And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one
look to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds
thereof.
6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted
up; and his train filled the temple.
6:2 Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his
face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
6:3 And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of hosts: the whole
earth is full of his glory.
6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the
house was filled with smoke.
6:5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I
dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh
of hosts.
6:6 Then flew one of the seraphim to me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had
taken with the tongs from off the altar:
6:7 and he touched my mouth with it, and said, Lo, this has touched your lips; and your
iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.
6:8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for
us? Then I said, Here am I; send me.
6:9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye
indeed, but perceive not.
6:10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest
they sea with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and
turn again, and be healed.
6:11 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without
inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
6:12 and Yahweh have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the
midst of the land.
6:13 And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as
an oak, whose stock remains, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
7:1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of
Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went
up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
7:2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And
his heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the
wind.
7:3 Then said Yahweh to Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shear-jashub your
son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller's field;
7:4 and say to him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither let your heart be faint,
because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria,
and of the son of Remaliah.
7:5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against you,
saying,
7:6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set
up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel;
7:7 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within
sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken in pieces, so that is shall not be a people:
7:9 and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If
ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
7:10 And Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,
7:11 Ask you a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height
above.
7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt Yahweh.
7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David: Is it a small thing for you to weary
men, that ye will weary my God also?
7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and
bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the
good.
7:16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land
whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
7:17 Yahweh will bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father's house,
days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah-even the king of
Assyria.
7:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Yahweh will hiss for the fly that is in the
uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
7:19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the
clefts of the rocks, and upon all thorn-hedges, and upon all pastures.
7:20 In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the
River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also
consume the beard.
7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and
two sheep;
7:22 and it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall
give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of
the land.
7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand
vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns.
7:24 With arrows and with bow shall one come there, because all the land shall be briers
and thorns.
7:25 And all the hills that were dug with the mattock, you shall not come there for fear of
briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of
sheep.
8:1 And Yahweh said to me, Take you a great tablet, and write upon it with the pen of a
man, For Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
8:2 and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the
son of Jeberechiah.
8:3 And I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said Yahweh
to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
8:4 For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the
riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of
Assyria.
8:5 And Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,
8:6 Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and
rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son;
8:7 now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up upon them the waters of the River, strong
and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its
channels, and go over all its banks;
8:8 and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall
reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of your
land, O Immanuel.
8:9 Make an uproar, O ye peoples, and be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far
countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and be broken in
pieces.
8:10 Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall
not stand: for God is with us.
8:11 For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in
the way of this people, saying,
8:12 Say ye not, a conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, a conspiracy;
neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread of it.
8:13 Yahweh of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your
dread.
8:14 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of
offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem.
8:15 And many shall stumble upon it, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be
taken.
8:16 Bind you up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
8:17 And I will wait for Yahweh, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will
look for him.
8:18 Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for
wonders in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, who dwells in mount Zion.
8:19 And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits and to the
wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek to their God? on behalf of
the living should they seek to the dead?
8:20 To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely
there is no morning for them.
8:21 And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass
that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by
their God, and turn their faces upward:
8:22 and they shall look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of
anguish; and into thick darkness they shall be driven away.
9:1 But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he
brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time
has he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwelt in the land
of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.
9:3 You have multiplied the nation, you have increased their joy: they joy before you
according to the joy in harvest, as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
9:4 For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you
have broken as in the day of Midian.
9:5 For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood,
shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his
shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace.
9:7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne
of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with
righteousness from from now on even for ever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will
perform this.
9:8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it has lighted upon Israel.
9:9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say
in pride and in stoutness of heart,
9:10 The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut
down, but we will put cedars in their place. 38
9:11 Therefore Yahweh will set up on high against him the adversaries of Rezin, and will
stir up his enemies,
9:12 the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open
mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
9:13 Yet the people have not turned to him that smote them, neither have they sought
Yahweh of hosts.
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Isaiah 9:10 On the top beam of the new World Trade Center in New York City, Barack Obama wrote: "We
remember," "We rebuild" and "We come back stronger!" The Septuagint for this verse says, “The bricks are
fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a
tower.” The words on the new World Trade Center were written, as vs. 9 says, “in pride and in stoutness of
heart.” Their own word was “defiance.”
9:14 Therefore Yahweh will cut off from Israel head and tail, palm-branch and rush, in
one day.
9:15 The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he
is the tail.
9:16 For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are
destroyed.
9:17 Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have
compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and
every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is
stretched out still.
9:18 For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in
the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
9:19 Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the
fuel of fire: no man spares his brother.
9:20 And one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left
hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
9:21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against
Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
10:1 Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write
oppressive statutes;
10:2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right,
that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
10:3 And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come
from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
10:4 They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For
all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
10:5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
10:6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I
give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the
mire of the streets.
10:7 Though he intends not so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to
destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
10:8 For he says, are not my princes all of them kings?
10:9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as
Damascus?
10:10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel
them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
10:11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her
idols?
10:12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord has performed his whole work
upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
10:13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for
I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed
their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down them that sit on thrones:
10:14 and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs
that are forsaken, have I gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing,
or that opened the mouth, or chirped.
10:15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that hews with it? shall the saw magnify
itself against him that wields it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, or as if a
staff should lift up him that is not wood.
10:16 Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and
under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.
10:17 And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will
burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
10:18 And he will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and
body: and it shall be as when a standard-bearer faints.
10:19 And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write
them.
10:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are
escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them, but
shall lean upon Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
10:21 A remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.
10:22 For though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them
shall return: a destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
10:23 For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, make in the
midst of all the earth.
10:24 Therefore thus says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, O my people that dwell in Zion, be
not afraid of the Assyrian, though he smite you with the rod, and lift up his staff against
you, after the manner of Egypt.
10:25 For yet a very little while, and the indignation against you shall be accomplished,
and my anger shall be directed to his destruction.
10:26 And Yahweh of hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of
Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up after the
manner of Egypt.
10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off your
shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of
fatness.
10:28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he lays up his
baggage;
10:29 they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah
trembles; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
10:30 Cry aloud with your voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O you poor
Anathoth!
10:31 Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.
10:32 This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shakes his hand at the mount of the daughter
of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
10:33 Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of
stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low.
10:34 And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by
a mighty one.
11:1 And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his
roots shall bear fruit.
11:2 And the Spirit of Yahweh shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of
Yahweh.
11:3 And his delight shall be in the fear of Yahweh; and he shall not judge after the sight
of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears;
11:4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek
of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of
his lips shall he slay the wicked.
11:5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his
loins.
11:6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
11:7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and
the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
11:8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall
put his hand on the adder's den.
11:9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of
the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
11:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the root of Jesse, that stands for an
ensign of the peoples, to him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be
glorious.
11:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the
second time to recover the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria, and
from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and
from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
11:12 And he will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of
Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off:
Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
11:14 And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together
shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and
Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
11:15 And Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his
scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams,
and cause men to march over dryshod.
11:16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from
Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
12:1 And in that day you shall say, I will give thanks to you, O Yahweh; for though you
were angry with me, your anger is turned away and you comfort me.
12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yahweh, even
Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he is become my salvation.
12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
12:4 And in that day shall ye say, Give thanks to Yahweh, call upon his name, declare his
doings among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted.
12:5 Sing to Yahweh; for he has done excellent things: let this be known in all the earth.
12:6 Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of you is the Holy
One of Israel.
13:1 The burden concerning Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
13:2 Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice to them, wave the
hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.
13:3 I have commanded my consecrated ones, yes, I have called my mighty men for my
anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
13:4 The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult
of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Yahweh of hosts is mustering the host
for the battle.
13:5 They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and
the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
13:6 Wail ye; for the day of Yahweh is at hand; as destruction from the Almighty shall it
come.
13:7 Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:
13:8 and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be
in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces
shall be faces of flame.
13:9 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger; to make the
land a desolation, and to destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the
sun shall be darkened in its going forth, and the moon shall not cause its light to shine.
13:11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I
will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the
terrible.
13:12 I will make a man more rare than fine gold, even a man than the pure gold of
Ophir.
13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of
its place, in the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
13:14 And it shall come to pass, that as the chased roe, and as sheep that no man gathers,
they shall turn every man to his own people, and shall flee every man to his own land.
13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is taken shall
fall by the sword.
13:16 Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be
rifled, and their wives ravished.
13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as
for gold, they shall not delight in it.
13:18 And their bows shall dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on
the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.
13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be
as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arab pitch a tent there; neither shall shepherds make their
flocks to lie down there.
13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful
creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.
13:22 And wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in the pleasant palaces: and her
time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
14:1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them
in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to
the house of Jacob.
14:2 And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of
Israel shall possess them in the land of Yahweh for servants and for handmaids: and they
shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their
oppressors.
14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that Yahweh shall give you rest from your
sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to
serve,
14:4 that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the
oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
14:5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;
14:6 that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in
anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
14:7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
14:8 Yes, the fir-trees rejoice at you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are
laid low, no hewer is come up against us.
14:9 Sheol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the
dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all
the kings of the nations.
14:10 All they shall answer and say to you, are you also become weak as we? are you
become like to us?
14:11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of your viols: the worm is
spread under you, and worms cover you.
14:12 How are you fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! how are you cut
down to the ground, that did lay low the nations!
14:13 And you said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above
the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of
the north;
14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most
High.
14:15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
14:16 They that see you shall gaze at you, they shall consider you, saying, Is this the man
that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
14:17 that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not
loose his prisoners to their home?
14:18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.
14:19 But you are cast forth away from your sepulchre like an abominable branch,
clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones
of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
14:20 You shall not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.
14:21 Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise
not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.
14:22 And I will rise up against them, says Yahweh of hosts, and cut off from Babylon
name and remnant, and son and son's son, says Yahweh.
14:23 I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will
sweep it with the besom of destruction, says Yahweh of hosts.
14:24 Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to
pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
14:25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under
foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their
shoulder.
14:26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that
is stretched out upon all the nations.
14:27 For Yahweh of hosts has purposed, and who shall annul it? and his hand is
stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
14:28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
14:29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that smote you is broken; for
out of the serpent's root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying
serpent.
14:30 And the first-born of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety;
and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant shall be slain.
14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; you are melted away, O Philistia, all of you; for there
comes a smoke out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.
14:32 What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has
founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.
15:1 The burden concerning Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and
brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought.
15:2 They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab wails
over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.
15:3 In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their
broad places, every one wails, weeping abundantly.
15:4 And Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even to Jahaz: therefore the
armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles within him.
15:5 My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles flee to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishi-yah: for by
the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a
cry of destruction.
15:6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate; for the grass is withered away, the
tender grass fails, there is no green thing.
15:7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall
they carry away over the brook of the willows.
15:8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing thereof to Eglaim,
and the wailing thereof to Beer-elim.
15:9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring yet more upon Dimon, a
lion upon them of Moab that escape, and upon the remnant of the land.
16:1 Send ye the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the
mount of the daughter of Zion.
16:2 For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of
Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
16:3 Give counsel, execute justice; make your shade as the night in the midst of the
noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.
16:4 Let my outcasts dwell with you; as for Moab, be you a covert to him from the face
of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nought, destruction ceases, the
oppressors are consumed out of the land.
16:5 And a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one shall sit upon it in
truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
16:6 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogancy,
and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought.
16:7 Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of
Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, utterly stricken.
16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations
have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even to Jazer, which
wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.
16:9 Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water
you with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon your summer fruits and upon your
harvest the battle shout is fallen.
16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards
there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the
presses; I have made the vintage shout to cease.
16:11 Wherefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir-
heres.
16:12 And it shall come to pass, when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself
upon the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.
16:13 This is the word that Yahweh spoke concerning Moab in time past.
16:14 But now Yahweh has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling,
the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the
remnant shall be very small and of no account.
17:1 The burden concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a
city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
17:2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and
none shall make them afraid.
17:3 And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and
the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, says Yahweh of
hosts.
17:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and
the fatness of his flesh shall grow lean.
17:5 And it shall be as when the harvestman gathers the standing grain, and his arm reaps
the ears; yes, it shall be as when one gleans ears in the valley of Rephaim.
17:6 Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three
berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a
fruitful tree, says Yahweh, the God of Israel.
17:7 In that day shall men look to their Maker, and their eyes shall have respect to the
Holy One of Israel.
17:8 And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have
respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.
17:9 In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the
mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a
desolation.
17:10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not been mindful of the
rock of your strength; therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set it with strange slips.
17:11 In the day of your planting you hedge it in, and in the morning you cause your seed
to blossom; but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
17:12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the
rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them,
and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the
wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
17:14 At eventide, behold, terror; and before the morning they are not. This is the
portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
18:1 Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
18:2 that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters,
saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from
their beginning onward, a nation that metes out and treads down, whose land the rivers
divide!
18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is
lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye.
18:4 For thus has Yahweh said to me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-
place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
18:5 For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening
grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he
take away and cut down.
18:6 They shall be left together to the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts
of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the
earth shall winter upon them.
18:7 In that time shall a present be brought to Yahweh of hosts from a people tall and
smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that metes out
and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of
hosts, the mount Zion.
19:1 The burden concerning Egypt. Behold, Yahweh rides upon a swift cloud, and
comes to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall tremble at his presence; and the heart of
Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
19:2 And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one
against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom
against kingdom.
19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel
thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have
familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
19:4 And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king
shall rule over them, says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.
19:6 And the rivers shall become foul; the streams of Egypt shall be diminished and dried
up; the reeds and flags shall wither away.
19:7 The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the
Nile, shall become dry, be driven away, and be no more.
19:8 And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn,
and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.
19:9 Moreover they that work in combed flax, and they that weave white cloth, shall be
confounded.
19:10 And they that are the pillars of Egypt shall be broken in pieces, and all they that
work for hire shall be grieved in soul.
19:11 The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish; the counsel of the wisest counsellors of
Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of
ancient kings?
19:12 Where then are your wise men? and let them tell you now; and let them know
what Yahweh of hosts has purposed concerning Egypt.
19:13 The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Memphis are deceived; they
have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes.
19:14 Yahweh has mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have
caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
19:15 Neither shall there be for Egypt any work, which head or tail, palm-branch or rush,
may do.
19:16 In that day shall the Egyptians be like to women; and they shall tremble and fear
because of the shaking of the hand of Yahweh of hosts, which he shakes over them.
19:17 And the land of Judah shall become a terror to Egypt; every one to whom mention
is made thereof shall be afraid, because of the purpose of Yahweh of hosts, which he
purposes against it.
19:18 In that day there shall be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of
Canaan, and swear to Yahweh of hosts; one shall be called The city of destruction.
19:19 In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the land of Egypt, and
a pillar at the border thereof to Yahweh.
19:20 And it shall be for a sign and for a witness to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt;
for they shall cry to Yahweh because of oppressors, and he will send them a saviour, and
a defender, and he will deliver them.
19:21 And Yahweh shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Yahweh in
that day; yes, they shall worship with sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow a vow to
Yahweh, and shall perform it.
19:22 And Yahweh will smite Egypt, smiting and healing; and they shall return to
Yahweh, and he will be entreated of them, and will heal them.
19:23 In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall
come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the
Assyrians.
19:24 In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the
midst of the earth;
19:25 for that Yahweh of hosts has blessed them, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people,
and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.
20:1 In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,
and he fought against Ashdod and took it;
20:2 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the
sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. And he did so,
walking naked and barefoot.
20:3 And Yahweh said, Like as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three
years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;
20:4 so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of
Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame
of Egypt.
20:5 And they shall be dismayed and confounded, because of Ethiopia their expectation,
and of Egypt their glory.
20:6 And the inhabitant of this coast-land shall say in that day, Behold, such is our
expectation, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and we,
how shall we escape?
21:1 The burden concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South
sweep through, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
21:2 A grievous vision is declared to me; the treacherous man deals treacherously, and
the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I
made to cease.
21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the
pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I
cannot see.
21:4 My heart flutters, horror has affrighted me; the twilight that I desired has been
turned into trembling to me.
21:5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes,
anoint the shield.
21:6 For thus has the Lord said to me, Go, set a watchman: let him declare what he sees:
21:7 and when he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he
shall hearken diligently with much heed.
21:8 And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-
time, and am set in my ward whole nights;
21:9 and, behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs. And he answered and
said, Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the graven images of her gods are broken to the
ground.
21:10 O you my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from
Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared to you.
21:11 The burden concerning Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of
the night? Watchman, what of the night?
21:12 The watchman said, The morning comes, and also the night: if ye will inquire,
inquire ye: turn ye, come.
21:13 The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye caravans of
Dedanites.
21:14 To him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did
meet the fugitives with their bread.
21:15 For they fled away from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow,
and from the grievousness of war.
21:16 For thus has the Lord said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a
hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;
21:17 and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the children of
Kedar, shall be few; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken it.
22:1 The burden concerning the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are
wholly gone up to the housetops?
22:2 O you that are full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not
slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
22:3 All your rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that were
found of you were bound together; they fled afar off.
22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
22:5 For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the
Lord, Yahweh of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying
to the mountains.
22:6 And Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered
the shield.
22:7 And it came to pass, that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the
horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
22:8 And he took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor
in the house of the forest.
22:9 And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered
together the waters of the lower pool;
22:10 and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye broke down the houses to fortify
the wall;
22:11 ye made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But
ye looked not to him that had done this, neither had ye respect to him that purposed it
long ago.
22:12 And in that day did the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning,
and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
22:13 and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and
drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
22:14 And Yahweh of hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be
forgiven you till ye die, says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
22:15 Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, Go, get yourself to this steward, even to
Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
22:16 What do you here? and whom has you here, that you have hewed you out here a
sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the
rock!
22:17 Behold, Yahweh, like a strong man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap
you up closely.
22:18 He will surely wind you round and round, and toss you like a ball into a large
country; there shall you die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of
your lord's house.
22:19 And I will thrust you from your office; and from your station shall you be pulled
down.
22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of
Hilkiah:
22:21 and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, and I will
commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open,
and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
22:23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory
to his father's house.
22:24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and
the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons.
22:25 In that day, says Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place
give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be
cut off; for Yahweh has spoken it.
23:1 The burden concerning Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so
that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
23:2 Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass
over the sea, have replenished.
23:3 And on great waters the seed of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue;
and she was the mart of nations.
23:4 Be you ashamed, O Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished young men, nor brought
up virgins.
23:5 When the report comes to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
23:6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; wail, ye inhabitants of the coast.
23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her
afar off to sojourn?
23:8 Who has purposed this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are
princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?
23:9 Yahweh of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into
contempt all the honorable of the earth.
23:10 Pass through your land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any
more.
23:11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he has shaken the kingdoms: Yahweh
has given commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds thereof.
23:12 And he said, You shall no more rejoice, O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon:
arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shall you have no rest.
23:13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; the Assyrian founded it for
them that dwell in the wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces
thereof; they made it a ruin.
23:14 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for your stronghold is laid waste.
23:15 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years,
according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as in
the song of the harlot.
23:16 Take a harp, go about the city, you harlot that have been forgotten; make sweet
melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit
Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of
the world upon the face of the earth.
23:18 And her merchandise and her wages shall be holiness to Yahweh: it shall not be
treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before Yahweh, to
eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
24:1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside
down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof.
24:2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his
master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as
with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of
interest to him.
24:3 The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken
this word.
24:4 The earth mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty
people of the earth do languish.
24:5 The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
24:6 Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found
guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
24:7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
24:8 The mirth of tabrets ceases, the noise of them that rejoice ends, the joy of the harp
ceases.
24:9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink
it.
24:10 The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.
24:11 There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of
the land is gone.
24:12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.
24:13 For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an
olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.
24:14 These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Yahweh they cry
aloud from the sea.
24:15 Wherefore glorify ye Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of
Israel, in the isles of the sea.
24:16 From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous.
But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously;
yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
24:17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.
24:18 And it shall come to pass, that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into
the pit; and he that comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the
windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
24:19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently.
24:20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a
hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not
rise again.
24:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high
ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
24:22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall
be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
24:23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of hosts
will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
25:1 O Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have
done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth.
25:2 For you have made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to
be no city; it shall never be built.
25:3 Therefore shall a strong people glorify you; a city of terrible nations shall fear you.
25:4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress,
a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a
storm against the wall.
25:5 As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by
the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
25:6 And in this mountain will Yahweh of hosts make to all peoples a feast of fat things,
a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.
25:7 And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covers all peoples,
and the veil that is spread over all nations.
25:8 He has swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears
from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth:
for Yahweh has spoken it.
25:9 And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he
will save us: this is Yahweh; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his
salvation.
25:10 For in this mountain will the hand of Yahweh rest; and Moab shall be trodden
down in his place, even as straw is trodden down in the water of the dung-hill.
25:11 And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swims spreads
forth his hands to swim; but Yahweh will lay low his pride together with the craft of his
hands.
25:12 And the high fortress of your walls has he brought down, laid low, and brought to
the ground, even to the dust.
26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: we have a strong city;
salvation will he appoint for walls and bulwarks.
26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
26:3 You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you; because he trusts
in you.
26:4 Trust ye in Yahweh for ever; for in Yahweh, even Yahweh, is an everlasting rock.
26:5 For he has brought down them that dwell on high, the lofty city: he lays it low, he
lays it low even to the ground; he brings it even to the dust.
26:6 The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.
26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: you that are upright do direct the path of the just.
26:8 Yes, in the way of your judgments, O Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your
name, even to your memorial name, is the desire of our soul.
26:9 With my soul have I desired you in the night; yes, with my spirit within me will I
seek you earnestly: for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world
learn righteousness.
26:10 Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of
uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Yahweh.
26:11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall see your zeal for the
people, and be put to shame; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries.
26:12 Yahweh, you will ordain peace for us; for you have also wrought all our works for
us.
26:13 O Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by
you only will we make mention of your name.
26:14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore
have you visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.
26:15 You have increased the nation, O Yahweh, you have increased the nation; you are
glorified; you have enlarged all the borders of the land.
26:16 Yahweh, in trouble have they visited you; they poured out a prayer when your
chastening was upon them.
26:17 Like as a woman with child, that draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and
cries out in her pangs; so we have been before you, O Yahweh.
26:18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth
wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of
the world fallen.
26:19 Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell
in the dust; for your dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
26:20 Come, my people, enter you into your chambers, and shut your doors about you:
hide yourself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
26:21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the
earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover
her slain.
27:1 In that day Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan
the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is
in the sea.
27:2 In that day: A vineyard of wine, sing ye to it.
27:3 I Yahweh am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it
night and day.
27:4 Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I
would march upon them, I would burn them together.
27:5 Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yes, let
him make peace with me.
27:6 In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall
fill the face of the world with fruit.
27:7 Has he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain
according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?
27:8 In measure, when you send them away, you do contend with them; he has removed
them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
27:9 Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of
taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten
in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.
27:10 For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the
wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the
branches thereof.
27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall
come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made
them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no
favor.
27:12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Yahweh will beat off his fruit from the
flood of the River to the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye
children of Israel.
27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they
shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in
the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.
28:1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of
his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with
wine!
28:2 Behold, the Lord has a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying
storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the
hand.
28:3 The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under foot:
28:4 and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley,
shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees,
while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.
28:5 In that day will Yahweh of hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty,
to the residue of his people;
28:6 and a spirit of justice to him that sits in judgment, and strength to them that turn
back the battle at the gate.
28:7 And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the
prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong
drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
28:9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the
message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
28:10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line;
here a little, there a little.
28:11 Nay, but by men of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this
people;
28:12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the
refreshing: yet they would not hear.
28:13 Therefore shall the word of Yahweh be to them precept upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and
fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
28:14 Wherefore hear the word of Yahweh, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in
Jerusalem:
28:15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol are we
at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come to us;
for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
28:16 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a
stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone of sure foundation: he that believes shall not
be in haste.
28:17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall
sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
28:18 And your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol
shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden
down by it.
28:19 As often as it passes though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass
through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message.
28:20 For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering
narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
28:21 For Yahweh will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be angry as in the valley of
Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange
act.
28:22 Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of
destruction have I heard from the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, upon the whole earth.
28:23 Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
28:24 Does he that plows to sow plow continually? does he continually open and
harrow his ground?
28:25 When he has levelled the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches, and
scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place,
and the spelt in the border thereof?
28:26 For his God does instruct him aright, and does teach him.
28:27 For the dill is not threshed with a sharp threshing instrument, neither is a cart
wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the dill is beaten out with a staff, and the
cummin with a rod.
28:28 Bread grain is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel
of his cart and his horses scatter it, he does not grind it.
28:29 This also comes forth from Yahweh of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and
excellent in wisdom.
29:1 Ho Ariel, ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts
come round:
29:2 then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall
be to me as Ariel.
29:3 And I will encamp against you round about, and will lay siege against you with
posted troops, and I will raise siege works against you.
29:4 And you shall be brought down, and shall speak out of the ground, and your speech
shall be low out of the dust; and your voice shall be as of one that has a familiar spirit,
out of the ground, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
29:5 But the multitude of your foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the
terrible ones as chaff that passes away: yes, it shall be in an instant suddenly.
29:6 She shall be visited of Yahweh of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great
noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight
against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the
night.
29:8 And it shall be as when a hungry man dreams, and, behold, he eats; but he awakes,
and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreams, and, behold, he drinks; but he
awakes, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul has appetite: so shall the multitude of all the
nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
29:9 Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not
with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
29:10 For Yahweh has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your
eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.
29:11 And all vision is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men
deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I cannot, for it is
sealed:
29:12 and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you;
and he says, I am not learned.
29:13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near to me, and with their mouth
and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear
of me is a commandment of men which has been taught them;
29:14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even
a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
29:15 Woe to them that hide deep their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in
the dark, and that say, Who sees us? and who knows us?
29:16 You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing
made should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him
that formed it, He has no understanding?
29:17 Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and
the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind
shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
29:19 The meek also shall increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men shall
rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.
29:20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer ceases, and all they that
watch for iniquity are cut off;
29:21 that make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him that reproves in
the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.
29:22 Therefore thus says Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of
Jacob: Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now grow pale.
29:23 But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they
shall sanctify my name; yes, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in
awe of the God of Israel.
29:24 They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall
receive instruction.
30:1 Woe to the rebellious children, says Yahweh, that take counsel, but not of me; and
that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
30:2 that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen
themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow
of Egypt your confusion.
30:4 For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors are come to Hanes.
30:5 They shall all be ashamed because of a people that cannot profit them, that are not a
help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
30:6 The burden concerning the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and
anguish, from which place come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying
serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures
upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
30:7 For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I called her Rahab that
sits still.
30:8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for
the time to come for ever and ever.
30:9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of
Yahweh;
30:10 that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things,
speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,
30:11 get yourself out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel
to cease from before us.
30:12 Wherefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and
trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely upon it;
30:13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a
high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
30:14 And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without
sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd with which to
take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.
30:15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall
ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not:
30:16 but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will
ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
30:17 One thousand shall flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five shall ye flee: till ye
be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on a hill.
30:18 And therefore will Yahweh wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore will
he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed
are all they that wait for him.
30:19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more; he will
surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear, he will answer you.
30:20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet
shall not your teachers be hidden anymore, but your eyes shall see your teachers;
30:21 and your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it;
when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
30:22 And ye shall defile the overlaying of your graven images of silver, and the plating
of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as an unclean thing; you shall
say to it, Get yourself away from here.
30:23 And he will give the rain for your seed, with which you shall sow the ground; and
bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall
your cattle feed in large pastures;
30:24 the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savory
provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
30:25 And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks and
streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the
sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the
hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
30:27 Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick
rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;
30:28 and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reaches even to the neck, to sift the
nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causes to err shall be in the jaws of
the peoples.
30:29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of
heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of Yahweh, to the Rock of
Israel.
30:30 And Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting
down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with
a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.
30:31 For through the voice of Yahweh shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will
he smite him.
30:32 And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Yahweh shall lay upon him, shall be
with the sound of tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing of his arm will he
fight with them.
30:33 For a Topheth is prepared of old; yes, for the king it is made ready; he has made it
deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a
stream of brimstone, does kindle it.
31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots
because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not
to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Yahweh!
31:2 Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will
arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and
when Yahweh shall stretch out his hand, both he that helps shall stumble, and he that is
helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
31:4 For thus says Yahweh to me, as the lion and the young lion growling over his prey,
if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their
voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Yahweh of hosts come down to
fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.
31:5 As birds hovering, so will Yahweh of hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect and
deliver it, he will pass over and preserve it.
31:6 Turn ye to him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.
31:7 For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of
gold, which your own hands have made to you for a sin.
31:8 And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men,
shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become
subject to taskwork.
31:9 And his rock shall pass away by reason of terror, and his princes shall be dismayed
at the ensign, says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
32:1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
32:2 And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest,
as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
32:3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall
hearken.
32:4 And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the
stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.
32:5 The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful.
32:6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise
profaneness, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry,
and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
32:7 And the instruments of the scoundrel are evil: he devises wicked devices to destroy
the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
32:8 But the noble devises noble things; and in noble things shall he continue.
32:9 Rise up, ye women that are at ease, and hear my voice; ye careless daughters, give
ear to my speech.
32:10 For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage
shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.
32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and
make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
32:12 They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
32:13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the
houses of joy in the joyous city.
32:14 For the palace shall be forsaken; the populous city shall be deserted; the hill and
the watch-tower shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
32:15 until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness become a
fruitful field, and the fruitful field be esteemed as a forest.
32:16 Then justice shall dwell in the wilderness; and righteousness shall abide in the
fruitful field.
32:17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness,
quietness and confidence for ever.
32:18 And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in
quiet resting-places.
32:19 But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.
32:20 Blessed are yet that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the
donkey.
33:1 Woe to you that destroyest, and you were not destroyed; and deal treacherously, and
they dealt not treacherously with you! When you have ceased to destroy, you shall be
destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal
treacherously with you.
33:2 O Yahweh, be gracious to us; we have waited for you: be you our arm every
morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
33:3 At the noise of the tumult the peoples are fled; at the lifting up of yourself the
nations are scattered.
33:4 And your spoil shall be gathered as the caterpillar gathers: as locusts leap shall men
leap upon it.
33:5 Yahweh is exalted; for he dwels on high: he has filled Zion with justice and
righteousness.
33:6 And there shall be stability in your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and
knowledge: the fear of Yahweh is your treasure.
33:7 Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
33:8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceases: the enemy has broken the
covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards not man.
33:9 The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon
is like a desert; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
33:10 Now will I arise, says Yahweh; now will I lift up myself; now will I be exalted.
33:11 You shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that
shall devour you.
33:12 And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are
burned in the fire.
33:13 Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my
might.
33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones: Who among
us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting
burnings?
33:15 He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of
oppressions, that shakes his hands from taking a bribe, that stops his ears from hearing of
blood, and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil:
33:16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his
bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
33:17 Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold a land that reaches
afar.
33:18 Your heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is he that
weighed the tribute? where is he that counted the treasures?
33:19 No longer will you see these arrogant people, a people of a deep speech that you
cannot comprehend, of a strange tongue that you cannot understand.
33:20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: your eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet
habitation, a tent that shall not be removed, the stakes of which shall never be plucked up,
neither shall any of the cords of it be broken.
33:21 But there Yahweh will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams,
on which shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
33:22 For Yahweh is our judge, Yahweh is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king; he will
save us.
33:23 Your tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they
could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the
prey.
33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be
forgiven their iniquity.
34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and the
fulness thereof; the world, and all things that come forth from it.
34:2 For Yahweh has indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host:
he has utterly destroyed them, he has delivered them to the slaughter.
34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies shall come up;
and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled
together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fades from off the vine,
and as a fading leaf from the fig-tree.
34:5 For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom,
and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
34:6 The sword of Yahweh is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood
of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in
Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 39
34:7 And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and
their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
34:8 For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
34:9 And the streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into
brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from
generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
34:11 But the pelican and the porcupine shall possess it; and the owl and the raven shall
dwell therein: and he will stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of
emptiness.
34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all
its princes shall be nothing.
34:13 And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses
thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.
34:14 And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat
shall cry to his fellow; yes, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place
of rest.
34:15 There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her
shade; yes, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
34:16 Seek ye out of the book of Yahweh, and read: no one of these shall be missing,
none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it has commanded, and his Spirit, it has gathered
them.
34:17 And he has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them by line: they
shall possess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
35:1 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and
blossom as the rose.
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35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of
Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the
glory of Yahweh, the excellency of our God.
35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will
come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; he will come and save you.
35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be
unstopped.
35:6 Then shall the lame man leap as a deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in
the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
35:7 And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water:
in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
35:8 And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness;
the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for the redeemed: the wayfaring men, yes
fools, shall not err therein.
35:9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up on it; they shall not be
found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
35:10 and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow
and sighing shall flee away.
36:1 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king
of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.
36:2 And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king
Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the
highway of the fuller's field.
36:3 Then came forth to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household,
and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.
36:4 And Rabshakeh said to them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the
king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust?
36:5 I say, your counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom do
you trust, that you have rebelled against me?
36:6 Behold, you trust upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, whereon if a
man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that
trust on him.
36:7 But if you say to me, We trust in Yahweh our God: is not that he, whose high places
and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You
shall worship before this altar?
36:8 Now therefore, I pray you, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will
give you two thousand horses, if you be able on your part to set riders upon them.
36:9 How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's
servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
36:10 And am I now come up without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh
said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah to Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray you, to your
servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and do not speak to us in the Jews'
language, in the hearing of the people that are on the wall.
36:12 But Rabshakeh said, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak
these words? has he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung,
and to drink their own water along with you?
36:13 Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said,
Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
36:14 Thus says the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver
you:
36:15 neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, Yahweh will surely deliver
us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
36:16 Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with
me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one from his vine, and every one from his fig-
tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
36:17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and
new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of
the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim?
and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these countries, that have delivered their
country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
36:21 But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's
commandment was, saying, answer him not.
36:22 Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna
the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent,
and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
37:1 And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and
covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh.
37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the
elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
37:3 And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of
rebuke, and of disgrace; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to
bring forth.
37:4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of
Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which
Yahweh your God has heard: therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.
37:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
37:6 And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus says Yahweh, Be
not afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of
Assyria have blasphemed me.
37:7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear reports, and shall return to his
own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
37:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for
he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
37:9 And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come out to fight
against you. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
37:10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not your God in whom
you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of
Assyria.
37:11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by
destroying them utterly: yet you shall be delivered?
37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed,
Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?
37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of
Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
37:14 And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and
Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh.
37:15 And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,
37:16 O Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, that sits above the cherubim, you are the
God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
37:17 Incline your ear, O Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, O Yahweh, and see; and
hear all the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.
37:18 Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the countries, and their
land,
37:19 and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but rather the work of
men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
37:20 Now therefore, O Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of
the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.
37:21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God
of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
37:22 this is the word which Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of
Zion has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken
her head at you.
37:23 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted
your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
37:24 By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of
my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of
Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and
I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;
37:25 I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers
of Egypt.
37:26 Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times?
now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into
ruinous heaps.
37:27 That is the reason their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and
confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the
housetops, and as a field of grain before it is grown up.
37:28 But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your
raging against me.
37:29 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my
ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn
you back by the way by which you came.
37:30 And this shall be the sign to you: ye shall eat this year that which grows of itself,
and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and
reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root
downward, and bear fruit upward.
37:32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that shall
escape. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will perform this.
37:33 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to
this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up
a mound against it.
37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this
city, says Yahweh.
37:35 For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David's
sake.
37:36 And the angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians a
hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold,
these were all dead bodies.
37:37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at
Nineveh.
37:38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that
Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the
land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.
38:1 In those days was Hezekiah sick to death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz
came to him, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Set your house in order; for you shall
die, and not live.
38:2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh,
38:3 and said, Remember now, O Yahweh, I beseech you, how I have walked before you
in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. And
Hezekiah wept sorely.
38:4 Then came the word of Yahweh to Isaiah, saying,
38:5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, I have
heard your prayer, I have seen your tears: behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.
38:6 And I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will
defend this city.
38:7 And this shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that
he has spoken:
38:8 behold, I will cause the shadow on the steps, which is gone down on the dial of
Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the
dial whereon it was gone down.
38:9 The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered
of his sickness.
38:10 I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived
of the residue of my years.
38:11 I said, I shall not see Yahweh, even Yahweh in the land of the living: I shall behold
man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
38:12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have
rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to
night will you make an end of me.
38:13 I quieted myself until morning; as a lion, so he breaks all my bones: From day even
to night will you make an end of me.
38:14 Like a swallow or a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; my eyes fail with
looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be you my surety.
38:15 What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go
softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.
38:16 O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit:
Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.
38:17 Behold, it was for my peace that I had great bitterness: But you have in love to my
soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; For you have cast all my sins behind your
back.
38:18 For Sheol cannot praise you, death cannot celebrate you: They that go down into
the pit cannot hope for your truth.
38:19 The living, the living man, he shall praise you, as I do this day: The father to the
children shall make known your truth.
38:20 Yahweh is ready to save me: Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed
instruments All the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
38:21 Now Isaiah had said, Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a plaster upon the
boil, and he shall recover.
38:22 Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Yahweh?
39:1 At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and
a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.
39:2 And Hezekiah was glad of them, and showed them the house of his precious things,
the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his
armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all
his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
39:3 Then came Isaiah the prophet to king Hezekiah, and said to him, What said these
men? and from whence came they to you? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a
far country to me, even from Babylon.
39:4 Then said he, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah answered, all
that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not
shown them.
39:5 Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Yahweh of hosts:
39:6 Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your
fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be
left, says Yahweh.
39:7 And of your sons that shall issue from you, whom you shall beget, shall they take
away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
39:8 Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of Yahweh which you have spoken.
He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, says your God.
40:2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh's hand double for all her
sins.
40:3 The voice of one that cries, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make
level in the desert a highway for our God.
40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and
the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:
40:5 and the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the
mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
40:6 The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass,
and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows upon it;
surely the people is grass.
40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.
40:9 O you that tell good tidings to Zion, get yourself up on a high mountain; O you that
tell good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say
to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!
40:10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him:
Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
40:11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and
carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their young.
40:12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with
the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the
mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or being his counsellor has taught him?
40:14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of
justice, and taught him knowledge, and shown to him the way of understanding?
40:15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of
the balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.
40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt
offering.
40:17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than
nothing, and vanity.
40:18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him?
40:19 The image, a workman has cast it, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and
casts for it silver chains.
40:20 He that is too impoverished for such an oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he
seeks to him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.
40:21 Have ye not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the
beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
40:22 It is he that sits above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are like
grasshoppers; He stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to
dwell in;
40:23 that brings princes to nothing; that makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
40:24 Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has
not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows upon them, and they wither, and the
whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
40:25 To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him? says the Holy
One.
40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, that brings out their host
by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is
strong in power, not one is lacking.
40:27 Why say you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from Yahweh, and
the justice due to me is passed away from my God?
40:28 Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the
Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his
understanding.
40:29 He gives power to the faint; and to him that has no might he increases strength.
40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
40:31 but they that wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with
wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
41:1 Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them
come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.
41:2 Who has raised up one from the east, whom he calls in righteousness to his foot?
he gives nations before him, and makes him rule over kings; he gives them as the dust to
his sword, as the driven stubble to his bow.
41:3 He pursues them, and passes on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his
feet.
41:4 Who has wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I,
Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.
41:5 The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and
come.
41:6 They help every one his neighbor; and every one says to his brother, Be of good
courage.
41:7 So the carpenter encourages the goldsmith, and he that smooths with the hammer
him that smites the anvil, saying of the soldering, It is good; and he fastens it with nails,
that it should not be moved.
41:8 But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my
friend,
41:9 you whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called from the
corners thereof, and said to you, You are my servant, I have chosen you and not cast you
away;
41:10 Fear you not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will
strengthen you; yes, I will help you; yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my
righteousness.
41:11 Behold, all they that are incensed against you shall be put to shame and
confounded: they that strive with you shall be as nothing, and shall perish.
41:12 You shall seek them, and shall not find them, even them that contend with you:
they that war against you shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
41:13 For I, Yahweh your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Fear not; I will
help you.
41:14 Fear not, you worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help you, says Yahweh, and
your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
41:15 Behold, I have made you to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; you
shall thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shall make the hills as chaff.
41:16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind
shall scatter them; and you shall rejoice in Yahweh, you shall glory in the Holy One of
Israel.
41:17 The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue fails for thirst;
I, Yahweh, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
41:18 I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I
will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
41:19 I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I
will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:
41:20 that they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand
of Yahweh has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
41:21 Produce your cause, says Yahweh; bring forth your strong reasons, says the King
of Jacob.
41:22 Let them bring forth, and declare to us what shall happen: declare ye the former
things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or
show us things to come.
41:23 Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods:
yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
41:24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that
chooses you.
41:25 I have raised up one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun one
that calls upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter
treads clay.
41:26 Who has declared it from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that
we may say, He is right? yes, there is none that declares, yes, there is none that shows,
yes, there is none that hears your words.
41:27 I am the first that says to Zion, Behold, behold them; and I will give to Jerusalem
one that brings good tidings.
41:28 And when I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counsellor, that,
when I ask of them, can answer a word.
41:29 Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are
wind and confusion.
42:1 Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have
put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles.
42:2 He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.
42:3 A bruised reed will he not break, and a dimly burning wick will he not quench: he
will bring forth justice in truth.
42:4 He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles
shall wait for his law.
42:5 Thus says God Yahweh, he that created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he
that spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath to the
people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
42:6 I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep
you, and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
42:7 to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit
in darkness out of the prison-house.
42:8 I am Yahweh, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my
praise to graven images.
42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they
spring forth I tell you of them.
42:10 Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; ye that go
down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
42:11 Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar
does inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the
mountains.
42:12 Let them give glory to Yahweh, and declare his praise in the islands.
42:13 Yahweh will go forth as a mighty man; he will stir up his zeal like a man of war: he
will cry, yes, he will shout aloud; he will do mightily against his enemies.
42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will
I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.
42:15 I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the
rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not
will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight.
These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.
42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven
images, that say to molten images, You are our gods.
42:18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is
blind as he that is at peace with me, and blind as Yahweh's servant?
42:20 You see many things, but you observe not; his ears are open, but he hears not.
42:21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it
honorable.
42:22 But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and
they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none
says, Restore.
42:23 Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for
the time to come?
42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not Yahweh? he
against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they
obedient to his law.
42:25 Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of
battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid
it not to heart.
43:1 But now thus says Yahweh that created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O
Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine.
43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they
shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, neither
shall the flame kindle upon you.
43:3 For I am Yahweh your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Saviour; I have given
Egypt as your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your stead.
43:4 Since you have been precious in my sight, and honorable, and I have loved you;
therefore will I give men in your stead, and peoples instead of your life.
43:5 Fear not; for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you
from the west;
43:6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back; bring my sons from
far, and my daughters from the end of the earth;
43:7 every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I
have formed, yes, whom I have made.
43:8 Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
43:9 Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who
among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring their
witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth.
43:10 You are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye
may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God
formed, neither shall there be after me.
43:11 I, even I, am Yahweh; and besides me there is no saviour.
43:12 I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange God
among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, says Yahweh, and I am God.
43:13 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I
will work, and who can hinder it?
43:14 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have
sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the
ships of their rejoicing.
43:15 I am Yahweh, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.
43:16 Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
43:17 who brings forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie
down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick):
43:18 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
43:19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth; shall ye not know it? I
will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
43:20 The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give
waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,
43:21 the people which I formed for myself, that they might set forth my praise.
43:22 Yet you have not called upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O
Israel.
43:23 You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings; neither have you
honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied
you with frankincense.
43:24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, neither have you filled me with
the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me
with your iniquities.
43:25 I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not
remember your sins.
43:26 Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set you forth your cause, that you
may be justified.
43:27 Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.
43:28 Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a
curse, and Israel a reviling.
44:1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, who I have chosen:
44:2 Thus says Yahweh that made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help
you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and streams upon the dry ground; I
will pour my Spirit upon your seed, and my blessing upon your offspring:
44:4 and they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.
44:5 One shall say, I am Yahweh's; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob;
and another shall subscribe with his hand to Yahweh, and surname himself by the name
of Israel.
44:6 Thus says Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts: I am the
first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
44:7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I
established the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and that shall come to
pass, let them declare.
44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have I not declared to you of old, and shown it? and
ye are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? yes, there is no Rock; I know not
any.
44:9 They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they
delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be
put to shame.
44:10 Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
44:11 Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame; and the workmen, they are of men: let
them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to
shame together.
44:12 The smith makes an axe, and works in the coals, and fashions it with hammers, and
works it with his strong arm: yes, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water,
and is faint.
44:13 The carpenter stretches out a line; he marks it out with a pencil; he shapes it with
planes, and he marks it out with the compasses, and shapes it after the figure of a man,
according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.
44:14 He hews him down cedars, and takes the holm-tree and the oak, and strengthens for
himself one among the trees of the forest: he plants a fir-tree, and the rain does nourish it.
44:15 Then shall it be for a man to burn; and he takes thereof, and warms himself; yes, he
kindles it, and bakes bread: yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a graven
image, and falls down thereto.
44:16 He burns part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eats flesh; he roasts roast, and
is satisfied; yes, he warms himself, and says, aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.
44:17 And the residue thereof he makes a god, even his graven image; he falls down to it
and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.
44:18 They know not, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they
cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
44:19 And none calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I
have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I
have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination?
shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
44:20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his
soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
44:21 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed
you; you are my servant: O Israel, you shall not be forgotten of me.
44:22 I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins:
return to me; for I have redeemed you.
44:23 Sing, O ye heavens, for Yahweh has done it; shout, ye lower parts of the earth;
break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Yahweh has
redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
44:24 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he that formed you from the womb: I am
Yahweh, that makes all things; that stretches forth the heavens alone; that spreads abroad
the earth (who is with me?);
44:25 that frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; that turns wise men
backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
44:26 that confirms the word of his servant, and performs the counsel of his messengers;
that says of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be
built, and I will raise up the waste places thereof;
44:27 that says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers;
44:28 That says of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even
saying of Jerusalem, She shall be built; and of the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.
45:1 Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to
subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before
him, and the gates shall not be shut:
45:2 I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the
doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;
45:3 and I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that
you may know that it is I, Yahweh, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
45:4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name:
I have surnamed you, though you have not known me.
45:5 I am Yahweh, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will gird you,
though you have not known me;
45:6 that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none
besides me: I am Yahweh, and there is none else.
45:7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh,
that does all these things.
45:8 Distil, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the
earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up
together; I, Yahweh, have created it.
45:9 Woe to him that strives with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the
earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What are you making? or your work,
He has no hands?
45:10 Woe to him that says to a father, What are you begetting? or to a woman, With
what are you in labor?
45:11 Thus says Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things
that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command
ye me.
45:12 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched
out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.
45:13 I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall
build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, says Yahweh of
hosts.
45:14 Thus says Yahweh, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the
Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you, and they shall be yours: they shall go
after you, in chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down to you, they shall make
supplication to you, saying, Surely God is in you; and there is none else, there is no God.
45:15 Verily you are a God that hide yourself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
45:16 They shall be put to shame, yes, confounded, all of them; they shall go into
confusion together that are makers of idols.
45:17 But Israel shall be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be
put to shame nor confounded world without end.
45:18 For thus says Yahweh that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and
made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am
Yahweh; and there is none else.
45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not to the seed
of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are
right.
45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the
nations: they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray to a
god that cannot save.
45:21 Declare ye, and bring it forth; yes, let them take counsel together: who has shown
this from ancient time? who has declared it of old? have not I, Yahweh? and there is
no God else besides me, a just God and a Saviour; there is none besides me.
45:22 Look to me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is
none else.
45:23 By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth in righteousness,
and shall not return, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
45:24 Only in Yahweh, it is said of me, is righteousness and strength; even to him shall
men come; and all they that were incensed against him shall be put to shame.
45:25 In Yahweh shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.
46:1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the
things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast.
46:2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but
themselves are gone into captivity.
46:3 Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that
have been borne by me from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;
46:4 and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you; I have made,
and I will bear; yes, I will carry, and will deliver.
46:5 To whom will ye like me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be
like?
46:6 Such as lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, they hire a
goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they fall down, yes, they worship.
46:7 They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands,
from its place shall it not remove: yes, one may cry to it, yet can it not answer, nor save
him out of his trouble.
46:8 Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, O ye
transgressors.
46:9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God,
and there is none like me;
46:10 declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet
done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;
46:11 calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country;
yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
46:12 Hearken to me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness:
46:13 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not
tarry; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground
without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and
delicate.
47:2 Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover
the leg, pass through the rivers.
47:3 Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take
vengeance, and will spare no man.
47:4 Our Redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
47:5 Sit silent, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more
be called The mistress of kingdoms.
47:6 I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your
hand: you did show them no mercy; upon the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.
47:7 And you said, I shall be mistress for ever; so that you did not lay these things to your
heart, neither did remember the latter end thereof.
47:8 Now therefore hear this, you that are given to pleasures, that sit securely, that say in
your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither
shall I know the loss of children:
47:9 but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children,
and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come upon you, in the multitude of your
sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
47:10 For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your
wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am,
and there is none else besides me.
47:11 Therefore shall evil come upon you; you shall not know the dawning thereof: and
mischief shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to put it away: and desolation shall
come upon you suddenly, which you know not.
47:12 Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in
which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you
may prevail.
47:13 You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-
gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall
come upon you.
47:14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver
themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit
before.
47:15 Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: they that have trafficked
with you from your youth shall wander every one to his quarter; there shall be none to
save you.
48:1 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come
forth out of the waters of Judah; who swear by the name of Yahweh, and make mention
of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
48:2 (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of
Israel; Yahweh of hosts is his name):
48:3 I have declared the former things from of old; yes, they went forth out of my mouth,
and I showed them: suddenly I did them, and they came to pass.
48:4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your
brow brass;
48:5 therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I showed it to
you; lest you should say, Mine idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten
image, has commanded them.
48:6 You have heard it; behold all this; and ye, will ye not declare it? I have shown you
new things from this time, even hidden things, which you have not known.
48:7 They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day you heard them not;
lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.
48:8 Yes, you heard not; yes, you knew not; yes, from of old your ear was not opened:
for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the
womb.
48:9 For my name's sake will I defer my anger, and for my praise will I refrain for you,
that I cut you not off.
48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of
affliction.
48:11 For my own sake, for my own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be
profaned? and my glory will I not give to another.
48:12 Hearken to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he; I am the first, I also am the
last.
48:13 Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread
out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.
48:14 Assemble yourselves, all ye, and hear; who among them has declared these things?
He whom Yahweh loves shall perform his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on
the Chaldeans.
48:15 I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall
make his way prosperous.
48:16 Come ye near to me, hear ye this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret;
from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his
Spirit.
48:17 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your
God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.
48:18 Oh that you had hearkened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a
river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:
48:19 your seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of your bowels like the
grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.
48:20 Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing
declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth: say ye, Yahweh has redeemed his
servant Jacob.
48:21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to
flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
48:22 There is no peace, says Yahweh, to the wicked.
49:1 Listen, O isles, to me; and hearken, ye peoples, from far: Yahweh has called me
from the womb; from the bowels of my mother has he made mention of my name:
49:2 and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand has he hid
me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:
49:3 and he said to me, You are my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
49:4 But I said, I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nought and vanity;
yet surely the justice due to me is with Yahweh, and my recompense with my God.
49:5 And now says Yahweh that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring
Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of
Yahweh, and my God is become my strength);
49:6 yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the
tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the
Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
49:7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man
despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise;
princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh that is faithful, even the Holy One of
Israel, who has chosen you.
49:8 Thus says Yahweh, In an acceptable time have I answered you, and in a day of
salvation have I helped you; and I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the
people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages:
49:9 saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show
yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
49:10 They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he
that has mercy on them will lead them, even by springs of water will he guide them.
49:11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
49:12 Lo, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and
these from the land of Sinim.
49:13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains!
For Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.
49:14 But Zion said, Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.
49:15 Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the
son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.
49:16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually
before me.
49:17 Your children make haste; your destroyers and they that made you waste shall go
forth from you.
49:18 Lift up your eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together,
and come to you. As I live, says Yahweh, you shall surely clothe you with them all as
with an ornament, and gird yourself with them, like a bride.
49:19 For, as for your waste and your desolate places, and your land that has been
destroyed, surely now shall you be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed
you up shall be far away.
49:20 The children of your bereavement shall yet say in your ears, The place is too strait
for me; give place to me that I may dwell.
49:21 Then shall you say in your heart, Who has begotten me these, seeing I have been
bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? and who
has brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?
49:22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set
up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your
daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
49:23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers:
they shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet;
and you shall know that I am Yahweh; and they that wait for me shall not be put to
shame.
49:24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captives be delivered?
49:25 But thus says Yahweh, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and
the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him that contends with
you, and I will save your children.
49:26 And I will feed them that oppress you with their own flesh; and they shall be
drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I,
Yahweh, am your Saviour, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
50:1 Thus says Yahweh, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, with which I
have put her away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold,
for your iniquities were ye sold, and for your transgressions was your mother put away.
50:2 Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer?
Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink,
because there is no water, and die for thirst.
50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
50:4 The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know
how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens
my ear to hear as they that are taught.
50:5 The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away
backward.
50:6 I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid
not my face from shame and spitting.
50:7 For the Lord Yahweh will help me; therefore have I not been confounded: therefore
have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
50:8 He is near that justifies me; who will content with me? let us stand up together:
who is my adversary? let him come near to me.
50:9 Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? behold,
all they shall grow old as a garment, the moth shall eat them up.
50:10 Who is among you that fears Yahweh, that obeys the voice of his servant? he that
walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely upon
his God.
50:11 Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk ye
in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have
of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
51:1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Yahweh: look to the
rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence ye were dug.
51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you; for when he was but one I
called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
51:3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has
made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and
gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
51:4 Attend to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth
from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.
51:5 My righteousness is near, my salvation is gone forth, and my arms shall judge the
peoples; the isles shall wait for me, and on my arm shall they trust.
51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens
shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment; and they that
dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my
righteousness shall not be abolished.
51:7 Hearken to me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law;
fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye dismayed at their revilings.
51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like
wool; but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.
51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Yahweh; awake, as in the days of old, the
generations of ancient times. Is it not you that did cut Rahab in pieces, that did pierce
the monster?
51:10 Is it not you that dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that made the depths
of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
51:11 And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow
and sighing shall flee away.
51:12 I, even I, am he that comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man that
shall die, and of the son of man that shall be made as grass;
51:13 and have forgotten Yahweh your Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid
the foundations of the earth; and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the
oppressor, when he makes ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
51:14 The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die and go down into the
pit, neither shall his bread fail.
51:15 For I am Yahweh your God, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar:
Yahweh of hosts is his name.
51:16 And I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of
my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say to
Zion, You are my people.
51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the
cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
51:18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she has brought forth; neither
is there any that takes her by the hand among all the sons that she has brought up.
51:19 These two things are befallen you, who shall bemoan you? desolation and
destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort you?
51:20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a
net; they are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God.
51:21 Therefore hear now this, you afflicted, and drunken, but now with wine:
51:22 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God that pleads the cause of his people,
Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of
my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:
51:23 and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict you, that have said to your soul,
Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the
street, to them that go over.
52:1 Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, O
Jerusalem, the holy city. For from now on there shall no more come into you the
uncircumcised and the unclean.
52:2 Shake yourself from the dust; arise, sit on your throne, O Jerusalem: free yourself
from the bonds of your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
52:3 For thus says Yahweh, You were sold for nothing; and ye shall also be redeemed
without money.
52:4 For thus says the Lord Yahweh, My people went down at the first into Egypt to
sojourn there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.
52:5 Now therefore, what do I here, says Yahweh, seeing that my people is taken away
for nought? they that rule over them do howl, says Yahweh, and my name continually
all the day is blasphemed.
52:6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that
I am he that does speak; behold, it is I.
52:7 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that brings good tidings, that
publishes peace, that brings good tidings of good, that publishes salvation, that says to
Zion, Your God reigns!
52:8 The voice of your watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they
shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion.
52:9 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has
comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem.
52:10 Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends
of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
52:11 Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from there, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the
midst of her; cleanse yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of Yahweh.
52:12 For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight: for Yahweh will go
before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.
52:13 Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be
very high.
52:14 Like as many were astonished at you (his visage was so marred more than any
man, and his form more than the sons of men),
52:15 so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that
which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they
understand.
53:1 Who has believed our message? and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been
revealed?
53:2 For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he
has no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should
desire him.
53:3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
and as one from whom men hide their face,40 he was despised; and we esteemed him not.
53:4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we considered him
stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the
chastisement for our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and
Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
53:7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb
that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened
not his mouth.
53:8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who
among them considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the
transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due?
53:9 And they made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; though
he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
53:10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make
his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the
pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.
53:11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of
himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.
53:12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil
with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the
transgressors: yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
54:1 Sing, O barren ones, you that did not bear! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
you that did not travail with child. For more are the children of the desolate than the
children of the married wife, says Yahweh.
54:2 Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of your
habitations; spare not: lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes.
54:3 For you shall spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and your seed shall
possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
54:4 Fear not; for you shall not be ashamed: neither be you confounded; for you shall not
be put to shame: for you shall forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your
widowhood shall you remember no more.
54:5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of
Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
54:6 For Yahweh has called you as a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even a wife of
youth, when she is cast off, says your God.
54:7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
54:8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting
lovingkindness will I have mercy on you, says Yahweh your Redeemer.
54:9 For this is as the waters of Noah to me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah
shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be angry with you, nor
rebuke you.
54:10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness
shall not depart from you, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, says Yahweh
that has mercy on you.
40
Is 53:3, Or, “As one who hid his face from men…” So the LXX.
54:11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set your
stones in fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.
54:12 And I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of carbuncles, and all
your border of precious stones.
54:13 And all your children shall be taught of Yahweh; and great shall be the peace of
your children.
54:14 In righteousness shall you be established: you shall be far from oppression, for you
shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
54:15 Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together
against you shall fall because of you.
54:16 Behold, I have created the smith that blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a
weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
54:17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue that shall
rise against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of
Yahweh, and their righteousness which is of me, says Yahweh.
55:1 Ho, every one that thirsts, come ye to the waters, and he that has no money; come
ye, buy, and eat; yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
55:2 Why do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which
satisfies not? hearken diligently to me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul
delight itself in fatness.
55:3 Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an
everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
55:4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to
the peoples.
55:5 Behold, you shall call a nation that you know not; and a nation that knew not you
shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has
glorified you.
55:6 Seek ye Yahweh while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:
55:7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him
return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will
abundantly pardon.
55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says
Yahweh.
55:9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
55:10 For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there
without watering the earth, and making it bring forth and bud, and giving seed to the
sower and bread to the eater;
55:11 so shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void,
but it shall accomplish that which I please, and shall prosper in the thing for which I sent
it.
55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the
hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap
their hands.
55:13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come
up the myrtle tree: and it shall make a name for Yahweh, an everlasting sign that shall not
be cut off.
56:1 Thus says Yahweh, Keep ye justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near
to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
56:2 Blessed is the man that does this, and the son of man that holds it fast; that keeps the
sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.
56:3 Neither let the foreigner, that has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh
will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry
tree.
56:4 For thus says Yahweh of the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things
that please me, and hold fast my covenant:
56:5 To them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better
than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut
off.
56:6 Also the foreigners that join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love
the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, every one that keeps the sabbath from profaning
it, and holds fast my covenant;
56:7 even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of
prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon my altar; for my
house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.
56:8 The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, Yet will I gather others
to him, besides his own that are gathered.
56:9 All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yes, all ye beasts in the forest.
56:10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs,
they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
56:11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that
cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from
every quarter.
56:12 Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink;
and tomorrow shall be as this day, a day great beyond measure.
57:1 The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart. And merciful men are
taken away, no one considering that it is away from the presence of evil the righteous one
is being taken.
57:2 He enters into peace. Those who walk uprightly find rest in their beds.41
57:3 But draw near here, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.
57:4 Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and
put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
57:5 ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the
children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
57:6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; even
to them have you poured a drink offering, you have offered an oblation. Shall I be
appeased for these things?
57:7 Upon a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; there also you went up to
offer sacrifice.
57:8 And behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: for you have
uncovered yourself to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and
made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.
57:9 And you went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send
your ambassadors far off, and did debase yourself even to Sheol.
57:10 You were wearied with the length of your way; yet said you not, It is in vain: you
did find a quickening of your strength; therefore you were not faint.
57:11 And of whom have you been afraid and in fear, that you lie, and have not
remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? have not I held my peace even of long time,
and you fear me not?
57:12 I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.
57:13 When you cry, let them that you have gathered deliver you; but the wind shall take
them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that takes refuge in me shall possess the
land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.
57:14 And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-
block out of the way of my people.
57:15 For thus says the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I
dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to
revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would
faint before me, and the souls that I have made.
57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I angry, and smote him; I hid my face and
was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts
to him and to his mourners.
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57:2 This "beds" is probably figurative language for "graves." The Septuagint translators saw it that way,
and render it "graves." It can be meant to mean either and both.
57:19 I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him that is far off and to him that is
near, says Yahweh; and I will heal him.
57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up
mire and dirt.
57:21 There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.
58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their
transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
58:2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did
righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous
judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
58:3 Why have we fasted, say they, and you see not? why have we afflicted our soul,
and you take no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find your own pleasure,
and exact all your labors.
58:4 Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye
fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
58:5 Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to
bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? will you
call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the
bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
58:7 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor that are cast
out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you hide not
yourself from your own flesh?
58:8 Then shall your light break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth
speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your
rear guard.
58:9 Then shall you call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, Here I
am. If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and
speaking wickedly;
58:10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then
shall your light rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;
58:11 and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and
make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of
water, whose waters fail not.
58:12 And they that shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the
foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The
restorer of paths to dwell in.
58:13 If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy
day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it,
not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
58:14 then shall you delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride upon the
high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father: for the
mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
59:1 Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy,
that it cannot hear:
59:2 but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have
hid his face from you, so that he will not hear.
59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have
spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
59:4 None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak
lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
59:5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eats of their eggs dies;
and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
59:6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with
their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are
thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
59:8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have
made them crooked paths; whosoever goes therein does not know peace.
59:9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for
light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as they that have no eyes: we
stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
59:11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is
none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for
our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
59:13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God,
speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of
falsehood.
59:14 And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is
fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
59:15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey. And
Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor:
therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.
59:17 And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his
head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a
mantle.
59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries,
recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
59:19 So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising
of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.
59:20 And a Redeemer will come to Zion, and to them that turn from transgression in
Jacob, says Yahweh.
59:21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my Spirit that is upon
you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth,
nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says Yahweh,
from from now on and for ever.
60:1 Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen upon you.
60:2 For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but
Yahweh will arise upon you, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
60:3 And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
60:4 Lift up your eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they
come to you; your sons shall come from far, and your daughters shall be carried in the
arms.
60:5 Then you shall see and be radiant, and your heart shall thrill and be enlarged;
because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, the wealth of the nations shall
come to you.
60:6 The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all
they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim
the praises of Yahweh.
60:7 All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall
minister to you; they shall come up with acceptance on my altar; and I will glorify the
house of my glory.
60:8 Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
60:9 Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your sons
from far, their silver and their gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for
the Holy One of Israel, because he has glorified you.
60:10 And foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for
in my wrath I smote you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.
60:11 Your gates also shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that
men may bring to you the wealth of the nations, and their kings led captive.
60:12 For that nation and kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; yes, those nations
shall be utterly wasted.
60:13 The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree
together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet
glorious.
60:14 And the sons of them that afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all they that
despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you
The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
60:15 Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no man passed through you, I
will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
60:16 You shall also suck the milk of the nations, and shall suck the breast of kings; and
you shall know that I, Yahweh, am your Saviour, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of
Jacob.
60:17 For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and
for stones iron. I will also make your officers peace, and your exactors righteousness.
60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within
your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
60:19 The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon
give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your
glory.
60:20 Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for
Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.
60:21 Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, the
branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
60:22 The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I,
Yahweh, will hasten it in its time.
61:1 The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is upon me; because Yahweh has anointed me to
preach good tidings to the meek; he has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
61:2 to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to
comfort all that mourn;
61:3 to appoint to them that mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of
joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be
called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.
61:4 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and
they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.
61:5 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your
plowmen and your vine-dressers.
61:6 But ye shall be named the priests of Yahweh; men shall call you the ministers of our
God: ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
61:7 Instead of your shame ye shall have double; and instead of dishonor they shall
rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double; everlasting joy
shall be to them.
61:8 For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their
recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
61:9 And their seed shall be known among the nations, and their offspring among the
peoples; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which Yahweh
has blessed.
61:10 I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has
clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of
righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns
herself with her jewels.
61:11 For as the earth brings forth its bud, and as the garden causes the things that are
sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Yahweh will cause righteousness and praise to
spring forth before all the nations.
62:1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest,
until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
62:2 And the nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall
be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.
62:3 You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in
the hand of your God.
62:4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed
Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzi-bah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights
in you, and your land shall be married.
62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you; and as the
bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
62:6 I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace
day nor night: ye that are Yahweh's remembrancers, take ye no rest,
62:7 and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the
earth.
62:8 Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no
more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your
new wine, for which you have labored:
62:9 but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and they that have
gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.
62:10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up
the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.
62:11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of
Zion, Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense
before him.
62:12 And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall
be called Sought out, a city not forsaken.
63:1 Who is this that comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah?42 This
who is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I,
speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.”
63:2 Why is your apparel red, and your garments like him who treads in the winevat?
63:3 “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me:
yes, I stomped on them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood
is spattered on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.
63:4 For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed had come.
63:5 And I looked, and there was no one to help; I was aghast, and no one would uphold.
So my own arm brought salvation to me; and my wrath, it upheld me.
63:6 And I trampled down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath,
and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”
63:7 I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, and the praises of Yahweh,
according to all that Yahweh has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the
house of Israel, which he has bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according
to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
63:8 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was
their Saviour.
63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in
his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the
days of old.
63:10 But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their
enemy, and himself fought against them.
63:11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he
that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where is he that put
his holy Spirit in the midst of them?
63:12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the
waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
63:13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled
not?
63:14 As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Yahweh caused them to
rest; so did you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name.
63:15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of your holiness and of
your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and
your compassions are restrained toward me.
63:16 For you are our Father, though Abraham knows us not, and Israel does not
acknowledge us: you, O Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your
name.
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63:17 O Yahweh, why do you make us to err from your ways, and harden our heart from
your fear? Return for your servants' sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
63:18 Your holy people possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down
your sanctuary.
63:19 We are become as they over whom you never bore rule, as they that were not
called by your name.
64:1 Oh that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains
might quake at your presence,
64:2 as when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes the waters to boil; to make
your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
64:3 When you did terrible things which we looked not for, you came down, the
mountains quaked at your presence.
64:4 For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye
seen a God besides you, who works for him that waits for him.
64:5 You meet him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember you in
your ways: behold, you were angry, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time;
and shall we be saved?
64:6 For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a
polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us
away.
64:7 And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs up himself to take hold of
you; for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our
iniquities.
64:8 But now, O Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our potter; and we
all are the work of your hand.
64:9 Be not angry very sore, O Yahweh, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold,
look, we beseech you, we are all your people.
64:10 Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem
a desolation.
64:11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with
fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
64:12 Will you refrain yourself for these things, O Yahweh? will you hold your peace,
and afflict us very sore?
65:1 I am inquired of by them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me
not: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation that was not called by my name.
65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, that walk in a way that
is not good, after their own thoughts;
65:3 a people that provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning
incense upon bricks;
65:4 that sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; that eat swine's flesh, and
broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
65:5 that say, Stand by yourself, come not near to me, for I am holier than you. These
are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.
65:6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I
will recompense into their bosom,
65:7 your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yahweh, that
have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore
will I first measure their work into their bosom.
65:8 Thus says Yahweh, as the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Destroy it
not, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them
all.
65:9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my
mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
65:10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to
lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
65:11 But ye that forsake Yahweh, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for
Fortune, and that fill up mingled wine to Destiny;
65:12 I will destine you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter; because
when I called, ye did not answer; when I spoke, ye did not hear; but ye did that which
was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
65:13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall
be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants
shall rejoice, but ye shall be put to shame;
65:14 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart,
and shall wail for vexation of spirit.
65:15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will
slay you; and he will call his servants by another name:
65:16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth;
and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former
troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
65:17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not
be remembered, nor come into mind.
65:18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create
Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
65:19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in
her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.
65:20 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled
his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years
old shall be accursed.
65:21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and
eat the fruit of them.
65:22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for
as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the
work of their hands.
65:23 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of
the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.
65:24 And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are
yet speaking, I will hear.
65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox;
and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain, says Yahweh.
66:1 Thus says Yahweh, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what
manner of house will ye build to me? and what place shall be my rest?
66:2 For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be, says
Yahweh: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and
that trembles at my word.
66:3 He that kills an ox is as he that slays a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as he that
breaks a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation, as he that offers swine's blood; he that
burns frankincense, as he that blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations:
66:4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because
when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear: but they did that which
was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
66:5 Hear the word of Yahweh, ye that tremble at his word: Your brethren that hate you,
that cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may
see your joy; but it is they that shall be put to shame.
66:6 A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that
renders recompense to his enemies.
66:7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a
man-child.
66:8 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in
one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she
brought forth her children.
66:9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says Yahweh: shall I that
cause to bring forth shut the womb? says your God.
66:10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy
with her, all ye that mourn over her;
66:11 that ye may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may
milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
66:12 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory
of the nations like an overflowing stream: and ye shall suck thereof; ye shall be borne
upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees.
66:13 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be
comforted in Jerusalem.
66:14 And ye shall see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like
the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he will
have indignation against his enemies.
66:15 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the
whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
66:16 For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, upon all flesh; and
the slain of Yahweh shall be many.
66:17 They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind
one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall
come to an end together, says Yahweh.
66:18 For I know their works and their thoughts: the time comes, that I will gather all
nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.
66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the
nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar
off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my
glory among the nations.
66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren out of all the nations for an oblation to
Yahweh, upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon
dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel
bring their oblation in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh.
66:21 And of them also will I take for priests and for Levites, says Yahweh.
66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before
me, says Yahweh, so shall your seed and your name remain.
66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one
sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says Yahweh.
66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men that have
transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched;
and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
End of Isaiah
The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah
Jeremiah
1:1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the
land of Benjamin:
1:2 to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of
Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
1:3 It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of
the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of
Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
1:4 Now the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
1:5 Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came forth out of the
womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.
1:6 Then said I, ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child.
1:7 But Yahweh said to me, Say not, I am a child; for to whomsoever I shall send you
you shall go, and whatsoever I shall command you you shall speak.
1:8 Be not afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you, says Yahweh.
1:9 Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me,
Behold, I have put my words in your mouth:
1:10 see, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and
to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.
1:11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what see you? And I
said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.
1:12 Then said Yahweh to me, You have well seen: for I watch over my word to perform
it.
1:13 And the word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying, What see you? And
I said, I see a boiling caldron; and the face thereof is from the north.
1:14 Then Yahweh said to me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the
inhabitants of the land.
1:15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says Yahweh; and
they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of
Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of
Judah.
1:16 And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that
they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works
of their own hands.
1:17 You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command
you: be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them.
1:18 For, behold, I have made you this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen
walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof,
against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
1:19 And they shall fight against you; but they shall not prevail against you: for I am with
you, says Yahweh, to deliver you.
2:1 And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
2:2 Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you
the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals; how you went after me in the
wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
2:3 Israel was holiness to Yahweh, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall
be held guilty; evil shall come upon them, says Yahweh.
2:4 Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of
Israel:
2:5 thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they are
gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
2:6 Neither said they, Where is Yahweh that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that
led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of
drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where
no man dwelt?
2:7 And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness
thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
2:8 The priests said not, Where is Yahweh? and they that handle the law knew me not:
the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked
after things that do not profit.
2:9 Wherefore I will yet contend with you, says Yahweh, and with your children's
children will I contend.
2:10 For pass over to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and consider
diligently; and see if there has been such a thing.
2:11 Has a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have
changed their glory for that which does not profit.
2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate,
says Yahweh.
2:13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of
living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
2:14 Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?
2:15 The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land
waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
2:16 The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of your head.
2:17 Have you not procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God,
when he led you by the way?
2:18 And now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the
Shihor? or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
2:19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you:
know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that you have forsaken Yahweh
your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
2:20 For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will
not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself,
playing the harlot.
2:21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned
into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?
2:22 For though you wash you with lye, and take you much soap, yet your iniquity is
marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.
2:23 How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see your way
in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
2:24 a wild donkey used to the wilderness, that snuffs up the wind in her desire; in her
occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in
her month they shall find her.
2:25 Withhold your foot from being unshod, and your throat from thirst: but you said, It
is in vain; no, for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they,
their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
2:27 who say to a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth:
for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble
they will say, arise, and save us.
2:28 But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save
you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods,
O Judah.
2:29 Why will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh.
2:30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword
has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
2:31 O generation, see ye the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? or
a land of thick darkness? why say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no
more to you?
2:32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have
forgotten me days without number.
2:33 How trim you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women you have
taught your ways.
2:34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not
find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
2:35 Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I
will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
2:36 Why gad you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt
also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
2:37 From there also shall you go forth, with your hands upon your head: for Yahweh has
rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.
3:1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another
man's, will he return to her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But you have
played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh.
3:2 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with?
By the ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have
polluted the land with your whoredoms and with your wickedness.
3:3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there has been no latter rain; yet
you have a harlot's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
3:4 Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?
3:5 Will he retain his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have
spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.
3:6 Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that
which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under
every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
3:7 And I said after she had done all these things, She will return to me; but she returned
not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
3:8 And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I
had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister
feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.
3:9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was
polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
3:10 And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not returned to me with her
whole heart, but feignedly, says Yahweh.
3:11 And Yahweh said to me, Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than
treacherous Judah.
3:12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, you backsliding
Israel, says Yahweh; I will not look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I
will not keep anger for ever.
3:13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your
God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have
not obeyed my voice, says Yahweh.
3:14 Return, O backsliding children, says Yahweh; for I am a husband to you: and I will
take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
3:15 and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with
knowledge and understanding.
3:16 And it shall come to pass, when ye are multiplied and increased in the land, in those
days, says Yahweh, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of Yahweh; neither
shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it; neither shall they miss it; neither
shall it be made any more.
3:17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of Yahweh; and all the nations shall
be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more
after the stubbornness of their evil heart.
3:18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall
come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to
your fathers.
3:19 But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a
goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and
shall not turn away from following me.
3:20 Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so have ye dealt
treacherously with me, O house of Israel, says Yahweh.
3:21 A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping and the supplications of the
children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh
their God.
3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we are
come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
3:23 Truly in vain is the help that is looked for from the hills, the tumult on the
mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.
3:24 But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their
flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
3:25 Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned
against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we
have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.
4:1 If you will return, O Israel, says Yahweh, if you will return to me, and if you will put
away your abominations out of my sight; then shall you not be removed;
4:2 and you shall swear, as Yahweh lives, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and
the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
4:3 For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow
ground, and sow not among thorns.
4:4 Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men
of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that
none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
4:5 Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the
land: cry aloud and say, assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.
4:6 Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the
north, and a great destruction.
4:7 A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is
gone forth from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste,
without inhabitant.
4:8 For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Yahweh is
not turned back from us.
4:9 And it shall come to pass at that day, says Yahweh, that the heart of the king shall
perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets
shall wonder.
4:10 Then said I, ah, Lord Yahweh! surely you have greatly deceived this people and
Jerusalem, saying, You shall have peace; whereas the sword reaches to the life.
4:11 At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, a hot wind from the bare
heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to
cleanse;
4:12 a full wind from these shall come for me: now will I also utter judgments against
them.
4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as the whirlwind: his
horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are ruined.
4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long
shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
4:15 For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
4:16 make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers
come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
4:17 As keepers of a field are they against her round about, because she has been
rebellious against me, says Yahweh.
4:18 Your way and your doings have procured these things to you; this is your
wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.
4:19 My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in
me; I cannot hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the
trumpet, the alarm of war.
4:20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is laid waste: suddenly are
my tents destroyed, and my curtains in a moment.
4:21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
4:22 For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they
have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no
light.
4:24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.
4:25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful field was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were
broken down at the presence of Yahweh, and before his fierce anger.
4:27 For thus says Yahweh, The whole land shall be a desolation; yet will I not make a
full end.
4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have
spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.
4:29 Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they go into the
thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells
therein.
4:30 And you, when you are made desolate, what will you do? Though you clothe
yourself with scarlet, though you deck you with ornaments of gold, though you enlarge
your eyes with paint, in vain do you make yourself fair; your lovers despise you, they
seek your life.
4:31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that brings
forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gasps for breath, that spreads
her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.
5:1 Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek
in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that does justly, that
seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
5:2 And though they say, as Yahweh lives; surely they swear falsely.
5:3 O Yahweh, do not your eyes look upon truth? you have stricken them, but they
were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction:
they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
5:4 Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of
Yahweh, nor the law of their God:
5:5 I will get me to the great men, and will speak to them; for they know the way of
Yahweh, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and
burst the bonds.
5:6 Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, a wolf of the evenings shall destroy
them, a leopard shall watch against their cities; every one that goes out there shall be torn
in pieces; because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.
5:7 How can I pardon you? your children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are
no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled
themselves in troops at the harlots' houses.
5:8 They were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor's
wife.
5:9 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; and shall not my soul be avenged on
such a nation as this?
5:10 Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her
branches; for they are not Yahweh's.
5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against
me, says Yahweh.
5:12 They have denied Yahweh, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us;
neither shall we see sword nor famine:
5:13 and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be
done to them.
5:14 Wherefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold,
I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
5:15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, says Yahweh: it is a
mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you know not, neither
understand what they say.
5:16 Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
5:17 And they shall eat up your harvest, and your bread, which your sons and your
daughters should eat; they shall eat up your flocks and your herds; they shall eat up your
vines and your fig-trees; they shall beat down your fortified cities, in which you trust,
with the sword.
5:18 But even in those days, says Yahweh, I will not make a full end with you.
5:19 And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all
these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served
foreign gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
5:20 Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,
5:21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see
not; that have ears, and hear not:
5:22 Fear ye not me? says Yahweh: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have
placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it?
and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar,
yet can they not pass over it.
5:23 But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
5:24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Yahweh our God, that gives rain,
both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserves to us the appointed weeks of
the harvest.
5:25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good
from you.
5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they
set a trap, they catch men.
5:27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are
become great, and grown rich.
5:28 They are become fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they
plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the
needy do they not judge.
5:29 Shall I not visit for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged on
such a nation as this?
5:30 A wonderful and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:
5:31 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my
people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
6:1 Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the
trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looks forth from the
north, and a great destruction.
6:2 The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.
6:3 Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her
round about; they shall feed every one in his place.
6:4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe to us! for the day
declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
6:5 Arise, and let us go up by night, and let us destroy her palaces.
6:6 For thus has Yahweh of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against
Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.
6:7 As a well casts forth its waters, so she casts forth her wickedness: violence and
destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
6:8 Be you instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a
desolation, a land not inhabited.
6:9 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a
vine: turn again your hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets.
6:10 To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? behold, their ear is
uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of Yahweh is become to them
a reproach; they have no delight in it.
6:11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of Yahweh; I am weary with holding in: pour it out
upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even
the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
6:12 And their houses shall be turned to others, their fields and their wives together; for I
will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh.
6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to
covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.
6:14 They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when
there is no peace.
6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at
all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the
time that I visit them they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.
6:16 Thus says Yahweh, Stand ye in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where
the good way is; and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We
will not walk therein.
6:17 And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they
said, We will not hearken.
6:18 Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.
6:19 Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their
thoughts, because they have not hearkened to my words; and as for my law, they have
rejected it.
6:20 To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane
from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing
to me.
6:21 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people;
and the fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them; the neighbor and his
friend shall perish.
6:22 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, a people comes from the north country; and a great
nation shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
6:23 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars
like the sea, and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle,
against you, O daughter of Zion.
6:24 We have heard the report thereof; our hands grow feeble: anguish has taken hold of
us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
6:25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy, and
terror, are on every side.
6:26 O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes:
make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall
suddenly come upon us.
6:27 I have made you a trier and a fortress among my people; that you may know and try
their way.
6:28 They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron:
they all of them deal corruptly.
6:29 The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed by the fire: in vain do they go on
refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
6:30 Refuse silver shall men call them, because Yahweh has rejected them.
7:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
7:2 Stand in the gate of Yahweh's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the
word of Yahweh, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.
7:3 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, amend your ways and your doings, and
I will cause you to dwell in this place.
7:4 Trust not in lying words, saying, The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the
temple of Yahweh, are these.
7:5 For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute
justice a man with his neighbor;
7:6 if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent
blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
7:7 then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers,
from of old even for evermore.
7:8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to
Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,
7:10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say,
We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?
7:11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes?
Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.
7:12 But go ye now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell
at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
7:13 And now, because ye have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you,
rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not:
7:14 therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which ye trust, and to
the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
7:15 And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the
whole seed of Ephraim.
7:16 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them,
neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
7:17 See you not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the
dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to other
gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
7:19 Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; do they not provoke themselves, to
the confusion of their own faces?
7:20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be
poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and
upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
7:21 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your
sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.
7:22 For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them
out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
7:23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken to my voice, and I will be your
God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it
may be well with you.
7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in their own counsels and
in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
7:25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have
sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
7:26 yet they hearkened not to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they
did worse than their fathers.
7:27 And you shall speak all these words to them; but they will not hearken to you: you
shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.
7:28 And you shall say to them, This is the nation that has not hearkened to the voice of
Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their
mouth.
7:29 Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the
bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
7:30 For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh:
they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
7:31 And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded not,
neither came it into my mind.
7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called
Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall
bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.
7:33 And the dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for
the beasts of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.
7:34 Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of
Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and
the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.
8:1 At that time, says Yahweh, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and
the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and
the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
8:2 and they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven,
which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked,
and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered,
nor be buried, they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil
family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, says Yahweh of hosts.
8:4 Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says Yahweh: Shall men fall, and not rise up
again? Shall one turn away, and not return?
8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they
hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spoke not aright: no man repents him of his
wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turns to his course, as a horse that
rushes headlong in the battle.
8:7 Yes, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the
swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law
of Yahweh.
8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the
false pen of the scribes has wrought falsely.
8:9 The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected
the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?
8:10 Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to them that shall possess
them: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the
prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.
8:11 And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace,
peace; when there is no peace.
8:12 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at
all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in
the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.
8:13 I will utterly consume them, says Yahweh: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor
figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall
pass away from them.
8:14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities,
and let us be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us water of
gall to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.
8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold,
dismay!
8:16 The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his
strong ones the whole land trembles; for they are come, and have devoured the land and
all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.
8:17 For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed;
and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.
8:18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.
8:19 Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far
off: is not Yahweh in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to
anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?
8:20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
8:21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay has taken hold
on me.
8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? why then is not the
health of the daughter of my people recovered?
9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day
and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave
my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous
men.
9:3 And they bend their tongue, as it were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown
strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not
me, says Yahweh.
9:4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every
brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.
9:5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have
taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves to commit iniquity.
9:6 Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says
Yahweh.
9:7 Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how
else should I do, because of the daughter of my people?
9:8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor
with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.
9:9 Shall I not visit them for these things? says Yahweh; shall not my soul be avenged
on such a nation as this?
9:10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the
wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through;
neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts
are fled, they are gone.
9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the
cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth
of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? why is the land perished and burned up
like a wilderness, so that none passes through?
9:13 And Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and
have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,
9:14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim,
which their fathers taught them;
9:15 therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them,
even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
9:16 I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have
known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.
9:17 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that
they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come:
9:18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down
with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly
confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our
dwellings.
9:20 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his
mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
9:21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the
children from without, and the young men from the streets.
9:22 Speak, Thus says Yahweh, The dead bodies of men shall fall as dung upon the open
field, and as the handful after the harvestman; and none shall gather them.
9:23 Thus says Yahweh, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty
man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;
9:24 but let him that glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I
am Yahweh who exercises lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in
these things I delight, says Yahweh.
9:25 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will punish all them that are
circumcised in their uncircumcision:
9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that
have the corners of their hair cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are
uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.
10:1 Hear ye the word which Yahweh speaks to you, O house of Israel:
10:2 thus says Yahweh, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the
signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them.
10:3 For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the
work of the hands of the workman with the axe.
10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers,
that it move not.
10:5 They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must be carried
around, because they cannot walk. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil,
neither is it in them to do good.
10:6 There is none like to you, O Yahweh; you are great, and your name is great in
might.
10:7 Who should not fear you, O King of the nations? for to you does it appertain;
forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is
none like to you.
10:8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
10:9 There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from
Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; blue and purple for
their clothing; they are all the work of skilful men.
10:10 But Yahweh is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his
wrath the earth trembles, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.
10:11 Thus shall ye say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth,
these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
10:12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
10:13 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes
the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and
brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
10:14 Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to
shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in
them.
10:15 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is
the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of hosts is his name.
10:17 Gather up your wares out of the land, O you that abide in the siege.
10:18 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this
time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.
10:19 Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my
grief, and I must bear it.
10:20 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from
me, and they are not: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.
10:21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore
they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
10:22 The voice of tidings, behold, it comes, and a great commotion out of the north
country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.
10:23 O Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks
to direct his steps.
10:24 O Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to
nothing.
10:25 Pour out your wrath upon the nations that know you not, and upon the families that
call not on your name: for they have devoured Jacob, yes, they have devoured him and
consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.
11:2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem;
11:3 and say you to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man that
hears not the words of this covenant,
11:4 which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land
of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all
which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God;
11:5 that I may establish the oath which I swore to your fathers, to give them a land
flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, amen, O
Yahweh.
11:6 And Yahweh said to me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.
11:7 For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the
land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
11:8 Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the
stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this
covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.
11:9 And Yahweh said to me, a conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among
the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
11:10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my
words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house
of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.
11:11 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall
not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not hearken to them.
11:12 Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the
gods to which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their
trouble.
11:13 For according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah; and according
to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the shameful thing, even
altars to burn incense to Baal.
11:14 Therefore pray not you for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I
will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.
11:15 What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has wrought lewdness with
many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoicest.
11:16 Yahweh called your name, a green olive-tree, fair with goodly fruit: with the noise
of a great tumult he has kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
11:17 For Yahweh of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because
of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for
themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.
11:18 And Yahweh gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then you showed me their
doings.
11:19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they
had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and
let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
11:20 But, O Yahweh of hosts, who judge righteously, who try the heart and the mind, I
shall see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
11:21 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek your life,
saying, You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh, that you die not by our hand;
11:22 therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men
shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;
11:23 and there shall be no remnant to them: for I will bring evil upon the men of
Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
12:1 Righteous are you, O Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the
cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease that
deal very treacherously?
12:2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth
fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
12:3 But you, O Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them
out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the
wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because
they said, He shall not see our latter end.
12:5 If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you
contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do
in the pride of the Jordan?
12:6 For even your brethren, and the house of your father, even they have dealt
treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: believe them not, though
they speak fair words to you.
12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly
beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
12:8 My heritage is become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against
me; therefore I have hated her.
12:9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her
round about? go ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, bring them to devour.
12:10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under
foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
12:11 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is
made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
12:12 Destroyers are come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of
Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh
has peace.
12:13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain,
and profit nothing: and ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of
Yahweh.
12:14 Thus says Yahweh against all my evil neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I
have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land,
and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
12:15 And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have
compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every
man to his land.
12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to
swear by my name, as Yahweh lives; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal;
then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.
12:17 But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and
destroying it, says Yahweh.
13:1 Thus says Yahweh to me, Go, and buy you a linen girdle, and put it upon your loins,
and put it not in water.
13:2 So I bought a girdle according to the word of Yahweh, and put it upon my loins.
13:3 And the word of Yahweh came to me the second time, saying,
13:4 Take the girdle that you have bought, which is upon your loins, and arise, go to the
Euphrates, and hide it there in a cleft of the rock.
13:5 So I went, and hid it by the Euphrates, as Yahweh commanded me.
13:6 And it came to pass after many days, that Yahweh said to me, arise, go to the
Euphrates, and take the girdle from there, which I commanded you to hide there.
13:7 Then I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle from the place where I
had hid it; and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
13:8 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
13:9 Thus says Yahweh, after this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great
pride of Jerusalem.
13:10 This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of
their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even
be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.
13:11 For as the girdle cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the
whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to
me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not
hear.
13:12 Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,
Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say to you, Do we not certainly
know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
13:13 Then shall you say to them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the
inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and
the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together,
says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy
them.
13:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud; for Yahweh has spoken.
13:16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet
stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow
of death, and make it gross darkness.
13:17 But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and my eye
shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Yahweh's flock is taken captive.
13:18 Say you to the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for
your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.
13:19 The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried
away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.
13:20 Lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the north: where is the flock
that was given you, your beautiful flock?
13:21 What will you say, when he shall set over you as head those whom you have
yourself taught to be friends to you? shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman
in travail?
13:22 And if you say in your heart, Why are these things come upon me? for the
greatness of your iniquity are your skirts uncovered, and your heels suffer violence.
13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do
good, that are accustomed to do evil.
13:24 Therefore will I scatter them, as the stubble that passes away, by the wind of the
wilderness.
13:25 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me, says Yahweh; because you
have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
13:26 Therefore will I also uncover your skirts upon your face, and your shame shall
appear.
13:27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighings, the
lewdness of your whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! you
will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?
14:1 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
14:2 Judah mourns, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and
the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
14:3 And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and
find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and
confounded, and cover their heads.
14:4 Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no rain has been in the land, the
plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads.
14:5 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes her young, because there is no
grass.
14:6 And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes
fail, because there is no herbage.
14:7 Though our iniquities testify against us, work you for your name's sake, O Yahweh;
for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.
14:8 O you hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why should you be
as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turns aside to tarry for a night?
14:9 Why should you be as a man affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet
you, O Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; leave us not.
14:10 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have
not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now will he remember
their iniquity, and visit their sins.
14:11 And Yahweh said to me, Pray not for this people for their good.
14:12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and
meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the
famine, and by the pestilence.
14:13 Then said I, ah, Lord Yahweh! behold, the prophets say to them, You shall not see
the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.
14:14 Then Yahweh said to me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name; I sent them not,
neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I to them: they prophesy to you a lying
vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart.
14:15 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name,
and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword
and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
14:16 And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem
because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them-them, their
wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.
14:17 And you shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and
day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great
breach, with a very grievous wound.
14:18 If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into
the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest
go about in the land, and have no knowledge.
14:19 Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you
smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and
for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
14:20 We acknowledge, O Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for
we have sinned against you.
14:21 Do not abhor us, for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory:
remember, break not your covenant with us.
14:22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the
heavens give showers? are not you he, O Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for
you; for you have made all these things.
15:1 Then said Yahweh to me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind
would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
15:2 And it shall come to pass, when they say to you, Whither shall we go forth? then
you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are
for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are
for captivity, to captivity.
15:3 And I will appoint over them four kinds, says Yahweh: the sword to slay, and the
dogs to tear, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to
destroy.
15:4 And I will cause them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth,
because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in
Jerusalem.
15:5 For who will have pity upon you, O Jerusalem? or who will bemoan you? or
who will turn aside to ask of your welfare?
15:6 You have rejected me, says Yahweh, you are gone backward: therefore have I
stretched out my hand against you, and destroyed you; I am weary with repenting.
15:7 And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them
of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.
15:8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon
them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish
and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.
15:9 She that has borne seven languishes; she has given up the ghost; her sun is gone
down while it was yet day; she has been put to shame and confounded: and the residue of
them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, says Yahweh.
15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of
contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one
of them does curse me.
15:11 Yahweh said, Verily I will strengthen you for good; verily I will cause the enemy
to make supplication to you in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
15:12 Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?
15:13 Your substance and your treasures will I give for a spoil without price, and that for
all your sins, even in all your borders.
15:14 And I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you know not;
for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn upon you.
15:15 O Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my
persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have
suffered reproach.
15:16 Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your words were to me a joy and
the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O Yahweh, God of hosts.
15:17 I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because
of your hand; for you have filled me with indignation.
15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed?
will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?
15:19 Therefore thus says Yahweh, If you return, then will I bring you again, that you
may stand before me; and if you take forth the precious from the vile, you shall be as my
mouth: they shall return to you, but you shall not return to them.
15:20 And I will make you to this people a fortified brazen wall; and they shall fight
against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to
deliver you, says Yahweh.
15:21 And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you out of
the hand of the terrible.
16:1 The word of Yahweh came also to me, saying,
16:2 You shall not take you a wife, neither shall you have sons or daughters, in this place.
16:3 For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are
born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bore them, and concerning their
fathers that begat them in this land:
16:4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be
buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by
the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the
heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
16:5 For thus says Yahweh, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament,
neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, says Yahweh,
even lovingkindness and tender mercies.
16:6 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men
lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;
16:7 neither shall men break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead;
neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their
mother.
16:8 And you shall not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.
16:9 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out
of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of
gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
16:10 And it shall come to pass, when you shall show this people all these words, and
they shall say to you, Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us? or
what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our
God?
16:11 Then shall you say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says Yahweh,
and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and
have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
16:12 and ye have done evil more than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after
the stubbornness of his evil heart, so that ye hearken not to me:
16:13 therefore will I cast you forth out of this land into the land that ye have not known,
neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; for I will
show you no favor.
16:14 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be said, as
Yahweh lives, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
16:15 but, as Yahweh lives, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the
north, and from all the countries whither he had driven them. And I will bring them
again into their land that I gave to their fathers.
16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, says Yahweh, and they shall fish them up;
and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every
mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
16:17 For my eyes are upon all their ways; they are not hid from my face, neither is their
iniquity concealed from my eyes.
16:18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have
polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my
inheritance with their abominations.
16:19 O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction,
to you shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have
inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things in which there is no profit.
16:20 Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?
16:21 Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know
my hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is Yahweh.
17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is
graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
17:2 whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon
the high hills.
17:3 O my mountain in the field, I will give your substance and all your treasures for a
spoil, and your high places, because of sin, throughout all your borders.
17:4 And you, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and
I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you know not: for ye have
kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn for ever.
17:5 Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm,
and whose heart departs from Yahweh.
17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but
shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
17:7 Blessed is the man that trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is.
17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river,
and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in
the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know
it?
17:10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his
ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
17:11 As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he that gets riches,
and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a
fool.
17:12 A glorious throne, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
17:13 O Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be put to shame. They
that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the
fountain of living waters.
17:14 Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you
are my praise.
17:15 Behold, they say to me, Where is the word of Yahweh? let it come now.
17:16 As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after you; neither have I
desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.
17:17 Be not a terror to me: you are my refuge in the day of evil.
17:18 Let them be put to shame that persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let
them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and
destroy them with double destruction.
17:19 Thus said Yahweh to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people,
whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of
Jerusalem;
17:20 and say to them, Hear ye the word of Yahweh, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah,
and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
17:21 Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath
day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
17:22 neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye
any work: but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
17:23 But they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that
they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.
17:24 And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken to me, says Yahweh, to bring in
no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to hallow the sabbath day,
to do no work therein;
17:25 then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the
throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of
Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain for ever.
17:26 And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about
Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-
country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal offerings,
and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh.
17:27 But if ye will not hearken to me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden
and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the
gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
18:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
18:2 Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause you to hear my
words.
18:3 Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he was making a work on the
wheels.
18:4 And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter,
he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
18:5 Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
18:6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as
the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.
18:7 At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to
pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;
18:8 if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of
the evil that I thought to do to them.
18:9 And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to
build and to plant it;
18:10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will
repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.
18:11 Now therefore, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
saying, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against
you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.
18:12 But they say, It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do
every one after the stubbornness of his evil heart.
18:13 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask ye now among the nations, who has heard such
things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.
18:14 Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? or shall the cold waters
that flow down from afar be dried up?
18:15 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they
have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a
way not cast up;
18:16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passes
thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the
back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall
not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet.
Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
18:19 Give heed to me, O Yahweh, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with
me.
18:20 Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have dug a pit for my soul.
Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from
them.
18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power
of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain
of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
18:22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly upon
them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
18:23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their
iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you;
deal you with them in the time of your anger.
19:1 Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of
the people, and of the elders of the priests;
19:2 and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate
Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;
19:3 and say, Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of
Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil upon
this place, which whosoever hears, his ears shall tingle.
19:4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned
incense in it to other gods, that they knew not, they and their fathers and the kings of
Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
19:5 and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt
offerings to Baal; which I commanded not, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
19:6 therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be
called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.
19:7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will
cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek
their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for
the beasts of the earth.
19:8 And I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; every one that passes
thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.
19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters;
and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with
which their enemies, and they that seek their life, shall distress them.
19:10 Then shall you break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with you,
19:11 and shall say to them, Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Even so will I break this people
and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they
shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.
19:12 Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to the inhabitants thereof, even
making this city as Topheth:
19:13 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are
defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have
burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other
gods.
19:14 Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and
he stood in the court of Yahweh's house, and said to all the people:
19:15 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring upon this city
and upon all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have
made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.
20:1 Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of
Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.
20:2 Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the
upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.
20:3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the
stocks. Then said Jeremiah to him, Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but
Magor-missabib.
20:4 For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will make you a terror to yourself, and to all your
friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes shall behold it;
and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them
captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
20:5 Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains thereof, and all the
precious things thereof, yes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the
hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to
Babylon.
20:6 And you, Pashhur, and all that dwell in your house shall go into captivity; and you
shall come to Babylon, and there you shall die, and there shall you be buried, you, and all
your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.
20:7 O Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I,
and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me.
20:8 For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word
of Yahweh is made a reproach to me, and a derision, all the day.
20:9 And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then
there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with
forbearing, and I cannot contain.
20:10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we
will denounce him, say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure
he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on
him.
20:11 But Yahweh is with me as a mighty one and a terrible: therefore my persecutors
shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they
have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
20:12 But, O Yahweh of hosts, that try the righteous, that see the heart and the mind, let
me see your vengeance on them; for to you have I revealed my cause.
20:13 Sing to Yahweh, praise ye Yahweh; for he has delivered the soul of the needy from
the hand of evil-doers.
20:14 Cursed be the day in which I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me
be blessed.
20:15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, a man-child is born to
you; making him very glad.
20:16 And let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and repented not: and
let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime;
20:17 because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my
grave, and her womb always great.
20:18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be
consumed with shame?
21:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when king Zedekiah sent to him
Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,
21:2 Inquire, I pray you, of Yahweh for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon makes
war against us: peradventure Yahweh will deal with us according to all his wondrous
works, that he may go up from us.
21:3 Then said Jeremiah to them, Thus shall ye say to Zedekiah:
21:4 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war
that are in your hands, with which ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the
Chaldeans that besiege you, without the walls; and I will gather them into the midst of
this city.
21:5 And I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm,
even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.
21:6 And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a
great pestilence.
21:7 And afterward, says Yahweh, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his
servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the
sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into
the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall
smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor
have mercy.
21:8 And to this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the
way of life and the way of death.
21:9 He that abides in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the
pestilence; but he that goes out, and passes over to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he
shall live, and his life shall be to him for a prey.
21:10 For I have set my face upon this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it
shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
21:11 And touching the house of the king of Judah, hear ye the word of Yahweh:
21:12 O house of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver
him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and
burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
21:13 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and of the rock of the plain,
says Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into
our habitations?
21:14 And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I
will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
22:1 Thus said Yahweh: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this
word,
22:2 And say, Hear the word of Yahweh, O king of Judah, that sit upon the throne of
David, you, and your servants, and your people that enter in by these gates.
22:3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is
robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the
sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
22:4 For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house
kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his
servants, and his people.
22:5 But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says Yahweh, that this house
shall become a desolation.
22:6 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to
me, and the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which
are not inhabited.
22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against you, every one with his weapons; and they
shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his
neighbor, Why has Yahweh done thus to this great city?
22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they forsook the covenant of Yahweh their God,
and worshipped other gods, and served them.
22:10 Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him that goes
away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
22:11 For thus says Yahweh touching Shallum the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who
reigned instead of Josiah his father, and who went forth out of this place: He shall not
return there any more.
22:12 But in the place whither they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall
see this land no more.
22:13 Woe to him that builds his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by
injustice; that uses his neighbor's service without wages, and gives him not his hire;
22:14 that says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out
windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
22:15 Shall you reign, because you strive to excel in cedar? Did not your father eat and
drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.
22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to
know me? says Yahweh.
22:17 But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, and for shedding
innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
22:18 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of
Judah: they shall not lament for him, saying, ah my brother! or, ah sister! They shall not
lament for him, saying Ah lord! or, ah his glory!
22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the
gates of Jerusalem.
22:20 Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up your voice in Bashan, and cry from Abarim;
for all your lovers are destroyed.
22:21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been
your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice.
22:22 The wind shall feed all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity:
surely then shall you be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.
22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that make your nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied
shall you be when pangs come upon you, the pain as of a woman in travail!
22:24 As I live, says Yahweh, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were
the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck you there;
22:25 and I will give you into the hand of those that seek your life, and into the hand of
those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
22:26 And I will cast you out, and your mother that bore you, into another country, where
ye were not born; and there shall ye die.
22:27 But to the land to which their soul longs to return, there they shall not return.
22:28 Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel in which no one
delights? why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they
know not?
22:29 O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of Yahweh.
22:30 Thus says Yahweh, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his
days; for no more shall a man of his seed prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and
ruling in Judah.
23:1 Woe to the shepherds that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says
Yahweh.
23:2 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds that feed my
people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them;
behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.
23:3 And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whither I have
driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and
multiply.
23:4 And I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no
more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh.
23:5 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch,
and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in
the land.
23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name
whereby he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
23:7 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, as
Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
23:8 but, as Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel
out of the north country, and from all the countries whither I had driven them. And they
shall dwell in their own land.
23:9 Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am
like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and
because of his holy words.
23:10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the
pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not
right;
23:11 for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their
wickedness, says Yahweh.
23:12 Wherefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall
be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their
visitation, says Yahweh.
23:13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and
caused my people Israel to err.
23:14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit
adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none does
return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and the
inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
23:15 Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed
them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of
Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
23:16 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, Hearken not to the words of the prophets that prophesy
to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the
mouth of Yahweh.
23:17 They say continually to them that despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have
peace; and to every one that walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil
shall come upon you.
23:18 For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his
word? who has marked my word, and heard it?
23:19 Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, even his wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling
tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.
23:20 The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have
performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.
23:21 I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spoke not to them, yet they prophesied.
23:22 But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my
words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.
23:23 Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?
23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh.
Do not I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
23:25 I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I
have dreamed, I have dreamed.
23:26 How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the
prophets of the deceit of their own heart?
23:27 that think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell
every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgat my name for Baal.
23:28 The prophet that has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that has my word, let
him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.
23:29 Is not my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in
pieces?
23:30 Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, that steal my words
every one from his neighbor.
23:31 Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, that use their tongues, and say, He
says.
23:32 Behold, I am against them that prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell
them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I sent them
not, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.
23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the
burden concerning Yahweh? then shall you say to them, What burden! I will cast you
off, says Yahweh.
23:34 And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden
concerning Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house.
23:35 Thus shall ye say every one to his neighbor, and every one to his brother, What has
Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken?
23:36 And the burden of Yahweh shall ye mention no more: for every man's own word
shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of
hosts our God.
23:37 Thus shall you say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What
has Yahweh spoken?
23:38 But if ye say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because ye say
this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The
burden of Yahweh;
23:39 therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that
I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:
23:40 and I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which
shall not be forgotten.
24:1 Yahweh showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of
Yahweh, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah
the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and
smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
24:2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket
had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
24:3 Then said Yahweh to me, What see you, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs,
very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.
24:5 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the
captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for
good.
24:6 For I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land:
and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them
up.
24:7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my
people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
24:8 And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says
Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of
Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt,
24:9 I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth
for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall
drive them.
24:10 And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be
consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.
25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth
year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah (the same was the first year of
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,)
25:2 which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah, and to all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:
25:3 From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day,
these three and twenty years, the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to
you, rising up early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
25:4 And Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and
sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear,)
25:5 saying, Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your
doings, and dwell in the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your fathers, from of
old and even for evermore;
25:6 and go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not
to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened to me, says Yahweh; that ye may provoke me to anger
with the work of your hands to your own hurt.
25:8 Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts: Because ye have not heard my words,
25:9 behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says Yahweh, and I will
send to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this
land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I
will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual
desolations.
25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the
voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the
light of the lamp.
25:11 And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations
shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
25:12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish
the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the
Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate for ever.
25:13 And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it,
even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the
nations.
25:14 For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and
I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their
hands.
25:15 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath
at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
25:16 And they shall drink, and reel to and fro, and be mad, because of the sword that I
will send among them.
25:17 Then took I the cup at Yahweh's hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom
Yahweh had sent me:
25:18 that is, to Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes
thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this
day;
25:19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
25:20 and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings
of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
25:21 Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;
25:22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which
is beyond the sea;
25:23 Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off;
25:24 and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mingled people that dwell in the
wilderness;
25:25 and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the
Medes;
25:26 and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms
of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink
after them.
25:27 And you shall say to them, Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye,
and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will
send among you.
25:28 And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then shall you
say to them, Thus says Yahweh of hosts: You shall surely drink.
25:29 For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should ye
be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword upon all
the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of hosts.
25:30 Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and say to them, Yahweh
will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar
against his fold; he will give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the
inhabitants of the earth.
25:31 A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with
the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give
them to the sword, says Yahweh.
25:32 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a
great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
25:33 And the slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the
other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall
be dung upon the face of the ground.
25:34 Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, ye principal of the flock; for the
days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a
goodly vessel.
25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to
escape.
25:36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock!
for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.
25:37 And the peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of
Yahweh.
25:38 He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because
of the fierceness of the oppressing sword, and because of his fierce anger.
26:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came
this word from Yahweh, saying,
26:2 Thus says Yahweh: Stand in the court of Yahweh's house, and speak to all the cities
of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh's house, all the words that I command you
to speak to them; diminish not a word.
26:3 It may be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent
me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.
26:4 And you shall say to them, Thus says Yahweh: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk
in my law, which I have set before you,
26:5 to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send to you, even
rising up early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
26:6 then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the
nations of the earth.
26:7 And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these
words in the house of Yahweh.
26:8 And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Yahweh
had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all
the people laid hold on him, saying, You shall surely die.
26:9 Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, This house shall be like
Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were
gathered to Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh.
26:10 And when the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's
house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh's
house.
26:11 Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying,
This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as ye have heard
with your ears.
26:12 Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying, Yahweh sent
me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
26:13 Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh
your God; and Yahweh will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you.
26:14 But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your
eyes.
26:15 Only know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye will bring innocent blood
upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth
Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.
26:16 Then said the princes and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: This man
is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.
26:17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the
people, saying,
26:18 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he
spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Zion shall be
plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as
the high places of a forest.
26:19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him to death? did he not fear
Yahweh, and entreat the favor of Yahweh, and Yahweh repented him of the evil which he
had pronounced against them? Thus should we commit great evil against our own
souls.
26:20 And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of Yahweh, Uriah the son of
Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land
according to all the words of Jeremiah:
26:21 and when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty-men, and all the princes, heard
his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid,
and fled, and went into Egypt:
26:22 and Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor,
and certain men with him, into Egypt;
26:23 and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king,
who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common
people.
26:24 But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should
not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.
27:1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, came
this word to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
27:2 Thus says Yahweh to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them upon your neck;
27:3 and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the
children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the
messengers that come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah;
27:4 and give them a charge to their masters, saying, Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God
of Israel, Thus shall ye say to your masters:
27:5 I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by
my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.
27:6 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of
Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field also have I given him to serve him.
27:7 And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the time of
his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their
bondman.
27:8 And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the
same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of
the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, says Yahweh, with the sword, and with the
famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
27:9 But as for you, hearken ye not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your
dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, that speak to you, saying, You
shall not serve the king of Babylon:
27:10 for they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should
drive you out, and ye should perish.
27:11 But the nation that shall bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,
and serve him, that nation will I let remain in their own land, says Yahweh; and they
shall till it, and dwell therein.
27:12 And I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring
your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
27:13 Why will ye die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the
pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of
Babylon?
27:14 And hearken not to the words of the prophets that speak to you, saying, You shall
not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie to you.
27:15 For I have not sent them, says Yahweh, but they prophesy falsely in my name; that
I may drive you out, and that ye may perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy to you.
27:16 Also I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus says Yahweh:
Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy to you, saying, Behold, the
vessels of Yahweh's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon; for they
prophesy a lie to you.
27:17 Hearken not to them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: why should this city
become a desolation?
27:18 But if they be prophets, and if the word of Yahweh be with them, let them now
make intercession to Yahweh of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of
Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
27:19 For thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and
concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,
27:20 which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive
Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the
nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
27:21 yes, thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are
left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:
27:22 They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be, until the day that I visit
them, says Yahweh; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of
Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet,
who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of Yahweh, in the presence of the priests
and of all the people, saying,
28:2 Thus speaks Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of
the king of Babylon.
28:3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh's
house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried to
Babylon:
28:4 and I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah,
with all the captives of Judah, that went to Babylon, says Yahweh; for I will break the
yoke of the king of Babylon.
28:5 Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the
priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of Yahweh,
28:6 even the prophet Jeremiah said, amen: Yahweh do so; Yahweh perform your words
which you have prophesied, to bring again the vessels of Yahweh's house, and all them of
the captivity, from Babylon to this place.
28:7 Nevertheless hear you now this word that I speak in your ears, and in the ears of all
the people:
28:8 The prophets that have been before me and before you of old prophesied against
many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.
28:9 The prophet that prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to
pass, then shall the prophet be known, that Yahweh has truly sent him.
28:10 Then Hananiah the prophet took the bar from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and
broke it.
28:11 And Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus says Yahweh:
Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years
from off the neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
28:12 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had
broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
28:13 Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh: You have broken the bars of
wood; but you have made in their stead bars of iron.
28:14 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon
the neck of all these nations, that they may served Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and
they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah to Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah:
Yahweh has not sent you; but you cause this people to trust in a lie.
28:16 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will send you away from off the face of the
earth: this year you shall die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem
to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to
all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to
Babylon,
29:2 (after that Jeconiah the king, and the queen-mother, and the eunuchs, and the princes
of Judah and Jerusalem, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, were departed from
Jerusalem,)
29:3 by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom
Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,) saying,
29:4 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have
caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:
29:5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
29:6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give
your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye
there, and be not diminished.
29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive,
and pray to Yahweh for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
29:8 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Let not your prophets that are in
the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither hearken ye to your dreams
which ye cause to be dreamed.
29:9 For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says Yahweh.
29:10 For thus says Yahweh, after seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will
visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace,
and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
29:12 And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
29:14 And I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn back your captivity, and I
will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places to which I have driven you,
says Yahweh; and I will bring you back to the place from which I caused you to be
carried away captive.
29:15 Because ye have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;
29:16 thus says Yahweh concerning the king that sits upon the throne of David, and
concerning all the people that dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone forth with
you into captivity;
29:17 thus says Yahweh of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine,
and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so
bad.
29:18 And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence,
and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an
execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations to
which I have driven them;
29:19 because they have not heeded my words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them
my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, says
Yahweh.
29:20 Hear ye therefore the word of Yahweh, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent
away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
29:21 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah,
and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name:
Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he
shall slay them before your eyes;
29:22 and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah that are in
Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of
Babylon roasted in the fire;
29:23 because they have wrought folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their
neighbors' wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I commanded them
not; and I am he that knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.
29:24 And concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
29:25 Thus speaks Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent
letters in your own name to all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son
of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,
29:26 Yahweh has made you priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be
officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man that is mad, and makes himself a prophet,
that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.
29:27 Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes
himself a prophet to you,
29:28 forasmuch as he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long: build ye
houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?
29:29 And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.
29:30 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,
29:31 Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah
the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I sent him not, and he
has caused you to trust in a lie;
29:32 therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and
his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he behold the
good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against
Yahweh.
30:2 Thus speaks Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, Write you all the words that I have
spoken to you in a book.
30:3 For, lo, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will turn again the captivity of my
people Israel and Judah, says Yahweh; and I will cause them to return to the land that I
gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.
30:4 And these are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
30:5 For thus says Yahweh: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of
peace.
30:6 Ask ye now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man
with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's
trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
30:8 And it shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of hosts, that I will break his
yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds; and strangers shall no more make
him their bondman;
30:9 but they shall serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to
them.
30:10 Therefore fear you not, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, O
Israel: for, lo, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity;
and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
30:11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you: for I will make a full end of all the
nations to which I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you. But I will
correct you in measure, and will in no wise leave you unpunished.
30:12 For thus says Yahweh, Your hurt is incurable, and your wound grievous.
30:13 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing
medicines.
30:14 All your lovers have forgotten you; they seek you not: for I have wounded you
with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of
your iniquity, because your sins were increased.
30:15 Why cry for your hurt? your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity,
because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.
30:16 Therefore all they that devour you shall be devoured; and all your adversaries,
every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that despoil you shall be a spoil, and
all that prey upon you will I give as a prey.
30:17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh;
because they have called you an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.
30:18 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and
have compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be built upon its own hill, and
the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.
30:19 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make
merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and
they shall not be small.
30:20 Their children also shall be as aforetime, and their congregation shall be
established before me; and I will punish all that oppress them.
30:21 And their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the
midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is
he that has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.
30:22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
30:23 Behold, the tempest of Yahweh, even his wrath, is gone forth, a sweeping tempest:
it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.
30:24 The fierce anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he have executed, and till he
have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it.
31:1 At that time, says Yahweh, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they
shall be my people.
31:2 Thus says Yahweh, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the
wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.
31:3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting
love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn you.
31:4 Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again shall you be
adorned with your tabrets, and shall go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
31:5 Again shall you plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall
plant, and shall enjoy the fruit thereof.
31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, arise
ye, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.
31:7 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the
nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of
Israel.
31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the
uttermost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child
and her that travails with child together: a great company shall they return here.
31:9 They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause
them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I
am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
31:10 Hear the word of Yahweh, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say,
He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.
31:11 For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him that was
stronger than he.
31:12 And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness
of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock
and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any
more at all.
31:13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together;
for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice
from their sorrow.
31:14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be
satisfied with my goodness, says Yahweh.
31:15 Thus says Yahweh: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping,
Rachel weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted for her children, because
they are not.
31:16 Thus says Yahweh: Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears;
for your work shall be rewarded, says Yahweh; and they shall come again from the land
of the enemy.
31:17 And there is hope for your latter end, says Yahweh; and your children shall come
again to their own border.
31:18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, You have chastised me, and I
was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn you me, and I shall be turned; for
you are Yahweh my God.
31:19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote
upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of
my youth.
31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against
him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely
have mercy upon him, says Yahweh.
31:21 Set you up waymarks, make you guide-posts; set your heart toward the highway,
even the way by which you went: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these your
cities.
31:22 How long will you go here and there, O you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh
has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.
31:23 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Yet again shall they use this speech
in the land of Judah and in the cities thereof, when I shall bring again their captivity:
Yahweh bless you, O habitation of righteousness, O mountain of holiness.
31:24 And Judah and all the cities thereof shall dwell therein together, the husbandmen,
and they that go about with flocks.
31:25 For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.
31:26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet to me.
31:27 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will sow the house of Israel and the
house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.
31:28 And it shall come to pass that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to
break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so will I watch over them to
build and to plant, says Yahweh.
31:29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge.
31:30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eats the sour grapes,
his teeth shall be set on edge.
31:31 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the
house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
31:32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke,
although I was a husband to them, says Yahweh.
31:33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,
says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and
I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
31:34 and they shall no longer teach each man his neighbor, and every man his brother,
saying, Know Yahweh; for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest
of them, says Yahweh: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no
more.
31:35 Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the
moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that the waves thereof
roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name:
31:36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel
also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
31:37 Thus says Yahweh: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the
earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they
have done, says Yahweh.
31:38 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the city shall be built to Yahweh from
the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.
31:39 And the measuring line shall go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and
shall turn about to Goah.
31:40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the
brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it
shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of
Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
32:2 Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah
the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Why do you prophesy, and say,
Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and
he shall take it;
32:4 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but
shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him
mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;
32:5 and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, says
Yahweh: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?
32:6 And Jeremiah said, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
32:7 Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle shall come to you, saying, Buy you
my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is yours to buy it.
32:8 So Hanamel my uncle's son came to me in the court of the guard according to the
word of Yahweh, and said to me, Buy my field, I pray you, that is in Anathoth, which is
in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is yours, and the redemption is yours;
buy it for yourself. Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh.
32:9 And I bought the field that was in Anathoth of Hanamel my uncle's son, and
weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
32:10 And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the
money in the balances.
32:11 So I took the deed of the purchase, both that which was sealed, according to the
law and custom, and that which was open:
32:12 and I delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of
Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel my uncle's son, and in the presence of the
witnesses that subscribed the deed of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court
of the guard.
32:13 And I charged Baruch before them, saying,
32:14 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the
purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel;
that they may continue many days.
32:15 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards
shall yet again be bought in this land.
32:16 Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, I
prayed to Yahweh, saying,
32:17 Ah Lord Yahweh! behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great
power and by your outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for you,
32:18 who show lovingkindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers
into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Yahweh of hosts is
his name;
32:19 great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the
sons of men, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings:
32:20 who did set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel
and among other men; and made you a name, as at this day;
32:21 and did bring forth your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with
wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror;
32:22 and gave them this land, which you did swear to their fathers to give them, a land
flowing with milk and honey;
32:23 and they came in, and possessed it, but they obeyed not your voice, neither walked
in your law; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you
have caused all this evil to come upon them.
32:24 Behold, the mounds, they are come to the city to take it; and the city is given into
the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine,
and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken is come to pass; and, behold, you see it.
32:25 And you have said to me, O Lord Yahweh, Buy you the field for money, and call
witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
32:27 Behold, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?
32:28 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the
Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
32:29 and the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire,
and burn it, with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and
poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
32:30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was
evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to
anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.
32:31 For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the
day that they built it even to this day; that I should remove it from before my face,
32:32 because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which
they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and
their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
32:33 And they have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them,
rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
32:34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile
it.
32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of
Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech; which
I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this
abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
32:36 And now therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city,
whereof ye say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the
famine, and by the pestilence:
32:37 Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, whither I have driven them in
my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this
place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:
32:38 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
32:39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the
good of them, and of their children after them:
32:40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from
following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not
depart from me.
32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land
assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.
32:42 For thus says Yahweh: Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people,
so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
32:43 And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate, without man
or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
32:44 Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call
witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of
Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the
cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh.
33:1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet
shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
33:2 Thus says Yahweh that does it, Yahweh that forms it to establish it; Yahweh is his
name:
33:3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult,
which you know not.
33:4 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and
concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are broken down to make a defence
against the mounds and against the sword;
33:5 while men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of
men, whom I have slain in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I
have hid my face from this city:
33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them
abundance of peace and truth.
33:7 And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will
build them, as at the first.
33:8 And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against
me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and
whereby they have transgressed against me.
33:9 And this city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all
the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and
tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.
33:10 Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof ye say, It
is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of
Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,
33:11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the
voice of the bride, the voice of them that say, Give thanks to Yahweh of hosts, for
Yahweh is good, for his lovingkindness endures for ever; and of them that bring
sacrifices of thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of
the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.
33:12 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste,
without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, a habitation of shepherds
causing their flocks to lie down.
33:13 In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the
South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of
Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him that numbers them, says
Yahweh.
33:14 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will perform that good word which I
have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.
33:15 In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to
David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
33:16 In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the
name whereby she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.
33:17 For thus says Yahweh: David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the
house of Israel;
33:18 neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings,
and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
33:19 And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
33:20 Thus says Yahweh: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of
the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;
33:21 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not
have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
33:22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so
will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me.
33:23 And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying,
33:24 Have you not considered what this people have spoken, saying, The two families
which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that
they should be no more a nation before them.
33:25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not
appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
33:26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will
not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will
cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
34:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his
dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities
thereof, saying:
34:2 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and
tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
34:3 and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into
his hand; and your eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak
with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.
34:4 Yet hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah king of Judah: thus says Yahweh
concerning you, You shall not die by the sword;
34:5 you shall die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings that
were before you, so shall they make a burning for you; and they shall lament you, saying,
ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, says Yahweh.
34:6 Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke all these words to Zedekiah king of Judah in
Jerusalem,
34:7 when the king of Babylon's army was fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the
cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish and against Azekah; for these alone
remained of the cities of Judah as fortified cities.
34:8 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that the king Zedekiah had
made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty to them;
34:9 that every man should let his man-servant, and every man his maid-servant, that is a
Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondmen of them, that is, of a
Jew his brother.
34:10 And all the princes and all the people obeyed, that had entered into the covenant,
that every one should let his man-servant, and every one his maid-servant, go free, that
none should make bondmen of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:
34:11 but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they
had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for
handmaids.
34:12 Therefore the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
34:13 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the
day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,
saying,
34:14 At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew,
that has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from
you: but your fathers hearkened not to me, neither inclined their ear.
34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in
proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in
the house which is called by my name:
34:16 but ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every
man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and ye brought
them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.
34:17 Therefore thus says Yahweh: ye have not hearkened to me, to proclaim liberty,
every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a
liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make
you to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.
34:18 And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, that have not
performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf
in twain and passed between the parts thereof;
34:19 the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and
all the people of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf;
34:20 I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that
seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for food to the birds of the heavens, and to
the beasts of the earth.
34:21 And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their
enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of
Babylon's army, that are gone away from you.
34:22 Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return to this city; and
they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of
Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
35:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
35:2 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak to them, and bring them into the house
of Yahweh, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
35:3 Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brethren,
and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;
35:4 and I brought them into the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan
the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was
above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.
35:5 And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and
cups; and I said to them, Drink ye wine.
35:6 But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father,
commanded us, saying, You shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons, for ever:
35:7 neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any; but all
your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land in which ye
sojourn.
35:8 And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that
he charged us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;
35:9 nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
35:10 but we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done according to all that
Jonadab our father commanded us.
35:11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land,
that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and
for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.
35:13 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, and say to the men of Judah and
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words?
says Yahweh.
35:14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink
wine, are performed; and to this day they drink none, for they obey their father's
commandment: but I have spoken to you, rising up early and speaking; and ye have not
hearkened to me.
35:15 I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending
them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and
go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to
you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me.
35:16 Forasmuch as the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the
commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not
hearkened to me;
35:17 therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will
bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have
pronounced against them; because I have spoken to them, but they have not heard; and I
have called to them, but they have not answered.
35:18 And Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites, Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the
God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and
kept all his precepts, and done according to all that he commanded you;
35:19 therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab
shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
36:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
that this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
36:2 Take you a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken to you
against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you,
from the days of Josiah, even to this day.
36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do to
them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity
and their sin.
36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth
of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh, which he had spoken to him, upon a roll of a book.
36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house
of Yahweh:
36:6 therefore go you, and read in the roll, which you have written from my mouth, the
words of Yahweh in the ears of the people in Yahweh's house upon the fast-day; and also
you shall read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
36:7 It may be they will present their supplication before Yahweh, and will return every
one from his evil way; for great is the anger and the wrath that Yahweh has pronounced
against this people.
36:8 And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet
commanded him, reading in the book the words of Yahweh in Yahweh's house.
36:9 Now it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
in the ninth month, that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people that came from the
cities of Judah to Jerusalem, proclaimed a fast before Yahweh.
36:10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of Yahweh, in
the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry
of the new gate of Yahweh's house, in the ears of all the people.
36:11 And when Micaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the
book all the words of Yahweh,
36:12 he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's chamber: and, lo, all the
princes were sitting there, that is, Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah,
and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son
of Hananiah, and all the princes.
36:13 Then Micaiah declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read
the book in the ears of the people.
36:14 Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah,
the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the roll in which you have read in
the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand,
and came to them.
36:15 And they said to him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in
their ears.
36:16 Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one
toward another, and said to Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.
36:17 And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How did you write all these words at
his mouth?
36:18 Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words to me with his mouth,
and I wrote them with ink in the book.
36:19 Then said the princes to Baruch, Go, hide you, you and Jeremiah; and let no man
know where ye are.
36:20 And they went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the roll in the
chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.
36:21 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of
Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the
princes that stood beside the king.
36:22 Now the king was sitting in the winter-house in the ninth month: and there was a
fire in the brazier burning before him.
36:23 And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that the king cut it
with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the roll was
consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
36:24 And they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his
servants that heard all these words.
36:25 Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king
that he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them.
36:26 And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel,
and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but
Yahweh hid them.
36:27 Then the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll,
and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
36:28 Take you again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the
first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
36:29 And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: You
have burned this roll, saying, Why have you written therein, saying, The king of Babylon
shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from there man and
beast?
36:30 Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have
none to sit upon the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the
heat, and in the night to the frost.
36:31 And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will
bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all
the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they hearkened not.
36:32 Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of
Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which
Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them
many like words.
37:1 And Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of
Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.
37:2 But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken to the words
of Yahweh, which he spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.
37:3 And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of
Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now to Yahweh our God for
us.
37:4 Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him
into prison.
37:5 And Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt; and when the Chaldeans that
were besieging Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they broke up from Jerusalem.
37:6 Then came the word of Yahweh to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
37:7 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that
sent you to me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help
you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.
37:8 And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take
it, and burn it with fire.
37:9 Thus says Yahweh, Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely
depart from us; for they shall not depart.
37:10 For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you,
and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in
his tent, and burn this city with fire.
37:11 And it came to pass that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from
Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
37:12 then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to
receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.
37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose
name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah
the prophet, saying, You are falling away to the Chaldeans.
37:14 Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he
hearkened not to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.
37:15 And the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in
the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
37:16 When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah
had remained there many days;
37:17 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in
his house, and said, Is there any word from Yahweh? And Jeremiah said, There is. He
said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, In what way have I sinned against you,
or against your servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
37:19 Where now are your prophets that prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon
shall not come against you, nor against this land?
37:20 And now hear, I pray you, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray you, be
presented before you, that you cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe,
lest I die there.
37:21 Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court
of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the
bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
38:1 And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the
son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke
to all the people, saying,
38:2 Thus says Yahweh, He that abides in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine,
and by the pestilence; but he that goes forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall
be to him for a prey, and he shall live.
38:3 Thus says Yahweh, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the
king of Babylon, and he shall take it.
38:4 Then the princes said to the king, Let this man, we pray you, be put to death;
forasmuch as he weakens the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the
hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them: for this man seeks not the
welfare of this people, but the hurt.
38:5 And Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand; for the king is not he that
can do anything against you.
38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king's son,
that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the
dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
38:7 Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house,
heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of
Benjamin,)
38:8 Ebed-melech went forth out of the king's house, and spoke to the king, saying,
38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah
the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in the place
where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.
38:10 Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from here
thirty men with you, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.
38:11 So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under
the treasury, and took there rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into
the dungeon to Jeremiah.
38:12 And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out
garments under your armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.
38:13 So they drew up Jeremiah with the cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and
Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
38:14 Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet to him into the third
entry that is in the house of Yahweh: and the king said to Jeremiah, I will ask you a thing;
hide nothing from me.
38:15 Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I declare it to you, will you not surely put me to
death? and if I give you counsel, you will not hearken to me.
38:16 So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, as Yahweh lives, that
made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of
these men that seek your life.
38:17 Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of
Israel: If you will go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and
this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house.
38:18 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be
given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not
escape out of their hand.
38:19 And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, I am afraid of the Jews that are fallen
away to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.
38:20 But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beseech you, the voice of
Yahweh, in that which I speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall
live.
38:21 But if you refuse to go forth, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:
38:22 behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought
forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Your familiar friends
have set you on, and have prevailed over you: now that your feet are sunk in the mire,
they are turned away back.
38:23 And they shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans; and
you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of
Babylon: and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.
38:24 Then said Zedekiah to Jeremiah, Let no man know of these words, and you shall
not die.
38:25 But if the princes hear that I have talked with you, and they come to you, and say
to you, Declare to us now what you have said to the king; hide it not from us, and we will
not put you to death; also what the king said to you:
38:26 then you shall say to them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he
would not cause me to return to Jonathan's house, to die there.
38:27 Then came all the princes to Jeremiah, and asked him; and he told them according
to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for
the matter was not perceived.
38:28 So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken.
39:1 And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king
of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army
against Jerusalem, and besieged it;
39:2 in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a
breach was made in the city,)
39:3 that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, that
is, Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rab-saris, Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, with
all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
39:4 And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war
saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king's
garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
39:5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the
plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.
39:6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also
the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to
Babylon.
39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire,
and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
39:9 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the
residue of the people that remained in the city, the deserters also that fell away to him,
and the residue of the people that remained.
39:10 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, that had
nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
39:11 Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
39:12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do to him even as he
shall say to you.
39:13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rab-saris, and
Nergal-sharezer, Rab-mag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;
39:14 they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him to
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he
dwelt among the people.
39:15 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of
the guard, saying,
39:16 Go, and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says Yahweh of hosts,
the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good;
and they shall be accomplished before you in that day.
39:17 But I will deliver you in that day, says Yahweh; and you shall not be given into the
hand of the men of whom you are afraid.
39:18 For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but your life shall be
for a prey to you; because you have put your trust in me, says Yahweh.
40:1 The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain
of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains
among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, that were carried away captive to
Babylon.
40:2 And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said to him, Yahweh your God
pronounced this evil upon this place;
40:3 and Yahweh has brought it, and done according as he spoke: because ye have sinned
against Yahweh, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
40:4 And now, behold, I loose you this day from the chains which are upon your hand.
If it seem good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will look well to you;
but if it seem ill to you to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is
before you; whither it seems good and right to you to go, there go.
40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, said he, to Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the
cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wheresoever it seems right to
you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a present, and let him go.
40:6 Then went Jeremiah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah, and dwelt with him
among the people that were left in the land.
40:7 Now when all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, even they and their
men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in
the land, and had committed to him men, and women, and children, and of the poorest of
the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
40:8 then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, that is, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the
sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their
men.
40:9 And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore to them and to their
men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of
Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
40:10 As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans that shall
come to us: but ye, gather ye wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your
vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
40:11 Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon,
and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a
remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of
Shaphan;
40:12 then all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to
the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very
much.
40:13 Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in
the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
40:14 and said to him, Do you know that Baalis the king of the children of Ammon has
sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to take your life? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam
believed them not.
40:15 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let
me go, I pray you, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know
it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews that are gathered to you should be
scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?
40:16 But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, You shall not
do this thing; for you speak falsely of Ishmael.
41:1 Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the
son of Elishama, of the seed royal and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men
with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread
together in Mizpah.
41:2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and
smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him,
whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
41:3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, that is, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah,
and the Chaldeans that were found there, the men of war.
41:4 And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,
41:5 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty
men, having their beards shaven and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with
meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.
41:6 And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping
all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said to them, Come to
Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
41:7 And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were
with him.
41:8 But ten men were found among them that said to Ishmael, Slay us not; for we have
stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he
forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.
41:9 Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had slain,
by the side of Gedaliah (the same was that which Asa the king had made for fear of
Baasha king of Israel,) Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.
41:10 Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in
Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam;
Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the
children of Ammon.
41:11 But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were
with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
41:12 then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.
41:13 Now it came to pass that, when all the people that were with Ishmael saw Johanan
the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were
glad.
41:14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about
and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.
41:15 But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went
to the children of Ammon.
41:16 Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were
with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, that is, the
men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought
back from Gibeon:
41:17 and they departed, and dwelt in Geruth Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to
enter into Egypt,
41:18 because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of
Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made
governor over the land.
42:1 Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the
son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest, came near,
42:2 and said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we pray you, our supplication be presented
before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant; for we are left
but a few of many, as your eyes do behold us:
42:3 that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing
that we should do.
42:4 Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray to
Yahweh your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass that whatsoever
thing Yahweh shall answer you, I will declare it to you; I will keep nothing back from
you.
42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness amongst us, if we
do not according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.
42:6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our
God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of
Yahweh our God.
42:7 And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah.
42:8 Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that
were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,
42:9 and said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom ye sent me to
present your supplication before him:
42:10 If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I
will plant you, and not pluck you up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done to you.
42:11 Be not afraid of the king of Babylon, of whom ye are afraid; be not afraid of him,
says Yahweh: for I am with you to save you, and to deliver you from his hand.
42:12 And I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to
return to your own land.
42:13 But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land; so that ye obey not the voice of
Yahweh your God,
42:14 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor
hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
42:15 now therefore hear ye the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah: Thus says
Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, If ye indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go
to sojourn there;
42:16 then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in
the land of Egypt; and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there
in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
42:17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there:
they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall
remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
42:18 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: As my anger and my wrath has
been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so shall my wrath be poured forth
upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt; and ye shall be an execration, and an
astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
42:19 Yahweh has spoken concerning you, O remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt:
know certainly that I have testified to you this day.
42:20 For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for ye sent me to Yahweh
your God, saying, Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our
God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do it:
42:21 and I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh
your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.
42:22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by
the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go to sojourn there.
43:1 And it came to pass that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the
people all the words of Yahweh their God, with which Yahweh their God had sent him to
them, even all these words,
43:2 then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the
proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: Yahweh our God has not sent you to
say, You shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there;
43:3 but Baruch the son of Neriah sets you on against us, to deliver us into the hand of
the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.
43:4 So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people,
obeyed not the voice of Yahweh, to dwell in the land of Judah.
43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the
remnant of Judah, that were returned from all the nations whither they had been driven, to
sojourn in the land of Judah;
43:6 the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters, and every
person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of
Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;
43:7 and they came into the land of Egypt; for they obeyed not the voice of Yahweh: and
they came to Tahpanhes.
43:8 Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,
43:9 Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brickwork, which is
at the entry of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
43:10 and say to them, Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send
and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon
these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
43:11 And he shall come, and shall smite the land of Egypt; such as are for death shall be
given to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to
the sword.
43:12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them,
and carry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a
shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.
43:13 He shall also break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the
houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.
44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of
Egypt, that dwelt at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of
Pathros, saying,
44:2 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have
brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a
desolation, and no man dwells therein,
44:3 because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in
that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they,
nor ye, nor your fathers.
44:4 Yet I would send to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending
them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
44:5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn
no incense to other gods.
44:6 Wherefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities
of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this
day.
44:7 Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Why commit
ye this great evil against your own souls, to cut off from you man and woman, infant and
suckling, out of the midst of Judah, to leave you none remaining;
44:8 in that ye provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to
other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off,
and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
44:9 Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings
of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the
wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets
of Jerusalem?
44:10 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my
law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
44:11 Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face
against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.
44:12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of
Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they
fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least
even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an execration, and
an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
44:13 For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished
Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;
44:14 so that none of the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to
sojourn there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have
a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.
44:15 Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all
the women that stood by, a great assembly, even all the people that dwelt in the land of
Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
44:16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will not
hearken to you.
44:17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to
burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have
done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
44:18 But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink
offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by
the famine.
44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink
offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to
her, without our husbands?
44:20 Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the
people that had given him that answer, saying,
44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye
and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not Yahweh
remember them, and came it not into his mind?
44:22 so that Yahweh could not longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and
because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land become a
desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
44:23 Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against Yahweh, and
have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in
his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened to you, as it is this day.
44:24 Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of
Yahweh, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:
44:25 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have
both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will
surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and
to pour out drink offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows.
44:26 Therefore hear ye the word of Yahweh, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt:
Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be
named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, as the Lord
Yahweh lives.
44:27 Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that
are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be
an end of them.
44:28 And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of
Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt
to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.
44:29 And this shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place,
that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
44:30 Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the
hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king
of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and
sought his life.
45:1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch the son of Neriah, when he
wrote these word in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the
son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,
45:2 Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch:
45:3 You did say, Woe is me now! for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary
with my groaning, and I find no rest.
45:4 Thus shall you say to him, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, that which I have built will I
break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.
45:5 And seek you great things for yourself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring
evil upon all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places
whither you go.
46:1 The word of Yahweh which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.
46:2 Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco king of Egypt, which was by the
river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the
fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
46:3 Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
46:4 Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets;
furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.
46:5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty
ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, says
Yahweh.
46:6 Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river
Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.
46:7 Who is this that rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
46:8 Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he
says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof.
46:9 Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and
Put,43 that handle the shield; and the Ludim, 44 that handle and bend the bow.
46:10 For that day is a day of the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he
may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiated, and shall
drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, has a sacrifice in the north
country by the river Euphrates.
46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use
many medicines; there is no healing for you.
46:12 The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for the
mighty man has stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.
46:13 The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
46:14 Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in
Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand forth, and prepare you; for the sword has devoured round about
you.
46:15 Why are your strong ones swept away? they stood not, because Yahweh did drive
them.
46:16 He made many to stumble, yes, they fell one upon another: and they said, arise, and
let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing
sword.
46:17 They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he has let the appointed
time pass by.
46:18 As I live, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts, surely like Tabor among
the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
46:19 O you daughter that dwell in Egypt, furnish yourself to go into captivity; for
Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.
46:20 Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.
46:21 Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are
turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity
is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
46:22 The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and
come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
46:23 They shall cut down her forest, says Yahweh, though it cannot be searched;
because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.
43
46:9a Put means the areas of north Africa west of Egypt: Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco; and Cush the
areas of Africa south of Egypt, such as Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia.
44
46:9b Lud is in Turkey.
46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of
the people of the north.
46:25 Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, says: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and
Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in
him:
46:26 and I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand
of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it
shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, says Yahweh.
46:27 But fear not you, O Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will
save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return,
and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
46:28 Fear not you, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; for I am with you: for I will make
a full end of all the nations whither I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of
you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no wise leave you unpunished.
47:1 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines,
before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
47:2 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an
overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and them
that dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
47:3 At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his
chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for
feebleness of hands;
47:4 because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and
Sidon every helper that remains: for Yahweh will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of
the isle of Caphtor.
47:5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their
valley: how long will you cut yourself?
47:6 O you sword of Yahweh, how long will it be until you are quiet? put yourself up
into your scabbard; rest, and be still.
47:7 How can you be quiet, seeing Yahweh has given you a charge? Against Ashkelon,
and against the sea-shore, there has he appointed it.
48:1 Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is
laid waste; Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken
down.
48:2 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her:
Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, O Madmen, shall be
brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.
48:3 The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!
48:4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
48:5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for at the
descent of Horonaim they have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.
48:6 Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
48:7 For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be
taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
48:8 And the destroyer shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley
also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.
48:9 Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become
a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
48:10 Cursed be he that does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed be he that
keeps back his sword from blood.
48:11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not
been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste
remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
48:12 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him them that
pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their
bottles in pieces.
48:13 And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of
Beth-el their confidence.
48:14 How say ye, We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?
48:15 Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men
are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts.
48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hastens fast.
48:17 All ye that are round about him, bemoan him, and all ye that know his name; say,
How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!
48:18 O you daughter that dwell in Dibon, come down from your glory, and sit in thirst;
for the destroyer of Moab is come up against you, he has destroyed your strongholds.
48:19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him that flees, and her that
escapes; say, What has been done?
48:20 Moab is put to shame; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell ye it by the Arnon,
that Moab is laid waste.
48:21 And judgment is come upon the plain country, upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and
upon Mephaath,
48:22 and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim,
48:23 and upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth-gamul, and upon Beth-meon,
48:24 and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far
or near.
48:25 The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh.
48:26 Make ye him drunken; for he magnified himself against Yahweh: and Moab shall
wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision.
48:27 For was not Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often
as you speak of him, you wag the head.
48:28 O ye inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the
dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
48:29 We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; his loftiness, and his
pride, and his arrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart.
48:30 I know his wrath, says Yahweh, that it is nought; his boastings have wrought
nothing.
48:31 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-
heres shall they mourn.
48:32 With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for you, O vine of Sibmah: your
branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon your summer
fruits and upon your vintage the destroyer is fallen.
48:33 And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of
Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with
shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.
48:34 From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their
voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also
shall become desolate.
48:35 Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him that offers in the high
place, and him that burns incense to his gods.
48:36 Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for
the men of Kir-heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.
48:37 For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings,
and upon the loins sackcloth.
48:38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the streets thereof there is lamentation every
where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh.
48:39 How is it broken down! how do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with
shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.
48:40 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his
wings against Moab.
48:41 Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of
Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
48:42 And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified
himself against Yahweh.
48:43 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon you, O inhabitant of Moab, says Yahweh.
48:44 He that flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that gets up out of the pit
shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring upon him, even upon Moab, the year of their
visitation, says Yahweh.
48:45 They that fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is
gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the
corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
48:46 Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken
away captive, and your daughters into captivity.
48:47 Yet will I bring back the captivity of Moab in the latter days, says Yahweh. Thus
far is the judgment of Moab.
49:1 Of the children of Ammon. Thus says Yahweh: Has Israel no sons? has he no
heir? why then does Malcam possess Gad, and his people well in the cities thereof?
49:2 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to
be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap,
and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess them that did
possess him, says Yahweh.
49:3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with
sackcloth: lament, and run to and fro among the fences; for Malcam shall go into
captivity, his priests and his princes together.
49:4 Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, O backsliding daughter?
that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come to me?
49:5 Behold, I will bring a fear upon you, says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, from all that
are round about you; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be
none to gather together the fugitives.
49:6 But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, says
Yahweh.
49:7 Of Edom. Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel
perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
49:8 Flee ye, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan; 45 for I will bring the
calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him.
49:9 If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if
thieves by night, would they not destroy till they had enough?
49:10 But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be
able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brethren, and his neighbors; and he is
not.
49:11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows
trust in me.
49:12 For thus says Yahweh: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup
shall assuredly drink; and are you he that shall altogether go unpunished? you shall not
go unpunished, but you shall surely drink.
49:13 For I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, that Bozrah shall become an
astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual
wastes.
49:14 I have heard tidings from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations,
saying, Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
49:15 For, behold, I have made you small among the nations, and despised among men.
49:16 As for your terribleness, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you that dwell
in the clefts of the rock, that hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest
as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
49:17 And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passes by it shall be
astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, says
Yahweh, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
49:19 Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong
habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him
will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is
the shepherd that will stand before me?
49:20 Therefore hear ye the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Edom; and his
purposes, that he has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag
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them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate
over them.
49:21 The earth trembles at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is
heard in the Red Sea.
49:22 Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against
Bozrah: and the heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day shall be as the heart of a
woman in her pangs.
49:23 Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil
tidings, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
49:24 Damascus is become feeble, she turns herself to flee, and trembling has seized on
her: anguish and sorrows have taken hold of her, as of a woman in travail.
49:25 How is the city of praise not forsaken, the city of my joy?
49:26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be
brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh of hosts.
49:27 And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of
Ben-hadad.
49:28 Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon
smote. Thus says Yahweh: Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the
east.
49:29 Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves
their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry to them, Terror on
every side!
49:30 Flee ye, wander far off, dwell in the depths, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, says
Yahweh; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has taken counsel against you, and has
conceived a purpose against you.
49:31 Arise, go up to a nation that is at ease, that dwells without care, says Yahweh; that
have neither gates nor bars, that dwell alone.
49:32 And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I
will scatter to all winds them that have the corners of their hair cut off; and I will bring
their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.
49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling-place of jackals, a desolation for ever: no man shall
dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
49:34 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the
beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
49:35 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of
their might.
49:36 And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and
will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts
of Elam shall not come.
49:37 And I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that
seek their life; and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, says Yahweh; and I
will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them;
49:38 and I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from there king and princes, says
Yahweh.
49:39 But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring back the captivity of
Elam, says Yahweh.
50:1 The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the
Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.
50:2 Declare ye among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and
conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her
images are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.
50:3 For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land
desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and beast.
50:4 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they
and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek
Yahweh their God.
50:5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thereward, saying, Come ye, and
join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
50:6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they
have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they
have forgotten their resting-place.
50:7 All that found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not
guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even
Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.
50:8 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and
be as the he-goats before the flocks.
50:9 For, lo, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great
nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from
there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall
return in vain.
50:10 And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh.
50:11 Because ye are glad, because ye rejoice, O ye that plunder my heritage, because ye
are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;
50:12 your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bore you shall be confounded:
behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
50:13 Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly
desolate: every one that goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
50:14 Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all ye that bend the bow;
shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh.
50:15 Shout against her round about: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen,
her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance upon her;
as she has done, do to her.
50:16 Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handles the sickle in the time of
harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they
shall flee every one to his own land.
50:17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria
devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
50:18 Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the
king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.
50:19 And I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and
Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.
50:20 In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought
for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will
pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
50:21 Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of
Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I
have commanded you.
50:22 A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
50:23 How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon
become a desolation among the nations!
50:24 I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, O Babylon, and you were not
aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.
50:25 Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his
indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.
50:26 Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as
heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.
50:27 Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day
is come, the time of their visitation.
50:28 The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in
Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.
50:29 Call together the archers against Babylon, all them that bend the bow; encamp
against her round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work;
according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh,
against the Holy One of Israel.
50:30 Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be
brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.
50:31 Behold, I am against you, O you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts; for
your day is come, the time that I will visit you.
50:32 And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will
kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all that are round about him.
50:33 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are
oppressed together; and all that took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them
go.
50:34 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead
their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
50:35 A sword is upon the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and upon the inhabitants of
Babylon, and upon her princes, and upon her wise men.
50:36 A sword is upon the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is upon her
mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.
50:37 A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled
people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her
treasures, and they shall be robbed.
50:38 A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven
images, and they are mad over idols.
50:39 Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the
ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be
dwelt in from generation to generation.
50:40 As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof,
says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.
50:41 Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be
stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.
50:42 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice
roars like the sea; and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle,
against you, O daughter of Babylon.
50:43 The king of Babylon has heard the tidings of them, and his hands grow feeble:
anguish has taken hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.
50:44 Behold, the enemy shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the
strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen,
him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and
who is the shepherd that can stand before me?
50:45 Therefore hear ye the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and
his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall
drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation
desolate over them.
50:46 At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard
among the nations.
51:1 Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that
dwell in Leb-kamai, a destroying wind.
51:2 And I will send to Babylon strangers, that shall winnow her; and they shall empty
her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.
51:3 Against him that bends let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifts himself
up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
51:4 And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her
streets.
51:5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Yahweh of hosts; though their
land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
51:6 Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her
iniquity: for it is the time of Yahweh's vengeance; he will render to her a recompense.
51:7 Babylon has been a golden cup in Yahweh's hand, that made all the earth drunken:
the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.
51:8 Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so
be she may be healed.
51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go
every one into his own country; for her judgment reaches to heaven, and is lifted up even
to the skies.
51:10 Yahweh has brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the
work of Yahweh our God.
51:11 Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of
the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the
vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance of his temple.
51:12 Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the
watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he
spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
51:13 O you that dwell upon many waters, abundant in treasures, your end is come, the
measure of your covetousness.
51:14 Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as
with the canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against you.
51:15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom,
and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:
51:16 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes
the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and
brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
51:17 Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to
shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
51:18 They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel
is the tribe of his inheritance: Yahweh of hosts is his name.
51:20 You are my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the
nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
51:21 and with you will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
51:22 and with you will I break in pieces the chariot and him that rides therein; and with
you will I break in pieces man and woman; and with you will I break in pieces the old
man and the youth; and with you will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;
51:23 and with you will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with you will I
break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with you will I break in pieces
governors and deputies.
51:24 And I will render to Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that
they have done in Zion in your sight, says Yahweh.
51:25 Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroy all
the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and
will make you a burnt mountain.
51:26 And they shall not take of you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but
you shall be desolate for ever, says Yahweh.
51:27 Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the
nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and
Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough
canker-worm.
51:28 Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors thereof, and
all the deputies thereof, and all the land of their dominion.
51:29 And the land trembles and is in pain; for the purposes of Yahweh against Babylon
do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their
strongholds; their might has failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are
set on fire; her bars are broken.
51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the
king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:
51:32 and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men
of war are affrighted.
51:33 For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a
threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest
shall come for her.
51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has
made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw
with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of
Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
51:36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance
for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
51:37 And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment,
and a hissing, without inhabitant.
51:38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.
51:39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that
they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.
51:40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
51:41 How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon
become a desolation among the nations!
51:42 The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves
thereof.
51:43 Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land in which no man
dwells, neither does any son of man pass thereby.
51:44 And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his
mouth that which he has swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more to him:
yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
51:45 My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the
fierce anger of Yahweh.
51:46 And let not your heart faint, neither fear ye for the tidings that shall be heard in the
land; for tidings shall come one year, and after that in another year shall come tidings,
and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.
51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven
images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in
the midst of her.
51:48 Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over
Babylon; for the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says Yahweh.
51:49 As Babylon has caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain
of all the land.
51:50 You that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Yahweh from
afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion has covered our
faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh's house.
51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will execute judgment
upon her graven images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the
height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.
51:54 The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the
Chaldeans!
51:55 For Yahweh lays Babylon waste, and destroys out of her the great voice; and their
waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:
51:56 for the destroyer is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are
taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Yahweh is a God of recompenses, he will
surely requite.
51:57 And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her
deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says
the King, whose name is Yahweh of hosts.
51:58 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly
overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for
vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
51:59 The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the
son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth
year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief eunuch.
51:60 And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all
these words that are written concerning Babylon.
51:61 And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, then see that you read
all these words,
51:62 and say, O Yahweh, you have spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none
shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.
51:63 And it shall be, when you have made an end of reading this book, that you shall
bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:
51:64 and you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the
evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of
Jeremiah.
52:1 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned
eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah
of Libnah.
52:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that
Jehoiakim had done.
52:3 For through the anger of Yahweh did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until
he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of
Babylon.
52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day
of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against
Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
52:5 So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
52:6 In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city,
so that there was no bread for the people of the land.
52:7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out
of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's
garden; (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about;) and they went toward the
Arabah.
52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the
plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
52:9 Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the
land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.
52:10 And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also
all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
52:11 And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters,
and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
52:12 Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth
year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:
52:13 and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of
Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, broke
down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.
52:15 Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of
the people, and the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell
away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be
vinedressers and husbandmen.
52:17 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the
brazen sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and
carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
52:18 The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and
all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.
52:19 And the cups, and the firepans, and the basins, and the pots, and the candlesticks,
and the spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of
silver, in silver,- the captain of the guard took away.
52:20 The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen bulls that were under the bases,
which king Solomon had made for the house of Yahweh-the brass of all these vessels was
without weight.
52:21 And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of
twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
52:22 And a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits,
with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass: and the second
pillar also had like to these, and pomegranates.
52:23 And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates
were a hundred upon the network round about.
52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the
second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
52:25 and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and seven
men of them that saw the king's face, that were found in the city; and the scribe of the
captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of
the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
52:26 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king
of Babylon to Riblah.
52:27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of
Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
52:28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year
three thousand Jews and three and twenty;
52:29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem
eight hundred thirty and two persons;
52:30 in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the
guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the
persons were four thousand and six hundred.
52:31 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin
king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-
merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin
king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison;
52:32 and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that
were with him in Babylon,
52:33 and changed his prison garments. And Jehoiachin did eat bread before him
continually all the days of his life:
52:34 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him by the king of
Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.
End of Jeremiah
The Lamentations of Jeremiah
Lamentations
1:1 How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that
was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become
tributary!
1:2 She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she
has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are
become her enemies.
1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She
dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the
straits.
1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her
gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in
bitterness.
1:5 Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Yahweh has afflicted
her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity
before the adversary.
1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become
like deer that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
1:7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant
things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the
adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her
desolations.
1:8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that
honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yes, she sighs, and turns
backward.
1:9 Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she
come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: Behold, O Yahweh, my affliction; for the
enemy has magnified himself.
1:10 The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: For she has seen
that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom you did command that
they should not enter into your assembly.
1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food
to refresh the soul: See, O Yahweh, and behold; for I am become abject.
1:12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like
to my sorrow, which is brought upon me, With which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day
of his fierce anger.
1:13 From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has
spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all
the day.
1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are
come up upon my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into
their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
1:15 The Lord has set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He has called a
solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord has trodden as in a
winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.
1:16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the
comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because
the enemy has prevailed.
1:17 Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded
concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem
is among them as an unclean thing.
1:18 Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray
you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into
captivity.
1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the
ghost in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
1:20 Behold, O Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned
within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as
death.
1:21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard
of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have
proclaimed, and they shall be like to me.
1:22 Let all their wickedness come before you; And do to them, as you have done to me
for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
2:1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast
down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.
2:2 The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has
thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them
down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
2:3 He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand
from before the enemy: And he has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours
round about.
2:4 He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary,
and has slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has
poured out his wrath like fire.
2:5 The Lord is become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up
all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; And he has multiplied in the daughter of
Judah mourning and lamentation.
2:6 And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has
destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be
forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
2:7 The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into
the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of
Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
2:8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched
out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he has made the
rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king
and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no
vision from Yahweh.
2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have
cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of
Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth,
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and
the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the
wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers'
bosom.
2:13 What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For
your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
2:14 Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; And they have not
uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, But have seen for you false oracles
and causes of banishment.
2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter
of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of
the whole earth?
2:16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash
the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked
for; we have found, we have seen it.
2:17 Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he
commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: And he has
caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
2:18 Their heart cried to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like
a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; let not the apple of your eye cease.
2:19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like
water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your
young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
2:20 See, O Yahweh, and behold to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their
fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
2:21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my
young men are fallen by the sword: You have slain them in the day of your anger; you
have slaughtered, and not pitied.
2:22 You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And
there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh's anger: Those that I have
dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.
3:1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
3:2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3:3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
3:4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
3:5 He has built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
3:6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
3:7 He has walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
3:8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
3:9 He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
3:10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
3:11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
3:12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
3:13 He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
3:14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
3:15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has sated me with wormwood.
3:16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he has covered me with ashes.
3:17 And you have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
3:18 And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.
3:19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
3:20 My soul has them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
3:21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
3:22 It is of Yahweh's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his
compassions fail not.
3:23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
3:24 Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
3:25 Yahweh is good to them that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
3:26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
3:28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him.
3:29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
3:30 Let him give his cheek to him that smites him; let him be filled full with reproach.
3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
3:32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of
his lovingkindnesses.
3:33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
3:34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approves not.
3:37 Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
3:38 Out of the mouth of the Most High comes there not evil and good?
3:39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
3:41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.
3:43 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have slain, you have not pitied.
3:44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
3:45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
3:47 Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
3:48 Mine eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my
people.
3:49 Mine eye pours down, and ceases not, without any intermission,
3:50 Till Yahweh look down, and behold from heaven.
3:51 Mine eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
3:52 They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are my enemies without cause.
3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.
3:54 Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.
3:55 I called upon your name, O Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
3:56 You heard my voice; hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.
3:57 You drew near in the day that I called upon you; you said, Fear not.
3:58 O Lord, you have pled the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
3:59 O Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; please, you judge my cause.
3:60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
3:61 You have heard their reproach, O Yahweh, and all their devices against me,
3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
3:63 You behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
3:64 You will render to them a recompense, O Yahweh, according to the work of their
hands.
3:65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
3:66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of
Yahweh.
4:1 How is the gold become dim! how is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the
sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as
earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
4:3 Even the jackals pull out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter
of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young
children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.
4:5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up
in scarlet embrace dunghills.
4:6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That
was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her.
4:7 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy
in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.
4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin
cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
4:9 They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For
these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.
4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their
food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
4:11 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; And he has
kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations thereof.
4:12 The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the
adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
4:13 It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, That have
shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
4:14 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men
cannot touch their garments.
4:15 Depart ye, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! When they fled
away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn here.
4:16 The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They
respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.
4:17 Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help: In our watching we have watched
for a nation that could not save.
4:18 They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days
are fulfilled; for our end is come.
4:19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the
mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom
we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.
4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall
pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.
4:22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no
more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he
will uncover your sins.
5:1 Remember, O Yahweh, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
5:3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
5:4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.
5:5 Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with
bread.
5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
5:8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
5:10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
5:13 The young men bore the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.
5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
5:17 For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
5:18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.
5:19 You, O Yahweh, abide for ever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
5:20 Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
5:21 Turn thou us toward you, O Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of
old.
5:22 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.
End of Lamentations
TheBook of the Prophet Ezekiel
Ezekiel
1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the
month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened,
and I saw visions of God.
1:2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
1:3 the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land
of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there upon him.
1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a
fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst thereof as it
were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.
1:5 And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this
was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.
1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the soles of their feet were like the soles of a
calf's feet; and they sparkled like burnished brass.
1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four
had their faces and their wings thus:
1:9 their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went
every one straight forward.
1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the
face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they
four had also the face of an eagle.
1:11 And their faces and their wings were separate above; two wings of every one were
joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went;
they turned not when they went.
1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of
fire, like the appearance of torches: the fire went up and down among the living creatures;
and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold, one wheel upon the earth beside the
living creatures, for each of the four faces thereof.
1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was similar to a beryl: and they four
had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a
wheel.
1:17 When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they went.
1:18 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of
eyes round about.
1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the
living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
1:20 Wherever the spirit was to go, they went; there was the spirit to go: and the wheels
were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
1:21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those
were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the
living creature was in the wheels.
1:22 And over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of a firmament, like
the terrible crystal to look upon, stretched forth over their heads above.
1:23 And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every
one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that
side, their bodies.
1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters,
like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of a host: when they stood,
they let down their wings.
1:25 And there was a voice above the firmament that was over their heads: when they
stood, they let down their wings.
1:26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as
the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as
the appearance of a man upon it above.
1:27 And I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about,
from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and
downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about
him.
1:28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the
appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of
the glory of Yahweh. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one
that spoke.
2:1 And he said to me, Son of man, stand upon your feet, and I will speak with you.
2:2 And the Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me upon my feet; and I
heard him that spoke to me.
2:3 And he said to me, Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to nations that are
rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed
against me even to this very day.
2:4 And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do sent you to them; and you shall
say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh.
2:5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a
rebellious house,) yet shall know that there has been a prophet among them.
2:6 And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though
briers and thorns are with you, and you do dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their
words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
2:7 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will
forbear; for they are most rebellious.
2:8 But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; be not you rebellious like that rebellious
house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.
2:9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, lo, a roll of a book was
therein;
2:10 And he spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were
written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
3:1 And he said to me, Son of man, eat that which you findest; eat this roll, and go, speak
to the house of Israel.
3:2 So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.
3:3 And he said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this
roll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
3:4 And he said to me, Son of man, go, get yourself to the house of Israel, and speak with
my words to them.
3:5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of a hard language, but to the
house of Israel;
3:6 not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words you
cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to them, they would hearken to you.
3:7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me: for all the
house of Israel are of hard forehead and of a stiff heart.
3:8 Behold, I have made your face hard against their faces, and your forehead hard
against their foreheads.
3:9 As an adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead: fear them not, neither be
dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.
3:10 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive
in your heart, and hear with your ears.
3:11 And go, get yourself to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and
speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh; whether they will hear, or
whether they will forbear.
3:12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing,
saying, Blessed be the glory of Yahweh from his place.
3:13 And I heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one
another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, even the noise of a great rushing.
3:14 So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of
my spirit; and the hand of Yahweh was strong upon me.
3:15 Then I came to them of the captivity at Tel-abib, that dwelt by the river Chebar, and
to where they dwelt; and I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.
3:16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of Yahweh came to me,
saying,
3:17 Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the
word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
3:18 When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him not warning, nor
speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man
shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
3:19 Yet if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his
wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
3:20 Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity,
and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because you have not given him
warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be
remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.
3:21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he does
not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
3:22 And the hand of Yahweh was there upon me; and he said to me, arise, go forth into
the plain, and I will there talk with you.
3:23 Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of Yahweh stood
there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.
3:24 Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spoke with me, and
said to me, Go, shut yourself within your house.
3:25 But you, son of man, behold, they shall lay bands upon you, and shall bind you with
them, and you shall not go out among them:
3:26 and I will make your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, that you shall be
dumb, and shall not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.
3:27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, Thus
says the Lord Yahweh: He that hears, let him hear; and he that forbears, let him forbear:
for they are a rebellious house.
4:1 You also, son of man, take you a tile, and lay it before you, and portray upon it a city,
even Jerusalem:
4:2 and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set
camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.
4:3 And take you to you an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the
city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against
it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4:4 Moreover lie you upon your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon
it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie upon it, you shall bear their
iniquity.
4:5 For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even
three hundred and ninety days: so shall you bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
4:6 And again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and
shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I
appointed it to you.
4:7 And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered;
and you shall prophesy against it.
4:8 And, behold, I lay bands upon you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the
other, till you have accomplished the days of your siege.
4:9 Take you also to you wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt,
and put them in one vessel, and make you bread thereof; according to the number of the
days that you shall lie upon your side, even three hundred and ninety days, shall you eat
thereof.
4:10 And your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from
time to time shall you eat it.
4:11 And you shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time
shall you drink.
4:12 And you shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung
that comes out of man.
4:13 And Yahweh said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean,
among the nations whither I will drive them.
4:14 Then said I, ah Lord Yahweh! behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my
youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts;
neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
4:15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall
prepare your bread upon it.
4:16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in
Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink
water by measure, and in dismay:
4:17 that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine
away in their iniquity.
5:1 And you, son of man, take you a sharp sword; as a barber's razor shall you take it to
you, and shall cause it to pass upon your head and upon your beard: then take you
balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
5:2 A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the
siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and smite with the sword round about
it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
5:3 And you shall take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
5:4 And of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn
them in the fire; therefrom shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
5:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the
nations, and countries are round about her.
5:6 And she has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the
nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they
have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
5:7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because ye are turbulent more than the nations
that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my
ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about
you;
5:8 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will
execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
5:9 And I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereto I will not do any more
the like, because of all your abominations.
5:10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of you, and the sons shall eat
their fathers; and I will execute judgments on you; and the whole remnant of you will I
scatter to all the winds.
5:11 Wherefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely, because you have defiled my
sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I
also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
5:12 A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be
consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you;
and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
5:13 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to
rest, and I shall be comforted; and they shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my
zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.
5:14 Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are
round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.
5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the
nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in
wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)
5:16 when I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, that are for destruction,
which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break
your staff of bread;
5:17 and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you; and
pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword upon you: I,
Yahweh, have spoken it.
6:2 Son of man, set your face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy to them,
6:3 and say, You mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the
Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys:
Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
6:4 And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I
will cast down your slain men before your idols.
6:5 And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will
scatter your bones round about your altars.
6:6 In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be
desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be
broken and cease, and your sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be
abolished.
6:7 And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am Yahweh.
6:8 Yet will I leave a remnant, in that ye shall have some that escape the sword among
the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
6:9 And those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations whither they
shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has
departed from me, and with they eyes, which play the harlot after their idols: and they
shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all
their abominations.
6:10 And they shall know that I am Yahweh: I have not said in vain that I would do this
evil to them.
6:11 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Smite with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and
say, alas! because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they shall fall by
the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
6:12 He that is far off shall die of the pestilence; and he that is near shall fall by the
sword; and he that remains and is besieged shall die by the famine: thus will I accomplish
my wrath upon them.
6:13 And ye shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their
idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and
under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet
savor to all their idols.
6:14 And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste,
from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
7:1 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
7:2 And you, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel, an end: the end
is come upon the four corners of the land.
7:3 Now is the end upon you, and I will send my anger upon you, and will judge you
according to your ways; and I will bring upon you all your abominations.
7:4 And my eye shall not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways
upon you, and your abominations shall be in the midst of you: and ye shall know that I
am Yahweh.
7:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: An evil, an only evil; behold, it comes.
7:6 An end is come, the end is come; it awakes against you; behold, it comes.
7:7 Your doom is come to you, O inhabitant of the land: the time is come, the day is near,
a day of tumult, and not of joyful shouting, upon the mountains.
7:8 Now will I shortly pour out my wrath upon you, and accomplish my anger against
you, and will judge you according to your ways; and I will bring upon you all your
abominations.
7:9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring upon you according
to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and ye shall know that
I, Yahweh, do smite.
7:10 Behold, the day, behold, it comes: your doom is gone forth; the rod has blossomed,
pride has budded.
7:11 Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness; none of them shall remain, nor of
their multitude, nor of their wealth: neither shall there be eminency among them.
7:12 The time is come, the day draws near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn;
for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
7:13 For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the
vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, none shall return; neither shall any
strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.
7:14 They have blown the trumpet, and have made all ready; but none goes to the battle;
for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
7:15 The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field
shall die with the sword: and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour
him.
7:16 But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves
of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.
7:17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and
shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing;
their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of
Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been
the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
7:20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of
their abominations and their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as
an unclean thing.
7:21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the
earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.
7:22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and
robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
7:23 Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
7:24 Wherefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I
will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
7:25 Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.
7:26 Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; and they shall
seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the
elders.
7:27 The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation, and the hands
of the people of the land shall be troubled: I will do to them after their way, and
according to their deserts will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
8:1 And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month,
as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord
Yahweh fell there upon me.
8:2 Then I beheld, and, lo, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his
loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness,
as it were glowing metal.
8:3 And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit
lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to
Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where
was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
8:4 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance
that I saw in the plain.
8:5 Then said he to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So
I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and behold, northward of the gate of the
altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
8:6 And he said to me, Son of man, see you what they do? even the great abominations
that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but
you shall again see yet other great abominations.
8:7 And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the
wall.
8:8 Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall,
behold, a door.
8:9 And he said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.
8:10 So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable
beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
8:11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in
the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his
hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
8:12 Then said he to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel
do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Yahweh sees us
not; Yahweh has forsaken the land.
8:13 He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.
8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh's house which was toward the
north; and behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.
8:15 Then said he to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? you shall again see yet
greater abominations than these.
8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of Yahweh's house; and behold, at the door
of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty
men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and
they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
8:17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the
house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they
have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, lo,
they put the branch to their nose.
8:18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity;
and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
9:1 Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause ye them that have charge
over the city to draw near, every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.
9:2 And behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the
north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of
them clothed in linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side. And they went in, and stood
beside the brazen altar.
9:3 And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to
the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's
inkhorn by his side.
9:4 And Yahweh said to him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of
Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry over all
the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.
9:5 And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and smite:
let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity;
9:6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women;
but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then
they began at the old men that were before the house.
9:7 And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth.
And they went forth, and smote in the city.
9:8 And it came to pass, while they were smiting, and I was left, that I fell upon my face,
and cried, and said, ah Lord Yahweh! will you destroy all the residue of Israel in your
pouring out of your wrath upon Jerusalem?
9:9 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly
great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of wrestling of judgment: for they say,
Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh sees not.
9:10 And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring
their way upon their head.
9:11 And behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the
matter, saying, I have done as you have commanded me.
10:1 Then I looked, and behold, in the firmament that was over the head of the cherubim
there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness
of a throne.
10:2 And he spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling
wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between
the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
10:3 Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and
the cloud filled the inner court.
10:4 And the glory of Yahweh mounted up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold
of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the
brightness of Yahweh's glory.
10:5 And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard even to the outer court, as the
voice of God Almighty when he speaks.
10:6 And it came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take
fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and
stood beside a wheel.
10:7 And the cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that
was between the cherubim, and took of it, and put it into the hands of him that was
clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
10:8 And there appeared in the cherubim the form of a man's hand under their wings.
10:9 And I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside one
cherub, and another wheel beside another cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was
like to a beryl stone.
10:10 And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel have been
within a wheel.
10:11 When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not as they went,
but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.
10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the
wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
10:13 As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.
10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the
second face was the face of a man, and the third face the face of a lion, and the fourth the
face of an eagle.
10:15 And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river
Chebar.
10:16 And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the
cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the wheels also turned not
from beside them.
10:17 When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with
them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
10:18 And the glory of Yahweh went forth from over the threshold of the house, and
stood over the cherubim.
10:19 And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight
when they went forth, and the wheels beside them: and they stood at the door of the east
gate of Yahweh's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
10:20 This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar;
and I knew that they were cherubim.
10:21 Every one had four faces, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands
of a man was under their wings.
10:22 And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river
Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.
11:1 Moreover the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me to the east gate of Yahweh's
house, which looks eastward: and behold, at the door of the gate five and twenty men;
and I saw in the midst of them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah, princes of the people.
11:2 And he said to me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give
wicked counsel in this city;
11:3 that say, The time is not near to build houses: this city is the caldron, and we are the
flesh.
11:4 Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
11:5 And the Spirit of Yahweh fell upon me, and he said to me, Speak, Thus says
Yahweh: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your
mind.
11:6 You have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with
the slain.
11:7 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of
it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but ye shall be brought forth out of the
midst of it.
11:8 You have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, says the Lord
Yahweh.
11:9 And I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of
strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
11:10 You shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall
11:11 This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof;
I will judge you in the border of Israel;
11:12 and ye shall know that I am Yahweh: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither
have ye executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that
are round about you.
11:13 And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died.
Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, ah Lord Yahweh!
will you make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
11:15 Son of man, your brethren, even your brethren, the men of your kindred, and all the
house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get
you far from Yahweh; to us is this land given for a possession.
11:16 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Whereas I have removed them far off
among the nations, and whereas I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be
to them a sanctuary for a little while in the countries where they are come.
11:17 Therefore say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will gather you from the peoples, and
assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the
land of Israel.
11:18 And they shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things
thereof and all the abominations thereof from there.
11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will
take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
11:20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they
shall be my people, and I will be their God.
11:21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and
their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
11:22 Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them; and
the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
11:23 And the glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the
mountain which is on the east side of the city.
11:24 And the Spirit lifted me up, and brought me in the vision by the Spirit of God into
Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
11:25 Then I spoke to them of the captivity all the things that Yahweh had shown me.
12:1 The word of Yahweh also came to me, saying,
12:2 Son of man, you dwell in the midst of the rebellious house, that have eyes to see,
and see not, that have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious house.
12:3 Therefore, you son of man, prepare stuff for removing, and remove by day in their
sight; and you shall remove from your place to another place in their sight: it may be they
will consider, though they are a rebellious house.
12:4 And you shall bring forth your stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing; and
you shall go forth yourself at evening in their sight, as when men go forth into exile.
12:5 Dig through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.
12:6 In their sight shall you bear it upon your shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; you
shall cover your face, that you see not the land: for I have set you for a sign to the house
of Israel.
12:7 And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for
removing, and in the even I dug through the wall with my hand; I brought it forth in the
dark, and bore it upon my shoulder in their sight.
12:8 And in the morning came the word of Yahweh to me, saying,
12:9 Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, What do
you?
12:10 Say you to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This burden concerns the prince in
Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel among whom they are.
12:11 Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done to them; they shall go
into exile, into captivity.
12:12 And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the dark, and
shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face,
because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
12:13 My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare; and I will
bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall
die there.
12:14 And I will scatter toward every wind all that are round about him to help him, and
all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
12:15 And they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall disperse them among the
nations, and scatter them through the countries.
12:16 But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the
pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations whither they
come; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
12:18 Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and
with fearfulness;
12:19 and say to the people of the land, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the land of Israel: They shall eat their bread with
fearfulness, and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and despoiled
of all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
12:20 And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a
desolation; and ye shall know that I am Yahweh.
12:22 Son of man, what is this proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days
are prolonged, and every vision fails?
12:23 Tell them therefore, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will make this proverb to cease,
and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say to them, The days are at hand,
and the fulfilment of every vision.
12:24 For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the
house of Israel.
12:25 For I am Yahweh; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed;
it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I speak the word,
and will perform it, says the Lord Yahweh.
12:26 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
12:27 Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he sees is for
many day to come, and he prophesies of times that are far off.
12:28 Therefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: There shall none of my words
be deferred any more, but the word which I shall speak shall be performed, says the Lord
Yahweh.
13:2 Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say you to
them that prophesy out of their own heart, Hear ye the word of Yahweh:
13:3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Woe to the foolish prophets, that follow their own
spirit, and have seen nothing!
13:4 O Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.
13:5 You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel,
to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh.
13:6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, that say, Yahweh says; but Yahweh
has not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
13:7 Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye
say, Yahweh says; albeit I have not spoken?
13:8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because ye have spoken falsehood, and seen
lies, therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord Yahweh.
13:9 And my hand shall be against the prophets that see false visions, and that divine lies:
they shall not be in the council of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing
of the house of Israel, neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know
that I am the Lord Yahweh.
13:10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is
no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered mortar:
13:11 say to them that daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an
overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend
it.
13:12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with
which ye have daubed it?
13:13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my
wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in my anger, and great hailstones in
wrath to consume it.
13:14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and
bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation of it shall be uncovered; and it shall
fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am Yahweh.
13:15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it
with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, The wall is no more, neither they that
daubed it;
13:16 that is, the prophets of Israel that prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and that see
visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, says the Lord Yahweh.
13:17 And you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, that
prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy you against them,
13:18 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the women that sew pillows upon all
elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye
hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?
13:19 And ye have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces
of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not
live, by your lying to my people that hearken to lies.
13:20 Wherefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against your pillows, with
which ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and
I will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.
13:21 Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they
shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am Yahweh.
13:22 Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not
made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his
wicked way, and be saved alive:
13:23 Therefore ye shall no more see false visions, nor divine divinations: and I will
deliver my people out of your hand; and ye shall know that I am Yahweh.
14:1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.
14:3 Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the
stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
14:4 Therefore speak to them, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man
of the house of Israel that takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumblingblock of his
iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein
according to the multitude of his idols;
14:5 that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged
from me through their idols.
14:6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Return ye, and
turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that
separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumblingblock
of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I
Yahweh will answer him by myself:
14:8 and I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a
sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know
that I am Yahweh.
14:9 And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that
prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of
my people Israel.
14:10 And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the
iniquity of him that seekes to him;
14:11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves
any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their
God, says the Lord Yahweh.
14:13 Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch
out my hand upon it, and break the staff of the bread thereof, and send famine upon it,
and cut off from it man and beast;
14:14 though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but
their own souls by their righteousness, says the Lord Yahweh.
14:15 If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made
desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;
14:16 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should
deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be
desolate.
14:17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I
cut off from it man and beast;
14:18 though these three men were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they should
deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.
14:19 Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to
cut off from it man and beast;
14:20 though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, they
should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their
righteousness.
14:21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four sore
judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the
pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
14:22 Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be carried forth, both sons and
daughters: behold, they shall come forth to you, and ye shall see their way and their
doings; and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon
Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
14:23 And they shall comfort you, when ye see their way and their doings; and ye shall
know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Yahweh.
15:2 Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is
among the trees of the forest?
15:3 Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang
any vessel upon it?
15:4 Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both the ends of it, and
the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?
15:5 Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire
has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!
15:6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine-tree among the trees of the forest,
which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
15:7 And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire
shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
15:8 And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, says the
Lord Yahweh.
16:1 Again the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
16:2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;
16:3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your birth and your nativity is of
the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
16:4 And as for your nativity, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither
were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
16:5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion upon you;
but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that
you were born.
16:6 And when I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you,
Though you are in your blood, live; yes, I said to you, Though you are in your blood,
live.
16:7 I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you did increase and
grow great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and
your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.
16:8 Now when I passed by you, and looked upon you, behold, your time was the time of
love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yes, I swore to you,
and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord Yahweh, and you became mine.
16:9 Then washed I you with water; yes, I thoroughly washed away your blood from you,
and I anointed you with oil.
16:10 I clothed you also with broidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I girded
you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.
16:11 And I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon your hands, and a chain
on your neck.
16:12 And I put a ring upon your nose, and ear-rings in your ears, and a beautiful crown
upon your head.
16:13 Thus were you decked with gold and silver; and your raiment was of fine linen,
and silk, and broidered work; you did eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and you were
exceedingly beautiful, and you did prosper to royal estate.
16:14 And your renown went forth among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect,
through my majesty which I had put upon you, says the Lord Yahweh.
16:15 But you did trust in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and
poured out your whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.
16:16 And you did take of your garments, and made for you high places decked with
divers colors, and played the harlot upon them: the like things shall not come, neither
shall it be so.
16:17 You did also take your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given
you, and made for you images of men, and did play the harlot with them;
16:18 and you took your broidered garments, and covered them, and did set my oil and
my incense before them.
16:19 My bread also which I gave you, fine flour, and oil, and honey, with which I fed
you, you did even set it before them for a sweet savor; and thus it was, says the Lord
Yahweh.
16:20 Moreover you have taken your sons and your daughters, whom you have borne to
me, and these have you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whoredoms a
small matter,
16:21 that you have slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass
through the fire to them?
16:22 And in all your abominations and your whoredoms you have not remembered the
days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, and were weltering in your blood.
16:23 And it is come to pass after all your wickedness, (woe, woe to you! says the Lord
Yahweh,)
16:24 that you have built for yourself a vaulted place, and have made you a lofty place in
every street.
16:25 You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and made your beauty an
abomination, and have spread your legs to every one that passed by, and multiplied your
whoredom.
16:26 You have also committed fornication with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors;
and have multiplied your whoredom, to provoke me to anger.
16:27 Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your
ordinary food, and delivered you to the will of them that hate you, the daughters of the
Philistines, that are ashamed of your lewd way.
16:28 You have played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable;
yes, you have played the harlot with them, and yet you were not satisfied.
16:29 You have moreover multiplied your whoredom to the land of traffic, to Chaldea;
and yet you were not satisfied herewith.
16:30 How weak is your heart, says the Lord Yahweh, seeing you do all these things, the
work of an impudent harlot;
16:31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty
place in every street, and have not been as a harlot, in that you scorn a fee.
16:32 A wife that commits adultery! that takes strangers instead of her husband!
16:33 They give gifts to all harlots; but you give your gifts to all your lovers, and bribe
them, that they may come to you on every side for your whoredoms.
16:34 And you are different from other women in your whoredoms, in that none follows
you to play the harlot; and whereas you give a fee, and no fee is given to you, therefore
you are different.
16:35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of Yahweh:
16:36 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because your filthiness was poured out, and your
nakedness uncovered through your whoredoms with your lovers; and because of all the
idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you did give to them;
16:37 therefore behold, I will gather all your lovers, with whom you have taken pleasure,
and all them that you have loved, with all them that you have hated; I will even gather
them against you on every side, and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may
see all your nakedness.
16:38 And I will judge you, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and
I will bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
16:39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place,
and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your
fair jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.
16:40 They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with
stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
16:41 And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments upon you in the
sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the harlot, and you
shall also pay no fee any more.
16:42 So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from
you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
16:43 Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against
me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way upon your head, says
the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.
16:44 Behold, every one that uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, as
is the mother, so is her daughter.
16:45 You are the daughter of your mother, that loathes her husband and her children;
and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your
mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
16:46 And your elder sister is Samaria, that dwells at your left hand, she and her
daughters; and your younger sister, that dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her
daughters.
16:47 Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if
that were a very little thing, you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
16:48 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her
daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters.
16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and
prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of
the poor and needy.
16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took
them away as I saw good.
16:51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your
abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all your abominations
which you have done.
16:52 You also, bear you your own shame, in that you have given judgment for your
sisters; through your sins that you have committed more abominable than they, they are
more righteous that you: yes, be you also confounded, and bear your shame, in that you
have justified your sisters.
16:53 And I will turn again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and
the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and the captivity of your captives in the midst
of them;
16:54 that you may bear your own shame, and may be ashamed because of all that you
have done, in that you are a comfort to them.
16:55 And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate; and
Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate; and you and your daughters
shall return to your former estate.
16:56 For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
16:57 before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the
daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines,
that do despite to you round about.
16:58 You have borne your lewdness and your abominations, says Yahweh.
16:59 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also deal with you as you have done, who
have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
16:60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and
I will establish to you an everlasting covenant.
16:61 Then shall you remember your ways, and be ashamed, when you shall receive your
sisters, your elder sisters and your younger; and I will give them to you for daughters, but
not by your covenant.
16:62 And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh;
16:63 that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more,
because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done, says the Lord
Yahweh.
17:2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel;
17:3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A great eagle with great wings and long
pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of
the cedar:
17:4 he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it to a land of
traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.
17:5 He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it
beside many waters; he set it as a willow-tree.
17:6 And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned
toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth
branches, and shot forth sprigs.
17:7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold,
this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the
beds of its plantation, that he might water it.
17:8 It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and
that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
17:9 Say you, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the
roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing
leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the
roots thereof.
17:10 Yes, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the
east wind touches it? it shall wither in the beds where it grew.
17:12 Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them,
Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king thereof, and the
princes thereof, and brought them to him to Babylon:
17:13 and he took of the seed royal, and made a covenant with him; he also brought him
under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land;
17:14 that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping
his covenant it might stand.
17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might
give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that does such
things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?
17:16 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely in the place where the king dwells that
made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him in
the midst of Babylon he shall die.
17:17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the
war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.
17:18 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given
his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape.
17:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely my oath that he has
despised, and my covenant that he has broken, I will even bring it upon his own head.
17:20 And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will
bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he
has trespassed against me.
17:21 And all his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain
shall be scattered toward every wind: and ye shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
17:22 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will
set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it
upon a high and lofty mountain:
17:23 in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs,
and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in
the shade of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the
high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry
tree to flourish; I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.
18:1 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
18:2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The
fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?
18:3 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this
proverb in Israel.
18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is
mine: the soul that sins, it shall die.
18:5 But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,
18:6 and has not eaten upon the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of
the house of Israel, neither has defiled his neighbor's wife, neither has come near to a
woman in her impurity,
18:7 and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nought
by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
18:8 he that has not given forth upon interest, neither has taken any increase, that has
withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
18:9 has walked in my statutes, and has kept my ordinances, to deal truly; he is just, he
shall surely live, says the Lord Yahweh.
18:10 If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that does any one of these
things,
18:11 and that does not any of those duties, but even has eaten upon the mountains, and
defiled his neighbor's wife,
18:12 has wronged the poor and needy, has taken by robbery, has not restored the pledge,
and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,
18:13 has given forth upon interest, and has taken increase; shall he then live? he shall
not live: he has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon
him.
18:14 Now, lo, if he beget a son, that sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and
fears, and does not such like;
18:15 that has not eaten upon the mountains, neither has lifted up his eyes to the idols of
the house of Israel, has not defiled his neighbor's wife,
18:16 neither has wronged any, has not taken anything to pledge, neither has taken by
robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;
18:17 that has withdrawn his hand from the poor, that has not received interest nor
increase, has executed my ordinances, has walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the
iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.
18:18 As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that
which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.
18:19 Yet say ye, Why does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? when the son
has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them,
he shall surely live.
18:20 The soul that sins, it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father,
neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous
shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
18:21 But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he has committed, and keep all my
statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
18:22 None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him:
in his righteousness that he has done he shall live.
18:23 Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? says the Lord Yahweh; and not
rather that he should return from his way, and live?
18:24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity,
and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live?
None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he
has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them shall he die.
18:25 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not
my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
18:26 When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity,
and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done shall he die.
18:27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has
committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
18:28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has
committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
18:29 Yet says the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel,
are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
18:30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways,
says the Lord Yahweh. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so
iniquity shall not be your ruin.
18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which ye have transgressed; and
make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dies, says the Lord Yahweh:
therefore turn yourselves, and live.
19:1 Moreover, take you up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
19:2 and say, What was your mother? A lioness: she crouched among lions, in the
midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.
19:3 And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to
catch the prey; he devoured men.
19:4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with
hooks to the land of Egypt.
19:5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another
of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
19:6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned
to catch the prey; he devoured men.
19:7 And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and
the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.
19:8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread
their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
19:9 And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the
mountains of Israel.
19:10 Your mother was like a vine, in your blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful
and full of branches by reason of many waters.
19:11 And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bore rule, and their stature was
exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of
their branches.
19:12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind
dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
19:13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
19:14 And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that
there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for
a lamentation.
20:1 And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the
month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.
20:3 Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Is it to inquire of me that ye are come? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will
not be inquired of by you.
20:4 Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Cause them to know the
abominations of their fathers;
20:5 and say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when I chose Israel, and
swore to the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known to them in the land of
Egypt, when I swore to them, saying, I am Yahweh your God;
20:6 in that day I swore to them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land
that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all
lands.
20:7 And I said to them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile
not yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.
20:8 But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken to me; they did not every man
cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt.
Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them
in the midst of the land of Egypt.
20:9 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the
nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in
bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.
20:10 So I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the
wilderness.
20:11 And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my ordinances, which if a man do,
he shall live in them.
20:12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that
they might know that I am Yahweh that sanctifies them.
20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in
my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them;
and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon
them in the wilderness, to consume them.
20:14 But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the
nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
20:15 Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into
the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all
lands;
20:16 because they rejected my ordinances, and walked not in my statutes, and profaned
my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
20:17 Nevertheless my eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a
full end of them in the wilderness.
20:18 And I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your
fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
20:19 I am Yahweh your God: walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do
them;
20:20 and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may
20:21 But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept
my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my
sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger
against them in the wilderness.
20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should
not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.
20:23 Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the
nations, and disperse them through the countries;
20:24 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and
had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
20:25 Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which
they should not live;
20:26 and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire
all that opens the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might
20:27 Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and say to them, Thus says the
Lord Yahweh: In this moreover have your fathers blasphemed me, in that they have
committed a trespass against me.
20:28 For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then
they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and
there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet
savor, and they poured out there their drink offerings.
20:29 Then I said to them, What means the high place whereto ye go? So the name
thereof is called Bamah to this day.
20:30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Do ye pollute
yourselves after the manner of your fathers? and play ye the harlot after their
abominations?
20:31 and when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, do
ye pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you,
O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you;
20:32 and that which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that ye say, We will be
as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
20:33 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely with a mighty hand, and with an
outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be king over you:
20:34 and I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries
in which ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with
wrath poured out;
20:35 and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into
judgment with you face to face.
20:36 Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of
Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, says the Lord Yahweh.
20:37 And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the
covenant;
20:38 and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against
me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter
into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am Yahweh.
20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Go ye, serve every one
his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken to me; but my holy name shall ye no
more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.
20:40 For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, says the Lord
Yahweh, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them, serve me in the land: there will I
accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the first-fruits of your oblations,
with all your holy things.
20:41 As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and
gather you out of the countries in which ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in
you in the sight of the nations.
20:42 And ye shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel,
into the country which I swore to give to your fathers.
20:43 And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, in which ye have
polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils
that ye have committed.
20:44 And ye shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have dealt with you for my name's
sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house
of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
20:46 Son of man, set your face toward the south, and drop your word toward the south,
and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;
20:47 and say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus says the Lord
Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you,
and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south
to the north shall be burnt thereby.
20:48 And all flesh shall see that I, Yahweh, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.
20:49 Then said I, ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?
21:2 Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and drop your word toward the
sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;
21:3 and say to the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will
draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the
wicked.
21:4 Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall
my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:
21:5 and all flesh shall know that I, Yahweh, have drawn forth my sword out of its
sheath; it shall not return any more.
21:6 Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your loins and with bitterness
shall you sigh before their eyes.
21:7 And it shall be, when they say to you, Why do you sigh? that you shall say,
Because of the tidings, for it comes; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be
feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it comes,
and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh.
21:9 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says Yahweh: Say, a sword, a sword, it is
sharpened, and also furbished;
21:10 it is sharpened that it may make a slaughter; it is furbished that it may be as
lightning: shall we then make mirth? the rod of my son, it despises every tree.
21:11 And it is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened,
yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.
21:12 Cry and wail, son of man; for it is upon my people, it is upon all the princes of
Israel: they are delivered over to the sword with my people; smite therefore upon your
thigh.
21:13 For there is a trial; and what if even the rod that despises shall be no more? says
the Lord Yahweh.
21:14 You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite your hands together; and let the
sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the
great one that is deadly wounded, whichenters into their chambers.
21:15 I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt,
and their stumblings be multiplied: ah! it is made as lightning, it is pointed for slaughter.
21:16 Gather you together, go to the right, set yourself in array, go to the left, wherever
your face is set.
21:17 I will also smite my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest: I, Yahweh,
have spoken it.
21:18 The word of Yahweh came to me again, saying,
21:19 Also, you son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon
may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out
at the head of the way to the city.
21:20 You shall appoint a way for the sword to come to Rabbah of the children of
Ammon, and to Judah in Jerusalem the fortified.
21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two
ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he
looked in the liver.
21:22 In his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to open the
mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the
gates, to cast up mounds, to build forts.
21:23 And it shall be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to
them; but he brings iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.
21:24 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because ye have made your iniquity to be
remembered, in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that in all your doings your
sins do appear; because that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the
hand.
21:25 And you, O deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day is come,
in the time of the iniquity of the end,
21:26 thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the mitre, and take off the crown; this shall be
no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
21:27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come
whose right it is; and I will give it him.
21:28 And you, son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning
the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say you, a sword, a sword is
drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
21:29 while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies to you, to lay you upon
the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the
iniquity of the end.
21:30 Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land
of your birth, will I judge you.
21:31 And I will pour out my indignation upon you; I will blow upon you with the fire of
my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.
21:32 You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you
shall be no more remembered: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
22:2 And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? then cause
her to know all her abominations.
22:3 And you shall say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: A city that sheds blood in the midst
of her, that her time may come, and that makes idols against herself to defile her!
22:4 You are become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your
idols which you have made; and you have caused your days to draw near, and are come
even to your years: therefore have I made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to
all the countries.
22:5 Those that are near, and those that are far from you, shall mock you, you infamous
one and full of tumult.
22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in you to
shed blood.
22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt
by oppression with the sojourner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
22:8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my sabbaths.
22:9 Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood; and in you they have eaten upon
the mountains: in the midst of you they have committed lewdness.
22:10 In you have they uncovered their fathers' nakedness; in you have they humbled her
that was unclean in her impurity.
22:11 And one has committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another has
lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in you has humbled his sister, his father's
daughter.
22:12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase,
and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,
says the Lord Yahweh.
22:13 Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at your dishonest gain which you have
made, and at your blood which has been in the midst of you.
22:14 Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal
with you? I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and will do it.
22:15 And I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries;
and I will consume your filthiness out of you.
22:16 And you shall be profaned in yourself, in the sight of the nations; and you shall
22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross to me: all of them are brass and tin
and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.
22:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because ye are all become dross, therefore,
behold, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
22:20 As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the
furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my
wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
22:21 Yes, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and ye shall
be melted in the midst thereof.
22:22 As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst
thereof; and ye shall know that I, Yahweh, have poured out my wrath upon you.
22:24 Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the
day of indignation.
22:25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion
ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they
have made her widows many in the midst thereof.
22:26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they
have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused
men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my
sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
22:27 Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood,
and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
22:28 And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing false
visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, when Yahweh has
not spoken.
22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have
vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the sojourner wrongfully.
22:30 And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the
gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
22:31 Therefore have I poured out my indignation upon them; I have consumed them
with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon their heads, says the Lord
Yahweh.
23:1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,
23:2 Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:
23:3 and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were
their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
23:4 And the names of them were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister: and they
became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. And as for their names, Samaria is
Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
23:5 And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on
the Assyrians her neighbors,
23:6 who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men,
horsemen riding upon horses.
23:7 And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of
them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
23:8 Neither has she left her whoredoms since the days of Egypt; for in her youth they lay
with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their
whoredom upon her.
23:9 Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians,
upon whom she doted.
23:10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they
slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed
judgments upon her.
23:11 And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she,
and in her whoredoms which were more than the whoredoms of her sister.
23:12 She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most
gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.
23:13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took one way.
23:14 And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the
images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
23:15 girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of
them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of
their nativity.
23:16 And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers to them
into Chaldea.
23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with
their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
23:18 So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was
alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, remembering the days of her youth, in which
she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
23:20 And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and
whose issue is like the issue of horses.
23:21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, in the handling of
your bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of your youth.
23:22 Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up your
lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you
on every side:
23:23 the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the
Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and
men of renown, all of them riding upon horses.
23:24 And they shall come against you with weapons, chariots, and wagons, and with a
company of peoples; they shall set themselves against you with buckler and shield and
helmet round about; and I will commit the judgment to them, and they shall judge you
according to their judgments.
23:25 And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they
shall take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they
shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.
23:26 They shall also strip you of your clothes, and take away your fair jewels.
23:27 Thus will I make your lewdness to cease from you, and your whoredom brought
from the land of Egypt; so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them, nor remember
Egypt any more.
23:28 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will deliver you into the hand of them
whom you hate, into the hand of them from whom your soul is alienated;
23:29 and they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take away all your labor, and shall
leave you naked and bare; and the nakedness of your whoredoms shall be uncovered,
both your lewdness and your whoredoms.
23:30 These things shall be done to you, for that you have played the harlot after the
nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.
23:31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give her cup into your
hand.
23:32 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You shall drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and
large; you shall be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it contains much.
23:33 You shall be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and
desolation, with the cup of your sister Samaria.
23:34 You shall even drink it and drain it out, and you shall gnaw the sherds thereof, and
shall tear your breasts; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
23:35 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have forgotten me, and cast me
behind your back, therefore bear you also your lewdness and your whoredoms.
23:36 Yahweh said moreover to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah?
then declare to them their abominations.
23:37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols
have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bore to
me, to pass through the fire to them to be devoured.
23:38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same
day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
23:39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day
into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
23:40 And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from far, to whom a messenger
was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom you did wash yourself, paint your eyes, and deck
yourself with ornaments,
23:41 and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you did set
my incense and my oil.
23:42 And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the
common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon
the hands of them twain, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.
23:43 Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the harlot with her,
and she with them.
23:44 And they went in to her, as they go in to a harlot: so went they in to Oholah and to
Oholibah, the lewd women.
23:45 And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and
with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is
in their hands.
23:46 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will bring up a company against them, and will
give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.
23:47 And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their
swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
23:48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught
not to do after your lewdness.
23:49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of
your idols; and ye shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
24:1 Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word
of Yahweh came to me, saying,
24:2 Son of man, write you the name of the day, even of this selfsame day: the king of
Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this selfsame day.
24:3 And utter a parable to the rebellious house, and say to them, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh, Set on the caldron, set it on, and also pour water into it:
24:4 gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder;
fill it with the choice bones.
24:5 Take the choice of the flock, and also a pile of wood for the bones under the
caldron; make it boil well; yes, let the bones thereof be boiled in the midst of it.
24:6 Wherefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose
rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot
is fallen upon it.
24:7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not
upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
24:8 That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the
bare rock, that it should not be covered.
24:9 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the
pile great.
24:10 Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth,
and let the bones be burned.
24:11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that it may be hot, and the brass thereof
may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the rust of it may be
consumed.
24:12 She has wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust goes not forth out of her; her
rust goes not forth by fire.
24:13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you were not
cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, till I have caused my
wrath toward you to rest.
24:14 I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it: I will not go back,
neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your
doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.
24:15 Also the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
24:16 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet
you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.
24:17 Sigh, but not aloud, make no mourning for the dead; bind your headtire upon you,
and put your shoes upon your feet, and cover not your lips, and eat not the bread of men.
24:18 So I spoke to the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the
morning as I was commanded.
24:19 And the people said to me, Will you not tell us what these things are to us, that you
do so?
24:20 Then I said to them, The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
24:21 Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane
my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul
pities; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the
sword.
24:22 And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of
men.
24:23 And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall
not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward
another.
24:24 Thus shall Ezekiel be to you a sign; according to all that he has done shall ye do:
when this comes, then shall ye know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
24:25 And you, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their
strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their
heart, their sons and their daughters,
24:26 that in that day he that escapes shall come to you, to cause you to hear it with your
ears?
24:27 In that day shall your mouth be opened to him that is escaped, and you shall speak,
and be no more dumb: so shall you be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am
Yahweh.
25:2 Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against
them:
25:3 and say to the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says
the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned;
and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah,
when they went into captivity:
25:4 therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession, and
they shall set their encampments in you, and make their dwellings in you; they shall eat
your fruit, and they shall drink your milk.
25:5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a
couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Yahweh.
25:6 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped
with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against the land of Israel;
25:7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon you, and will deliver you for a
spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish
out of the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
25:8 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house
of Judah is like to all the nations;
25:9 therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which
are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim,
25:10 to the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I will give
them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the
nations.
25:11 and I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
25:12 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because that Edom has dealt against the house of
Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them;
25:13 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and
will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even to
Dedan shall they fall by the sword.
25:14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel; and they
shall do in Edom according to my anger and according to my wrath; and they shall know
my vengeance, says the Lord Yahweh.
25:15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and
have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity;
25:16 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the
Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with wrathful rebukes; and they
shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
26:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word
of Yahweh came to me, saying,
26:2 Son of man, because that Tyre has said against Jerusalem, aha, she is broken that
was the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is
laid waste:
26:3 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will
cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.
26:4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also
scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
26:5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have
spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.
26:6 And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall
26:7 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with
horsemen, and a company, and much people.
26:8 He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall make forts
against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.
26:9 And he shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall
break down your towers.
26:10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you: your walls
shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he
shall enter into your gates, as men enter into a city in which is made a breach.
26:11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall slay your
people with the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.
26:12 And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise;
and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall
lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the waters.
26:13 And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall
be no more heard.
26:14 And I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you
shall be built no more: for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
26:15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of your
fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
26:16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside
their robes, and strip off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with
trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be
astonished at you.
26:17 And they shall take up a lamentation over you, and say to you, How are you
destroyed, that were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that was strong in the
sea, she and her inhabitants, that caused their terror to be on all that dwelt there!
26:18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea
shall be dismayed at your departure.
26:19 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the
cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon you, and the great waters
shall cover you;
26:20 then will I bring you down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old
time, and will make you to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are
desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set
glory in the land of the living:
26:21 I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; though you be
sought for, yet shall you never be found again, says the Lord Yahweh.
27:2 And you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;
27:3 and say to Tyre, O you that dwell at the entry of the sea, that are the merchant of the
peoples to many isles, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, O Tyre, have said, I am perfect
in beauty.
27:4 Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders have perfected your beauty.
27:5 They have made all your planks of fir-trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from
Lebanon to make a mast for you.
27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made your oars; they have made your benches of
ivory inlaid in boxwood, from the isles of Kittim.
27:7 Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was your sail, that it might be to you
for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was your awning.
27:8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, O Tyre, were
in you, they were your pilots.
27:9 The old men of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in you your calkers: all the
ships of the sea with their mariners were in you to deal in your merchandise.
27:10 Persia and Lud and Put46 were in your army, your men of war: they hanged the
shield and helmet in you; they set forth your comeliness.
27:11 The men of Arvad with your army were upon your walls round about, and valorous
men were in your towers; they hanged their shields upon your walls round about; they
have perfected your beauty.
27:12 Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with
silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.
27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traffickers; they traded the persons of
men and vessels of brass for your merchandise.
27:14 They of the house of Togarmah traded for your wares with horses and war-horses
and mules.
27:15 The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many isles were the mart of your hand:
they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.
27:16 Syria was your merchant by reason of the multitude of your handiworks: they
traded for your wares with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and
coral, and rubies.
27:17 Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers: they traded for your
merchandise wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
27:18 Damascus was your merchant for the multitude of your handiworks, by reason of
the multitude of all kinds of riches, with the wine of Helbon, and white wool.
27:19 Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares: bright iron, cassia, and calamus,
were among your merchandise.
27:20 Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they were the merchants of your hand; in
lambs, and rams, and goats, in these were they your merchants.
27:22 The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they traded for
your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
27:23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, asshur and Chilmad, were
your traffickers.
27:24 These were your traffickers in choice wares, in wrappings of blue and broidered
work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords and made of cedar, among your
merchandise.
27:25 The ships of Tarshish were your caravans for your merchandise: and you were
replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.
27:26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in
the heart of the seas.
27:27 Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots,
your calkers, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, that are in
46
Lud means Turkey, and Put means north Africa- Libya, Algreria, Tunisia, Morocco
you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the
seas in the day of your ruin.
27:28 At the sound of the cry of your pilots the suburbs shall shake.
27:29 And all that handled the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come
down from their ships; they shall stand upon the land,
27:30 and shall cause their voice to be heard over you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall
cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
27:31 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and
they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
27:32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you,
saying, Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?
27:33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples; you did
enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.
27:34 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your
merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.
27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at you, and their kings are horribly
afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.
27:36 The merchants among the peoples hiss at you; you are become a terror, and you
shall nevermore have any being.
28:2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your
heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of
the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of
God;-
28:3 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;
28:4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have
gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
28:5 by your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your
heart is lifted up because of your riches;-
28:6 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart
of God,
28:7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the terrible of the nations; and
they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your
brightness.
28:8 They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of them that are
slain, in the heart of the seas.
28:9 Will you yet say before him that slays you, I am God? but you are man, and not
God, in the hand of him that wounds you.
28:10 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have
spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says
the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the
sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the
emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes
was in you; in the day that you were created they were prepared.
28:14 You were the anointed cherub that covers: and I set you, so that you were upon the
holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
28:15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till
unrighteousness was found in you.
28:16 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and
you have sinned: therefore have I cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I
have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
28:17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom
by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings,
that they may behold you.
28:18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have
profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it
has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them
that behold you.
28:19 All they that know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you are
become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being.
28:21 Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,
28:22 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon; and I will
be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have
executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
28:23 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded
shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh.
28:24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting
thorn of any that are round about them, that did despite to them; and they shall know that
I am the Lord Yahweh.
28:25 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from
the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of
the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.
28:26 And they shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant
vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon all those that
do them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
29:1 In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of
Yahweh came to me, saying,
29:2 Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him,
and against all Egypt;
29:3 speak, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king
of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, My river is
my own, and I have made it for myself.
29:4 And I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will cause the fish of your rivers to stick to
your scales; and I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, with all the fish of
your rivers which stick to your scales.
29:5 And I will cast you forth into the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers: you
shall fall upon the open field; you shall not be brought together, nor gathered; I have
given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the heavens.
29:6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Yahweh, because they have
been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
29:7 When they took hold of you by your hand, you did break, and did rend all their
shoulders; and when they leaned upon you, you broke, and made all their loins to be at a
stand.
29:8 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring a sword upon you, and
will cut off from you man and beast.
29:9 And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I
am Yahweh. Because he has said, The river is my, and I have made it;
29:10 therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the
land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border
of Ethiopia.
29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither
shall it be inhabited forty years.
29:12 And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of the countries that are
desolate; and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be a desolation forty
years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through
the countries.
29:13 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: At the end of forty years will I gather the
Egyptians from the peoples whither they were scattered;
29:14 and I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the
land of Pathros, into the land of their birth; and they shall be there a base kingdom.
29:15 It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it any more lift itself up above
the nations: and I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.
29:16 And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to
remembrance, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord
Yahweh.
29:17 And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first
day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
29:18 Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great
service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he
no wages, nor his army, from Tyre, for the service that he had served against it.
29:19 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to
Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off her multitude, and take her spoil,
and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
29:20 I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because
they wrought for me, says the Lord Yahweh.
29:21 In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give
you the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am
Yahweh.
30:2 Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Wail ye, alas for the
day!
30:3 For the day is near, even the day of Yahweh is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a
time of the nations.
30:4 And a sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Ethiopia, when the
slain shall fall in Egypt; and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall
be broken down.
30:5 Ethiopia, and Put,47 and Lud,48 and all the mingled people, and Cub, and the
children of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.
30:6 Thus says Yahweh: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her
power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, says
the Lord Yahweh.
30:7 And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her
cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.
30:8 And they shall know at I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her
helpers are destroyed.
30:9 In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless
Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish upon them, as in the day of Egypt; for, lo, it
comes.
30:10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by
the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought in to
destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the
slain.
30:12 And I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and
I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh,
have spoken it.
30:13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the
images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of
Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
30:14 And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute
judgments upon No.
30:15 And I will pour my wrath upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the
multitude of No.
30:16 And I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken
up; and Memphis shall have adversaries in the day-time.
30:17 The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities
shall go into captivity.
47
Put means Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco
48
Lud means Turkey.
30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall withdraw itself, when I shall break there the
yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: as for her, a cloud shall
cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.
30:19 Thus will I execute judgments upon Egypt; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
30:20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of
the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
30:21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it has not
been bound up, to apply healing medicines, to put a bandage to bind it, that it be strong to
hold the sword.
30:22 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken; and I will cause the
sword to fall out of his hand.
30:23 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through
the countries.
30:24 And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his
hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the
groanings of a deadly wounded man.
30:25 And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall
fall down; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall put my sword into the
hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.
30:26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the
countries; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
31:1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the
month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
31:2 Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like
in your greatness?
31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-
like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
31:4 The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran round about
its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
31:5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were
multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot them
forth.
31:6 All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches
did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great
nations.
31:7 Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by
many waters.
31:8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its
boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of
God like to it in its beauty.
31:9 I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were
in the garden of God, envied it.
31:10 Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he
has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
31:11 I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall
surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.
31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon
the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by
all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his
shadow, and have left him.
31:13 Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field
shall be upon his branches;
31:14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature,
neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their
height, even all that drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the nether parts of
the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
31:15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a
mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof; and the great
waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field
fainted for him.
31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol
with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of
Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
31:17 They also went down into Sheol with him to them that are slain by the sword; yes,
they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.
31:18 To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet
shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth: you
shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is
Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
32:1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the
month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, You
were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you
did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their
rivers.
32:3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net upon you with a company of
many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.
32:4 And I will leave you upon the land, I will cast you forth upon the open field, and
will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle upon you, and I will satisfy the beasts of
the whole earth with you.
32:5 And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
32:6 I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the
mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.
32:7 And when I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars
thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
32:8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon
your land, says the Lord Yahweh.
32:9 I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction
among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
32:10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings shall be horribly
afraid for you, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at
every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.
32:11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon
you.
32:12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall; the terrible of the
nations are they all: and they shall bring to nought the pride of Egypt, and all the
multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
32:13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside many waters; neither shall the
foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
32:14 Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, says the
Lord Yahweh.
32:15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that
whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know
that I am Yahweh.
32:16 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament; the daughters of the nations
shall lament using it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament with it,
says the Lord Yahweh.
32:17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the
word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
32:18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the
daughters of the famous nations, to the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down
into the pit.
32:19 Whom do you pass in beauty? go down, and be you laid with the uncircumcised.
32:20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to
the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.
32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with
them that help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by
the sword.
32:22 Asshur49 is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them
slain, fallen by the sword;
32:23 whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round
about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of
the living.
32:24 There is Elam50 and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain,
fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth,
who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with them
that go down to the pit.
32:25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves
are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was
caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down
to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain.
32:26 There is Meshech, Tubal,51 and all their multitude; their graves are round about
them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the
land of the living.
32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are
gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their
heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in
the land of the living.
32:28 But you shall be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shall lie with them
that are slain by the sword.
32:29 There is Edom,52 her kings and all her princes, who in their might are laid with
them that are slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that
go down to the pit.
32:30 There are the princes of the north,53 all of them, and all the Sidonians, 54 who are
gone down with the slain; in the terror which they caused by their might they are put to
shame; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their
shame with them that go down to the pit.
32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even
Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, says the Lord Yahweh.
32:32 For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of
the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his
multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.
33:2 Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, When I bring the
sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him
for their watchman;
33:3 if, when he sees the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the
people;
33:4 then whosoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and takes not warning, if the sword
come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon
him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.
33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people
be not warned, and the sword come, and take any person from among them; he is taken
away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
33:7 So you, son of man, I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel; therefore hear
the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.
49
Ashur, or Assyria, means Syria and Iraq.
50
Elam is the country of Iran.
51
Meshech and Tubal refer to Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
52
Edom refers to Jordan and northern Arabia
53
Princes of the North means Turkey and its allies.
54
Sidon refers to Lebanon.
33:8 When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak
to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood
will I require at your hand.
33:9 Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn not from
his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but you have delivered your soul.
33:10 And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus ye speak, saying, Our
transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them; how then can we
live?
33:11 Say to them, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the
wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil
ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
33:12 And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the
righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness
of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness;
neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sins.
33:13 When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his
righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but
in his iniquity that he has committed, therein shall he die.
33:14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turn from his sin, and
do that which is lawful and right;
33:15 if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that which he had taken by robbery,
walk in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
33:16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has
done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
33:17 Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for
them, their way is not equal.
33:18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall
even die therein.
33:19 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and
right, he shall live thereby.
33:20 Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, I will judge you
every one after his ways.
33:21 And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the
fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying,
The city is smitten.
33:22 Now the hand of Yahweh had been upon me in the evening, before he that was
escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my
mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
33:24 Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying,
abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for
inheritance.
33:25 Wherefore say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and
lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
33:26 You stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his
neighbor's wife: and shall ye possess the land?
33:27 Thus shall you say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: As I live, surely they that
are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him that is in the open field will I give
to the beasts to be devoured; and they that are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die
of the pestilence.
33:28 And I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment; and the pride of her
power shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, so that none shall pass
through.
33:29 Then shall they know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation
and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.
33:30 And as for you, son of man, the children of your people talk of you by the walls
and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying,
Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that comes forth from Yahweh.
33:31 And they come to you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people,
and they hear your words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love,
but their heart goes after their gain.
33:32 And, lo, you are to them as a very lovely song of one that has a pleasant voice, and
can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they do them not.
33:33 And when this comes to pass, (behold, it comes,) then shall they know that a
prophet has been among them.
34:2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them,
even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel that
feed only themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the sheep?
34:3 You eat the fat, and you clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but
the sheep you do not feed.
34:4 The diseased you have not strengthened, neither have you healed that which was
sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back
that which was driven away, neither have you searched for that which was lost; but with
force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
34:5 And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to
all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.
34:6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yes, my
sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and there was none that did search or
seek after them.
34:7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
34:8 As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely forasmuch as my sheep became a prey, and
my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd,
neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed
not my sheep;
34:9 therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:
34:10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require
my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the
shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that
they may not be food for them.
34:11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep,
and will seek them out.
34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are
scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places
whither they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
34:13 And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries,
and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them upon the mountains of
Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
34:14 I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel
shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they
feed upon the mountains of Israel.
34:15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says
the Lord Yahweh.
34:16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away,
and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the
fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
34:17 And as for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between
sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats.
34:18 Seems it a small thing to you to have fed upon the good pasture, but ye must tread
down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters,
but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
34:19 And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they
drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
34:20 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge
between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
34:21 Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your
horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
34:22 therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge
between sheep and sheep.
34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant
David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
34:24 And I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I,
Yahweh, have spoken it.
34:25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease
out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
34:26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will
cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
34:27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase,
and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have
broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made
bondmen of them.
34:28 And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beasts of the earth
devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.
34:29 And I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more
consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.
34:30 And they shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the
house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.
34:31 And ye my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the
Lord Yahweh.
35:2 Son of man, set your face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
35:3 and say to it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, O mount Seir,
and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an
astonishment.
35:4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am
Yahweh.
35:5 Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel
to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the
end;
35:6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and blood
shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
35:7 Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off
from it him that passes through and him that returns.
35:8 And I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all
your watercourses shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
35:9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and ye
shall know that I am Yahweh.
35:10 Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine,
and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:
35:11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your anger, and
according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will
make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.
35:12 And you shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your revilings which you have
spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us
to devour.
35:13 And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have
multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.
35:14 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you
desolate.
35:15 As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was
desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all
of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
36:1 And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains
of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh.
36:2 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, aha! and, The
ancient high places are ours in possession;
36:3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because
they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a
possession to the residue of the nations, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the
evil report of the people;
36:4 therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the
Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to
the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and
derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;
36:5 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I
spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my
land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to
cast it out for a prey.
36:6 Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to
the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I
have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because ye have borne the shame of the
nations:
36:7 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: I have sworn, saying, Surely the nations that
are round about you, they shall bear their shame.
36:8 But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your
fruit to my people Israel; for they are at hand to come.
36:9 For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn into you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;
36:10 and I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it; and the
cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built;
36:11 and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful;
and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better to you
than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Yahweh.
36:12 Yes, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall
possess you, and you shall be their inheritance, and you shall no more from now on
bereave them of children.
36:13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You land are a devourer of
men, and have been a bereaver of your nation;
36:14 therefore you shall devour men no more, neither bereave your nation any more,
says the Lord Yahweh;
36:15 neither will I let you hear any more the shame of the nations, neither shall you bear
the reproach of the peoples any more, neither shall you cause your nation to stumble any
more, says the Lord Yahweh.
36:17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by
their way and by their doings: their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in
her impurity.
36:18 Wherefore I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood which they had poured
out upon the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;
36:19 and I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the
countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.
36:20 And when they came to the nations, whither they went, they profaned my holy
name; in that men said of them, These are the people of Yahweh, and are gone forth out
of his land.
36:21 But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among
the nations, whither they went.
36:22 Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I do not this for
your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which ye have profaned among the
nations, whither ye went.
36:23 And I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations,
which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am
Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
36:24 For I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all the countries,
and will bring you into your own land.
36:25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your
filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will
take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
36:27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye
shall keep my ordinances, and do them.
36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my
people, and I will be your God.
36:29 And I will save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the grain, and
will multiply it, and lay no famine upon you.
36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye may
receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
36:31 Then shall ye remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and
ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your
abominations.
36:32 Nor for your sake do I this, says the Lord Yahweh, be it known to you: be ashamed
and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.
36:33 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I
will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be built.
36:34 And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the
sight of all that passed by.
36:35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden;
and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are fortified and inhabited.
36:36 Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, Yahweh, have
built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it,
and I will do it.
36:37 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: For this, moreover, will I be inquired of by the house
of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
36:38 As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall
the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
37:1 The hand of Yahweh was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Yahweh,
and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones.
37:2 And he caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many
in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
37:3 And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord
Yahweh, you know.
37:4 Again he said to me, Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O ye dry bones,
hear the word of Yahweh.
37:5 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into
you, and ye shall live.
37:6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you
with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am Yahweh.
37:7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and,
behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
37:8 And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin
covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
37:9 Then said he to me, Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the
wind, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe
upon these slain, that they may live.
37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they
lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceedingly great army.
37:11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold,
they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
37:12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will
open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people; and I will
bring you into the land of Israel.
37:13 And ye shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have opened your graves, and caused
you to come up out of your graves, O my people.
37:14 And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own
land: and ye shall know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it, says Yahweh.
37:16 And you, son of man, take you one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the
children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph,
the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:
37:17 and join them for you one to another into one stick, that they may become one in
your hand.
37:18 And when the children of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not
show us what you mean by these?
37:19 say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph,
which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put
them with it, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one
in my hand.
37:20 And the sticks whereon you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
37:21 And say to them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will take the children of
Israel from among the nations, whither they are gone, and will gather them on every side,
and bring them into their own land:
37:22 and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one
king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be
divided into two kingdoms any more at all;
37:23 neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their
detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their
dwelling-places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my
people, and I will be their God.
37:24 And my servant David shall be king over them; and they all shall have one
shepherd: they shall also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
37:25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, in which
your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their
children's children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.
37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting
covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary
in the midst of them for evermore.
37:27 My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be
my people.
37:28 And the nations shall know that I am Yahweh that sanctifies Israel, when my
sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
38:2 Son of man, set your face toward Gog,55 of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh,
Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
38:3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of
Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
38:4 and I will turn you about, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you forth,
and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great
company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;
38:5 Persia, Cush, and Put56 with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
38:6 Gomer,57 and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the
north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with you.
38:7 Be you prepared, yes, prepare yourself, you, and all your companies that are
assembled to you, and be you a guard to them.
38:8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land
that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the
mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the
peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.
38:9 And you shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover
the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
55
Gog, Magog, Rosh, Meshech, Tubal, are all places in Turkey.
56
Cush refers to Sudan, Somalia, and Put refers to Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia.
57
Gomer and Togarmah are places in Turkey, or allied with Turkey; possibly as far east and north as the former
Soviet Republics that are Islamic such as Turkmenistan, etc.
38:10 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall
come into your mind, and you shall devise an evil device:
38:11 and you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them
that are at rest, that dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither
bars nor gates;
38:12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places
that are now inhabited, and against the people that are gathered out of the nations, that
have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the middle of the earth.
38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof,
shall say to you, are you come to take the spoil? have you assembled your company to
take the prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great
spoil?
38:14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In
that day when my people Israel dwells securely, shall you not know it?
38:15 And you shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you,
and many peoples with you, all of them riding upon horses, a great company and a
mighty army;
38:16 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it
shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations
may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, O Gog, before their eyes.
38:17 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my
servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in those days for many years that I would
bring you against them?
38:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of
Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.
38:19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day
there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
38:20 so that the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the heavens, and the beasts of the field,
and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of
the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the
steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
38:21 And I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh:
every man's sword shall be against his brother.
38:22 And with pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will
rain upon him, and upon his hordes, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an
overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
38:23 And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in
the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
39:1 And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
39:2 and I will turn you about, and will lead you on, and will cause you to come up from
the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring you upon the mountains of Israel;
39:3 and I will smite your bow out of your left hand, and will cause your arrows to fall
out of your right hand.
39:4 You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the
peoples that are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the
beasts of the field to be devoured.
39:5 You shall fall upon the open field; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and on them that dwell securely in the isles; and
they shall know that I am Yahweh.
39:7 And my holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will
I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am
Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
39:8 Behold, it comes, and it shall be done, says the Lord Yahweh; this is the day
whereof I have spoken.
39:9 And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the
weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and
the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;
39:10 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the
forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those that
plundered them, and rob those that robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.
39:11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in
Israel, the valley of them that pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop them
that pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call
it The valley of Hamon-gog.
39:12 And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse
the land.
39:13 Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in
the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Yahweh.
39:14 And they shall set apart men of continual employment, that shall pass through the
land, and, with them that pass through, those that bury them that remain upon the face of
the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
39:15 And they that pass through the land shall pass through; and when any one sees a
man's bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, till the buriers have buried it in the valley of
Hamon-gog.
39:16 And Hamonah shall also be the name of a city. Thus shall they cleanse the land.
39:17 And you, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Speak to the birds of every sort,
and to every beast of the field, assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on
every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice upon the
mountains of Israel, that ye may eat flesh and drink blood.
39:18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the
earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
39:19 And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my
sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.
39:20 And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and
with all men of war, says the Lord Yahweh.
39:21 And I will set my glory among the nations; and all the nations shall see my
judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them.
39:22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am Yahweh their God, from that day and
forward.
39:23 And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their
iniquity; because they trespassed against me, and I hid my face from them: so I gave
them into the hand of their adversaries, and they fell all of them by the sword.
39:24 According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them;
and I hid my face from them.
39:25 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now will I bring back the captivity of
Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy
name.
39:26 And they shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have
trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make
them afraid;
39:27 when I have brought them back from the peoples, and gathered them out of their
enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations.
39:28 And they shall know that I am Yahweh their God, in that I caused them to go into
captivity among the nations, and have gathered them to their own land; and I will leave
none of them any more there;
39:29 neither will I hide my face any more from them; for I have poured out my Spirit
upon the house of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh.
40:1 In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the
tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the
selfsame day, the hand of Yahweh was upon me, and he brought me there.
40:2 In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down upon a
very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.
40:3 And he brought me there; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like
the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he
stood in the gate.
40:4 And the man said to me, Son of man, behold with your eyes, and hear with your
ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show
them to you, are you brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
40:5 And, behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a
measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the
thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
40:6 Then came he to the gate which looks toward the east, and went up the steps thereof:
and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one
reed broad.
40:7 And every lodge was one reed long, and one reed broad; and the space between the
lodges was five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate toward the
house was one reed.
40:8 He measured also the porch of the gate toward the house, one reed.
40:9 Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two
cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.
40:10 And the lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side;
they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that
side.
40:11 And he measured the breadth of the opening of the gate, ten cubits; and the length
of the gate, thirteen cubits;
40:12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on
that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
40:13 And he measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a
breadth of five and twenty cubits; door against door.
40:14 He made also posts, sixty cubits; and the court reached to the posts, round about
the gate.
40:15 And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance to the forefront of the inner porch
of the gate were fifty cubits.
40:16 And there were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate
round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and upon
each post were palm-trees.
40:17 Then brought he me into the outer court; and, lo, there were chambers and a
pavement, made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement.
40:18 And the pavement was by the side of the gates, answerable to the length of the
gates, even the lower pavement.
40:19 Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate to the forefront
of the inner court without, a hundred cubits, both on the east and on the north.
40:20 And the gate of the outer court whose prospect is toward the north, he measured
the length thereof and the breadth thereof.
40:21 And the lodges thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts
thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof
was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
40:22 And the windows thereof, and the arches thereof, and the palm-trees thereof, were
after the measure of the gate whose prospect is toward the east; and they went up to it by
seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them.
40:23 And there was a gate to the inner court over against the other gate, both on the
north and on the east; and he measured from gate to gate a hundred cubits.
40:24 And he led me toward the south; and, behold, a gate toward the south: and he
measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.
40:25 And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those
windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.
40:26 And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them;
and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.
40:27 And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south: and he measured from
gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
40:28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south
gate according to these measures;
40:29 and the lodges thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to
these measures: and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about; it
was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
40:30 And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits
broad.
40:31 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the
posts thereof: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
40:32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate
according to these measures;
40:33 and the lodges thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to
these measures: and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about; it
was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
40:34 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the
posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
40:35 And he brought me to the north gate: and he measured it according to these
measures;
40:36 the lodges thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof: and there were
windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty
cubits.
40:37 And the posts thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the
posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
40:38 And a chamber with the door thereof was by the posts at the gates; there they
washed the burnt offering.
40:39 And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that
side, to slay upon it the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.
40:40 And on the one side without, as one goes up to the entry of the gate toward the
north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate,
were two tables.
40:41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate;
eight tables, whereupon they slew the sacrifices.
40:42 And there were four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half
long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the
instruments with which they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
40:43 And the hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within round about: and upon
the tables was the flesh of the oblation.
40:44 And without the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, which
was at the side of the north gate; and their prospect was toward the south; one at the side
of the east gate having the prospect toward the north.
40:45 And he said to me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the
priests, the keepers of the charge of the house;
40:46 and the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers
of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, who from among the sons of Levi
come near to Yahweh to minister to him.
40:47 And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad,
foursquare; and the altar was before the house.
40:48 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the
porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was
three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.
40:49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven cubits; even by
the steps whereby they went up to it: and there were pillars by the posts, one on this side,
and another on that side.
41:1 And he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the
one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.
41:2 And the breadth of the entrance was ten cubits; and the sides of the entrance were
five cubits on the one side, and five cubits on the other side: and he measured the length
thereof, forty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits.
41:3 Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the
entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.
41:4 And he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits,
before the temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.
41:5 Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-
chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
41:6 And the side-chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order;
and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round
about, that they might have hold therein, and not have hold in the wall of the house.
41:7 And the side-chambers were broader as they encompassed the house higher and
higher; for the encompassing of the house went higher and higher round about the house:
therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest
chamber to the highest by the middle chamber.
41:8 I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the
side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
41:9 The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five
cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the
house.
41:10 And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house
on every side.
41:11 And the doors of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left, one door
toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was
left was five cubits round about.
41:12 And the building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was
seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and
the length thereof ninety cubits.
41:13 So he measured the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the
building, with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long;
41:14 also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east,
a hundred cubits.
41:15 And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at
the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred
cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;
41:16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three
stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up
to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
41:17 to the space above the door, even to the inner house, and without, and by all the
wall round about within and without, by measure.
41:18 And it was made with cherubim and palm-trees; and a palm-tree was between
cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces;
41:19 so that there was the face of a man toward the palm-tree on the one side, and the
face of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side. thus was it made through
all the house round about:
41:20 from the ground to above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made: thus was
the wall of the temple.
41:21 As for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary,
the appearance of it was as the appearance of the temple.
41:22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the
corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said
to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh.
41:23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
41:24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves: two leaves for the one
door, and two leaves for the other.
41:25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm-
trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there was a threshold of wood upon the face
of the porch without.
41:26 And there were closed windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other
side, on the sides of the porch: thus were the side-chambers of the house, and the
thresholds.
42:1 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he
brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was
over against the building toward the north.
42:2 Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty
cubits.
42:3 Over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against
the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third
story.
42:4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits' breadth inward, a way of one
cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
42:5 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more
than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
42:6 For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts:
therefore the uppermost was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the
ground.
42:7 And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court
before the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
42:8 For the length of the chambers that were in the outer court was fifty cubits: and, lo,
before the temple were a hundred cubits.
42:9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goes into them
from the outer court.
42:10 In the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place,
and before the building, there were chambers.
42:11 And the way before them was like the appearance of the way of the chambers
which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their
egresses were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
42:12 And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door
at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as oneenters
into them.
42:13 Then said he to me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before
the separate place, they are the holy chambers, where the priests that are near to Yahweh
shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meal
offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.
42:14 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer
court, but there they shall lay their garments in which they minister; for they are holy:
and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertains to the
people.
42:15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth
by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
42:16 He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds, with the
measuring reed round about.
42:17 He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round
about.
42:18 He measured on the south side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
42:19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the
measuring reed.
42:20 He measured it on the four sides: it had a wall round about, the length five
hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy
and that which was common.
43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looks toward the east.
43:2 And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his
voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.
43:3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to
the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision
that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.
43:4 And the glory of Yahweh came into the house by the way of the gate whose
prospect is toward the east.
43:5 And the Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the
glory of Yahweh filled the house.
43:6 And I heard one speaking to me out of the house; and a man stood by me.
43:7 And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the
soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. And
the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by
their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;
43:8 in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside my
door-post, and there was but the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my
holy name by their abominations which they have committed: therefore I have consumed
them in my anger.
43:9 Now let them put away their whoredom, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from
me; and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
43:10 You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed
of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
43:11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the form
of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the egresses thereof, and the entrances thereof,
and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all
the laws thereof; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form thereof,
and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
43:12 This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof
round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
43:13 And these are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a
handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof
by the edge thereof round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
43:14 And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and
the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits,
and the breadth a cubit.
43:15 And the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there
shall be four horns.
43:16 And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four
sides thereof.
43:17 And the ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen broad in the four sides
thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a
cubit round about; and the steps thereof shall look toward the east.
43:18 And he said to me, Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: These are the
ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings upon it,
and to sprinkle blood upon it.
43:19 You shall give to the priests the Levites that are of the seed of Zadok, who are near
to me, to minister to me, says the Lord Yahweh, a young bullock for a sin offering.
43:20 And you shall take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on
the four corners of the ledge, and upon the border round about: thus shall you cleanse it
and make atonement for it.
43:21 You shall also take the bullock of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the
appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.
43:22 And on the second day you shall offer a he-goat without blemish for a sin offering;
and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.
43:23 When you have made an end of cleansing it, you shall offer a young bullock
without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.
43:24 And you shall bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests shall cast salt upon
them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
43:25 Seven days shall you prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also
prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.
43:26 Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they
consecrate it.
43:27 And when they have accomplished the days, it shall be that upon the eighth day,
and forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace
offerings; and I will accept you, says the Lord Yahweh.
44:1 Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks
toward the east; and it was shut.
44:2 And Yahweh said to me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall
any man enter in by it; for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered in by it; therefore it
shall be shut.
44:3 As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Yahweh; he shall
enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.
44:4 Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked,
and, behold, the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh: and I fell upon my face.
44:5 And Yahweh said to me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with your eyes, and
hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the ordinances of the house of
Yahweh, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every
egress of the sanctuary.
44:6 And you shall say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,
44:7 in that ye have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in
flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the
fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.
44:8 And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keepers of my
charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
44:9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and
uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners that are among
44:10 But the Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that went astray
from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
44:11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the
house, and ministering in the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for
the people, and they shall stand before them to minister to them.
44:12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumblingblock
of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says
the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.
44:13 And they shall not come near to me, to execute the office of priest to me, nor to
come near to any of my holy things, to the things that are most holy; but they shall bear
their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.
44:14 Yet will I make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof,
and for all that shall be done therein.
44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary
when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister
to me; and they shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord
Yahweh:
44:16 they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to
minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.
44:17 And it shall be that, when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be
clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, while they minister in
the gates of the inner court, and within.
44:18 They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon
their loins; they shall not gird themselves with anything that causes sweat.
44:19 And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people,
they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy
chambers; and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with
their garments.
44:20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall
only cut off the hair of their heads.
44:21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
44:22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they
shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a
priest.
44:23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common,
and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
44:24 And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall
they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and
they shall hallow my sabbaths.
44:25 And they shall go in to no dead person to defile themselves; but for father, or for
mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that has had no husband, they
may defile themselves.
44:26 And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon to him seven days.
44:27 And in the day that he goes into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in
the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, says the Lord Yahweh.
44:28 And they shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and ye shall give them
no possession in Israel; I am their possession.
44:29 They shall eat the meal offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; and
every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.
44:30 And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every oblation of everything,
of all your oblations, shall be for the priest: ye shall also give to the priests the first of
your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on your house.
44:31 The priests shall not eat of anything that dies of itself, or is torn, whether it be bird
or beast.
45:1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an
oblation to Yahweh, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of five and
twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the
border thereof round about.
45:2 Of this there shall be for the holy place five hundred in length by five hundred in
breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits for the suburbs thereof round about.
45:3 And of this measure shall you measure a length of five and twenty thousand, and a
breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.
45:4 It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the
sanctuary, that come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses,
and a holy place for the sanctuary.
45:5 And five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be to the
Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, for twenty chambers.
45:6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and
twenty thousand long, side by side with the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the
whole house of Israel.
45:7 And whatsoever is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the
holy oblation and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy oblation and in front of
the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and
in length answerable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.
45:8 In the land it shall be to him for a possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more
oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their
tribes.
45:9 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence
and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your exactions from my
people, says the Lord Yahweh.
45:10 You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
45:11 The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth
part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be
after the homer.
45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs; twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels,
fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.
45:13 This is the oblation that ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of
wheat; and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah from a homer of barley;
45:14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor,
which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)
45:15 and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of
Israel; -for a meal offering, and for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings, to make
atonement for them, says the Lord Yahweh.
45:16 All the people of the land shall give to this oblation for the prince in Israel.
45:17 And it shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings,
and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all
the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal
offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house
of Israel.
45:18 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the first month, in the first day of the month, you
shall take a young bullock without blemish; and you shall cleanse the sanctuary.
45:19 And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the door-
posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the posts
of the gate of the inner court.
45:20 And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for every one that errs, and
for him that is simple: so shall ye make atonement for the house.
45:21 In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a
feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
45:22 And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the
land a bullock for a sin offering.
45:23 And the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven
bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a he-goat daily for a
sin offering.
45:24 And he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a
ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
45:25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the
like the seven days; according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, and
according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.
46:1 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east
shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the
day of the new moon it shall be opened.
46:2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate without, and shall
stand by the post of the gate; and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace
offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the
gate shall not be shut until the evening.
46:3 And the people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on
the sabbaths and on the new moons.
46:4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer to Yahweh shall be on the sabbath
day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;
46:5 and the meal offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and the meal offering for the
lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
46:6 And on the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and
six lambs, and a ram; they shall be without blemish:
46:7 and he shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for the bullock, and an ephah for the
ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
46:8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate,
and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
46:9 But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts,
he thatenters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the
south gate; and he thatenters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the
north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go
forth straight before him.
46:10 And the prince, when they go in, shall go in in the midst of them; and when they go
forth, they shall go forth together.
46:11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah for a
bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to
an ephah.
46:12 And when the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt offering or peace
offerings as a freewill-offering to Yahweh, one shall open for him the gate that looks
toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he does
on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the
gate.
46:13 And you shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to
Yahweh daily: morning by morning shall you prepare it.
46:14 And you shall prepare a meal offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of
an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal offering to
Yahweh continually by a perpetual ordinance.
46:15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, and the oil, morning by
morning, for a continual burnt offering.
46:16 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: If the prince give a gift to any of his sons, it is his
inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.
46:17 But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the
year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for
his sons.
46:18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance, to thrust them out of
their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my
people be not scattered every man from his possession.
46:19 Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the
holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a
place on the hinder part westward.
46:20 And he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass
offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the meal offering; that they bring
them not forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
46:21 Then he brought me forth into the outer court, and caused me to pass by the four
corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court.
46:22 In the four corners of the court there were courts inclosed, forty cubits long and
thirty broad: these four in the corners were of one measure.
46:23 And there was a wall round about in them, round about the four, and boiling-places
were made under the walls round about.
46:24 Then said he to me, These are the boiling-houses, where the ministers of the house
shall boil the sacrifice of the people.
47:1 And he brought me back to the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out
from under the threshold of the house eastward; (for the forefront of the house was
toward the east;) and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house,
on the south of the altar.
47:2 Then he brought me out by the way of the gate northward, and led me round by the
way without to the outer gate, by the way of the gate that looks toward the east; and,
behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
47:3 When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured a
thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the
ankles.
47:4 Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters
that were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through
the waters, waters that were to the loins.
47:5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass through;
for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed through.
47:6 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen this? Then he brought me, and
caused me to return to the bank of the river.
47:7 Now when I had returned, behold, upon the bank of the river were very many trees
on the one side and on the other.
47:8 Then said he to me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go
down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea shall the waters go
which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.
47:9 And it shall come to pass, that every living creature which swarms, in every place
whither the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for
these waters are come there, and the waters of the sea shall be healed, and everything
shall live wherever the river comes.
47:10 And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even to En-
eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the
fish of the great sea, exceedingly many.
47:11 But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall
be given up to salt.
47:12 And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow
every tree for food, whose leaf shall not whither, neither shall the fruit thereof fail: it shall
bring forth new fruit every month, because the waters thereof issue out of the sanctuary;
and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for healing.
47:13 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This shall be the border, whereby ye shall divide the
land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two
portions.
47:14 And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I swore to give it to your fathers:
and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.
47:15 And this shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by
the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;
47:16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the
border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
47:17 And the border from the sea, shall be Hazar-enon at the border of Damascus; and
on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
47:18 And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of
Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border to the east sea shall ye measure. This
is the east side.
47:19 And the south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of
Meriboth-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the great sea. This is the south side
southward.
47:20 And the west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as over
against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
47:21 So shall ye divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel.
47:22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and
to the strangers that sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you; and they
shall be to you as the home-born among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance
with you among the tribes of Israel.
47:23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourns, there shall ye
give him his inheritance, says the Lord Yahweh.
48:1 Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of
Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, northward
beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east and west,) Dan, one portion.
48:2 And by the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, asher, one portion.
48:3 And by the border of Asher, from the east side even to the west side, Naphtali, one
portion.
48:4 And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one
portion.
48:5 And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side to the west side, Ephraim, one
portion.
48:6 And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even to the west side, Reuben, one
portion.
48:7 And by the border of Reuben, from the east side to the west side, Judah, one portion.
48:8 And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, shall be the oblation
which ye shall offer, five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of
the portions, from the east side to the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of
it.
48:9 The oblation that ye shall offer to Yahweh shall be five and twenty thousand reeds
in length, and ten thousand in breadth.
48:10 And for these, even for the priests, shall be the holy oblation: toward the north five
and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward
the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length:
and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst thereof.
48:11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, that have kept my
charge, that went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went
astray.
48:12 And it shall be to them an oblation from the oblation of the land, a thing most holy,
by the border of the Levites.
48:13 And answerable to the border of the priests, the Levites shall have five and twenty
thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty
thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
48:14 And they shall sell none of it, nor exchange it, nor shall the first-fruits of the land
be alienated; for it is holy to Yahweh.
48:15 And the five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the five and twenty
thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs; and the city
shall be in the midst thereof.
48:16 And these shall be the measures thereof: the north side four thousand and five
hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four
thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
48:17 And the city shall have suburbs: toward the north two hundred and fifty, and
toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and
toward the west two hundred and fifty.
48:18 And the residue in the length, answerable to the holy oblation, shall be ten
thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable to the holy
oblation; and the increase thereof shall be for food to them that labor in the city.
48:19 And they that labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.
48:20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye
shall offer the holy oblation four-square, with the possession of the city.
48:21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy
oblation and of the possession of the city; in front of the five and twenty thousand of the
oblation toward the east border, and westward in front of the five and twenty thousand
toward the west border, answerable to the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy
oblation and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
48:22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city,
being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the
border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.
48:23 And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side, Benjamin, one
portion.
48:24 And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side, Simeon, one
portion.
48:25 And by the border of Simeon, from the east side to the west side, Issachar, one
portion.
48:26 And by the border of Issachar, from the east side to the west side, Zebulun, one
portion.
48:27 And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad, one
portion.
48:28 And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even
from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the great sea.
48:29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance,
and these are their several portions, says the Lord Yahweh.
48:30 And these are the egresses of the city: On the north side four thousand and five
hundred reeds by measure;
48:31 and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates
northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.
48:32 And at the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates: even the
gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.
48:33 And at the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and three
gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.
48:34 At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates: the
gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.
48:35 It shall be eighteen thousand reeds round about: and the name of the city from that
day shall be, Yahweh is there.
End of Ezekiel
The Book of the Prophet Daniel
Daniel
1:1 In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon to Jerusalem, and besieged it.
1:2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with part of the
vessels of the house of God; and he carried them into the land of Shinar to the house of
his god: and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god.
1:3 And the king spoke to Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring in
certain of the children of Israel, specifically of the royal seed and of the nobles;
1:4 youths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skilful in all wisdom, and
endued with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in
the king's palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the
Chaldeans.
1:5 And the king appointed for them a daily portion of the king's dainties, and of the wine
which he drank, and that they should be nourished three years; that at the end of them
they should stand before the king.
1:6 Now among these were, of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and
Azariah.
1:7 And the prince of the eunuchs gave names to them: to Daniel he gave the name of
Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, the name Shadrach; and to Mishael, the name Meshach;
and to Azariah, the name Abed-nego.
1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the king's
dainties, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the
eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
1:9 Now God caused Daniel to find kindness and compassion in the sight of the prince of
the eunuchs.
1:10 And the prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has
appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than
the youths that are of your own age? so would ye endanger my head with the king.
1:11 Then said Daniel to the steward whom the prince of the eunuchs had appointed over
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:
1:12 Prove your servants, I beseech you, ten days; and let them give us vegetables to eat,
and water to drink.
1:13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before you, and the countenance of the
youths that eat of the king's dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.
1:14 So he listened to them in this matter, and proved them ten days.
1:15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer, and they were fatter
in flesh, than all the youths that did eat of the king's dainties.
1:16 So the steward took away their dainties, and the wine that they should drink, and
gave them vegetables.
1:17 Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning
and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
1:18 And at the end of the days which the king had appointed for bringing them in, the
prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.
1:19 And the king communed with them; and among them all was found none like
Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.
1:20 And in every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king
inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters
that were in all his realm.
1:21 And Daniel continued even to the first year of king Cyrus.
2:1 And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed
dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
2:2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the enchanters, and the
sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood
before the king.
2:3 And the king said to them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know
the dream.
2:4 Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in the Syrian language, O king, live for ever:
tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.
2:5 The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye do not
make known to me the dream and the interpretation of it, ye shall be cut in pieces, and
your houses shall be made a dunghill.
2:6 But if ye show the dream and the interpretation of it, ye shall receive from me gifts
and rewards and great honor. Therefore show me the dream and the interpretation of it.
2:7 They answered the second time and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and
we will show the interpretation.
2:8 The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye are trying to gain time,
because ye see the thing is gone from me.
2:9 But if ye do not make known to me the dream, there is but one law for you; for ye
have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed:
therefore tell me the dream; then I shall know that ye can show me the interpretation of it.
2:10 The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the
earth that can show the king's matter, forasmuch as no king, lord, or ruler, has asked such
a thing of any magician, or enchanter, or Chaldean.
2:11 And it is a rare thing that the king is requiring, and there is no other that can show it
before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
2:12 Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and gave orders to destroy all
the wise men of Babylon.
2:13 So the decree went forth, and the wise men were to be slain; and they searched for
Daniel and his companions, to be slain.
2:14 Then Daniel returned answer with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the
king's guard, who was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;
2:15 he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so urgent from
the king? Then Arioch made the matter known to Daniel.
2:16 And Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time; then
he would show the king the interpretation.
2:17 Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael,
and Azariah his companions:
2:18 that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that
Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
2:19 Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel
blessed the God of heaven.
2:20 Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever; for
wisdom and might are his.
2:21 And he changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he
gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding;
2:22 he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light
dwells with him.
2:23 I thank you, and praise you, O you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom
and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made
known to us the king's matter.
2:24 Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the
wise men of Babylon; he went and said thus to him: Destroy not the wise men of
Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation.
2:25 Then Arioch brought Daniel in before the king with haste, and said thus to him, I
have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, that will make known to the
king the interpretation.
2:26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, are you able
to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and also the interpretation of it?
2:27 Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret which the king has demanded,
no wise men, enchanters, magicians, nor soothsayers, can show to the king;
2:28 but there is a God in heaven that reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king
Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your
head upon your bed, are these:
2:29 as for you, O king, your thoughts came into your mind upon your bed, what should
come to pass hereafter; and he that reveals secrets has made known to you what shall
come to pass.
2:30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than
any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and
that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
2:31 You, O king, saw, and, behold, a great image. This image, which was mighty, and
whose brightness was excellent, stood before you; and the aspect thereof was terrible.
2:32 As for this image, its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly
and its thighs of brass,
2:33 its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
2:34 You saw till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its
feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
2:35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces
together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried
them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image
became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
2:36 This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
2:37 You, O king, are king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom,
the power, and the strength, and the glory;
2:38 and wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the birds of
the heavens has he given into your hand, and has made you to rule over them all: you are
the head of gold.
2:39 And after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to you; and another third
kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
2:40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, forasmuch as iron breaks in pieces
and subdues all things; and as iron that crushes all these, shall it break in pieces and
crush.
2:41 And whereas you saw the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, it shall
be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as you
saw the iron mixed with miry clay.
2:42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall
be partly strong, and partly broken.
2:43 And whereas you saw the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves
with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron does not
mingle with clay.
2:44 And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall
never be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be left to another people; but it shall
break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
2:45 Forasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and
that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God
has made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain,
and the interpretation thereof sure.
2:46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and
commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors to him.
2:47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and
the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing you have been able to reveal this
secret.
2:48 Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to
rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men
of Babylon.
2:49 And Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon: but Daniel was in the gate of the king.
3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and
the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of
Babylon.
3:2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the satraps, the deputies, and
the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of
the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king
had set up.
3:3 Then the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, the judges, the treasurers, the
counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together to the
dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before
the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
3:4 Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations, and
languages,
3:5 that at what time ye hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, bagpipes, and
all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the
king has set up;
3:6 and whoever does not fall down and worship shall the same hour be cast into the
midst of a burning fiery furnace.
3:7 Therefore at that time, when all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither,
lyre, harp, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations, and the languages, fell
down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
3:8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and brought accusation against
the Jews.
3:9 They answered and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, O king, live for ever.
3:10 You, O king, have made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the
horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and bagpipes, and all kinds of music, shall fall down and
worship the golden image;
3:11 and whoever does not fall down and worship, shall be cast into the midst of a
burning fiery furnace.
3:12 There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of
Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego; these men, O king, have not regarded you:
they serve not your gods, nor worship the golden image which you have set up.
3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-nego. Then they brought these men before the king.
3:14 Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, Is it of purpose, O Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abed-nego, that ye serve not my god, nor worship the golden image which I have set
up?
3:15 Now if ye are ready so that at what time ye hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither,
lyreharp, and bagpipes, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which
I have made, great: but if ye do not worship, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst
of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
3:16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O
Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter.
3:17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery
furnace; and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king.
3:18 But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, nor worship
the golden image which you have set up.
3:19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed
against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: therefore he spoke, and commanded that
they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
3:20 And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
3:21 Then these men were bound in their hosen, their tunics, and their mantles, and their
other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
3:22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly
hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-
nego.
3:23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, fell down bound into the
midst of the burning fiery furnace.
3:24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke and
said to his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?
They answered and said to the king, True, O king.
3:25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and
they have no hurt; and the aspect of the fourth is like a son of the gods.
3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace: he spoke
and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, ye servants of the Most High God, come
forth, and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came forth out of the
midst of the fire.
3:27 And the satraps, the deputies, and the governors, and the king's counsellors, being
gathered together, saw these men, that the fire had no power upon their bodies, nor was
the hair of their head singed, neither were their hosen changed, nor had the smell of fire
passed on them.
3:28 Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-nego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and
have changed the king's word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve
nor worship any god, except their own God.
3:29 Therefore I make a decree, that every people, nation, and language, which speak
anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, shall be cut in
pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other god that is
able to deliver after this sort.
3:30 Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego in the province of
Babylon.
4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all
the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
4:2 It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has
wrought toward me.
4:3 How great are his signs! and how mighty are his wonders! his kingdom is an
everlasting kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
4:4 I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at rest in my house, and flourishing in my palace.
4:5 I saw a dream which made me afraid; and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions
of my head troubled me.
4:6 Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that
they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
4:7 Then came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers; and
I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation
thereof.
4:8 But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to
the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and I told the dream
before him, saying,
4:9 O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy
gods is in you, and no secret troubles you, tell me the visions of my dream that I have
seen, and the interpretation thereof.
4:10 Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and, behold, a tree in the
midst of the earth; and the height thereof was great.
4:11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached to heaven, and the
sight thereof to the end of all the earth.
4:12 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all:
the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the birds of the heavens dwelt in the
branches thereof, and all flesh was fed from it.
4:13 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one
came down from heaven.
4:14 He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off
its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its
branches.
4:15 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and
brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven: and let his
portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
4:16 let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given to him; and let
seven times pass over him.
4:17 The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the
holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom
of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
4:18 This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, O Belteshazzar, declare the
interpretation, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known
to me the interpretation; but you are able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.
4:19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken dumb for a while, and his
thoughts troubled him. The king answered and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or
the interpretation, trouble you. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be
to them that hate you, and the interpretation thereof to your adversaries.
4:20 The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to heaven,
and the sight thereof to all the earth;
4:21 whose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all; under
which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the birds of the heavens had
their habitation:
4:22 it is you, O king, that are grown and become strong; for your greatness is grown, and
reaches to heaven, and your dominion to the end of the earth.
4:23 And whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from heaven, and
saying, Hew down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of the roots
thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field,
and let it be wet with the dew of heaven: and let his portion be with the beasts of the
field, till seven times pass over him;
4:24 this is the interpretation, O king, and it is the decree of the Most High, which is
come upon my lord the king:
4:25 that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the
field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of
heaven, and seven times shall pass over you; till you know that the Most High rules in the
kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will.
4:26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; your
kingdom shall be sure to you, after that you shall have known that the heavens do rule.
4:27 Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by
righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a
lengthening of your tranquillity.
4:28 All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
4:29 At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon.
4:30 The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal
dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
4:31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O
king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom is departed from you:
4:32 and you shall be driven from men; and they dwelling shall be with the beasts of the
field; you shall be made to eat grass as oxen; and seven times shall pass over you; until
you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he
will.
4:33 The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven
from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till
his hair was grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.
4:34 And at the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my
understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored
him that lives for ever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom
from generation to generation.
4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to
his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay
his hand, or say to him, What do you?
4:36 At the same time my understanding returned to me; and for the glory of my
kingdom, my majesty and brightness returned to me; and my counsellors and my lords
sought to me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent greatness was added to
me.
4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his
works are truth, and his ways justice; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.
5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine
before the thousand.
5:2 Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver
vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in
Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink
therefrom.
5:3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house
of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines,
drank from them.
5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of
wood, and of stone.
5:5 In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the
candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of
the hand that wrote.
5:6 Then the king's countenance was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and
the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees knocked one against another.
5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers.
The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing,
and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of
gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
5:8 Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make
known to the king the interpretation.
5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him,
and his lords were perplexed.
5:10 Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the
banquet house: the queen spoke and said, O king, live forever; let not your thoughts
trouble you, nor let your countenance be changed.
5:11 There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the
days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods,
were found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, I say, your father,
made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
5:12 forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of
dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same
Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show
the interpretation.
5:13 Then was Daniel brought in before the king. The king spoke and said to Daniel,
are you that Daniel, who are of the children of the captivity of Judah, whom the king my
father brought out of Judah?
5:14 I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and
understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.
5:15 And now the wise men, the enchanters, have been brought in before me, that they
should read this writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof; but they could
not show the interpretation of the thing.
5:16 But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now
if you can read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, you shall be
clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler
in the kingdom.
5:17 Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let your gifts be to yourself, and
give your rewards to another; nevertheless I will read the writing to the king, and make
known to him the interpretation.
5:18 O you king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and
greatness, and glory, and majesty:
5:19 and because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and
languages trembled and feared before him: whom he would he slew, and whom he would
he kept alive; and whom he would he raised up, and whom he would he put down.
5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt
proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
5:21 and he was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the beasts', and
his dwelling was with the wild asses; he was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was
wet with the dew of heaven; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom
of men, and that he sets up over it whomsoever he will.
5:22 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all
this,
5:23 but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the
vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines,
have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass,
iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand
your breath is, and whose are all your ways, have you not glorified.
5:24 Then was the part of the hand sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.
5:25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
5:26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God has numbered your kingdom, and
brought it to an end;
5:27 TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
5:28 PERES; your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
5:29 Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain
of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the
third ruler in the kingdom.
5:30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
5:31 And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.
6:1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should
be throughout the whole kingdom;
6:2 and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might
give account to them, and that the king should have no damage.
6:3 Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an
excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
6:4 Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching
the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, forasmuch as he was faithful,
neither was there any error or fault found in him.
6:5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we
find it against him concerning the law of his God.
6:6 Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus to
him, King Darius, live for ever.
6:7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counsellors and
the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong
interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of
you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
6:8 Now, O king, establish the interdict, and sign the writing, that it be not changed,
according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which alters not.
6:9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.
6:10 And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his
windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled upon his knees
three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
6:11 Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and
supplication before his God.
6:12 Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's interdict:
Have you not signed an interdict, that every man that shall make petition to any god or
man within thirty days, save to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king
answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians,
which alters not.
6:13 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of
the captivity of Judah, regards not you, O king, nor the interdict that you have signed, but
makes his petition three times a day.
6:14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on
Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to rescue him.
6:15 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king,
that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no interdict nor statute which the king
establishes may be changed.
6:16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of
lions. Now the king spoke and said to Daniel, Your God whom you serve continually,
he will deliver you.
6:17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it
with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed
concerning Daniel.
6:18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were
instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.
6:19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste to the den of lions.
6:20 And when he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice; the
king spoke and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whom
you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?
6:21 Then said Daniel to the king, O king, live for ever.
6:22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt
me; forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before you, O king,
have I done no hurt.
6:23 Then was the king exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel
up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was
found upon him, because he had trusted in his God.
6:24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and
they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions
had the mastery of them, and broke all their bones in pieces, before they came to the
bottom of the den.
6:25 Then king Darius wrote to all the peoples, nations, and languages, that dwell in all
the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.
6:26 I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear
before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom
that which shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be even to the end.
6:27 He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth,
who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
6:28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the
Persian.
7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his
head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters.
7:2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of
heaven broke forth upon the great sea.
7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were
plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand upon two feet as a man;
and a man's heart was given to it.
7:5 And, behold, another beast, a second, like to a bear; and it was raised up on one side,
and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth: and they said thus to it, arise, devour
much flesh.
7:6 After this I beheld, and, lo, another, like a leopard, which had upon its back four
wings of a bird; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
7:7 After this I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, a fourth beast, terrible and powerful,
and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and
stamped the residue with its feet: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before
it; and it had ten horns.
7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little
one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in
this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
7:9 I beheld till thrones were placed, and one that was ancient of days did sit: his raiment
was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames,
and the wheels thereof burning fire.
7:10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands
ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment
was set, and the books were opened.
7:11 I beheld at that time because of the voice of the great words which the horn spoke; I
beheld even till the beast was slain, and its body destroyed, and it was given to be burned
with fire.
7:12 And as for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away: yet their lives were
prolonged for a season and a time.
7:13 I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of heaven one
like to a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near
before him.
7:14 And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all the peoples,
nations, and languages should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which
shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
7:15 As for me, Daniel, my spirit was grieved in the midst of my body, and the visions of
my head troubled me.
7:16 I came near to one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this.
So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
7:17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, that shall arise out of the earth.
7:18 But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom
for ever, even for ever and ever.
7:19 Then I desired to know the truth concerning the fourth beast, which was diverse
from all of them, exceedingly terrible, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass;
which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet;
7:20 and concerning the ten horns that were on its head, and the other horn which came
up, and before which three fell, even that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spoke great
things, whose look was more stout than its fellows.
7:21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
7:22 until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most
High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
7:23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be
diverse from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down,
and break it in pieces.
7:24 And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall ten kings arise: and another shall
arise after them; and he shall be diverse from the former, and he shall put down three
kings.
7:25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the
Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given
into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
7:26 But the judgment shall be set, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume
and to destroy it to the end.
7:27 And the kingdom and the dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the
whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High: his kingdom is
an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.
7:28 Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me,
and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.
8:1 In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared to me, even to me,
Daniel, after that which appeared to me at the first.
8:2 And I saw in the vision; now it was so, that when I saw, I was in Shushan the palace,
which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.
8:3 Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram
which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other,
and the higher came up last.
8:4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; and no beasts could
stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did
according to his will, and magnified himself.
8:5 And as I was considering, behold, a he-goat came from the west over the face of the
whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his
eyes.
8:6 And he came to the ram that had the two horns, which I saw standing before the river,
and ran upon him in the fury of his power.
8:7 And I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and
smote the ram, and broke his two horns; and there was no power in the ram to stand
before him; but he cast him down to the ground, and trampled upon him; and there was
none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
8:8 And the he-goat magnified himself exceedingly: and when he was strong, the great
horn was broken; and instead of it there came up four notable horns toward the four
winds of heaven.
8:9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which grew to be exeedingly great,
toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the glorious land.
8:10 And it became great, even to the host of heaven; and some of the host and of the
stars it cast down to the ground, and trampled upon them.
8:11 Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the host; and it took away from him the
continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
8:12 And the host was given over to it together with the continual burnt offering through
transgression; and it cast down truth to the ground, and it did its pleasure and prospered.
8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to that certain one who
spoke, How long shall be the vision concerning the continual burnt offering, and the
transgression that makes desolate, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden
under foot?
8:14 And he said to me, To two thousand and three hundred evenings and mornings; then
shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
8:15 And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, that I sought to
understand it; and, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.
8:16 And I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said,
Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.
8:17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was affrighted, and fell upon
my face: but he said to me, Understand, O son of man; for the vision belongs to the time
of the end.
8:18 Now as he was speaking with me, I fell into a deep sleep with my face toward the
ground; but he touched me, and set me upright.
8:19 And he said, Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter time of the
indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.
8:20 The ram which you saw, that had the two horns, they are the kings of Media and
Persia.
8:21 And the rough he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his
eyes is the first king.
8:22 And as for that which was broken, in the place whereof four stood up, four
kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not with his power.
8:23 And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full,
a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up.
8:24 And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy
wonderfully, and shall prosper and do his pleasure; and he shall destroy the mighty ones
and the holy people.
8:25 And through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall
magnify himself in his heart, and in their security shall he destroy many: he shall also
stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
8:26 And the vision of the evenings and mornings which has been told is true: but shut
you up the vision; for it belongs to many days to come.
8:27 And I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick certain days; then I rose up, and did the king's
business: and I wondered at the vision, but none understood it.
9:1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was
made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
9:2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the
years whereof the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing
of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
9:3 And I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting
and sackcloth and ashes.
9:4 And I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great
and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and
keep his commandments,
9:5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have
rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
9:6 neither have we hearkened to your servants the prophets, that spoke in your name to
our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
9:7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as at this day; to
the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and
that are far off, through all the countries whither you have driven them, because of their
trespass that they have trespassed against you.
9:8 O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our
fathers, because we have sinned against you.
9:9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against
him;
9:10 neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in his laws, which he
set before us by his servants the prophets.
9:11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, even turning aside, that they should not
obey your voice: therefore has the curse been poured out upon us, and the oath that is
written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.
9:12 And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges
that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; for under the whole heaven has not been
done as has been done upon Jerusalem.
9:13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet have we not
entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have
discernment in your truth.
9:14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Yahweh
our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
9:15 And now, O Lord our God, that have brought your people forth out of the land of
Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten you renown, as at this day; we have sinned,
we have done wickedly.
9:16 O Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and your wrath, I pray
you, be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins,
and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach to
all that are round about us.
9:17 Now therefore, O our God, hearken to the prayer of your servant, and to his
supplications, and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for the
Lord's sake.
9:18 O my God, incline your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and behold our desolations,
and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our supplications before
you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake.
9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for your own
sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
9:20 And while I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my
people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy
mountain of my God;
9:21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision
at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening
oblation.
9:22 And he instructed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth
to give you wisdom and understanding.
9:23 At the beginning of your supplications the commandment went forth, and I am come
to tell you; for you are greatly beloved: therefore consider the matter, and understand the
vision.
9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish
transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to
bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the
most holy.
9:25 Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to
restore and to build Jerusalem to the anointed one, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and
sixty-two weeks: it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troublous times.
9:26 And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one shall be cut off, but not for himself:
and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and
the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are
determined.
9:27 And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the
week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of
abominations shall come one that makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that
determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate.
10:1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed to Daniel, whose name
was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a great warfare: and he understood
the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
10:2 In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three whole weeks.
10:3 I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine into my mouth, neither did I
anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
10:4 And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great
river, which is Hiddekel,
10:5 I lifted up my eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins
were girded with pure gold of Uphaz:
10:6 his body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his
eyes as flaming torches, and his arms and his feet like to burnished brass, and the voice of
his words like the voice of a multitude.
10:7 And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision; for the men that were with me saw not the
vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, and they fled to hide themselves.
10:8 So I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me;
for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
10:9 Yet heard I the voice of his words; and when I heard the voice of his words, then
was I fallen into a deep sleep on my face, with my face toward the ground.
10:10 And, behold, a hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the palms
of my hands.
10:11 And he said to me, O Daniel, you man greatly beloved, understand the words that I
speak to you, and stand upright; for to you am I now sent. And when he had spoken this
word to me, I stood trembling.
10:12 Then said he to me, Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that you did set your
heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and
I am come for your words' sake.
10:13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days; but, lo,
Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings
of Persia.
10:14 Now I am come to make you understand what shall befall your people in the latter
days; for the vision is yet for many days:
10:15 and when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face toward the
ground, and was dumb.
10:16 And, behold, one in the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips: then I opened
my mouth, and spoke and said to him that stood before me, O my lord, by reason of the
vision my sorrows are turned upon me, and I retain no strength.
10:17 For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me,
straightway there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me.
10:18 Then there touched me again one like the appearance of a man, and he
strengthened me.
10:19 And he said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be to you, be strong, yes, be
strong. And when he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for
you have strengthened me.
10:20 Then said he, Know you why I am come to you? and now will I return to fight
with the prince of Persia: and when I go forth, lo, the prince of Greece shall come.
10:21 But I will tell you that which is inscribed in the writing of truth: and there is none
that holds with me against these, but Michael your prince.
11:1 And as for me, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood up to confirm and
strengthen him.
11:2 And now will I show you the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in
Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and when he is become strong
through his riches, he shall stir up all against the realm of Greece.
11:3 And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do
according to his will.
11:4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided
toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion
with which he ruled; for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others besides these.
11:5 And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be
strong above him, and have dominion; his dominion shall be a great dominion.
11:6 And at the end of years they shall join themselves together; and the daughter of the
king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall
not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; but she shall be
given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in
those times.
11:7 But out of a shoot from her roots shall one stand up in his place, who shall come to
the army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against
them, and shall prevail.
11:8 And also their gods, with their molten images, and with their precious vessels of
silver and of gold, shall he carry captive into Egypt; and he shall refrain some years from
the king of the north.
11:9 And he shall come into the realm of the king of the south, but he shall return into his
own land.
11:10 And his sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall
come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they shall return and war, even to his
fortress.
11:11 And the king of the south shall be moved with anger, and shall come forth and
fight with him, even with the king of the north; and he shall set forth a great multitude,
and the multitude shall be given into his hand.
11:12 And the multitude shall be lifted up, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast
down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.
11:13 And the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than
the former; and he shall come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army
and with much substance.
11:14 And in those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the
children of the violent among your people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision;
but they shall fall.
11:15 So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mound, and take a well-fortified
city: and the forces of the south shall not stand, neither his chosen people, neither shall
there be any strength to stand.
11:16 But he that comes against him shall do according to his own will, and none shall
stand before him; and he shall stand in the glorious land, and in his hand shall be
destruction.
11:17 And he shall set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with
him equitable conditions; and he shall perform them: and he shall give him the daughter
of women, to corrupt her; but she shall not stand, neither be for him.
11:18 After this shall he turn his face to the isles, and shall take many: but a prince shall
cause the reproach offered by him to cease; yes, moreover, he shall cause his reproach to
turn upon him.
11:19 Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall
stumble and fall, and shall not be found.
11:20 Then shall stand up in his place one that shall cause an exactor to pass through the
glory of the kingdom; but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in
battle.
11:21 And in his place shall stand up a contemptible person, to whom they had not given
the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain the
kingdom by flatteries.
11:22 And the overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be
broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.
11:23 And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully; for he shall come
up, and shall become strong, with a small people.
11:24 In time of security shall he come even upon the fattest places of the province; and
he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter
among them prey, and spoil, and substance: yes, he shall devise his devices against the
strongholds, even for a time.
11:25 And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a
great army; and the king of the south shall war in battle with an exceedingly great and
mighty army; but he shall not stand; for they shall devise devices against him.
11:26 Yes, they that eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow;
and many shall fall down slain.
11:27 And as for both these kings, their hearts shall be to do mischief, and they shall
speak lies at one table: but it shall not prosper; for yet the end shall be at the time
appointed.
11:28 Then shall he return into his land with great substance; and his heart shall be
against the holy covenant; and he shall do his pleasure, and return to his own land.
11:29 At the time appointed he shall return, and come into the south; but it shall not be in
the latter time as it was in the former.
11:30 For ships of Kittim shall come against him; therefore he shall be grieved, and shall
return, and have indignation against the holy covenant, and shall do his pleasure: he shall
even return, and have regard to them that forsake the holy covenant.
11:31 And forces shall stand on his part, and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the
fortress, and shall take away the continual burnt offering, and they shall set up the
abomination that makes desolate.
11:32 And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he pervert by flatteries; but the
people that know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
11:33 And they that are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by
the sword and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, many days.
11:34 Now when they shall fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall
join themselves to them with flatteries.
11:35 And some of them that are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to
make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify
himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods; and
he shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall
be done.
11:37 Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard
any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.
11:38 But in his place shall he honor the god of fortresses; and a god whom his fathers
knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant
things.
11:39 And he shall deal with the strongest fortresses by the help of a foreign god:
whosoever acknowledges him he will increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule
over many, and shall divide the land for a price.
11:40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the
king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with
horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow
and pass through.
11:41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown;
but these shall be delivered out of his hand: Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the
children of Ammon.
11:42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries; and the land of Egypt shall
not escape.
11:43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the
precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
11:44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him; and he shall go
forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to sweep away many.
11:45 And he shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy
mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.
12:1 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children
of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a
nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, every one
that shall be found written in the book.
12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to
everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
12:3 And they that are wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that
turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
12:4 But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end:
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
12:5 Then I, Daniel, looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on the brink of
the river on this side, and the other on the brink of the river on that side.
12:6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river,
How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
12:7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, when
he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven, and swore by him that lives for ever
that it shall be for a time, times, and half a time; and when they have made an end of
breaking in pieces the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
12:8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the issue of
these things?
12:9 And he said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed till the time
of the end.
12:10 Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the
wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise
shall understand.
12:11 And from the time that the continual burnt offering shall be taken away, and the
abomination that makes desolate set up, there shall be a thousand and two hundred and
ninety days.
12:12 Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and
thirty days.
12:13 But you, you go your way till the end be; for you shall rest, and shall stand in your
lot, at the end of the days.
End of Daniel
The Book of the Prophet Hosea
Hosea
1:1 The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah,
Jotham, ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of
Joash, king of Israel.
1:2 When Yahweh spoke at the first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, Go, take to you a
wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land does commit great whoredom,
departing from Yahweh.
1:3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bore
him a son.
1:4 And Yahweh said to him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will
avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the
house of Israel to cease.
1:5 And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley
of Jezreel.
1:6 And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And Yahweh said to him, Call her
name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should
in any wise pardon them.
1:7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by Yahweh their
God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by
horsemen.
1:8 Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bore a son.
1:9 And Yahweh said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be
your God.
1:10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot
be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said
to them, You are not my people, it shall be said to them, You are the sons of the living
God.
1:11 And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and
they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up from the land; for great shall be
the day of Jezreel.
2:1 Say ye to your brethren, ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.
2:2 Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband;
and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her
breasts;
2:3 lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a
wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.
2:4 Yes, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;
2:5 for their mother has played the harlot; she that conceived them has done shamefully;
for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and
my flax, my oil and my drink.
2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall
against her, that she shall not find her paths.
2:7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall
seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first
husband; for then was it better with me than now.
2:8 For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and
multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
2:9 Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the
season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her
nakedness.
2:10 And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall
deliver her out of my hand.
2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths,
and all her solemn assemblies.
2:12 And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she has said, These are my
wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the
field shall eat them.
2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, to which she burned incense, when
she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat
me, says Yahweh.
2:14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak
comfortably to her.
2:15 And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of
hope; and she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day
when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
2:16 And it shall be at that day, says Yahweh, that you shall call me Ishi, and shall call
me no more Baali.
2:17 For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no
more be mentioned by their name.
2:18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and
with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break
the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down
safely.
2:19 And I will betroth you to me for ever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness,
and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
2:20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.
2:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, says Yahweh, I will answer the
heavens, and they shall answer the earth;
2:22 and the earth shall answer the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they shall
answer Jezreel.
2:23 And I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not
obtained mercy; and I will say to them that were not my people, You are my people; and
they shall say, You are my God.
3:1 And Yahweh said to me, Go again, love a woman beloved of her friend, and an
adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods,
and love cakes of raisins.
3:2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-
homer of barley;
3:3 and I said to her, You shall abide for me many days; you shall not play the harlot, and
you shall not be any man's wife: so will I also be toward you.
3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and
without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim:
3:5 afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David
their king, and shall come with fear to Yahweh and to his goodness in the latter days.
4:1 Hear the word of Yahweh, ye children of Israel; for Yahweh has a controversy with
the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God
in the land.
4:2 There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and
committing adultery; they break out, and blood touches blood.
4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall languish, with
the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens; yes, the fishes of the sea also shall be
taken away.
4:4 Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for your people are as they that
strive with the priest.
4:5 And you shall stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with you in the
night; and I will destroy your mother.
4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected
knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have
forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
4:7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into
shame.
4:8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
4:9 And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will
requite them their doings.
4:10 And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not
increase; because they have left off taking heed to Yahweh.
4:11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
4:12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them; for the spirit
of whoredom has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, departing from
under their God.
4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills,
under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore
your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.
4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when
they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice
with the prostitutes; and the people that does not understand shall be overthrown.
4:15 Though you, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye to
Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, as Yahweh lives.
4:16 For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will Yahweh
feed them as a lamb in a large place.
4:17 Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
4:18 Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love
shame.
4:19 The wind has wrapped her up in its wings; and they shall be put to shame because of
their sacrifices.
5:1 Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the
king; for to you pertains the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net
spread upon Tabor.
5:2 And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.
5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played
the harlot, Israel is defiled.
5:4 Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of whoredom is
within them, and they know not Yahweh.
5:5 And the pride of Israel does testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall
stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.
5:6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh; but they shall
not find him: he has withdrawn himself from them.
5:7 They have dealt treacherously against Yahweh; for they have borne strange children:
now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.
5:8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: sound an alarm at Beth-
aven; behind you, O Benjamin.
5:9 Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel
have I made known that which shall surely be.
5:10 The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my
wrath upon them like water.
5:11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk
after man's command.
5:12 Therefore am I to Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to
Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of
your wound.
5:14 For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even
I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.
5:15 I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my
face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.
6:1 Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has
smitten, and he will bind us up.
6:2 After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live
before him.
6:3 And let us know, let us follow on to know Yahweh: his going forth is sure as the
morning; and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter rain that waters the earth.
6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your
goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goes early away.
6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my
mouth: and your judgments are as the light that goes forth.
6:6 For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt
offerings.
6:7 But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt
treacherously against me.
6:8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way
toward Shechem; yes, they have committed lewdness.
6:10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in
Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
6:11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I bring back the captivity
of my people.
7:1 When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the
wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thiefenters in, and the troop
of robbers ravages without.
7:2 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have
their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.
7:3 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
7:4 They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceases to stir the
fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.
7:5 On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he
stretched out his hand with scoffers.
7:6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker
sleeps all the night; in the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
7:7 They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is
none among them that calls to me.
7:8 Ephraim, he mixes himself among the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.
7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knows it not: yes, gray hairs are here
and there upon him, and he knows it not.
7:10 And the pride of Israel does testify to his face: yet they have not returned to Yahweh
their God, nor sought him, for all this.
7:11 And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call to Egypt, they go
to Assyria.
7:12 When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the
birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
7:13 Woe to them! for they have wandered from me; destruction to them! for they have
trespassed against me: though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against
me.
7:14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds: they
assemble themselves for grain and new wine; they rebel against me.
7:15 Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet do they devise mischief
against me.
7:16 They return, but not to him that is on high; they are like a deceitful bow; their
princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in
the land of Egypt.
8:1 Set the trumpet to your mouth. As an eagle he comes against the house of Yahweh,
because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
8:2 They shall cry to me, My God, we Israel know you.
8:3 Israel has cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
8:4 They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not: of
their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
8:5 He has cast off your calf, O Samaria; my anger is kindled against them: how long will
it be until they attain to innocency?
8:6 For from Israel is even this; the workman made it, and it is no God; yes, the calf of
Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
8:7 For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: he has no standing grain;
the blade shall yield no meal; if so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.
8:8 Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel in which none
delights.
8:9 For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey alone by himself: Ephraim has
hired lovers.
8:10 Yes, though they hire allies among the nations, now will I gather them; and they
begin to be diminished by reason of the burden of the tribute of the king of princes.
8:11 Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been to him for
sinning.
8:12 I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange
thing.
8:13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Yahweh
accepts them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall
return to Egypt.
8:14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker, and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied
fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.
9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for you have played the harlot,
departing from your God; you have loved hire upon every threshing-floor.
9:2 The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail
her.
9:3 They shall not dwell in Yahweh's land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they
shall eat unclean food in Assyria.
9:4 They shall not pour out wine-offerings to Yahweh, neither shall they be pleasing to
him: their sacrifices shall be to them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be
polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of
Yahweh.
9:5 What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of
Yahweh?
9:6 For, lo, they are gone away from destruction; yet Egypt shall gather them up,
Memphis shall bury them; their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them;
thorns shall be in their tents.
9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know
it: the prophet is a fool, the man that has the spirit is mad, for the abundance of your
iniquity, and because the enmity is great.
9:8 Ephraim was a watchman with my God: as for the prophet, a fowler's snare is in all
his ways, and enmity in the house of his God.
9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember
their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the
fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to the
shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
9:11 As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and
none with child, and no conception.
9:12 Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, so that not a man shall
be left: yes, woe also to them when I depart from them!
9:13 Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall
bring out his children to the slayer.
9:14 Give them, O Yahweh-what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry
breasts.
9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness
of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their
princes are revolters.
9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yes, though they
bring forth, yet will I slay the beloved fruit of their womb.
9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken to him; and they shall be
wanderers among the nations.
10:1 Israel is a luxuriant vine, that puts forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his
fruit he has multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made
goodly pillars.
10:2 Their heart is divided; now they shall be found guilty: he will strike their altars, he
will destroy their pillars.
10:3 Surely now shall they say, We have no king; for we fear not Yahweh; and the king,
what can he do for us?
10:4 They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment
springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the
people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the
glory thereof, because it is departed from it.
10:6 It also shall be carried to Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive
shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.
10:7 As for Samaria, her king is cut off, as foam upon the water.
10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the
thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to
the hills, Fall on us.
10:9 O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood; the battle
against the children of iniquity does not overtake them in Gibeah.
10:10 When it is my desire, I will chastise them; and the peoples shall be gathered against
them, when they are bound to their two transgressions.
10:11 And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loves to tread out the grain; but I have
passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob
shall break his clods.
10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your
fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, till he come and rain righteousness upon
you.
10:13 You have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of
lies; for you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.
10:14 Therefore shall a tumult arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be
destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed
in pieces with her children.
10:15 So shall Beth-el do to you because of your great wickedness: at daybreak shall the
king of Israel be utterly cut off.
11:1 When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
11:2 The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed
to the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
11:3 Yet I taught Ephraim to walk; I took them on my arms; but they knew not that I
healed them.
11:4 I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that
lift up the yoke on their jaws; and I laid food before them.
11:5 They shall not return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be their king,
because they refused to return to me.
11:6 And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour
them, because of their own counsels.
11:7 And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to him that
is on high, none at all will exalt him.
11:8 How shall I give you up, Ephraim? how shall I cast you off, Israel? how shall I
make you as Admah? how shall I set you as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me,
my compassions are kindled together.
11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of my anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim:
for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of you; and I will not come in
wrath.
11:10 They shall walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the
children shall come trembling from the west.
11:11 They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of
Assyria; and I will make them to dwell in their houses, says Yahweh.
11:12 Ephraim compasses me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit;
but Judah yet rules with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.
12:1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the east wind: he continually multiplies
lies and desolation; and they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
12:2 Yahweh has also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his
ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
12:3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he had power with
God:
12:4 yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to
him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spoke with us,
12:5 even Yahweh, the God of hosts; Yahweh is his memorial name.
12:6 Therefore turn you to your God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for your God
continually.
12:7 He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
12:8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my
labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.
12:9 But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; I will yet again make you to
dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.
12:10 I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the
ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.
12:11 Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yes,
their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
12:12 And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife
he kept sheep.
12:13 And by a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he
preserved.
12:14 Ephraim has provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall his blood be left upon
him, and his reproach shall his Lord return to him.
13:1 When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he
offended in Baal, he died.
13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their
silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the
craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
13:3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passes early away,
as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke
out of the chimney.
13:4 Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall know no god but
me, and besides me there is no saviour.
13:5 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was
exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.
13:7 Therefore I am to them as a lion; as a leopard I will watch by the way;
13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the lobe of
their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.
13:9 It is your destruction, O Israel, that you are against me, against your help.
13:10 Where now is your king, that he may save you in all your cities? and your judges,
of whom you said, Give me a king and princes?
13:11 I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.
13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.
13:13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it
is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.
13:14 Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death?
O death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your destruction? repentance
shall be hid from my eyes.
13:15 Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the breath of
Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring shall become dry, and his
fountain shall be dried up: he shall make spoil of the treasure of all goodly vessels.
13:16 Samaria shall bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God: they shall fall by
the sword; their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be
ripped up.
14:1 O Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.
14:2 Take with you words, and return to Yahweh: say to him, Take away all iniquity, and
accept that which is good: so will we render as bullocks the offering of our lips.
14:3 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more
to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you the fatherless finds mercy.
14:4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away
from him.
14:5 I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as
Lebanon.
14:6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as
Lebanon.
14:7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and
blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
14:8 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and
will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is your fruit found.
14:9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know
them? for the ways of Yahweh are right, and the just shall walk in them; but
transgressors shall fall therein.
End of Hosea
The Book of the Prophet Joel
Joel
1:1 The word of Yahweh that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
1:2 Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Has this been in
your days, or in the days of your fathers?
1:3 Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children
another generation.
1:4 That which the palmer-worm has left has the locust eaten; and that which the locust
has left has the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm has left has the
caterpillar eaten.
1:5 Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the
sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.
1:6 For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number; his teeth are the
teeth of a lion, and he has the jaw-teeth of a lioness.
1:7 He has laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he has made it clean bare, and
cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
1:8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
1:9 The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of Yahweh; the
priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
1:10 The field is laid waste, the land mourns; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is
dried up, the oil languishes.
1:11 Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for
the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.
1:12 The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languishes; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-
tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is
withered away from the sons of men.
1:13 Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the
altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal offering and
the drink offering are withholden from the house of your God.
1:14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of
the land to the house of Yahweh your God, and cry to Yahweh.
1:15 Alas for the day! for the day of Yahweh is at hand, and as destruction from the
Almighty shall it come.
1:16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our
God?
1:17 The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken
down; for the grain is withered.
1:18 How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no
pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
1:19 O Yahweh, to you do I cry; for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness,
and the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
1:20 Yes, the beasts of the field pant to you; for the water brooks are dried up, and the
fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is near at hand;
2:2 a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn
spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there has not been ever the like,
neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
2:3 A fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as the garden
of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and none has escaped
them.
2:4 The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they
run.
2:5 Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of
a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
2:6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are grown pale.
2:7 They run like mighty men; they climb the wall like men of war; and they march every
one on his ways, and they break not their ranks.
2:8 Neither does one thrust another; they march every one in his path; and they burst
through the weapons, and break not off their course.
2:9 They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they
enter in at the windows like a thief.
2:10 The earth quakes before them; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon are
darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
2:11 And Yahweh utters his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for he is
strong that executes his word; for the day of Yahweh is great and very terrible; and who
can abide it?
2:12 Yet even now, says Yahweh, turn ye to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and
with weeping, and with mourning:
2:13 and rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh your God; for he is
gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repents him of
the evil.
2:14 Who knows whether he will not turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind him,
even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh your God?
2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly;
2:16 gather the people, sanctify the assembly, assemble the old men, gather the children,
and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the
bride out of her closet.
2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and
let them say, Spare your people, O Yahweh, and give not your heritage to reproach, that
the nations should rule over them: why should they say among the peoples, Where is their
God?
2:18 Then was Yahweh jealous for his land, and had pity on his people.
2:19 And Yahweh answered and said to his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and
new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied with it; and I will no more make you a
reproach among the nations;
2:20 but I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive it into a land
barren and desolate, its forepart into the eastern sea, and its hinder part into the western
sea; and its stench shall come up, and its ill savor shall come up, because it has done great
things.
2:21 Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice; for Yahweh has done great things.
2:22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for
the tree bears its fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength.
2:23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh your God; for he gives you
the former rain in just measure, and he causes to come down for you the rain, the former
rain and the latter rain, in the first month.
2:24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and
oil.
2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust has eaten, the canker-worm, and
the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.
2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and shall praise the name of Yahweh
your God, that has dealt wondrously with you; and my people shall never be put to
shame.
2:27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Yahweh your God,
and there is none else; and my people shall never be put to shame.
2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your
young men shall see visions:
2:29 and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my
Spirit.
2:30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, and fire, and pillars
of smoke.
2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and
terrible day of Yahweh comes.
2:32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of Yahweh shall be
delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Yahweh
has said, and among the remnant those whom Yahweh does call.
3:1 For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of
Judah and Jerusalem,
3:2 I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and
I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom
they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,
3:3 and have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and sold a girl for
wine, that they may drink.
3:4 Yes, and what are ye to me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia?58
will ye render me a recompense? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I
return your recompense upon your own head.
3:5 Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your
temples my goodly precious things,
3:6 and have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the sons of the
Grecians, that ye may remove them far from their border;
3:7 behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return
your recompense upon your own head;
3:8 and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah,
and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Yahweh has spoken
it.
3:9 Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the
men of war draw near, let them come up.
3:10 Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak
say, I am strong.
3:11 Hasten, and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together: there
cause your mighty ones to come down, O Yahweh.
3:12 Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for
there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.
3:13 Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye; for the winepress is full,
the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.
3:14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! for the day of Yahweh is near in the
valley of decision.
3:15 The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.
3:16 And Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the
heavens and the earth shall shake: but Yahweh will be a refuge to his people, and a
stronghold to the children of Israel.
3:17 So shall ye know that I am Yahweh your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain:
then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
3:18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweet
wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with
waters; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of Yahweh, and shall water the
valley of Shittim.
3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the
violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their
land.
3:20 But Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
3:21 And I will cleanse their blood, that I have not cleansed: for Yahweh dwells in Zion.
End of Joel
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Tyre and Sidon refer to what is now Lebanon, and Philistia is now Gaza.
The Book of the Prophet Amos
Amos
1:1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw
concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the
son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
1:2 And he said, Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the
pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
1:3 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not
turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing
instruments of iron:
1:4 but I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-
hadad.
1:5 And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of
Aven, and him that holds the sceptre from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria
shall go into captivity to Kir, says Yahweh.
1:6 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Gaza, yes, for four, I will not turn
away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole people, to
deliver them up to Edom:
1:7 but I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
1:8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holds the sceptre from
Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall
perish, says the Lord Yahweh.
1:9 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn
away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole people to Edom, and
remembered not the brotherly covenant:
1:10 but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
1:11 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Edom, yes, for four, I will not turn
away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did
cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
1:12 but I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.
1:13 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for
four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the
women with child of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border.
1:14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof,
with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
1:15 and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, says Yahweh.
2:1 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn
away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
2:2 but I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab
shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;
2:3 and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof
with him, says Yahweh.
2:4 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn
away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of Yahweh, and have
not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did
walk:
2:5 but I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.
2:6 Thus says Yahweh: For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn
away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the
needy for a pair of shoes-
2:7 they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the
way of the meek: and a man and his father go to the same maiden, to profane my holy
name:
2:8 and they lay themselves down beside every altar upon clothes taken in pledge; and in
the house of their God they drink the wine of such as have been fined.
2:9 Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the
cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots
from beneath.
2:10 Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the
wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
2:11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is
it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? says Yahweh.
2:12 But ye gave the Nazirites wine to drink, and commanded the prophets, saying,
Prophesy not.
2:13 Behold, I will press you in your place, as a cart presses that is full of sheaves.
2:14 And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force;
neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
2:15 neither shall he stand that handles the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not
deliver himself; neither shall he that rides the horse deliver himself;
2:16 and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, says
Yahweh.
3:1 Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the
whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying,
3:2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you
all your iniquities.
3:3 Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?
3:4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? will a young lion cry out of his
den, if he have taken nothing?
3:5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is set for him? shall a snare
spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?
3:6 Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a
city, and Yahweh has not done it?
3:7 Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, except he reveal his secret to his servants
the prophets.
3:8 The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken; who can but
prophesy?
3:9 Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say,
assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tumults are
therein, and what oppressions in the midst thereof.
3:10 For they know not to do right, says Yahweh, who store up violence and robbery in
their palaces.
3:11 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: An adversary there shall be, even round
about the land; and he shall bring down your strength from you, and your palaces shall be
plundered.
3:12 Thus says Yahweh: As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or
a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner
of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed.
3:13 Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord Yahweh, the God of
hosts.
3:14 For in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit
the altars of Beth-el; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
3:15 And I will strike the winter-house along with the summer-house; and the houses of
ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, says Yahweh.
4:1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress
the poor, that crush the needy, that say to their lords, Bring, and let us drink.
4:2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you,
that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish-hooks.
4:3 And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast
yourselves into Harmon, says Yahweh.
4:4 Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; and bring your
sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days;
4:5 and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-
offerings and publish them: for this pleases you, O ye children of Israel, says the Lord
Yahweh.
4:6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in
all your places; yet have ye not returned to me, says Yahweh.
4:7 And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to
the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another
city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.
4:8 So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet
have ye not returned to me, says Yahweh.
4:9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your
vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees has the palmer-worm devoured: yet
have ye not returned to me, says Yahweh.
4:10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men
have I slain with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I have made the
stench of your camp to come up even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned to me,
says Yahweh.
4:11 I have overthrown cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned to me, says
Yahweh.
4:12 Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; and because I will do this to you, prepare
to meet your God, O Israel.
4:13 For, lo, he that forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what
is his thought; that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the
Earth-Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name.
5:1 Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is cast down upon her land;
there is none to raise her up.
5:3 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a
hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of
Israel.
5:4 For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;
5:5 but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall
surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.
5:6 Seek Yahweh, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and
it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
5:7 You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
5:8 seek him that makes the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the
morning, and makes the day dark with night; that calls for the waters of the sea, and
pours them out upon the face of the earth (Yahweh is his name);
5:9 that brings sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction comes upon the
fortress.
5:10 They hate him that reproves in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly.
5:11 Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of
wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have
planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
5:12 For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins-ye
that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their
right.
5:13 Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.
5:14 Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be
with you, as ye say.
5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish justice in the gate: it may be that
Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
5:16 Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the
broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, alas! Alas! and they shall call the
husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.
5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of you, says
Yahweh.
5:18 Woe to you that desire the day of Yahweh! Why would ye have the day of Yahweh?
It is darkness, and not light.
5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house and
leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.
5:20 Shall not the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no
brightness in it?
5:21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
5:22 Yes, though ye offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept
them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
5:23 Take you away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of
your viols.
5:24 But let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
5:25 Did ye bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of
Israel?
5:26 Yes, ye have carried along the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Saturn,59
which ye made for yourselves.
5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says Yahweh,
whose name is the God of hosts.
6:1 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and to them that are secure in the mountain of
Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
6:2 Pass ye to Calneh, and see; and from there go ye to Hamath the great; then go down
to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater
than your border?
6:3 -ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
6:4 that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the
lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
6:5 that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of
music, like David;
6:6 that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils; but they are not
grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
6:7 Therefore shall they now go captive with the first that go captive; and the revelry of
them that stretched themselves shall pass away.
6:8 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself, says Yahweh, the God of hosts: I abhor the
excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that
is therein.
6:9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
6:10 And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he that burns him, to bring out the
bones out of the house, and shall say to him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is
there yet any with you? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold your peace; for we
may not make mention of the name of Yahweh.
6:11 For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches,
and the little house with clefts.
6:12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have
turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
6:13 ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us horns by our
own strength?
6:14 For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, says Yahweh, the
God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the
Arabah.
7:1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning
of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's
mowings.
7:2 And it came to pass that, when they made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I
said, O Lord Yahweh, forgive, I beseech you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
7:3 Yahweh repented concerning this: It shall not be, says Yahweh.
7:4 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and, behold, the Lord Yahweh called to content
by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.
7:5 Then said I, O Lord Yahweh, cease, I beseech you: how shall Jacob stand? for he is
small.
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7:6 Yahweh repented concerning this: this also shall not be, says the Lord Yahweh.
7:7 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb-line,
with a plumb-line in his hand.
7:8 And Yahweh said to me, amos, what see you? And I said, a plumb-line. Then said
the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again
pass by them any more;
7:9 and the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be
laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
7:10 Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, amos
has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear
all his words.
7:11 For thus Amos says, Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led
away captive out of his land.
7:12 Also Amaziah said to Amos, O you seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and
there eat bread, and prophesy there:
7:13 but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a
royal house.
7:14 Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a
prophet's son; but I was a herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore-trees:
7:15 and Yahweh took me from following the flock, and Yahweh said to me, Go,
prophesy to my people Israel.
7:16 Now therefore hear you the word of Yahweh: You say, Prophesy not against Israel,
and drop not your word against the house of Isaac;
7:17 therefore thus says Yahweh: Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons
and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and
you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive
out of his land.
8:1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.
8:2 And he said, amos, what do you see? And I said, a basket of summer fruit. Then
said Yahweh to me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by
them any more.
8:3 And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, says the Lord Yahweh: the
dead bodies shall be many: in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.
8:4 Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to
fail,
8:5 saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath,
that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing
falsely with balances of deceit;
8:6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the
refuse of the wheat?
8:7 Yahweh has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their
works.
8:8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwells therein? yes, it
shall rise up wholly like the River; and it shall be troubled and sink again, like the River
of Egypt.
8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord Yahweh, that I will cause the sun
to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.
8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I
will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as
the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
8:11 Behold, the days come, says the Lord Yahweh, that I will send a famine in the land,
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh.
8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they
shall run to and fro to seek the word of Yahweh, and shall not find it.
8:13 In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.
8:14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, as your god, O Dan, lives; and, as
the way of Beer-sheba lives; they shall fall, and never rise up again.
9:1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the
thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay
the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not
one of them escape.
9:2 Though they dig into Sheol, there shall my hand take them; and though they climb up
to heaven, there will I bring them down.
9:3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them
out there; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I
command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
9:4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the
sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
9:5 For the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, is he that touches the land and it melts, and all that
dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again,
like the River of Egypt;
9:6 it is he that builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded his vault upon the
earth; he that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the
earth; Yahweh is his name.
9:7 Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says
Yahweh. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from
Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy
it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,
says Yahweh.
9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like
as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the earth.
9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not
overtake nor meet us.
9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the
breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
9:12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by my
name, says Yahweh that does this.
9:13 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine,
and all the hills shall melt.
9:14 And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the
waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof;
they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
9:15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of
their land which I have given them, says Yahweh your God.
End of Amos
The Book of the Prophet Obadiah
Obadiah
1:1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord Yahweh concerning Edom: We have
heard tidings from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, arise
ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.
1:2 Behold, I have made you small among the nations: you are greatly despised.
1:3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, O you that dwell in the clefts of the rock,
whose habitation is high; that says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
1:4 Though you mount on high like the eagle, and though your nest be set among the
stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.
1:5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night (how are you cut off!), would they not steal
only till they had enough? if grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave some
gleaning grapes?
1:6 How are the things of Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!
1:7 All the men of your confederacy have brought you on your way, even to the border:
the men that were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you; they
that eat your bread lay a snare under you: there is no understanding in him.
1:8 Shall I not in that day, says Yahweh, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and
understanding out of the mount of Esau?
1:9 And your mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one may be
cut off from the mount of Esau by slaughter.
1:10 For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame shall cover you, and you shall be
cut off for ever.
1:11 In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his
substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even you
were as one of them.
1:12 But look not on the day of your brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not
over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day
of distress.
1:13 Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yes, look not you
on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay ye hands on their substance in
the day of their calamity.
1:14 And stand not in the crossway, to cut off those of his that escape; and deliver not up
those of his that remain in the day of distress.
1:15 For the day of Yahweh is near upon all the nations: as you have done, it shall be
done to you; your dealing shall return upon your own head.
1:16 For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink
continually; yes, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not
been.
1:17 But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the
house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
1:18 And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the
house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them, and devour them; and there
shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Yahweh has spoken it.
1:19 And they of the South shall possess the mount of Esau, and they of the lowland the
Philistines; and they shall possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria; and
Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
1:20 And the captives of this host of the children of Israel, that are among the Canaanites,
shall possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, that are in Sepharad, shall
possess the cities of the South.
1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the
kingdom shall be Yahweh's.
End of Obadiah
The Book of the Prophet Jonah
Jonah
1:1 Now the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, as follows:
1:2 "Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is
come up before me."
1:3 But Jonah got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of Yahweh; and he went
down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare for it, and got
down into it to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of Yahweh.
1:4 But Yahweh sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty storm upon
the sea, such that the ship was likely to be wrecked.
1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and they cried every man to his god. And they threw
off the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. But Jonah had
since gone down into the far interior parts of the ship; and he laid down, and was fast
asleep.
1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, O sleeper?
Arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.”
1:7 And they said every one to his fellow, “Come, and let us cast lots, that we may know
for whose cause this evil is upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell upon Jonah.
1:8 Then they were saying to him, "Please tell us, we ask of you, for whose cause is this
evil upon us? What is your occupation? And where do you come from? What is
your country? And of what people are you?"
1:9 And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew; and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who
has made the sea and the dry land."
1:10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have
done?" (You see, the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh,
because he had told them so.)
1:11 Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, so that the sea will be calm for
us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
1:12 And he said to them, "Take me up, and throw me out into the sea, and that way the
sea will be calm for you. For I know it is for my sake that this great storm is upon you."
1:13 Nevertheless the men rowed hard to get them back to the land. But they could not,
because the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.
1:14 Wherefore they cried out to Yahweh, and said, "We beseech you, O Yahweh, we
beseech you, do not let us perish for this man's life, and do not lay upon us innocent
blood. For you, O Yahweh, have done as it pleased you."
1:15 So they took Jonah up, and threw him out into the sea. And the sea ceased from its
raging.
1:16 Then the men feared Yahweh exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh,
and made vows.
1:17 And Yahweh prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly
of the fish three days and three nights.
2:1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God out of the fish's belly.
2:2 And he said, “I called by reason of my affliction to Yahweh, and he answered me.
Out of the belly of Sheol cried I, and you heard my voice.
2:3 For you did cast me into the depth, in the heart of the seas, and the flood was round
about me; All your waves and your billows passed over me.
2:4 And I said, I am cast out from before your eyes; Yet I will look again toward your
holy temple.
2:5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The
weeds were wrapped about my head.
2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed upon me
for ever: Yet have you brought up my life from the pit, O Yahweh my God.
2:7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh; And my prayer came in
toward you, into your holy temple.
2:8 They that regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
2:9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have
vowed. Salvation is of Yahweh.”
The Book of the Prophet Jonah
2:10 And Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
3:1 And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the second time, as follows:
3:2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the preaching that I bid you.”
3:3 So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to the word of Yahweh. Now
Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey across.
3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, “Yet
forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.”
3:5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on
sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
3:6 And the reports reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid
his robe from him, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
3:7 And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king
and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let
them not feed, nor drink water;
3:8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily
to God: yes, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in
his hands.
3:9 Who knows whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce
anger, so that we perish not?”
3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of
the evil which he said he would do to them; and he did not do it.
4:1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
4:2 And he prayed to Yahweh, and said, “I pray you, O Yahweh, was not this my saying,
when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hastened to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that
you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and
you repent of the evil.
4:3 Therefore now, O Yahweh, take, I beseech you, my life from me; for it is better for
me to die than to live.”
4:4 And Yahweh said, “Do you do well to be angry?”
4:5 Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made
him a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the
city.
4:6 And Yahweh God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might
be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil situation. So Jonah was
exceedingly glad because of the gourd.
4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it struck the
gourd, such that it withered.
4:8 And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the
sun beat upon the head of Jonah, such that he fainted, and requested for himself that he
might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
4:9 And God said to Jonah, “Do you do well to be angry for the gourd?” And he said, “I
do well to be angry, even to death.”
4:10 And Yahweh said, “You have had regard for the gourd, for which you have not
labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
4:11 and I should not have regard for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than
120,000 persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also
much cattle?”
End of Jonah
The Book of the Prophet Micah
Micah
1:1 The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz,
and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
1:2 Hear, ye peoples, all of you: hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord
Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
1:3 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread
upon the high places of the earth.
1:4 And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax
before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
1:5 For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of
Judah? are they not Jerusalem?
1:6 Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as places for planting
vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will uncover the
foundations thereof.
1:7 And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her wages shall be burned
with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate; for from the fee of a harlot has she gathered
them, and to the fee of a harlot shall they return.
1:8 For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing
like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
1:9 For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even to Judah; it reaches to the gate of
my people, even to Jerusalem.
1:10 Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.
1:11 Pass away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the inhabitant of
Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the stay thereof.
1:12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil is come down
from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
1:13 Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of
sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
1:14 Therefore shall you give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall
be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
1:15 I will yet bring to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess you: the
glory of Israel shall come even to Adullam.
1:16 Make you bald, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight: enlarge your
baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from you.
2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is
light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
2:2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they
oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
2:3 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from
which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil
time.
2:4 In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful
lamentation, and say, We are utterly ruined: he changes the portion of my people: how
does he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divides our fields.
2:5 Therefore you shall have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of
Yahweh.
2:6 Prophesy ye not, thus they prophesy. They shall not prophesy to these: reproaches
shall not depart.
2:7 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, "Is the Spirit of Yahweh impatient? are these his
doings? Do not my words do good to him that walks uprightly?"
2:8 But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment
from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
2:9 The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young
children ye take away my glory for ever.
2:10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your resting place; because of uncleanness that
destroys, even with a grievous destruction.
2:11 If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy to you of
wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
2:12 I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel;
I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture;
they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude men.
2:13 The breaker is gone up before them: they have broken forth and passed on to the
gate, and are gone out thereat; and their king is passed on before them, and Yahweh at the
head of them.
3:1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it
not for you to know justice?
3:2 ye who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and
their flesh from off their bones;
3:3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their
bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
3:4 Then shall they cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them; yes, he will hide his face
from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.
3:5 Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with
their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war
against him:
3:6 Therefore it shall be night to you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark to
you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day
shall be black over them.
3:7 And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yes, they shall all
cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
3:8 But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of
might, to declare to Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
3:9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel,
that abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the
prophets thereof divine for money: yet they lean upon Yahweh, and say, Is not Yahweh
in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become
heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
4:1 But in the latter days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of Yahweh's house shall
be established on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and
peoples shall flow to it.
4:2 And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of
Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we
will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Yahweh
from Jerusalem;
4:3 and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations
afar off: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-
hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall
make them afraid: for the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken it.
4:5 For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the
name of Yahweh our God for ever and ever.
4:6 In that day, says Yahweh, will I assemble that which is lame, and I will gather that
which is driven away, and that which I have afflicted;
4:7 and I will make that which was lame a remnant, and that which was cast far off a
strong nation: and Yahweh will reign over them in mount Zion from from now on even
for ever.
4:8 And you, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come,
yes, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.
4:9 Now why do you cry out aloud? Is there no king in you, is your counsellor perished,
that pangs have taken hold of you as of a woman in travail?
4:10 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for
now shall you go forth out of the city, and shall dwell in the field, and shall come even to
Babylon: there shall you be rescued; there will Yahweh redeem you from the hand of
your enemies.
4:11 And now many nations are assembled against you, that say, Let her be defiled, and
let our eye see our desire upon Zion.
4:12 But they know not the thoughts of Yahweh, neither understand they his counsel; for
he has gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.
4:13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will
make your hoofs brass; and you shall beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their
gain to Yahweh, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
5:1 Now shall you gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops: he has laid siege
against us; they shall strike the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
5:2 But you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which are little to be among the thousands of Judah,
out of you shall one come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are
from of old, from everlasting.
5:3 Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she who travails has brought forth:
then the residue of his brethren shall return to the children of Israel.
5:4 And he shall stand, and shall feed his flock in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty
of the name of Yahweh his God: and they shall abide; for now shall he be great to the
ends of the earth.
5:5 And this man shall be our peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, and
when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and
eight principal men.
5:6 And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in
the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he comes into our
land, and when he treads within our border.
5:7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from
Yahweh, as showers upon the grass, that tarry not for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
5:8 And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples,
as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who,
if he go through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
5:9 Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all your enemies be cut off.
5:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh, that I will cut off your horses
out of the midst of you, and will destroy your chariots:
5:11 and I will cut off the cities of your land, and will throw down all your strongholds.
5:12 And I will cut off witchcrafts out of your hand; and you shall have no more
soothsayers:
5:13 and I will cut off your graven images and your pillars out of the midst of you; and
you shall no more worship the work of your hands;
5:14 and I will pluck up your Asherim out of the midst of you; and I will destroy your
cities.
5:15 And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations which hearkened
not.
6:1 Hear ye now what Yahweh says: Arise, contend you before the mountains, and let the
hills hear your voice.
6:2 Hear, O ye mountains, Yahweh's controversy, and ye enduring foundations of the
earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.
6:3 O my people, what have I done to you? and in what way have I wearied you?
testify against me.
6:4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of
bondage; and I sent before you Moses, aaron, and Miriam.
6:5 O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the
son of Beor answered him; remember from Shittim to Gilgal, that ye may know the
righteous acts of Yahweh.
6:6 With which shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the high God?
shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
6:7 will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of
oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of
my soul?
6:8 He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does Yahweh require of you,
but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
6:9 The voice of Yahweh cries to the city, and the man of wisdom will see your name:
hear ye the rod, and who has appointed it.
6:10 Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a scant
measure that is abominable?
6:11 Shall I be pure with wicked balances, and with a bag of deceitful weights?
6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken
lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
6:13 Therefore I also have smitten you with a grievous wound; I have made you desolate
because of your sins.
6:14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your humiliation shall be in the midst of you:
and you shall put away, but shall not save; and that which you save will I give up to the
sword.
6:15 You shall sow, but shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but shall not anoint you
with oil; and the vintage, but shall not drink the wine.
6:16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye
walk in their counsels; that I may make you a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a
hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
7:1 Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape
gleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat; my soul desires the first-ripe fig.
7:2 The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men:
they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
7:3 Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asks, and the
judge is ready for a reward; and the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul: thus
they weave it together.
7:4 The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of
your watchmen, even your visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.
7:5 Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of your
mouth from her that lies in your bosom.
7:6 For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the
daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own
house.
7:7 But as for me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God
will hear me.
7:8 Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness,
Yahweh will be a light to me.
7:9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he
plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I
shall behold his righteousness.
7:10 Then my enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her who said to me, Where is
Yahweh your God? Mine eyes shall see my desire upon her; now shall she be trodden
down as the mire of the streets.
7:11 A day for building your walls! in that day shall the decree be far removed.
7:12 In that day shall they come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from
Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.
7:13 Yet shall the land be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of
their doings.
7:14 Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, which dwell solitarily, in
the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of
old.
7:15 As in the days of your coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I show to them
marvellous things.
7:16 The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hand
upon their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.
7:17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent; like crawling things of the earth they shall
come trembling out of their close places; they shall come with fear to Yahweh our God,
and shall be afraid because of you.
7:18 Who is a God like to you, that pardons iniquity, and passes over the transgression of
the remnant of his heritage? he retains not his anger for ever, because he delights in
lovingkindness.
7:19 He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities under foot; and
you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
7:20 You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the lovingkindness to Abraham, which you
have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
End of Micah
The Book of the Prophet Nahum
Nahum
1:1 The burden concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
1:2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges; Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath; Yahweh
takes vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserves wrath for his enemies.
1:3 Yahweh is slow to anger, and great in power, and will by no means clear the guilty:
Yahweh has his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his
feet.
1:4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers: Bashan languishes,
and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
1:5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his
presence, yes, the world, and all that dwell therein.
1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his
anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
1:7 Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows them that take
refuge in him.
1:8 But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue
his enemies into darkness.
1:9 What do ye devise against Yahweh? he will make a full end; affliction shall not rise
up the second time.
1:10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly
as dry stubble.
1:11 There is one gone forth out of you, that devises evil against Yahweh, that counsels
wickedness.
1:12 Thus says Yahweh: Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so
shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will
afflict you no more.
1:13 And now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds in sunder.
1:14 And Yahweh has given commandment concerning you, that no more of your name
be sown: out of the house of your gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten
image; I will make your grave; for you are vile.
1:15 Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that publishes
peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, perform your vows; for the wicked one shall no more
pass through you; he is utterly cut off.
2:1 He that dashes in pieces is come up against you: keep the fortress, watch the way,
make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.
2:2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the
emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.
2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots
flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress spears are brandished.
2:4 The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance
of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings.
2:5 He remembers his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall
thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
2:6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
2:7 And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as
with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.
2:8 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand,
stand, they cry; but no one is looking back.
2:9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the
glory of all goodly furniture.
2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melts, and the knees knock
together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are grown pale.
2:11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the
lion and the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
2:12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses,
and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.
The Book of the Prophet Nahum
2:13 Behold, I am against you, says Yahweh of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the
smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the
earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.
3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departs not.
3:2 The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses,
and bounding chariots,
3:3 the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a
multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies; they
stumble upon their bodies;-
3:4 because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of
witchcrafts, that sells nations through her whoredoms, and families through her
witchcrafts.
3:5 Behold, I am against you, says Yahweh of hosts, and I will uncover your skirts upon
your face; and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
3:6 And I will cast abominable filth upon you, and make you vile, and will set you as a
gazing-stock.
3:7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon you shall flee from you, and
say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? where shall I seek comforters for
you?
3:8 Are you better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters
round about her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
3:9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were your
helpers.
3:10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were
dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men,
and all her great men were bound in chains.
3:11 You also shall be drunken; you shall be hid; you also shall seek a stronghold
because of the enemy.
3:12 All your fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken,
they fall into the mouth of the eater.
3:13 Behold, your people in the midst of you are women; the gates of your land are set
wide open to your enemies: the fire has devoured your bars.
3:14 Draw you water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses; go into the clay, and tread
the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.
3:15 There shall the fire devour you; the sword shall cut you off; it shall devour you like
the canker-worm: make yourself many as the canker-worm; make yourself many as the
locust.
3:16 You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm
ravages, and flees away.
3:17 Your princes are as the locusts, and your marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers,
which encamp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun arises they flee away, and
their place is not known where they are.
3:18 Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; your nobles are at rest; your people are
scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them.
3:19 There is no assuaging of your hurt: your wound is grievous: all that hear the report
of you clap their hands over you; for upon whom has not your wickedness passed
continually?
End of Nahum
The Book of the Prophet Habakkuk
Habakkuk
1:1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
1:2 O Yahweh, how long shall I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you of violence,
and you will not save.
1:3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and
violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention rises up.
1:4 Therefore the law is slacked, and justice does never go forth; for the wicked does
compass about the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
1:5 Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a
work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.
1:6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the
breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling-places that are not theirs.
1:7 They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from
themselves.
1:8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening
wolves; and their horsemen press proudly on: yes, their horsemen come from far; they fly
as an eagle that hastens to devour.
1:9 They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forward; and they gather
captives as the sand.
1:10 Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him; he derides every
stronghold; for he heaps up dust, and takes it.
1:11 Then shall he sweep by like a wind and pass over, and be guilty, whose own might
is his god.
1:12 Are you not from everlasting, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One? we shall not die.
O Yahweh, you have ordained him for judgment; and you, O Rock, have established him
for correction.
1:13 You that are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness,
why do you look upon them that deal treacherously, and hold your peace when the
wicked swallows up the man that is more righteous than he;
1:14 and make men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over
them?
1:15 He takes up all of them with the angle, he catches them in his net, and gathers them
in his drag: therefore he rejoices and is glad.
1:16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his drag; because by them his
portion is fat, and his food plenteous.
1:17 Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?
2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see
what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.
2:2 And Yahweh answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets,
that he may run that reads it.
2:3 For still the vision anticipates its appointed time, and hastens toward the end, and
shall not lie. Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.
2:4 Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the righteous shall live by
his faith.
2:5 Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keeps not at home; who
enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him
all nations, and heaps to him all peoples.
2:6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him,
and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his! how long? and that loads
himself with pledges!
2:7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that shall vex you, and
you shall be for booty to them?
2:8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall
plunder you, because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and
to all that dwell therein.
2:9 Woe to him that gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that
he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
2:10 You have devised shame to your house, by cutting off many peoples, and have
sinned against your soul.
2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer
it.
2:12 Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
2:13 Behold, is it not from Yahweh of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the
nations weary themselves for vanity?
2:14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, as the
waters cover the sea.
2:15 Woe to him that gives his neighbor drink, to you that add your venom, and make
him drunken also, that you may look on their nakedness!
2:16 You are filled with shame, and not glory: drink you also, and be as one
uncircumcised; the cup of Yahweh's right hand shall come round to you, and foul shame
shall be upon your glory.
2:17 For the violence done to Lebanon shall cover you, and the destruction of the beasts,
which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to
the city and to all that dwell therein.
2:18 What profits the graven image, that the maker thereof has graven it; the molten
image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb
idols?
2:19 Woe to him that says to the wood, awake; to the dumb stone, arise! Shall this teach?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
2:20 But Yahweh is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth.
3:2 O Yahweh, I have heard the report of you, and am afraid: O Yahweh, revive your
work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath
remember mercy.
3:3 God came from Teman,60 and the Holy One from Mount Paran.61 Selah. His
glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.
3:4 And his brightness was as the light; He had rays coming forth from his hand; And
there was his power hidden.
3:5 Before him went the pestilence, and fiery bolts went forth at his feet.
3:6 He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the
eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were as of
old.
3:7 I saw the tents of Cushan62 in distress; the tent curtains of the land of Midian63
trembling.
3:8 Was Yahweh displeased with the rivers? Was your anger against the rivers, Or your
wrath against the sea, That you did ride upon your horses, Upon your chariots of
salvation?
3:9 Your bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were a sure word. Selah.
You did divide the earth with rivers.
3:10 The mountains saw you, and were afraid; The tempest of waters passed by; The
deep uttered its voice, and lifted up its hands on high.
3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, at the light of your arrows they
went away, at the shining of your glittering spear.
3:12 You did march though the land in indignation; You did thresh the nations in anger.
3:13 You went forth for the salvation of your people, For the salvation of your anointed;
You wound the head out of the house of the wicked man, Laying bare the foundation
even to the neck. Selah.
3:14 You did pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a
whirlwind to scatter me; Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
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3:15 You did tread the sea with your horses, The heap of mighty waters.
3:16 I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at the voice; Rottennessenters into
my bones, and I tremble in my place; Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble,
For the coming up of the people that invades us.
3:17 For though the fig-tree shall not flourish, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The
labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no food; The flock shall be cut off
from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
3:18 Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
3:19 Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength; And he makes my feet like hinds' feet, and will
make me to walk upon my high places.
End of Habbakuk
The Book of the Prophet Zephaniah
Zephaniah
1:1 The word of Yahweh which came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah,
the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of
Judah.
1:2 I will utterly consume all things from off the face of the ground, says Yahweh.
1:3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the fishes
of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the
face of the ground, says Yahweh.
1:4 And I will stretch out my hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarim
with the priests;
1:5 and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship,
that swear to Yahweh and swear by Malcam;
1:6 and them that are turned back from following Yahweh; and those that have not sought
Yahweh, nor inquired after him.
1:7 Hold your peace at the presence of the Lord Yahweh; for the day of Yahweh is at
hand: for Yahweh has prepared a sacrifice, he has consecrated his guests.
1:8 And it shall come to pass in the day of Yahweh's sacrifice, that I will punish the
princes, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
1:9 And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their
master's house with violence and deceit.
1:10 And in that day, says Yahweh, there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate,
and a wailing from the second quarter, and a great crashing from the hills.
1:11 Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh; for all the people of Canaan are undone; all they
that were laden with silver are cut off.
1:12 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps; and I
will punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Yahweh will not
do good, neither will he do evil.
1:13 And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yes, they shall
build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not
drink the wine thereof.
1:14 The great day of Yahweh is near, it is near and hastens greatly, even the voice of the
day of Yahweh; the mighty man cries there bitterly.
1:15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and
desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
1:16 a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high
battlements.
1:17 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they
have sinned against Yahweh; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh
as dung.
1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of
Yahweh's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he
will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all them that dwell in the land.
2:1 Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O nation that has no shame;
2:2 before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger
of Yahweh come upon you, before the day of Yahweh's anger come upon you.
2:3 Seek ye Yahweh, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek
righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Yahweh's anger.
2:4 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at
noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
2:5 Woe to the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of
Yahweh is against you, O Canaan, the land of the Philistines; I will destroy you, that
there shall be no inhabitant.
2:6 And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
2:7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed their
flocks thereupon; in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening; for
Yahweh their God will visit them, and bring back their captivity.
2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, with
which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
2:9 Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as
Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and saltpits,
and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall make a prey of them, and the
remnant of my nation shall inherit them.
2:10 This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified
themselves against the people of Yahweh of hosts.
2:11 Yahweh will be terrible to them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and
men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the nations.
2:12 You Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
2:13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and will
make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like the wilderness.
2:14 And herds shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the
pelican and the porcupine shall lodge in the capitals thereof; their voice shall sing in the
windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he has laid bare the cedar-work.
2:15 This is the joyous city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is
none besides me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every
one that passes by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
3:1 Woe to her that is rebellious and polluted! to the oppressing city!
3:2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Yahweh; she
drew not near to her God.
3:3 Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they
leave nothing till the morrow.
3:4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the
sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
3:5 Yahweh in the midst of her is righteous; he will not do iniquity; every morning does
he bring his justice to light, he fails not; but the unjust knows no shame.
3:6 I have cut off nations; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste,
so that none passes by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is
no inhabitant.
3:7 I said, Only fear you me; receive correction; so her dwelling shall not be cut off,
according to all that I have appointed concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted
all their doings.
3:8 Therefore wait ye for me, says Yahweh, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my
determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon
them my indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the
fire of my jealousy.
3:9 For then will I turn to the peoples of a pure language, that they may all call upon the
name of Yahweh, to serve him with one consent.
3:10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my
dispersed, shall bring my offering.
3:11 In that day shall you not be put to shame for all your doings, in which you have
transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly
exulting ones, and you shall no more be haughty in my holy mountain.
3:12 But I will leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor people, and they shall take
refuge in the name of Yahweh.
3:13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful
tongue be found in their mouth; for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make
them afraid.
3:14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O
daughter of Jerusalem.
3:15 Yahweh has taken away your judgments, he has cast out your enemy: the King of
Israel, even Yahweh, is in the midst of you; you shall not fear evil any more.
3:16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear you not; O Zion, let not your hands be
slack.
3:17 Yahweh your God is in the midst of you, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice
over you with joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over you with singing.
3:18 I will gather them that sorrow for the solemn assembly, who were of you; to whom
the burden upon her was a reproach.
3:19 Behold, at that time I will deal with all them that afflict you; and I will save that
which is lame, and gather that which was driven away; and I will make them a praise and
a name, whose shame has been in all the earth.
3:20 At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you; for I will make
you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I bring back your
captivity before your eyes, says Yahweh.
End of Zephaniah
The Book of the Prophet Haggai
Haggai
1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month,
came the word of Yahweh by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
1:2 Thus speaks Yahweh of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time for us to
come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.
1:3 Then came the word of Yahweh by Haggai the prophet, saying,
1:4 Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lies
waste?
1:5 Now therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts: Consider your ways.
1:6 You have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but
ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earns
wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.
1:7 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Consider your ways.
1:8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure
in it, and I will be glorified, says Yahweh.
1:9 You looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did
blow upon it. Why? says Yahweh of hosts. Because of my house that lies waste,
while ye run every man to his own house.
1:10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its
fruit.
1:11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the
grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings
forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
1:12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high
priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Yahweh their God, and the
words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him; and the people did fear
before Yahweh.
1:13 Then spoke Haggai Yahweh's messenger in Yahweh's message to the people,
saying, I am with you, says Yahweh.
1:14 And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of
Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all
the remnant of the people; and they came and did work on the house of Yahweh of hosts,
their God,
1:15 in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of
Darius the king.
2:1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of
Yahweh by Haggai the prophet, saying,
2:2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the
son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
2:3 Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? and how do ye see it
now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?
2:4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says Yahweh; and be strong, O Joshua, son of
Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, says Yahweh, and
work: for I am with you, says Yahweh of hosts,
2:5 according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, and my
Spirit abode among you: fear ye not.
2:6 For thus says Yahweh of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the
heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
2:7 and I will shake all nations; and the precious things of all nations shall come; and I
will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of hosts.
2:8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says Yahweh of hosts.
2:9 The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says Yahweh of hosts;
and in this place will I give peace, says Yahweh of hosts.
The Book of the Prophet Haggai
2:10 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came
the word of Yahweh by Haggai the prophet, saying,
2:11 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
2:12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread,
or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests answered
and said, No.
2:13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of
these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
2:14 Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me,
says Yahweh; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is
unclean.
2:15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid
upon a stone in the temple of Yahweh.
2:16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but
ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty vessels, there were but twenty.
2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your
hands; yet ye turned not to me, says Yahweh.
2:18 Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the four and twentieth day
of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid,
consider it.
2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yes, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate,
and the olive-tree have not brought forth; from this day will I bless you.
2:20 And the word of Yahweh came the second time to Haggai in the four and twentieth
day of the month, saying,
2:21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the
earth;
2:22 and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; and I will destroy the strength of the
kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them;
and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
2:23 In that day, says Yahweh of hosts, will I take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the
son of Shealtiel, says Yahweh, and will make you as a signet; for I have chosen you, says
Yahweh of hosts.
End of Haggai
The Book of the Prophet Zechariah
Zechariah
1:1 In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Yahweh to
Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
1:2 Yahweh was sore displeased with your fathers.
1:3 Therefore say you to them, Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Return to me, says Yahweh
of hosts, and I will return to you, says Yahweh of hosts.
1:4 Be ye not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus says
Yahweh of hosts, Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but
they did not hear, nor hearken to me, says Yahweh.
1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
1:6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did
they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Yahweh of hosts
thought to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so has he dealt
with us.
1:7 Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in
the second year of Darius, came the word of Yahweh to Zechariah the son of Berechiah,
the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,
1:8 I saw in the night, and, behold, a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among
the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel,
and white.
1:9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said to
me, I will show you what these are.
1:10 And the man that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said, These are they
whom Yahweh has sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
1:11 And they answered the angel of Yahweh that stood among the myrtle-trees, and
said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still, and
is at rest.
1:12 Then the angel of Yahweh answered and said, O Yahweh of hosts, how long will
you not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which you have had
indignation these seventy years?
1:13 And Yahweh answered the angel that talked with me with good words, even
comfortable words.
1:14 So the angel that talked with me said to me, Cry, saying, Thus says Yahweh of
hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
1:15 And I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little
displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
1:16 Therefore thus says Yahweh: I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies; my house
shall be built in it, says Yahweh of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over
Jerusalem.
1:17 Cry yet again, saying, Thus says Yahweh of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with
prosperity; and Yahweh shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
1:18 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, four horns.
1:19 And I said to the angel that talked with me, What are these? And he answered me,
These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.
1:20 And Yahweh showed me four smiths.
1:21 Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns
which scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head; but these are come to terrify
them, to cast down the horns of the nations, which lifted up their horn against the land of
Judah to scatter it.
2:1 And I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his
hand.
2:2 Then said I, Whither go you? And he said to me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what
is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.
2:3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to
meet him,
2:4 and said to him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited
as villages without walls, by reason of the multitude of men and cattle therein.
2:5 For I, says Yahweh, will be to her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in
the midst of her.
2:6 Ho, ho, flee from the land of the north, says Yahweh; for I have spread you abroad as
the four winds of the heavens, says Yahweh.
2:7 Ho Zion, escape, you that dwell with the daughter of Babylon.
2:8 For thus says Yahweh of hosts: After glory has he sent me to the nations which
plundered you; for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye.
2:9 For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that
served them; and ye shall know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me.
2:10 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of
you, says Yahweh.
2:11 And many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my
people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of hosts has
sent me to you.
2:12 And Yahweh shall inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose
Jerusalem.
2:13 Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he is waked up out of his holy habitation.
3:1 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh, and
Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
3:2 And Yahweh said to Satan, Yahweh rebuke you, O Satan; yes, Yahweh that has
chosen Jerusalem rebuke you: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?
3:3 Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.
3:4 And he answered and spoke to those that stood before him, saying, Take the filthy
garments from off him. And to him he said, Behold, I have caused your iniquity to pass
from you, and I will clothe you with rich apparel.
3:5 And I said, Let them set a clean mitre upon his head. So they set a clean mitre upon
his head, and clothed him with garments; and the angel of Yahweh was standing by.
3:6 And the angel of Yahweh protested to Joshua, saying,
3:7 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my
charge, then you also shall judge my house, and shall also keep my courts, and I will give
you a place of access among these that stand by.
3:8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows that sit before you; for they
are men that are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.
3:9 For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; upon one stone are seven eyes:
behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, says Yahweh of hosts, and I will remove the
iniquity of that land in one day.
3:10 In that day, says Yahweh of hosts, shall ye invite every man his neighbor under the
vine and under the fig-tree.
4:1 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is
wakened out of his sleep.
4:2 And he said to me, What see you? And I said, I have seen, and, behold, a
candlestick all of gold, with its bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps upon it; there
are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are upon the top thereof;
4:3 and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the
left side thereof.
4:4 And I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these,
my lord?
4:5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said to me, Know you not what
these are? And I said, No, my lord.
4:6 Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of Yahweh to
Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says Yahweh of hosts.
4:7 Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain; and
he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, to it.
4:9 The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also
finish it; and you shall know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you.
4:10 For who has despised the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and
shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Yahweh, which
run to and fro through the whole earth.
4:11 Then answered I, and said to him, What are these two olive-trees upon the right side
of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
4:12 And I answered the second time, and said to him, What are these two olive-
branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that empty the golden oil out of
themselves?
4:13 And he answered me and said, Know you not what these are? And I said, No, my
lord.
4:14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole
earth.
5:1 Then again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll.
5:2 And he said to me, What see you? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length
thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
5:3 Then said he to me, This is the curse that goes forth over the face of the whole land:
for every one that steals shall be cut off on the one side according to it; and every one that
swears shall be cut off on the other side according to it.
5:4 I will cause it to go forth, says Yahweh of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of
the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name; and it shall abide in
the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones
thereof.
5:5 Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said to me, Lift up now your eyes,
and see what is this that goes forth.
5:6 And I said, What is it? And he said, This is the ephah that goes forth. He said
moreover, This is their appearance in all the land
5:7 (and, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead); and this is a woman sitting in the
midst of the ephah.
5:8 And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the ephah;
and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
5:9 Then lifted I up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women, and the
wind was in their wings; now they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up
the ephah between earth and heaven.
5:10 Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
5:11 And he said to me, To build her a house in the land of Shinar: and when it is
prepared, she shall be set there in her own place.
6:1 And again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came four chariots out
from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.
6:2 In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;
6:3 and in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grizzled strong horses.
6:4 Then I answered and said to the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?
6:5 And the angel answered and said to me, These are the four winds of heaven, which go
forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.
6:6 The chariot in which are the black horses goes forth toward the north country; and the
white went forth after them; and the grizzled went forth toward the south country.
6:7 And the strong went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through
the earth: and he said, Get you away from here, walk to and fro through the earth. So
they walked to and fro through the earth.
6:8 Then cried he to me, and spoke to me, saying, Behold, they that go toward the north
country have quieted my spirit in the north country.
6:10 Take of them from the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah; and
come you the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, whither
they are come from Babylon;
6:11 yes, take from them silver and gold, and make crowns, and set them upon the head
of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;
6:12 and speak to him, saying, Thus speaks Yahweh of hosts, saying, Behold, the man
whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the
temple of Yahweh;
6:13 even he shall build the temple of Yahweh; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit
and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne; and the counsel of
peace shall be between them both.
6:14 And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the
son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Yahweh.
6:15 And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of Yahweh; and ye shall
know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will
diligently obey the voice of Yahweh your God.
7:1 And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of Yahweh came
to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, that is, Chislev.
7:2 Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat
the favor of Yahweh,
7:3 and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts, and to the prophets,
saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many
years?
7:4 Then came the word of Yahweh of hosts to me, saying,
7:5 Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and
mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast
to me, even to me?
7:6 And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for
yourselves?
7:7 Should ye not hear the words which Yahweh cried by the former prophets, when
Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the
South and the lowland were inhabited?
7:8 And the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying,
7:9 Thus has Yahweh of hosts spoken, saying, Execute true judgment, and show kindness
and compassion every man to his brother;
7:10 and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let
none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.
7:11 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears,
that they might not hear.
7:12 Yes, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and
the words which Yahweh of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore
there came great wrath from Yahweh of hosts.
7:13 And it is come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry,
and I will not hear, said Yahweh of hosts;
7:14 but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not
known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor
returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.
8:1 And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,
8:2 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am
jealous for her with great wrath.
8:3 Thus says Yahweh: I am returned to Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem:
and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of Yahweh of hosts,
The holy mountain.
8:4 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the
streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.
8:5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
8:6 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this
people in those days, should it also be marvellous in my eyes? says Yahweh of hosts.
8:7 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and
from the west country;
8:8 and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall
be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
8:9 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these
words from the mouth of the prophets that were in the day that the foundation of the
house of Yahweh of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
8:10 For before those days there was no wage for a man, nor any wage for beast; neither
was there any peace to him that went out or came in, because of the adversary: for I set
all men every one against his neighbor.
8:11 But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says
Yahweh of hosts.
8:12 For there shall be the seed of peace; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall
give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of
this people to inherit all these things.
8:13 And it shall come to pass that, as ye were a curse among the nations, O house of
Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let
your hands be strong.
8:14 For thus says Yahweh of hosts: As I thought to do evil to you, when your fathers
provoked me to wrath, says Yahweh of hosts, and I repented not;
8:15 so again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of
Judah: fear ye not.
8:16 These are the things that ye shall do: speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor;
execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates;
8:17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false
oath: for all these are things that I hate, says Yahweh.
8:18 And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying,
8:19 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth,
and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and
gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love truth and peace.
8:20 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come peoples,
and the inhabitants of many cities;
8:21 and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to
entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of hosts: I will go also.
8:22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek Yahweh of hosts in
Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.
8:23 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall
take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him
that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.
9:1 The burden of the word of Yahweh upon the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be
its resting-place (for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh);
9:2 and Hamath, also, which borders upon it; Tyre and Sidon, because they are very wise.
9:3 And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine
gold as the mire of the streets.
9:4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she
shall be devoured with fire.
9:5 Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gaza also, and shall be sore pained; and Ekron, for her
expectation shall be put to shame; and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon
shall not be inhabited.
9:6 And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
9:7 And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between
his teeth; and he also shall be a remnant for our God; and he shall be as a chieftain in
Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.
9:8 And I will encamp about my house against the army, that none pass through or return;
and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with my eyes.
9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your
king comes to you; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey,
even upon a colt the foal of a donkey.
9:10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the
battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace to the nations: and his dominion
shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
9:11 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant I have set free your prisoners
from the pit in which is no water.
9:12 Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even today do I declare that I will
render double to you.
9:13 For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up
your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece, and will make you as the sword of a
mighty man.
9:14 And Yahweh shall be seen over them; and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning;
and the Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.
9:15 Yahweh of hosts will defend them; and they shall devour, and shall tread down the
sling-stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be
filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.
9:16 And Yahweh their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they
shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted on high over his land.
9:17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the
young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
10:1 Ask ye of Yahweh rain in the time of the latter rain, even of Yahweh that makes
lightnings; and he will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
10:2 For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have
told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are
afflicted, because there is no shepherd.
10:3 Mine anger is kindled against the shepherds, and I will punish the he-goats; for
Yahweh of hosts has visited his flock, the house of Judah, and will make them as his
goodly horse in the battle.
10:4 From him shall come forth the corner-stone, from him the nail, from him the battle
bow, from him every ruler together.
10:5 And they shall be as mighty men, treading down their enemies in the mire of the
streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on
horses shall be confounded.
10:6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I
will bring them back; for I have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I had not
cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.
10:7 And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as
through wine; yes, their children shall see it, and rejoice; their heart shall be glad in
Yahweh.
10:8 I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they shall
increase as they have increased.
10:9 And I will sow them among the peoples; and they shall remember me in far
countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return.
10:10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of
Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be
found for them.
10:11 And he will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea,
and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought
down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.
10:12 And I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they shall walk up and down in his
name, says Yahweh.
11:1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.
11:2 Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail,
O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.
11:3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the
roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.
11:4 Thus said Yahweh my God: Feed the flock of slaughter;
11:5 whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty; and they that sell them
say, Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich; and their own shepherds pity them not.
11:6 For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says Yahweh; but, lo, I will
deliver the men every one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king; and
they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
11:7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock. And I took to me two
staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
11:8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and
their soul also loathed me.
11:9 Then said I, I will not feed you: that which dies, let it die; and that which is to be cut
off, let it be cut off; and let them that are left eat every one the flesh of another.
11:10 And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant
which I had made with all the peoples.
11:11 And it was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that gave heed to me
knew that it was the word of Yahweh.
11:12 And I said to them, If ye think good, give me my fee; and if not, forbear. So they
weighed for my payment thirty pieces of silver.
11:13 And Yahweh said to me, Cast it to the potter, that maginificent price at which I was
prized by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in
the house of Yahweh.
11:14 Then I cut asunder my other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood
between Judah and Israel.
11:15 And Yahweh said to me, Take to you yet again the instruments of a foolish
shepherd.
11:16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit those that are cut
off, neither will seek those that are scattered, nor heal that which is broken, nor feed that
which is sound; but he will eat the flesh of the fat sheep, and will tear their hoofs in
pieces.
11:17 Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaves the flock! the sword shall be upon his
arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be
utterly darkened.
12:1 The burden of the word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Thus says Yahweh, who
stretches forth the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of
man within him:
12:2 behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the peoples round about, and
upon Judah also shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem.
12:3 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone
for all the peoples; all that burden themselves with it shall be sore wounded; and all the
nations of the earth shall be gathered together against it.
12:4 In that day, says Yahweh, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with
madness; and I will open my eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of
the peoples with blindness.
12:5 And the chieftains of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are
my strength in Yahweh of hosts their God.
12:6 In that day will I make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and
like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on
the right hand and on the left; and they of Jerusalem shall yet again dwell in their own
place, even in Jerusalem.
12:7 Yahweh also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David
and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified above Judah.
12:8 In that day shall Yahweh defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and he that is feeble
among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the
angel of Yahweh before them.
12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that
come against Jerusalem.
12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look to me whom they have pierced;
and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness
for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.
12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of
Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12:12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David
apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives
apart;
12:13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the
Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
12:14 all the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of hosts, that I will cut off the
names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will
cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
13:3 And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his
mother that begat him shall say to him, You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name
of Yahweh; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he
prophesies.
13:4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one
of his vision, when he prophesies; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
13:5 but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a
bondman from my youth.
13:6 And one shall say to him, What are these wounds between your arms? Then he
shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
13:7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, says
Yahweh of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my
hand upon the little ones.
13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, says Yahweh, two parts therein shall
be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
13:9 And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined,
and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I
will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Yahweh is my God.
14:1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil shall be divided in the midst of
you.
14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken,
and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into
captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
14:3 Then shall Yahweh go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in
the day of battle.
14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before
Jerusalem on the east; and the mount of Olives shall be cleft in the midst thereof toward
the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the
mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
14:5 And ye shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains
shall reach to Azel; yes, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the
days of Uzziah king of Judah; and Yahweh my God shall come, and all the holy ones
with you.
14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light; the bright ones
shall withdraw themselves:
14:7 but it shall be one day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it
shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.
14:8 And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;
half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea: in summer
and in winter shall it be.
14:9 And Yahweh shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall Yahweh be one, and
his name one.
14:10 All the land shall be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of
Jerusalem; and she shall be lifted up, and shall dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate
to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the
king's wine-presses.
14:11 And men shall dwell therein, and there shall be no more curse; but Jerusalem shall
dwell safely.
14:12 And this shall be the plague with which Yahweh will smite all the peoples that
have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon
their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall
consume away in their mouth.
14:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Yahweh shall be
among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand
shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
14:14 And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round
about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.
14:15 And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the
donkey, and of all the beasts that shall be in those camps, as that plague.
14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations that came
against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts,
and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
14:17 And it shall be, that whoso of all the families of the earth goes not up to Jerusalem
to worship the King, Yahweh of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain.
14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, neither shall it be upon them;
there shall be the plague with which Yahweh will smite the nations that go not up to keep
the feast of tabernacles.
14:19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that
go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
14:20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLY UNTO YAHWEH;
and the pots in Yahweh's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
14:21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holy unto Yahweh of hosts; and
all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil therein: and in that day there
shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of hosts.
End of Zechariah
The Book of the Prophet Malachi
Malachi
1:1 The burden of the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
1:2 I have loved you, says Yahweh. Yet ye say, In what way have you loved us? Was
not Esau Jacob's brother, says Yahweh: yet I loved Jacob;
1:3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the
jackals of the wilderness.
1:4 Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste
places; thus says Yahweh of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall
call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Yahweh has
indignation for ever.
1:5 And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Yahweh be magnified beyond the border of
Israel.
1:6 A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is my
honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says Yahweh of hosts to you, O
priests, that despise my name. And ye say, In what way have we despised your name?
1:7 You offer polluted bread upon my altar. And ye say, How have we polluted you?
In that ye say, The table of Yahweh is contemptible.
1:8 And when ye offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil! and when ye offer the lame
and sick, it is no evil! Present it now to your governor; will he be pleased with you? or
will he accept your person? says Yahweh of hosts.
1:9 And now, I pray you, entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us: this has
been by your means: will he accept any of your persons? says Yahweh of hosts.
1:10 Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that ye might not
kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says Yahweh of hosts, neither
will I accept an offering at your hand.
1:11 For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my name shall be
great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered to my name, and a
pure offering: for my name shall be great among the Gentiles, says Yahweh of hosts.
1:12 But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of Yahweh is polluted, and the fruit
thereof, even its food, is contemptible.
1:13 You say also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, says Yahweh
of hosts; and ye have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the
sick; thus ye bring the offering: should I accept this at your hand? says Yahweh.
1:14 But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to
the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, says Yahweh of hosts, and my name is
terrible among the Gentiles.
2:1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
2:2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says
Yahweh of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings;
yes, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
2:3 Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung
of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it.
2:4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may
be with Levi, says Yahweh of hosts.
2:5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might
fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.
2:6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips: he
walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
2:7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his
mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of hosts.
2:8 But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye
have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Yahweh of hosts.
2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people,
according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
2:10 Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we deal
treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
2:11 Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in
Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has
married the daughter of a foreign god.
2:12 Yahweh will cut off, to the man that does this, him that wakes and him that answers,
out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offers an offering to Yahweh of hosts.
2:13 And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and
with sighing, insomuch that he regards not the offering any more, neither receives it with
good will at your hand.
2:14 Yet ye say, Why does he not? It is because Yahweh has been witness between you
and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is
your partner, and the wife of your covenant.
2:15 And did he not make them one, and it had the residue of the Spirit? And why did
he make them one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let
none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
2:16 For I hate divorce, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, and him that covers his garment
with violence, says Yahweh of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not
treacherously.
2:17 You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet ye say, In what way have we
wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh,
and he delights in them; or where is the God of justice?
3:1 Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord,
whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant,
whom ye desire, behold, he comes, says Yahweh of hosts.
3:2 But who can abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appears?
for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap:
3:3 and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi,
and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in
righteousness.
3:4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant to Yahweh, as in the days
of old, and as in ancient years.
3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the
sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that
oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the
sojourner from his right, and fear not me, says Yahweh of hosts.
3:6 For I, Yahweh, change not; therefore ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.
3:7 From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not
kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says Yahweh of hosts. But ye say,
In what way shall we return?
3:8 Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, In what manner have we robbed
you? In tithes and offerings.
3:9 You are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.
3:10 Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house,
and prove me now herewith, says Yahweh of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of
your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, says
Yahweh of hosts.
3:12 And all nations shall call you happy; for ye shall be a delightsome land, says
Yahweh of hosts.
3:13 Your words have been stout against me, says Yahweh. Yet ye say, What have we
spoken against you?
3:14 You have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his
charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of hosts?
3:15 And now we call the proud happy; yes, they that work wickedness are built up; yes,
they tempt God, and escape.
3:16 Then they that feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh hearkened, and
heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Yahweh,
and that thought upon his name.
3:17 And they shall be mine, says Yahweh of hosts, even my own possession, in the day
that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him.
3:18 Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him
that serves God and him that serves him not.
4:1 For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work
wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up, says Yahweh of
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
4:2 But to you that fear my name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his
wings;64 and ye shall go forth, and gambol as calves from the stall.
4:3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your
feet in the day that I make, says Yahweh of hosts.
4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for
all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of
Yahweh come.
4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children
to their fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
End of Malachi
64
Healing in his wings, or corners, or tassels. See Matthew 9:20
The New Testament
The New Testament
The Gospel According To Matthew
Matthew
Chapter 1
The Genealogy of Jesus
A record of the genealogy of Jesus 65 the Christ, the son of David, the son of
1
Abraham:
2
Abraham begot Isaac,
and Isaac begot Jacob,
and Jacob begot Judah and his brothers,
3
and Judah begot Perez and Zerah,
by Tamar,
and Perez begot Hezron,
and Hezron begot Aram,
4and Aram begot Amminadab,
and Amminadab begot Nahshon,

and Nahshon begot Salmon,
5and Salmon begot Boaz, by Rahab,
and Boaz begot Obed, by Ruth,

and Obed begot Jesse,
6and Jesse begot David the King.
David begot Solomon, by her who belonged to Uriah,
7and
Solomon begot Rehoboam,
and Rehoboam begot Abijah,
and Abijah begot Asa,66
8and Asa begot Jehoshaphat,
and Jehoshaphat begot Joram,

and Joram begot Uzziah,
9and Uzziah begot Jotham,
and Jotham begot Ahaz,

and Ahaz begot Hezekiah,
10and Hezekiah begot Manasseh,
and Manasseh begot Amon,

and Amon begot Josiah,
11and Josiah begot Jeconiah
and his brothers at the time of

the exile to Babylon.
12After
the exile to Babylon:
Jeconiah begot Shealtiel,

and Shealtiel begot Zerubbabel,
13and Zerubbabel begot Abiud,
and Abiud begot Eliakim,

and Eliakim begot Azor,
14and Azor begot Zadok,
and Zadok begot Akim,
65
Greek, , "Yaysoos," from the Hebrew "Yayshua," which was a later form of the Hebrew name of
Joshua, "Y'hoshua."
66
Instead of Asa, many manuscripts read Asaph. In the genealogy in I Chronicles 3:10 most Greek
manuscripts read Asa, though ms. 60 reads Asab. In Antiquities VIII.XI.3—xii.6 Josephus uses Asanos,
though in the Latin translation Asaph appears. The man's name, of course, was Asa. Is it not written in the
annals of the kings of Israel and Judah?
and Akim begot Eliud,
15
and Eliud begot Eleazar,
and Eleazar begot Matthan,
and Matthan begot Jacob,
16and Jacob begot Joseph,
the husband67 of Mary,

of whom was born Jesus,
the one called the Christ.
17Thus
there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from
David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to the Anointed One. 68
The Birth of Jesus

18
This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about. His mother Mary was pledged
to be married to Joseph, but before they consummated, she was found to be pregnant,
from the Holy Spirit. 19But her husband Joseph, being a righteous man, did not want to
make an example of her, and planned to divorce her secretly.
20But while he was mulling these things over, an angel of the Lord appeared to him
by means of a dream, and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home
as your wife, because what is conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit. 21She will give
birth to a son, and you are to call his name Jesus, because he will save his people from
their sins."69
22All this took place in order that what was said by the Lord through the prophet
would be fulfilled, which says: 23"Behold, the virgin shall be pregnant, and shall bear a
son, and they shall call his name Immanuel,"70 which when translated is, "God with us."
24And when Joseph awoke from his sleep, he did what the angel of the Lord had
commanded him, and he took his bride home. 25But he did not know her71 until she
gave birth to her firstborn son. And he called his name Jesus.
Chapter 2
The Visit of the Magi
1Now
after Jesus had been born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod,
behold, Magi72 from out of the east showed up in Jerusalem, 2saying, "Where is the one
born king of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east 73 and have come to worship
him."
3Upon hearing this, King Herod was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4And
having assembled all the chief priests and Torah scholars of the people, he inquired of
them as to where the Messiah was to be born.
67
See the following article on the Internet comparing this genealogy to Luke's genealogy:
http://www.carm.org/diff/2geneologies.htm
68
Matthew skips after Josiah, Jehoiakim and Jehoiachin (2 Kings 23:34 - 24:6). And his last set of
generations are only 13, not 14. So this arrangement must be a teaching or memorization aid. Another
interesting thing is that fourteen plus fourteen plus fourteen equals six groups of seven generations, 42 in all (6
sevens). In Hebrew, in the Old Testament, a group of seven of something is called a week of something.
There were six weeks of generations prior to the Messiah, and the Messiah ushered in the seventh week, the
Sabbath week of generations. The Messiah brought in another rest from creation. As God took six days to
create the First Adam, and then he ceased, so God also took six weeks of generations to create the Second
Adam, and then he ceased.
69
The Greek name, , "Yaysoos," came from the "Yayshua," which was a later form of the Hebrew
name of Joshua, "Y'hoshua." The name means Ya is Salvation.
70
Isaiah 7:14
71
"Did not know her" is a euphemism meaning, "he did not have sex with her."
72
Plural of Magus, one trained in astrology and dream interpretation, probably in a tradition based on
Zoroastrianism, founded by the Persian prophet Zarathustra or Zoroaster.
73
Or in the rising...Also in verse 9.
5And they told him, "In Bethlehem in Judea, for this is what has been written through
the prophet:
6
" 'And you, Bethlehem, in the land
of Judah,
are by no means least among
the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will be the shepherd of
my people Israel.'74"
7
Then Herod called the Magi secretly and ascertained from them what time the star
had appeared. 8And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go and search diligently for
the child. And when you have found him, bring word back to me, so I may come and
worship him also."
9
After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and lo, the star, the one they
had seen in the east, kept moving on in front of them, until it arrived and stopped over
where the child was. 10When they saw the star, they rejoiced with a surpassingly great
joy. 11And upon coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and
they fell prostrate and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures, and presented
him with gifts of gold, and of incense and of myrrh. 12And having been warned in a
dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their country by another route.
The Escape to Egypt

13And when they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to
Joseph, saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there
until I tell you, for Herod intends to search for the child to destroy him."
14So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and escaped into
Egypt, 15and was there until the death of Herod, in order that the thing spoken by the
Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled, which says: "Out of Egypt I called my
son."75
16When Herod realized that he had been fooled by the Magi, he was extremely
enraged, and sent orders and did away with all the male children in Bethlehem and all its
environs who were two years old or under, in accordance with the time he had
ascertained from the Magi. 17Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was
fulfilled, which says:
18"A
voice heard in Ramah,
a weeping and loud wailing,
Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more."76
The Return to Nazareth

19And
after Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appears by a dream to Joseph in
Egypt, 20saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go into the land of Israel, for
those who were seeking the child's life are dead."
21So he got up, took the child and his mother and entered the land of Israel. 22But
when he heard that Archelaus was reigning in Judea in place of his father Herod, he was
afraid to go there. And having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of
74
Micah 5:2
75
Hosea 11:1
76
Jeremiah 31:15
Galilee, 23and went and lived in a town called Nazareth, so that what was spoken through
the prophets would be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene. 77
Chapter 3
John the Baptizer Prepares the Way
1
In those days John the Baptizer appears, preaching in the desert, 2saying, "Repent,
for the kingdom of heaven has drawn near." 3This is the one spoken of through Isaiah
the prophet:
"A voice calling in the wilderness,

'Prepare the way for the Lord,
make the paths straight for him. 78
4
This man John had clothing of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and
his food was locusts and wild honey. 5At that time Jerusalem and all Judea and the
whole region of the Jordan went out to him. 6And confessing their sins, they were
baptized by him in the Jordan River.
7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to the baptism, he
said to them, "You spawn of snakes! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
8Then produce fruit characteristic of repentance. 9And do not think you can say to
yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that out of these stones God
can raise up children for Abraham. 10And the ax is already set to the root of the trees.
Every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
11"I baptize you in water for repentance, but after me will come one who is more
powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to remove. He will baptize you in the
Holy Spirit and in fire: 12his winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear out his
threshing floor, gathering the wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with fire
unquenchable."
The Baptism of Jesus

13At that time Jesus arrives at the Jordan, out of Galilee, to John, to be baptized by
him. 14But John tried to deter him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you are
coming to me?"
15In reply, Jesus said to him, "Permit it now; it is proper for us to complete all
righteousness this way." Then John consented.

16As soon as he was baptized, Jesus came up out of the water, and behold, the
heavens were opened, and he saw the Holy Spirit of God coming down like a dove,
coming onto him. 17And behold, a voice from the heavens, saying, "This is my Son,
whom I love; with whom I am well pleased."
Chapter 4
The Temptation of Jesus
1Then
Jesus was led up into the desert by the Spirit, to be tempted by the devil.
2And he fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was hungry. 3The tempter
came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become
loaves of bread."
4But he in answer said, "It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every
word coming out of the mouth of God.'79"
77
Greek: Nazoraios. A Nazarene is someone from the town of Nazareth, just as a Houstonian is someone
from the city of Houston. A Nazarene is not to be confused with a Nazirite, which is someone who took a
time-limited vow not to cut his hair or to eat grapes or drink wine. We know Jesus was not a Nazirite, because
he drank wine. But what Old Testament prophecies was Matthew referring to? See the endnote at the end of
my stand-alone translation of Matthew, which addresses this question at length.
78
Isaiah 40:3
5Then the devil takes him into the holy city and had him stand on the gable of the
temple, 6and he says to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is
written:
'He will command his angels

concerning you;
and they will lift you up on their hands,
so you will not strike your
foot against a stone.'80"
7
Jesus said to him, "It is also written: 'You shall not put Yahweh your God to a
test.'81"
8
Again, the devil led him to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms
of the world and their splendor, 9and said to Jesus, "These I will give to you, if you will
fall down and worship me."
10
Then Jesus said to him, "Go away, Satan! For it is written: 'You shall worship
Yahweh your God, and him only shall you serve.'82
"
11Then the devil left him alone, and lo, angels had come and were attending him.
Jesus Begins to Preach

12And
when he heard that John had been arrested, he went away to Galilee. 13And
forsaking Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum, beside the sea, in the territory of
Zebulun and Naphtali, 14so that the thing spoken through Isaiah the prophet might be
fulfilled, which says:
15"Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,

the road by the sea,
on the other end of the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles—
16the people sitting in darkness
have seen a great light;

and on those sitting in the land of the
shadow of death
a light has dawned."83
17From
that time on Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, for the kingdom of
heaven is near."
The Calling of Simon, andrew, James, and John

18And walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter,
and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishers.
19And he says to them, "Come you two, follow me, and I will make you fishers of
people." 20And they followed him immediately, leaving the nets.

21And going on from there, he saw another set of two brothers, James the son of
Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets,
and he called them. 22And they immediately followed him, leaving the boat and their
father.
79
Deuteronomy 8:3, where the Hebrew says "every thing coming from the mouth of God." Here in the
Greek as well, the word used is "hreema" which does not just mean "word" but "matter, teaching, statement,
thing."
80
Psalm 91:11,12
81
Deuteronomy 6:16
82
Deuteronomy 6:13
83
Isaiah 9:1, 2
Jesus Heals the Sick
23
And he went around through all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and
proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness
among the people. 24And news about him spread all over Syria, and they brought to him
all who were ill with various diseases and severe pain, the demon-possessed, and
epileptics and the paralyzed, and he healed them. 25And many crowds followed him,
from Galilee and the Ten Cities, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
Chapter 5
The Beatitudes
1And seeing the crowds, he went up to the mountainside. And when he sat down
his disciples came to him, 2and opening his mouth, he began to teach them, saying:
3
"Blessed are the poor in spirit,84
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.

5Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.

6Blessed are they who hunger and thirst
for righteousness,
for they will be satisfied.
7Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.

8Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.

9Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called

offspring of God.
10Blessed are those who are persecuted
because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11"Blessed
are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of
evil against you because of me. 12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in
heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you."
Salt and Light

13"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt is blanded down, with what will it be
made salty? It is no longer potent enough for anything except to be thrown outside and
trampled underfoot of people.
14"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15Neither
do they light a lamp to put it under a basket, but rather on the stand, so it enlightens all
those in the house. 16In the same way, let your light shine in the view of people, such
that they will see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
The Fulfillment of the Law

17"Do
not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come
to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18For truly I say to you, until the sky and the earth
84
The meaning of the expression poor in spirit is difficult to determine with certainty. Bauer says the sense
is probably those who are poor in their inner life, not having a Pharisaic confidence in their own spiritual
adequacy. But I think the meaning is that we should, even if we are materially rich, live as though we were
poor, and think like we are poor. As the apostle Paul says also in I Cor. 7:30-31: "those who buy, should live
as though they did not possess, and those who use this world, as though they did not make full use of it."
pass away, not one iota, not one serif, will by any means pass away from the Law until
everything is carried out. 19Therefore, whoever looses one of the least of these
commandments, and teaches people the same, will be called least in the kingdom of
heaven, but whoever practices them and teaches them, this one will be called great in the
kingdom of heaven. 20For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the
Torah scholars and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
Adversaries
21
"You have heard that it was said to the people of long ago, 'Do not murder,85 and
anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.' 86 22But I tell you that anyone who is
angry with his brother will be subject to judgment.87 And anyone who says to his
brother, 'Raca,88 is answerable to the council.89 But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will
'
be in danger of the fire of Gehenna. 90
85
Exodus 20:13. This word phoneuw did not mean just murder, but homicide in general, including by
carelessness or negligence, and manslaughter. See for example Deuteronomy 19:6; Joshua 21:13. And the
word phoneuw did NOT include in its meaning the killing of non-human life. It was not used for the killing of
animals. Perhaps this verse would be better rendered, "Do not kill a human."
86
This is because the judgment, a trial, was necessary for the purpose of deciding whether the homicide was
justifiable or not. Not all homicide was punishable. The Law of Moses was full of discussion as to which
killings of a human being were punishable, and which were not. In the same way, later in verse 22, if you are
angry with your brother, you are subject to judgment. This is because not all anger is punishable; some anger
is righteous. Note that Jesus does not forbid anger here. He says that if you are angry, you are subject to a
trial. Quite a difference. The trial may find that your anger was justified. Paul said, "In your anger do not
sin..." (Ephesians 4:26, Psalm 4:4)
87
The Majority Text contains the word "eikeei," "without cause." This word is not in many witnesses,
including Papyrus 64, our oldest Greek manuscript of Matthew. Jerome states that the majority of ancient
manuscripts did not contain this addition. Opponents of the UBS Greek text object to this omission, because
they say that it forbids all anger, even righteous anger. Not so; it only says that if you are angry, you are in
danger of judgment. On the other hand, if the text reads "Do not be angry with your brother without a cause,"
that is so easy to get around. Practically everyone who is angry with his brother believes he has cause to be
angry. The end result is that there is no meaningful prohibition, no truly solemn warning here. Plus, it
misses the whole point of the phrase "will be subject to judgment." The whole point of the judgment is to
decide if there IS a cause. It makes no sense to say that if you are angry with your brother without a cause,
you will be tried, to see if there is a cause. Often the argument is made that the UBS reading, the one without
the phrase "without a cause," makes Jesus look like a sinner, since he was angry sometimes. Then what do the
people who argue this, do with the phrase later in this same verse, where the Majority Text says that someone
who says "You fool," is in danger of the fire of Gehenna? For Jesus did say to someone "You fool" in the
Majority Text, in Matthew 23:17.
88
An Aramaic term of contempt
89
The council of elders at the town gate was a common scene in the life of an ancient Israelite. By the time
of Jesus, there were three sizes of council, or religious court, in Judea. A local religious court (Bet Din) was
composed of three judges, at least one a Rabbi. This council would hear disputes and accusations and try
cases like a court. For higher cases, however, such as involving offenses punishable by death, as in
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 and 22:13-21, a court of twenty-three or more judges was required. Finally, the
supreme Sanhedrin in Jerusalem was composed of seventy men, plus the High Priest who presided over it.
The seventy was made up of three kinds of members: (1) high priests- the current high priest and former high
priests; (2) the Elders: tribal and family representatives of the lay aristocracy; and (3) and the Scribes, the
experts in the law from the Torah. The Sanhedrin's authority in civil matters was subject to the Romans'
limits, but in Jewish religious matters, it had complete authority, including a body of police and guards under its
command, by which to enforce its rulings. The Sanhedrin was abolished with the destruction of Jerusalem in
A.D. 70. The scribes later codified its accumulated conclusions, however, in the form of the written
Mishnah.
90
 From Gey-Hinnom, the name of a ravine south of Jerusalem, The Valley of the Son of Hinnom,
which was the trash heap or landfill for the city. The gargabe was perpetually on fire; the fire never went out.
See II Chron. 28:3; II Kings 23:10; Jeremiah 7:31-32; Joshua 15:8, 18:16. According to Jewish popular
belief, the Last Judgment was to take place there. Thus in the New Testament Gehenna means a place of
perpetual fire, further described as a lake of burning sulfur, whose fire can never be put out, and in which a
person never loses his being, but forever loses his well-being— that is, is forever separated from God and thus
anything good. At the present time, anyone who dies while out of God's favor goes to Hades (see chapter
21:27-33), which is a temporary storage hell. But later, at the end of Christ's kingdom on earth, Hades and
everyone in it will be thrown permanently into Gehenna (Revelation 20:5,10-15). This is called the Second
Death. There is no remedy for the Second Death. Jesus mentions Gehenna eleven times (nine times in the
Diatessaron). James uses the word once, in 3:6.
23"Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there you remember that
your brother has something against you, 24leave your gift there in front of the altar, and
first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
25"Get on good terms with your legal adversary quickly, while you are with him on
the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over
to the officer, and you be thrown in prison. 26Truly I tell you, by no means will you
come out of there until you have paid the last penny.
Adultery
"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery. 91 28But I tell you that
27 '
anyone who looks at a woman92 to lust for her has already committed adultery with her
in his heart. 29So if your right eye causes you to fall, rip it out and cast it away from
you. For it is expedient for you that one of your parts be destroyed and not your whole
body be cast into Gehenna. 30And if your right hand causes you to fall, cut it off and
cast it away from you. For it is expedient for you that one of your parts be destroyed
and not your whole body go away into Gehenna.
31"And it has been said, 'Anyone who releases 93 his wife must give her a "release of
interest form".'94 32But I tell you that anyone who releases his wife, except for grounds
of fornication,95 causes her to commit adultery, and anyone who marries a released
woman commits adultery.
Oaths
33"Again, you have heard that it was said to the people of long ago, 'Do not break
your oath,96 but pay out to the Lord your oaths.'97 34But I tell you not to promise with
an oath at all: neither by heaven, because it is God's throne; 35nor by the earth, for it is the
footstool of his feet, nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the Great King. 36Neither
swear by your head, since you have not the power to make a single hair white or black.
37But let your word be 'Yes' for 'Yes,' 'No' for 'No,' and beyond these is from evil.
An Eye For an Eye

38"You
have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' 98
39But I tell you not to resist the evil. On the contrary, whoever strikes you on the right
cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And the one wanting to sue and take your shirt,
surrender to him your jacket as well. 41And whoever conscripts you for one mile, go
with him two miles. 42Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one
who wants to borrow from you.
Love For Enemies

43"You
have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor99 and hate your enemy.'
44But I say to you: Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who
91
Exodus 20:13
92
That is, a woman not one's own wife.
93
"Releasing" is the opposite of "cleaving" or "joining."
94
Deuteronomy 24:1; but note that in the same passage in Deuteronomy, in verse 4, it says that such a
release defiles her. The Greek word translated "release of interest form" was used to signify a relinquishment
of property, a quit-claim.
95
Greek, porneia This word was used for generally any sexual intercourse that is not between a married
person and his or her spouse of the opposite sex. There was a different, more specific word for marital
unfaithfulness in particular: moicheia, and Jesus did not use it here. We know by the disciples' reaction in
verse 26 that Jesus was saying something more narrow and strict than what they had heard before.
96
Or Do not make an oath not intending to keep it.
97
Numbers 30:2; Leviticus 5:4-6
98
Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:20; Deuteronomy 19:21
99
Leviticus 19:18
hate you, and pray for those who insult you and are persecuting you, 45so that you be
children of your Father who is in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise upon the evil and
the good, and rains upon the righteous and the unrighteous. 46For if you love the ones
who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the revenue agents do the same?
47
And if you greet your own kind only, what are you doing beyond the ordinary? Do
not even the Gentiles do the same? 48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is
perfect.
Chapter 6
Giving to the Needy
1
"Be careful not to do your acts of tzedakah 100 in front of people, trying to be seen
by them, for in that case you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
2
"So when you do your charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet before you as the
hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the lanes, so they may be esteemed by people.
Truly I tell you, they have their reward in full. 3But you, when you do your giving to
the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your
giving may be in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Prayer
5"And
when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in
the synagogues and on the corners of the boulevards, so they will be seen by people.
Truly I tell you, they have their reward in full. 6But you when you pray, go into your
inner room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret.
Then your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
7But when you pray, do not speak thoughtless repetition like the Gentiles do. For
they suppose that because of the greater number of their words they will be heard. 8Do
not be like them therefore. You see, your Father knows what you need before you ever
ask him.
9"This, then, is how you should pray:
" 'Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name.
10Your kingdom come,
your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven.
11Give us today our daily bread.
12And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven

our debtors.
13And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.101

''
For yours is the kingdom,

and the power,
and the glory, for ever. Amen.”'102
100
acts of philanthropy, charity, righteousness
101
Or from evil.
102
Most manuscripts include the words: "For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.
Amen." But the witnesses indicating non-originality are ‫ א‬B D Z 0170 ƒ¹ 118 205 1582* ℓ547 ℓ2211
ita,aur,b,c,ff¹,h,l vg copmeg, bopt Diatessaronsyr Cyril-Jerusalemdub Gregory-Nyssa Cyril; Tertullian Cyprian
Ambrose Chromatius Jerome5/6 Augustine. The UBS textual commentary says that the words were added
probably for the sake of liturgy, adapted from 1 Chronicles 29:11-13. There is no previous instance in
Scripture of the exact words "for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." Some
claim these exact words are found in Hebrew in the Cabala and the Golden Dawn. And that therefore, they are
part of some Wicca initiation rites. But Jesus may have modeled these words loosely after King David's
14
For if you forgive people their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
15
But if you are not forgiving to people, neither will your Father forgive you your
trespasses.
Fasting
16"And when you fast, do not become of somber countenance like the hypocrites do,
for they disfigure their faces so that they will appear to people as fasting. Truly I tell
you, they have their reward in full. 17But you when you fast, anoint your head and wash
your face, 18so that you do not appear to people as fasting, but rather to your Father, who
is in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
Treasures in Heaven
19
"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and corrosion
eat away, and where thieves break through and steal. 20But accumulate for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor corrosion eat away, and where thieves do not
break through and steal. 21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22"The eye is the lamp of the body. So if your eye is open and generous, your
whole body will be bright. 23But if your eye is suspicious and stingy, your whole body
will be dark. If then darkness is the light in you, how great the darkness!
24"No one can serve two masters. Either you will spurn the one and love the other,
or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and
Mammon.103
Do Not Worry
25"Considering this, I tell you, do not worry for your life, what you will eat or what
you will drink, or for your body, what you will put on. Does not life mean more than
food, and the body more than clothes? 26Look at the birds of the sky, that they neither
sow nor reap nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Do you not
matter more than they? 27And who of you by worrying is able to add onto his life span
one foot?104
28"And about dress, why do you worry? Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow. They neither labor nor weave. 29Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his
splendor was dressed like one of these. 30Now if God so dresses the grass of the field,
which is here today and tomorrow thrown into the stove, how much more would he rather
dress you, O you of little faith? 31Therefore do not worry, saying, 'What would we eat?'
or 'What would we drink?' or 'What would we wear?' 32For the Gentiles are pursuing all
those things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need all those things. 33But
pursue first rather the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all those things will be
included for you as well.
34"Do not worry, then, for the next day, because the next day will have worries of
itself. Today's trouble is enough for the day. 105
blessing of Yahweh, on the occasion of the dedication of the beginning of the building of the temple, in I
Chronicles 29:11-13.
103
A common Aramaic word for wealth and property. Jesus taught us not to worry even about food or
clothes. He also said to pray: "Give us this day our DAILY bread." That means that to work so that you
have more than enough stores for just one day at a time, that is serving mammon. The apostle Paul said that
with food and clothes we should be content. (1 Timothy 6:8)
104
Literally, one cubit. There was an expression in classical Greek, "only one cubit of time." It is
legitimate therefore to translate this as "a single hour to his life."
105
There is no verb in the Greek text of this last sentence. Therefore, we cannot declare with certainty
whether this sentence is a command (imperative mood), or a statement (indicative mood). So this could also
be translated: "Let today's trouble be enough for the day."
Chapter 7
Correcting Others
1
"Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. 2For with what judgment you are
judging, you will be judged, and with what measure you are measuring out, it will be
measured to you.
3
"Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but the log in your own eye
you do not consider? 4Or how will you say to your brother, 'Let me pluck the speck out
of your eye,' and behold, in your own eye is a log? 5You hypocrite, first take the log out
of your eye, and then you will see clearly to pluck the speck out of your brother's eye.
6
"Do not give to curs what is sacred, and do not toss your pearls before swine, lest
they trample them with their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Ask, Seek, Knock

7
"Keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you will find; keep
knocking, and it will be opened to you. 8For everyone who keeps asking receives, and
the one who keeps seeking finds, and to the one who keeps knocking, it will be opened.
9"Or is there a man among you whose child will ask him for a loaf, who will give
him a rock? 10Or again, if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11If you therefore,
though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will
your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him?
12"In all things, then, whatever you would want people to do to you, this you also
should do to them, for this is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets.
False Prophets
13"Enter through the narrow gate. How wide the gate and broad the road that leads
to destruction, and how many are those going through it!
14How narrow the gate and troubled the road that leads to life, and how few are those
finding it!
15"Be on your guard against false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but
inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16By their fruits you will find them out. Do people
pick grapes from thorn bushes, or sweet figs from thistles? 17In the same way, every
good tree produces good fruit, but the weed tree produces evil fruit. 18A good tree
cannot bear evil fruit, nor a weed tree bear good fruit. 19Every tree that does not
produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20Thus by their fruits you will
find them out.
The Wise and Foolish Builders

21"Not everyone saying to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but
only the one doing the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on
that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out
demons and in your name perform many miracles?' 23And then I will declare to them on
record: 'I have never known you. Away from me, you workers of lawlessness!'
24"Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them shall be likened
to a prudent man who built his house on the bedrock. 25And the rain came down, and
the rivers came up, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it did not fall, for
it had been founded on the rock.
26"And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them shall be
likened to a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27And the rain came down and
the rivers came up and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great
was its fall."
28And it came about that when Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds
were amazed at his teaching, 29for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and
not like their Torah scholars.
Chapter 8
A Man With Leprosy
1
And when he came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him.
2
And behold, a leper approached and worshipped him, saying, "Lord, if you are willing,
you are able to cleanse me."
3
And stretching out his hand, he touched him, saying, "I am willing. Be cleansed."
And immediately his leprosy106 was cleansed. 4And Jesus says to him, "See that you
tell no one. But go instead and show yourself to the priest and offer the gift Moses
commanded, as a testimony to them."
The Faith of the Centurion

And when he had entered Capernaum, a centurion 107 came to him entreating him,
5
6
and saying, "My servant is laid up in the house a paralytic, being tormented terribly."
7He says to him, "I will come and heal him."
8But the centurion answered and said, "Lord, I am not worthy that you enter under
my roof. But just say a word, and my servant will be healed. 9For I too am a man
under authority, having soldiers under myself. And I say to this one, 'Go,' and he goes,
and to another, 'Come,' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does."
10And Jesus was astonished hearing this, and he said to those following him, "Truly I
tell you, I have not found faith like this from anyone in Israel. 11And I tell you, many
will come from east and west, and will recline with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the
kingdom of heaven. 12But natural heirs of the kingdom will be cast into the outer
darkness; out there will be weeping, and gnashing of teeth."
13Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go. As you believed let it be for you." And
in that hour the servant was healed.
Jesus Heals Many

14And coming into Peter's house, Jesus saw Peter's mother-in-law bedridden and
fever-stricken. 15And he touched her hand, and the fever left her; and she got up and
began to wait on him.
16And when evening came, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed,
and he drove out the spirits with a word. And all those who had an illness he healed,
17so that the thing spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, which says:
"Our infirmities he picked up,

and our diseases he carried."108
The Cost of Following Jesus

18But
when Jesus saw a crowd around him, he gave the order to leave to the other
side of the lake.
19And one Torah scholar approached him and said, "Teacher, I will follow you
wherever you go."

20And Jesus says to him, "The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests,
but the Son of Man has nowhere he can lay his head."
21And another man,109 one of the disciples, said to him, "Lord, allow me first to
leave and bury my father."

22But Jesus says to him, "You follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
106
The Greek word was used for various diseases of the skin— not necessarily leprosy.
107
A Roman military officer commanding from 50 to 100 men, 100 if the cohort was a complete one. A
full cohort— 1,000 men, would have ten centurions, each commanding 100 of the men.
108
Isaiah 53:4
109
Another, different kind of man; that is, not another scribe, but another of a different kind.
Jesus Calms the Storm
23And his disciples followed him as he embarked in the boat. 24And behold a great
storm arose in the sea, such that the boat was getting covered over by the waves. But he
himself was sleeping.
25
And coming up to him, they roused him, saying, "Lord, save us! We are
perishing!"
26
And he says to them, "Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?"
Then, once he was up, he rebuked the wind and the sea, and there came a complete
calm.
27
And the men marvelled, saying, "What kind of man is this, that even the winds and
the sea obey him?"
The Legion of Demons Near Gadara

28
And when he came to the other side to the region of the Gadarenes, two men
coming out of the tombs met him, demon-possessed, extremely dangerous, such that no
one was able to pass that way.
29And behold they cried out saying, "What business do you have with us, O Jesus,
you Son of God? Have you come here to torture us before the time?"
30Now some distance from them there was a herd of many pigs feeding. 31And the
demons begged him saying, "If you drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs."
32And he said to them, "Go!" So coming out they went into the pigs; and behold,
the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea, and died in the waters.
33And the herders fled. And when they had gone into the town they reported all
things, including the things about the demon-possessed men. 34And behold all the town
came out to have a meeting with Jesus. And when they saw him they begged him that
he would move out of their borders.
Chapter 9
Jesus Heals a Paralytic
1And embarking in a boat, he crossed over and came into his own town. 2And
behold they brought to him a paralytic placed on a mat. And when Jesus saw their faith,
he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven."
3And behold, some of the Torah scholars said to themselves, "This fellow is
blaspheming!"
4And knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you think evil things in your
hearts? 5For which is easier: to say 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say: 'Get up and
walk'? 6But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive
sins..." Then he says to the paralytic, "Get up, take your mat and go to your house."
7And he stood up and went away to his house. 8After seeing this, the crowd feared and
praised the God who had given such authority to humans.
The Calling of Matthew

9
And moving on from there, Jesus saw a man named Matthew sitting at the taxes
post, and he says to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him.
10And it came about that Jesus and his disciples were reclining at table in the house
of Matthew, and behold a large crowd of revenue agents and sinners came and were
eating with them. 11And seeing this the Pharisees said to his disciples, "Why does your
rabbi eat with revenue agents and sinners?"
12But he heard, and said, "The healthy have no need of a doctor, but only those who
have something bad do. 13But go learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not
sacrifice.'110 For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
110
Hosea 6:6
Jesus Questioned About Fasting
14Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why is it we and the Pharisees are
fasting, but your disciples are not fasting?"
15
And Jesus said to them, "Are the members of the bridegroom's party able to mourn
while the bridegroom is with them? But days will come when the bridegroom is taken
away from them; and then they will fast.
16
"Now no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth onto an old garment. For the patch
of it tears away from the garment, and a worse tear results. 17Neither do they put new
wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wineskins will burst, the wine will spill out,
and the wineskins will be ruined. Rather, they put new wine into new wineskins, and
both are preserved."
A Dead Damsel and a Sick Woman

18
While he was speaking these things to them, behold a certain ruler came,
prostrating himself to him, saying, "My daughter has just now died. But come and put
your hand on her and she will revive." 19And getting up Jesus followed him, including
his disciples.
20And behold a woman suffering a twelve year flow of blood came up behind and
touched the tassel111 of his cloak. 21For she was saying to herself, "If I only touch his
cloak, I will be healed."
22And Jesus turning and seeing her said, "Take heart, daughter, your faith has healed
you." And the woman was healed from that time on.
23And Jesus came into the ruler's house, and when he saw the flute players and the
crowd in commotion, 24he said, "Go your ways. For the maiden has not died but
sleeps." And they laughed at him with scorn.
25And when the crowd was put out, he went in and took hold of her hand, and the
maiden was raised from the dead. 26And this news went out into all that region.
Jesus Heals the Blind and Mute

27And as Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, crying out and
saying, "Have mercy on us, O Son of David!"
28And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus says
to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?"

They say to him, "Yes, Lord."
29Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith let it be done for you."
30And their eyes were opened. And Jesus warned them sternly, saying, "See that no one
knows about this." 31But they went out and spread the news about him throughout that
whole region.
32And as they were going out, behold a mute who was demon-possessed was brought
to him. 33And when the demon was expelled, the mute spoke. The crowd was
amazed, and said, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!"
34But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons he expels the demons."
The Workers Are Few

35And
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues
and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every
sickness. 36And when he saw the crowds, he was moved with compassion for them,
because they were like sheep without a shepherd: harried and laid down in resignation.
111
See Numbers 15:38, Deut. 22:12, and Malachi 4:2. The “tassels” or “corners” were also Jesus’
“wings,” because the Hebrew word is the same. So, the prophecy of Malachi 4:2: “But to you that fear my
name the sun of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings;111 and ye shall go forth, and gambol as
calves from the stall.”
37Then he says to his disciples, "The harvest is truly plentiful, but the workers are few.
38
Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, that he send out workers into his harvest."
Chapter 10
Jesus Sends Out the Twelve
1
And calling forward his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean
spirits, so as to expel them, and to heal every disease and every illness. 2And these are
the names of the twelve apostles: First, Simon, the one called Peter, and his brother
Andrew; and James the son of Zebedee and John his brother; 3Philip and Bartholomew;
Thomas and Matthew the revenue agent; James son 112 of Halphaeus and Thaddaeus;
4Simon from Cana and Judas of Kerioth, the one who also betrayed him.
5
These Twelve Jesus sent out, giving orders to them, saying: "Do not go down a
Gentile road, and do not enter a town of Samaritans. 6But go rather to the lost sheep of
the house of Israel. 7And as you go, preach saying: 'The kingdom of heaven has drawn
near.' 8Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out the demons. Freely
you have received; freely give. 9Pack neither gold nor silver nor copper in your belts,
10neither a bag for the trip, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for the worker is
worthy of his food.

11"And whatever town or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay
there until you leave. 12But when entering the house, greet it. 13And if indeed the
house is worthy, let your peace arrive upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace
return to you. 14And whoever does not welcome you or listen to your words, go outside
that house or town and shake the dust off your feet. 15Truly I tell you, on the day of
judgment it will be more bearable for the land of Sodom and the land of Gomorrah, than
for that town.
16"Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. Be shrewd as
snakes therefore, yet innocent as doves. 17And be on your guard against people. For
they will hand you over to councils, and they will flog you in their synagogues. 18And
also before governors and kings you will be brought, because of me, to be a testimony to
them and to the nations. 19But when they arrest you, do not worry how or what you
might say. For it will be given to you at that hour what you should say; 20because you
are not the ones speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is the one speaking, through you.
21"And brother will betray brother to death, and a father a child; and children will
rise up against parents and put them to death. 22And you will be hated by all because of
my name, but the one who endures to the end, this one will be saved. 23But when they
persecute you in this town, flee to a new one; for truly I tell you, you will not finish all
the towns of Israel before the Son of Man has come.
24"A disciple is not above the rabbi, nor a servant above his lord. 25It is sufficient
for the disciple that he become like his rabbi, and the servant like his lord. If the head of
the house has been called Baal-zibbul,113 how much more the members of his household.
26"So do not fear them. For there is nothing veiled that will not be unveiled, or
hidden that will not be made known. 27What I say to you in the dark, you are to say in
the light; and what you hear whispered into your ear, you are to proclaim on the
housetops. 28And do not fear because of those who kill the body but are not able to kill
the soul. But do fear on the other hand the one who is able to destroy both soul and
body in Gehenna. 29Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?114 Yet not one of them
will fall to the ground apart from your Father. 30And as for you, even the hairs of your
heads are all numbered. 31So fear not; you matter more than many sparrows.
112
Or brother
113
Hebrew, meaning, "Lord of Filth," a name for Satan. The KJV and NKJV have here, "Beelzebub," even
though there is no Greek manuscript witness to that; only a few Latin and Syriac. The Textus Receptus says
Beelzeboul. Beelzebub represents a Semitic word meaning "lord of flies."
114
Literally, "an assarion," which was a little fragment of brass coin. It is a saying or expression, not
meant to be exact, which means "a pittance, a trifle, a doit."
32"Everyone therefore who shall acknowledge me before people, I also shall
acknowledge them before my Father in heaven. 33And whoever disowns me before
people, I also shall disown that person before my Father in heaven.
34"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I did not come to
bring peace, but a sword. 35For I have come to turn
" 'a man against his father,

and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law—
36
a man's enemies will be
members of his own household.115
37
"He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who
loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38and the one who does not take
up his cross and follow behind me is not worthy of me. 39The person who finds his life
will lose it, and the one who loses his life for my sake will find it.
40"He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who
sent me. 41He who receives a prophet because of the title of prophet will receive a
prophet's reward, and he who receives a righteous one because of the title of righteous
one will receive a righteous one's reward. 42Truly I tell you, whoever gives even just a
cup of cold water to one of these little ones because of the title of disciple, will certainly
not lose his reward."
Chapter 11
Jesus and John the Baptizer
1And it came about that when Jesus had finished giving orders to his twelve
disciples, he removed himself from there to teach and preach in their towns.
2And when John was hearing in prison about the works of Christ, he, sending word
through his disciples, 3said to him, "Are you the one who was to come, or should we
expect another?"
4And in answer, Jesus said to them, "Go and report back to John what things you are
hearing and seeing: 5The blind see again and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the
deaf hear, and the dead are raised and the good news is preached to the poor. 6And tell
him, 'Blessed be whoever is not offended on account of me.' "
7And as they were leaving, Jesus began to speak to the crowd about John: "What did
you go out into the desert to see? A reed being swayed to and fro by the wind? 8On
the contrary, what did you go out to see? Someone dressed in delicate finery? Behold,
those wearing delicate finery are in kings' houses. 9On the contrary, what did you go
out to see? A prophet? Yes indeed I tell you, and more than a prophet. 10This is the
one about whom it is written:
'Behold, I am sending my messenger

before your face,
who will prepare your way
before you.'116
11Truly
I tell you: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than
John the Baptizer. But the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
12And from the days of John the Baptizer until now, the kingdom of heaven has been
aggressively advancing, and the aggressive are seizing it. 13For all the Prophets and the
Law prophesied until John. 14And if you are willing to receive it, he is the Elijah who
was to come. 15Let the one who has ears, hear."
115
Micah 7:6
116
This quote appears to be a blend of Exodus 23:20 and Malachi 3:1.
16"To
what, then, shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the
marketplace, calling out to the others, saying:
17
" 'We played the flute for you,
and you didn't dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you didn't mourn.'
18
For John the Baptizer came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon.'
19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold a glutton and a wino,
a friend of revenue agents and sinners.' Well, wisdom is vindicated by her works."
Woe on Unrepentant Cities

20
Then he began to denounce the cities in which most of his miracles had occurred,
because they had not repented: 21"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For
if the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have
repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. 22Regardless, I tell you, it will be more
bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. 23And you,
Capernaum, will you be exalted to the skies? No, you will sink as far as Hades.
Because if the miracles that happened in you had taken place in Sodom, it would have
remained until this day. 24Regardless, I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom on
the day of judgment than for you."
Rest for the Weary

25At that time Jesus continued, and said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and
earth, because you have hidden these things from the sophisticated and learned, and
revealed them to little children. 26Yes, Father, for it was pleasing this way in your sight.
27"All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son
except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the
Son chooses to reveal him.
28"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
29Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and
you will find rest for your souls. 30For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Chapter 12
Lord of the Sabbath
1At
that time Jesus on a Sabbath was going through the grain fields. And his
disciples were hungry, and began to pluck and eat some heads of grain.117 2And when
the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, "Look! Your disciples are doing what on a
Sabbath is not permissible118 to do!"
3And he said to them, "Have you not read what David did, when he and those with
him were hungry? 4How he entered the house of God, and the loaves of offering he ate,
which for him was not permissible to eat, neither for those with him, but only for the
priests? 5Or haven't you read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priests can, in the
temple, desecrate the Sabbath, and yet are innocent? 6And I tell you, something greater
than the temple is here. 7But if you had known what this means: 'I desire mercy, not
117
This was the allowable practice of "plucking the heads," see Deuteronomy 23:24, 25, "If you enter your
neighbor's vineyard, you may eat grapes until you are fully satisfied, but do not put any in a container. If you
enter your neighbor's grain field, you may pluck the heads with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to
your neighbor's standing grain."
118
The Greek word translated "permissible" is the impersonal participle "exestin," which is derived from the
same root as "exousia," the word for authority. If an activity was "exestin," that means it was "loosed," or
ruled by the rabbis to be something "allowed" by the Torah. If something was not "exestin," as is the case
here, that means it was "bound," that is, the rabbis had adjudged that it was forbidden by the Torah.
sacrifice,'119 you would not have condemned the innocent. 8For the Son of Man is lord
of the Sabbath."
9
And going on from that place, he went into their synagogue, 10and behold, a man
with a shriveled hand. And they questioned him, in order that they might accuse him,
saying, "Is it permissible to heal on the Sabbath?"
11
Then he said to them, "Is there anyone among you who, if he has one sheep, and it
falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift? 12And how much more
valuable is a human being than a sheep! Therefore, it is permissible to do good on the
Sabbath."
13
Then he says to the man, "Stretch out your hand." So he stretched it out, and it
was restored, just as sound as the other. 14And the Pharisees went out and began to plot
against him, as to how they might kill him.
Crowds Follow Jesus

15But
being aware of this, Jesus departed from there, and many crowds followed him,
and he healed them all, 16and ordered them not to make him manifest, 17so that the thing
spoken through the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled, which says:
18"Behold, my servant whom I

have chosen,
my beloved, in whom my soul
is well pleased;
I will put my Spirit upon him,
and he will announce
righteous judgment
to the nations.
19He will not quarrel or cry out;
nor will anyone hear his voice in

the streets.
20A bruised reed he will not break,
and a smoldering wick he will

not snuff out,
till he leads righteous judgment
to victory.
21And in his name the Gentiles will
put their hope."120
Jesus and Baalzibbul

22Then
a demonized man who was blind and mute was brought to him, and he healed
him so that the mute man spoke and saw. 23And all the multitudes were astonished and
said, "Could this be the Son of David?"
24But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "Only by Ba'al-zibbul,121 the ruler of
the demons, is this fellow driving out the demons."

25But knowing their thoughts, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself
will be desolated, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. 26And if
Satan is driving out Satan, he is divided against himself, so how will his kingdom stand?
119
Hosea 6:6
120
Isaiah 42:1-4
121
Some Greek manuscripts, Beelzeboul, others, Beelzebub, Beelzebul, and even Beeldebaba. The
Hebrew is Ba'al-zibbul. "Ba'al." means Lord or Prince. Baal was a Canaanite god, the son of Dagon, the god
of grain. Baal was the bull prince, the bull being a symbol of fertility. Baalzebub, as in the Hebrew text of II
Kings 1:2, is a derisive alteration of Baalzibbul meaning "Prince of flies." In this way the followers of
Yahweh made fun of Baal. Later the name Baalzebub became associated with the Aramaic Beeldebaba,
"enemy." Thus the conflation of Baalzebub and Beeldebaba, "Beelzebub," came to be a name for Satan.
To avoid confusion in all the names, this author thought it best to revert to the original form of the name.
27"And if I am driving out the demons by Baal-zibbul, by whom are your disciples
driving them out? Therefore, they will be your judges. 28But if I am driving out the
demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
29"Or how can anyone enter the house of the strong man and carry away his things,
unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.
30"
The person who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather
with me is scattering.
31"Therefore I tell you, all kinds of sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but
the blasphemy of the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32And whoever speaks a word against
the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, that will not
be forgiven him, either in this age or in the one to come.
33"Either call the tree good and its fruit good, or call the tree bad and its fruit bad; for
the tree is known by its fruit.

34
"You spawn of vipers, how are you able to speak good things, since you are evil?
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35The good person brings forth
good things out of the treasure of good in his heart, and the evil person brings forth evil
out of his treasure of evil. 36And I tell you, every idle word which human beings will
speak, they will have to give an explanation for it on the day of judgment. 37For out of
your words you will be justified, and out of your words you will be condemned."
The Sign of Jonah

38Then some of the Torah scholars and Pharisees responded to him saying, "Teacher,
we want to see a miraculous sign from you."

39But he answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation asks for a
miraculous sign. And no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
40For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the huge sea creature, so the
Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41 "Men of Nineveh will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for
they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is
here. 42The Queen of the South will be resurrected at the judgment with this generation
and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
43"Now when an unclean spirit comes out from a human being, it goes through
waterless places, seeking rest, and does not find it. 44Then it says, 'I will return to my
house from which I came.' And when it arrives, it finds the house standing empty,
swept clean and put in order. 45Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more
evil than itself, and they enter inside and live there. And the final condition of that
human is worse than the first. That is also how it will be with this evil generation."
Jesus' Mother and Brothers

46While he was still speaking to the crowd, behold, his mother and brothers had been
standing outside, wanting to talk to him. 47And someone said to him, "Behold, your
mother and your brothers have been standing outside, wanting to talk to you."
48And he replied to the one who informed him, and said, "Who is my mother, and
who are my brothers?" 49And extending his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Behold,
my mother and my brothers. 50For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, that
person is my brother and sister and mother."
Chapter 13
The Parable of the Sower
1That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat down by the lake. 2And such
large crowds gathered around him, he got into a boat to sit in it, and all the people stood
on the shore.
3And he spoke many things to them in parables, and said: "Behold, the sower went
out to sow. 4And as he sowed, some seed fell beside the way,122 and the birds came
and ate them up. 5And other seed fell on the rocky spots, where it did not have much
soil, and it sprang up quickly, because it did not have depth of soil. 6And when the sun
came up, it was scorched, and because it had no root, it dried up. 7And others fell on the
thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 8And others fell on the good soil, and
yielded fruit, one a hundredfold, the other sixty, and another thirty. 9Let the one who
has ears, hear."
The Parable of the Sower Explained

10
And the disciples came to him and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in
parables?"
11And he answered and said, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of
the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted. 12For to the one who has, it
will be given, and he will have an abundance. As for the one who does not have, even
what he has will be taken away from him. 13For this reason I speak to them in parables,
that
'Though looking they do not see,

and though listening
they neither hear nor understand.'
14In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
'With an ear you will hear

and never understand;
and looking, you will see,
and not at all perceive.
15For this people's heart
has become impervious;

they hardly hear with the ears,
and they have shut up their eyes,
lest they see with the eyes
and hear with the ears
and understand with the heart,
and turn,
and I would heal them.'123
16"But
blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears, because they hear.
17For
truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous ones longed to see what you are
seeing, but did not see it, and to hear what you are hearing, but did not hear it.
18 "Hear then the parable of the sower: 19When anyone hears the word of the
kingdom and does not understand, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown
in his heart. This is the seed sown beside the way. 20And what was sown on the rocky
spots, this is someone who hears the word and immediately with joy receives it. 21But
having no root in himself, he is alive only a short time. For when tribulation comes, or
persecution because of the word, he quickly falls away. 22And what was sown in the
thorns, this is someone who hears the word, and the worry of the world, and the
seductiveness of wealth124 choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 23And what was
122
Or possibly, "beside the row." The way or road for seed is the row.
123
Isaiah 6:9,10; This and other quotes of the Old Testament may differ from what your English Old
Testament says, because your Old Testament was translated mainly from the Masoretic Text. When the
gospels writers were recalling the words of Jesus, the differences between how they say Jesus quoted the O.T.
and what our Old Testament says could be because they were quoting from the Septuagint, which is the Greek
translation of the Hebrew Old Testament, done a couple hundred years before Christ.
124
Or "deceitfulness of wealth."
sown on the good soil, this is someone who hears the word and understands, who does
bear fruit and produces; one a hundredfold, the other sixty, and another thirty."
The Parable of the Look-alike Weeds

24
He put before them another parable, as follows: "The kingdom of heaven is likened
to a man sowing good seed in his field. 25But while the people were sleeping, his enemy
came and sowed zizania125 in between the wheat, and went away. 26And when the
wheat grass had sprung up and formed seed,126 at that same time the zizania became
apparent.
27
"So the owner's servants came to him and said to him, 'Sir, you sowed good seed in
your field, did you not? How then does it have zizania?'
28
"And he said to them, 'A hateful person did this.'
"And the servants say to him, 'Do you want us to go out, then, and collect them?'
29
"But he says, 'No, in case while collecting the zizania you uproot the wheat along
with them. 30Leave both to grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I
will tell the reapers: Collect the zizania first and tie them in bundles to be burned, but
gather the wheat into my barn.' "
The Parables of the Mustard Seed and the Yeast

31Another
parable he put before them, and said, "The kingdom of heaven is like a
mustard seed, which a person took and sowed in his garden, 32which indeed is smaller
than all the seeds, but when it grows, it becomes a tree, larger than all the herbs, such that
the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches."
33He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast, which a
woman took and buried into three measures 127 of dough, until the whole batch was
leavened."
34Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables; indeed he said nothing to
them without a parable, 35so that the thing spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled,
which says:
"I will open my mouth in parables,

I will utter things hidden
since the creation of the world."128
The Parable of the Look-alike Weeds Explained

36Then,leaving the crowds, he went into the house. And his disciples came to him
and said, "Explain to us the parable of zizania in the field."
37And he answered and said, "The one sowing the good seed is the Son of Man,
38and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the children of the kingdom.
The zizania are the children of the evil one, 39and the enemy who sows them is the devil.
The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
40"And as the zizania are collected and consumed by fire, so it will be at the end of
the age. 41The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will collect out of his
kingdom all the things that lead to sin and those who practice lawlessness; 42and they will
throw them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth.
43At that time, the righteous will shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
Let the one who has ears, hear.
125
Greek: - zizania, a grass plant in Palestine that looked like wheat in every way, except until the
head of seed appeared, because the zizania seed heads were different from the wheat heads. The zizania grain
was not good for anything.
126
Greek: fruit
127
Greek: three sata, about 5 gallons, or 22 liters.
128
Psalm 78:2
The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl
44
"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which when a man found
it, he hid it again. Then out of his joy he goes and sells what things he has, and buys
that field.
45
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant who was looking for fine pearls.
46
And when he found a single valuable pearl, he went away and sold every thing that he
had and bought it.
The Parable of the Net

47
"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net cast into the sea and catching every
kind of fish, 48which when full, the fishers pulled up onto the shore, and sitting down,
they collected the good kinds into baskets, but threw away the bad. 49This is how it will
be at the end of the age. The angels will go forth and will separate the evil ones from
out of the midst of the righteous, 50and throw them into the furnace of fire. There will
be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth."
51
Jesus said to them, "Have you understood all these things?"
They are saying to him, "Yes, Lord."
52And he said to them, "Therefore every Torah scholar discipled into the kingdom of
heaven is like a person who owns a house, who puts forward out of his treasure room
items both new and old."
A Prophet Without Honor

53And
it came about that when Jesus had finished these parables, he moved on from
there. 54And coming into his home town, he taught them in their synagogue, such that
they were astounded, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these
miraculous powers? 55Isn't this the son of the carpenter? Isn't his mother named Mary,
and his brothers Jacob and Joseph and Simon and Judah? 56And aren't all his sisters
here with us? Where then did this man get all these things?" 57And they were
offended by him.
And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his home town,
and among his relatives."
58And he did not do many miracles there, because of their unbelief.
Chapter 14
John the Baptizer Beheaded
1At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus, 2and said to his
attendants, "This is John the Baptizer! He is risen from the dead, and that is why
miraculous powers are at work in him!"
3Now Herod had arrested John, and bound him, and put him away in prison, because
of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. 4For John had been saying to him, "It is not
lawful for you to have her." 5And though wanting to kill him, he feared the crowd,
because they regarded him as a prophet.
6And when Herod's birthday celebration took place, the daughter of Herodias danced
among them, and she pleased Herod; 7for which reason he promised with an oath to give
her whatever she might ask for.
8So after being instructed by her mother, she says, "Give me here on a platter the
head of John the Baptizer."

9Though greatly distressed, the king because of his words of oath and those reclining
with him, commanded that it be given, 10and sent orders and beheaded John in the prison.
11And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she carried it to her
mother. 12And his disciples came and took the corpse and buried him. Then they went
and told Jesus.
Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
13
And hearing this, Jesus went away from there, in a boat, to a remote place by
himself. And the crowds heard, and followed him on foot from the towns.
14
And when he got out, he saw the large crowd, and was moved with compassion for
them, and healed their sick.
15
Now as evening came on, the disciples came to him, saying, "The place is remote,
and the hour is already late. Therefore, dismiss the crowds, so they can go away into the
villages and buy food for themselves."
16
But Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away. You give them something
to eat."
17But they are saying to him, "We have nothing here except five loaves and two
fish."
18
And he said, "Bring them here to me." 19And having directed the crowds to
recline on the grass, he takes the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven,
he blessed God. And after he broke the loaves, he gave them to the disciples, and the
disciples to the crowds.
20And all ate and were satisfied. And they picked up the extra of the fragments,
twelve large baskets full. 21Now the ones eating were about five thousand men,
without129 women and children.
Jesus Walks on the Water

22And he immediately ordered his disciples to get into the boat and go on ahead of
him to the other side, while he would dismiss the crowds. 23And after he had dismissed
the crowds, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. And as evening came on
he was alone there.
24The boat was now many furlongs away from the land, being battered by the waves,
because the wind was contrary. 25And in the fourth watch130 of the night he went out
toward them, walking on the lake. 26And when the disciples saw him walking on the
lake, they were terrified, saying, "It's a ghost!" And they cried out in fear.
27Jesus immediately spoke to them and said: "Take heart, it is I. Don't be afraid."
28And Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it's you, order me to come to you on
the water."
29And he said, "Come."
And Peter got down out of the boat and walked on the water, and went toward Jesus.
30But when he saw the violent wind, he became afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried
out, saying, "Lord, save me!"

31And immediately Jesus reached out his hand and grabbed him, and says to him, "O
you of little faith, why did you doubt?"

32And when they climbed into the boat, the wind died down. 33And those in the
boat worshipped him, saying, "You truly are the Son of God."
34And once they had crossed over, they came ashore at Gennesaret. 35And when
the men of that place recognized him, they sent word into that whole area, and they
brought to him all those who were sick. 36And they were entreating him that they could
just touch the tassel of his cloak; and as many as touched were completely healed.
129
The Greek word for "without" in Matthew 14:21 is "choris," which generally means "without, apart
from." Here it could mean "besides, in addition to, not counting." But it is also possible that there were no
women and children present at all, since according to the gospel of John, this incident took place during one of
the three annual festival pilgrimages to Jerusalem required of adult males only.
130
Between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.
Chapter 15
Clean and Unclean
1
Then some Pharisees and Torah scholars from Jerusalem come to Jesus, saying,
2"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? 131 For they do not wash their
hands when they eat."
3
And in response he said to them, "And you, why do you break the command of God
for the sake of your tradition? 4For God said, 'Honor father and mother' and 'The one
who curses father or mother must be put to death.' 5But you say, whoever says to father
or mother: 'Whatever you might be owed from me is a gift vowed to God,' 6he will not at
all honor his father or his mother with it, and you have annulled the word of God for the
sake of your tradition.
7
"You hypocrites! Isaiah has prophesied rightly about you, in saying,
8
" 'This people draw near to me with their mouth,
and honor me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.
9They worship me in vain,
teaching as Torah
the decrees of human beings.'132
10And
calling the crowd forward, he said to them, "Listen, and understand: 11The
thing entering into the mouth does not make a human being unclean, but rather the thing
coming forth out of the mouth, that is what makes the human being unclean."
12Then the disciples are coming to him and saying to him, "Do you know that the
Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?"

13And he in answer said, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will
be uprooted. 14Leave them; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if a blind person
leads a blind person, both will fall into a pit."
15And in response Peter said to him, "Explain the parable to us."
16And he said, "Are you also this unintelligent? 17Do you not understand that
everything entering the mouth goes into the stomach, and then is ejected into the sewer?
18But the things coming forth out of the mouth come from the heart, and those things
make the human being unclean. 19For out of the heart, come forth evil reasoning,
murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false testimony, slander. 20Those are the things
making the human being unclean; but the eating with unwashed hands, that does not
make the human being unclean."
The Faith of the Canaanite Dog

21And
leaving there, Jesus departed to the areas of Tyre and Sidon. 22And behold a
Canaanite woman from those borders, after coming forward cried out, saying, "Have
mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is suffering terribly from a demon."
23But he answered not a word to her. So his disciples are coming to him and urging
him, saying, "Send her away, because she keeps crying out behind us."
131
Mark 7:3 Ezra had set up a group of men called the Sopherim, whose task it was to teach the Torah to the
people. This was well and good. But the Sopherim decided that to make absolutely sure that no one broke
one of the 613 Mosaic laws, they would make a “fence” around those 613 laws by making some more finely
tuned laws, which, if people obeyed these latter, they would be assured of not even getting close to breaking one
of the 613 Torah laws. The Sopherim (scribes) acknowldged that only the Torah was authoritative, and that
their “fence” laws could be debated. A few generations later, other teachers of the law arose, called the
Tanaim. These made another fence around the fence laws of the Sopherim. Now, however, the Tanaim’s
laws were considered debatable, but the laws of the Sopherim were considered as final authority. Into this
situation Jesus Christ was born, where the laws of the Sopherim were considered greater in authority than the
actual Torah. In fact, where the “fence” laws conflicted with the Torah, the “fence” laws were considered to
have priority. These laws were called the Mishna, or the Oral Law, or here called the Tradition of the Elders.
You were considered to have sinned if you broke one of them, just as if you had broken one of the laws of
Moses
132
Isaiah 29:13
24And in response to her he said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel."
25
But she comes and bows down to him saying, "Lord, help me."
26And he in answer said, "It is not right to take the children's bread and toss it to the
dogs."
27
And she said, "True, Lord; yet the dogs certainly eat of the crumbs falling from
their master's table."
28Then in answer Jesus said to her, "Oh, woman, great is your faith! Let it be for
you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand

29
And when he departed from there, Jesus came near the Sea of Galilee; and having
gone up into the mountain, he was sitting there. 30And many large crowds came to him,
having with them the lame, the cheiroplegic, 133 the blind, the mute, and many others,
and they laid them down at his feet, and he healed them, 31causing the crowd to marvel,
seeing the mute speaking, the impaired of hand whole, and the lame walking and the
blind seeing, and they glorified the God of Israel.
32And calling forward his disciples, Jesus said, "I feel for the crowd, because they
have been staying with me three days now and do not have anything to eat. And to
dismiss them without eating, I am not willing, lest they collapse on the journey."
33And the disciples say to him, "Where in the desert could we obtain so many loaves
of bread, enough to satisfy so large a crowd?"

34And Jesus says to them, "How many loaves do you have?"
And they said, "Seven, and a few fish."

35And having ordered the crowd to recline on the ground, 36he took the seven loaves
of bread and the fish, and when he had given thanks, he broke and gave to the disciples,
and the disciples to the crowds. 37And all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the
fragments that were left over, seven full baskets. 38Now the ones eating were four
thousand men, apart from women and children. 39And after he dismissed the crowd, he
embarked in the boat, and went into the territory of Magadan.
Chapter 16
The Yeast of the Pharisees, Sadducees,
and Herod
1Andthe Pharisees and Sadducees approach him, and testing him, they asked him to
show them a sign from heaven.
2But he in answer said to them, [When evening comes, you say, 'Fair weather, the
sky is red.' ³And in the morning, 'Today, stormy weather, for the sky is red and
threatening.' [["You hypocrites.]] The face of the sky you know how to judge, but the
signs of the times you are not able to?] 134 4"A wicked and adulterous generation
demands a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah." And he left them
and went away.
5And when the disciples were going to the other side, they forgot to take bread
loaves. 6And Jesus said to them, "Watch out. Be on your guard against the yeast of
the Pharisees and Sadducees."
7And they were deliberating among themselves, saying, "We didn't bring bread
loaves."
133
having a "Stricken hand"
134
txt include bracketed without “You hypocrites.” [NA27] {C} // include all bracketed TR HF RP //omitted
by the oldest witnesses. An impressive group of manuscripts and versions lacks these words. And Jerome
says most of the manuscripts known to him did not contain it. Many scholars consider it a later harmonization
to Luke 12:54-56, except with some adjustment for weather. Bauer points out that the word used in this
bracketed passage for "is red," "purrazw," is found only in literature by Byzantine writers. (The Septuagint
has "purrizw.") There is some chance that Scrivener and Lagrange are right in their argument that the pericope
was omitted by copyists in Egypt and other places where red sky in the morning does not announce rain.
8And Jesus knowing, said, "You of little faith, why are you reasoning among
yourselves, 'We have no bread loaves'? 9Do you still not understand nor remember the
five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you picked up? 10Nor the
seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you picked up? 11How do
you not understand that it was not about bread that I was speaking to you? But be on
your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees." 12Then they understood,
that he had not meant they should be on their guard against yeast, but against the teaching
of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Peter's Confession of Messiah

13
And upon entering into the area of the Caesarea that was in Philip's jurisdiction,
Jesus queried his disciples, saying, "Who are the people saying the Son of Man is?"
14
And they said, "Some, John the Baptizer; others, Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah
or one of The Prophets."
15
He says to them, "And you, who do you say I am?"
16And Simon Peter answered, and said to him, "You are the Christ, the son of the
living God."
17And Jesus in response said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon son of John, because it
was not flesh and blood that revealed this to you, but my Father, who is in heaven.
18And I also say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and
the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. 19And to you I will give the keys of the
kingdom of heaven, and whatever you declare to be forbidden on earth shall have been
forbidden in heaven, and whatever you declare to be permitted on earth shall have been
permitted in heaven."135 20Then he admonished the disciples, that they not tell anyone
that he was the Christ.
Jesus Predicts His Death

21From
that point on, Jesus began to reveal to his disciples that he had to leave for
Jerusalem, and suffer many things at the hands of the elders and chief priests and Torah
22
scholars, and be killed, and on the third day rise again. And after pulling Jesus aside,
Peter began correcting him, saying, "God forbid, Lord! This will never happen to you."
23
But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! A hindrance you are to
me, because you are not considering the concerns of God, but the concerns of mortals."
24Then, Jesus said to his disciples, "If someone wants to follow me, he must deny
himself, and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever tries to keep his life will
lose it. But whoever loses his life for my sake, will find it. 26For what will it gain a
human being, if he acquires the whole world, but is penalized his soul? In other words,
what will a human being pay, in trade for his soul? 27For the Son of Man will soon
come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then, he will pay back to each one,
according to the way of life of each. 28Truly I tell you, There are some of those present
here, who will certainly not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his
kingship."
Chapter 17
The Transfiguration
1And
after six days Jesus takes Peter, and James, and John his brother, and he is
leading them up into a high mountain, by themselves. 2And he was transfigured in front
of them, and his face shone like the sun, and his garments became bright as the daylight.
3And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, conversing with Him.
135
Or, "Whatever you forbid on earth is as good as forbidden by heaven, and whatever you permit on earth
is as good as permitted by heaven." This "binding and loosing" teaching appears also in Matthew 18:18. It
should be noted that here in 16:19, the verbs are in the 2nd person singular, Jesus saying it to and about Peter
only, whereas in chapter 18 v. 18, the verbs are in the second person plural, Jesus saying it to, and giving this
authority to, all of the apostles.
4And in response, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. If you
want, I will make three shelters here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
5
While he was still speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold,
a voice from the cloud, saying as follows: "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well
pleased. Listen to him." 6And when they heard this, the disciples fell on their faces,
and were extremely frightened.
7
And Jesus approached them, and after touching them reassuringly, he said, "Stand
up, and do not be afraid." 8And when they opened their eyes, they saw no one, except
Jesus himself alone.
9
And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus was admonishing them, as
follows: "Do not tell anyone about the vision, until such time the Son of Man is raised
from the dead."
10
And the disciples queried him, as follows, "So why do the Torah scholars say that
Elijah has to come first?"
11
In answer, he said, "Elijah does indeed come first, and will restore all things.
12But I am telling you, that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but
did with him whatever they wished." 13Then the disciples understood that he had
spoken to them about John the Baptizer.
The Healing of a Boy Who Had an Evil Spirit

14And
when they had returned to the crowd, a man came up to him, falling to his
knees, 15and saying, "Lord, have mercy on my son, because he is lunatic and suffering
horribly. For example, he often falls into fire, and often into water. 16And I brought
him to your disciples, and they were not able to heal him."
17And in answer, Jesus said, "O unbelieving and perverted generation! How long
shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to me."
18And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon departed from him, and the child was healed
from that time on.

19At that time, the disciples came to him in private, and said, "Why were we not able
to drive it out?"
20
And he says to them, "Because of your lack of faith. For truly I tell you, if you
have faith as small as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to
there,' and it will move. In fact, nothing will be impossible to you. [[21But this kind
does not come out except with prayer and fasting.]]"136
22And when they were gathering back together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The
Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of human beings, 23and they will kill
him, and during the third day he will rise again." And they were very sad.
The Two Drachma Tax

And when they arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two drachmas137
24
approached Peter, and they said, "Does your rabbi not pay the two drachmas?"
25
He says, "Yes he does."
136
This verse 21 seems to be a later addition to the original Bible text. It would seem to contradict what
Jesus had just stated in v. 20. Which is it? Faith as small as a mustard seed is all you need, or also add your
works, like fasting? And there is no instance in the New Testament where either Jesus or his disciples had to
fast in order to cast out a demon. I think this is an "ascetic" corruption to the gospel of Matthew.
137
A drachma was worth about a day's wage. The two drachma collection, 6 grams of silver, was the so-
called temple tax in Exodus 30:11-16. But this payment was not intended to be a tax at all. Quoting Exodus
30:12, "When you take a census of the Israelites to number them, at the time he is numbered each man shall
give a ransom for his life to Yahweh, so that no plague may come upon him for being numbered." The money
was primarily an offering as atonement for the evil act of a man being numbered. Then it was merely
incidental that as long as the temple personnel had this money anyway, "You shall take the atonement money
from the Israelites and shall designate it for the service of the tent of meeting; before Yahweh it will be a
reminder of the ransom given for his life." Ex. 30:16. It was an offering or ransom money to atone for the
repugnant stench to God caused by the act of numbering the people. It was supposed to be a one-time thing.
And when Peter had come into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do
you think, Simon: the kings of the earth, from whom do they collect toll and tribute—
from their sons,138 or from others?"
26
And when he answered, "From others," Jesus said to him, "Alright then, the sons
are free.139 27But, so that we not scandalize them, go to the lake, cast a hook, and the
first fish that comes up, take, and when you have opened its mouth, you will find a four-
drachma coin.140 Take that, and give it to them, as mine and yours."
Chapter 18
Who Is the Greatest?
1
In that same hour, the disciples approached Jesus, saying, "So who is the greatest in
the kingdom of heaven?"
2And calling a child over, he stood him in the midst of them, 3and he said, "I tell you
truly: unless you change and become like little children, there is no way you will enter
into the kingdom of heaven. 4Whoever therefore humbles himself like this child, that is
the one who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5And whoever receives one little
child such as this on the basis of my name, is receiving me.
More About Little Ones

6As for that person through whom one of these little ones who believe in me might
ever be scandalized, it would be better for that person that a mill stone be hung around his
neck and be sunk in the bottom of the sea. 7Woe to the world, because of those
scandalizings. Certainly, the scandalizings are bound to come. Nevertheless, woe to
the person through whom the scandalizing comes.
8And if your hand or your foot scandalizes you, cut it off, and throw it away from
you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed and crippled, than to be thrown into
everlasting fire, having both hands or both feet.
9And if your eye scandalizes you, tear it out, and throw it away from you. It is
better for you to enter into life one-eyed, than be thrown into fiery Gehenna with two
eyes.
10See that you not despise or overlook even one of these little ones; for I tell you, in
heaven their angels through it all are seeing the face of my Father who is in heaven.
[[ For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.]] 141
11
12What do you think? Suppose a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them is lost.
Will he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountain, and go look for the one that is
wandering? 13And if he happens to find it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than
the ninety-nine that were not lost.
14That is how undesirable it is, in the eyes of your Father in heaven, that even one of
these little ones be lost.142
138
The meaning of the Greek word huioi, "sons," here, could be an extended meaning; that is, "from their
own relatives in race and culture, extended to their countrymen, from their citizens." This is a possible
interpretation because it is made an antonym of "allotrioi," which in Jewish Greek like in the Septuagint, meant
"aliens." Here the meaning would be, that since the two drachma tax was supposedly for maintenance of the
temple- God's house, then God's children, the citizens of the kingdom of God, were exempt from that tax.
139
This word free, will not be understood properly, unless one understands "tribute" properly. Tribute was
a poll tax paid to the conqueror, by a conquered or subjugated people. Anyone paying tribute, was by
definition not free, but rather a member of an enslaved nation.
140
A silver coin worth four drachmas, equivalent to 12 grams of silver. Each man was to pay 6 grams of
silver, which =1 stater=1 Babylonian shekel=1/2 of a sanctuary shekel (Phoenician or Hebrew standard).
141
The UBS Editorial Committee says the following: "There can be little doubt that the words "For the Son
of Man came to seek and to save what was lost" are spurious here, being omitted by the earliest witnesses
representing several textual types (Alexandrian, pre-Caesarean, Egyptian, Antiochian), and manifestly borrowed
by copyists from Lk 19:10. The reason for the interpolation was apparently to provide a connection between
ver. 10 and verses 12-14.
142
Or, "...that even one of these little ones be ruined."
A Brother Who Sins
15
Now if your brother sins against you,143 go show him his fault, just between you
and him. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. 16But if he does not
listen, take with you one or two others, so that 'upon the mouths of two or three witnesses
every matter be established.' 17And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly.
And if he refuses to listen to the assembly, he should be considered by you as no different
than a gentile or a revenue agent.
18
Truly I tell you, whatever you apostles on earth declare to be forbidden, shall have
been forbidden in heaven; and whatever you on earth declare to be permitted, shall have
been permitted in heaven.144 19Again I say to you, if two of you on earth agree with
one voice concerning any and all matters about which you make request, it will be
brought about for you by my Father who is in heaven. 20For where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

21At
that time Peter approached and said to him, "Lord, how many times shall my
brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times?"
22Jesus says to him, "I tell you, not up to seven times, but up to seventy [times] seven
times.145
23"Therefore, the kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man in ruling power who
desired to settle accounts with his servants. 24So he proceeded to settle, and had one of
his debtors brought to him, one who owed him ten thousand talants. 25But since he did
not have the means to repay, the master ordered him to be sold as a slave, and also his
wife and children and everything he had, and then to be paid back.
26"The servant therefore fell down, and was entreating him, saying, 'Be patient with
me, and I will pay you back everything.' 27And moved with compassion, the master of
that servant released him, and forgave his debt.
28"But then after he went out, that servant found one of his fellow servants who owed
him a hundred denarii, and he seized him, and was choking him, saying, 'Pay me back
everything you owe.'
29"The fellow servant therefore fell down, and was begging him, saying, 'Be patient
with me, and I will pay you back.' 30But he was not willing, and went and threw him
into the debtors' prison, until such time he could pay back the debt.
31"When therefore his fellow servants witnessed these events, they were extremely
upset, and went and reported to their master everything that had happened. 32Then
summoning him, his master is saying to him, 'You wicked servant! All that debt of
yours I forgave you, because you begged me. 33Aren't you then also obligated to
forgive your fellow servant, as I have forgiven you?'
34"And in anger, his master handed him over to the jailers, until such time he could
pay back everything he owed. 35This is how my Father in heaven will act toward you
also, unless you each forgive your brother from your heart."
143
The reading without "against you" is the earliest, but this could have been changed very early on,
according to the UBS textual commentary. In the UBS 4th Edition Greek New Testament, the words "against
you" are in single square brackets, and this result is given a C rating of certainty. Regarding single square
brackets, the explanation is "that the enclosed word, words, or parts of words may be regarded as part of the
text, but that in the present state of New Testament textual scholarship this cannot be taken as completely
certain."
144
Or, "Whatever you forbid on earth is as good as forbidden by heaven, and whatever you permit on earth
is as good as permitted by heaven." This "binding and loosing" teaching appears also in Matthew 16:19. It
should be noted that here in 18:18, the verbs are in the second person plural, Jesus saying it to, and giving this
authority to, all of the apostles, whereas in 16:19, the verbs are in the 2nd person singular, Jesus saying it to and
about Peter only.
145
cf. Genesis 4:24: "If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times." It is equally
beyond human nature to forgive the same person 77 times in one day, as it is to forgive 490 times. But
Gentiles do not need to know this reference in order to understand that Matthew means to indicate a number
that is large beyond human nature. In a story taken from older accounts, Plutarch, Mor. 245d uses the
number 7,777 for the same purpose (cf. Polyaenus 8, 33).
Chapter 19
Jesus Tested on Divorce
1
And it came about that when Jesus had finished these discourses he departed from
Galilee, and went into the region of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. 2And large
crowds followed him, and he healed them there. 3And some Pharisees came to him,
testing him, and saying, “Is it permitted for someone to release 146 his wife for any cause
at all?”
4
But in answer he said, “Have you never read, that from the beginning the creator
made them male and female, 5and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave father and
mother, and be joined to his woman, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6As a result,
they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, no
human being is allowed to separate."
7
They are saying to him, "Why then did Moses command to give a release of interest
form147 in order to release?”148
8He says to them, "Moses, in view of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to
release your wives, thought it is not originally designed this way. 9But I tell you that
whoever releases his wife, except upon grounds of fornication, and marries another,
commits adultery.”
10The disciples are saying to him, "If this is the situation of a man with a wife, it is
not advisable to marry!”

11And he said to them, "Not everyone can receive this word, but only those to whom
it has been given. 12For there are some who are eunuchs, who were born that way from
their mother’s womb. And there are some who are eunuchs who were made to be
eunuchs by human beings. And there are some who are eunuchs who have made
themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The person who is able to
receive this, should receive it.”
The Little Children and Jesus

13At that time, little children were brought to him, so that he might lay his hands on
them and pray for them. But the disciples scolded them. 14But Jesus said, "Let the
little children come to me, and do not hinder them. For of such is the kingdom of
heaven." 15And when he had laid hands on them, he moved on from there.
The Rich Young Ruler

16And behold, someone came up to him and said, "Good Teacher, what good must I
do so that I will inherit eternal life?"
17And he said to him, "Why are you calling me good? No one is good except One,
God. But if you want to enter eternal life, keep the commandments."
18He says to him, "Which ones?" And Jesus said to him, "Do not murder, do not
commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, 19honor your father and your
mother,'149 and, love your neighbor as yourself." 150
20The young man says to him, "All these I have kept. What am I still missing?"
21Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go sell your possessions and give it to
the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven, and then come follow me."
22But when the young man heard this statement, he went away regretting, for he was
owner of much property. 23And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I say to you, the rich
146
"Releasing" is the opposite of the cleaving or joining commanded in the Genesis passage.
147
The Greek word translated "release of interest form" was used to signify a relinquishment of property, a
quit-claim.
148
Just a few manuscripts add "his wife."
149
Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
150
Leviticus 19:18
will get into the kingdom of heaven with great difficulty. 24And again, I say to you, it is
easier for a camel151 to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich person to enter
into the kingdom of God."
25
And when they heard this, the disciples were greatly astonished, saying, "Who then
can be saved?"
26
And Jesus looked at them, and said to them, "With human beings, this is
impossible; but with God, all things are possible."
27
Then Peter answered and said to him, "Look how we have left everything, and
followed you. What then will there be for us?"
28
And Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you, you who are hearing me: In the new
beginning, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you also will sit, upon twelve
thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29And everyone who has left houses or
brothers or sisters or fathers or mothers or children or lands for the sake of my name, will
receive a hundred times as much, and inherit eternal life. 30But many who are first will
be last, and many who are last will be first."
Chapter 20
The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
1"Similar therefore is the kingdom of heaven to a landowner, who went out early in
the morning to hire workers together into his vineyard. 2And he came to an agreement
with the workers, of a denarius a day, and sent them into his vineyard. 3And when he
went away, about the third hour,152 he saw others, standing in the market place idle.
4To them also he said, "You also go out into my vineyard, and whatever is right, I will
give you." 5So they left. And again, he went away about the sixth hour and also the
ninth hour, and did the same thing. 6And about the eleventh hour he went away and
found others standing, and he says to them, "Why are you standing here the whole day
idle?"
7They say to him, "Because no one has hired us."
He says to them, "You also go out into my vineyard. And whatever is right, that
you will receive."
8And when evening had come, the owner of the vineyard says to his foreman, "Call
the workers and pay them their wages, starting from the last ones, to the first ones."
9And those who had arrived at about the eleventh hour, each received a denarius. 10And
the ones who had arrived first expected to receive more, yet they received a denarius each
themselves. 11So they got together and were complaining to the landowner, 12saying,
"These last ones worked one hour, and you have treated them the same as us who have
borne the burden of the whole day, and the scorching heat."
13And he in answer to one of them said, 'Friend, I am not doing you wrong. Did
you not agree to a denarius with me? 14Take what is yours and go your way. So this is
what I want to give to the last ones, as I also gave to you. 15Is it not permissible for me
to do what I want with things that are mine? Or is your eye evil153 because I am
generous?'
16Thus, the last will be first, and the first will be last. 154"
151
Just as it is impossible, humanly speaking, for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, Jesus says in v.
27 that it is "impossible" for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Some people teach that Jesus really
instead said "rope to go through the eye of a needle," because he was speaking in the Aramaic language, and the
Aramaic word for camel was also the word for a kind of rope. Regardless, Jesus would want to invent a simile
that was in line with his main point: "something impossible." His illustration must demonstrate something that
is impossible, naturally speaking. "Camel" is more impossible than "rope," so at worst, camel works just fine,
and at best, camel is the best rendering because it is more impossible.
152
That is, about 9 a.m. Then again at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. The Jewish clock began at sunrise and sunset;
thus the third hour was about 3 hours after sunrise, hence 9 a.m. The 11th hour was only one hour before dark.
153
The "evil eye," is a Semitic concept, in which the attitude of the heart or the force of a person's thoughts,
are focused out through, and cause the narrowing of the person's eye, out of envy, resentment, scheming, or
even voodoo, toward one's neighbor.
154
Most witnesses add "For many are called, but few are chosen." It is more likely that these words were
incorporated by copyists from 22:14, where they terminate another parable, than that so many witnesses deleted
Jesus Again Predicts His Death
17And as he was going up to Jerusalem, Jesus took the Twelve aside in private, and
said to them on the way, 18"Behold we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man is
going to be betrayed to the chief priests and the Torah scholars, and they will condemn
him to death. 19And he will be handed over to the Gentiles, to be ridiculed and
crucified, and during the third day he will rise again."
A Mother's Request
20
At that time, the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached him, along with her
sons. She is worshiping him and asking a favor from him. 21And he said to her, "What
do you want?" She says to him, "Decree that these two sons of mine sit one on the right
and one on the left of you in your kingdom."
22
But in answer Jesus said, "You do not know what you are asking. 155 Are you
able to drink the cup which I am about to drink?"
They say to him, "We are able."
23He says to them, "My cup you will indeed drink, but to sit on my right or on my
left is not mine to grant, but is only for those for whom it has been prepared by my
Father."
24And when the other ten heard, they were upset about the two brothers. 25And
Jesus, calling them to him, said, "You know that the rulers among the nations lord it over
them, and the great ones exercise authority over them. 26It shall not be so among you.
Instead, whoever wants to be great among you shall be your servant, 27and whoever
wants to be first among you must be your slave. 28Just as the Son of Man did not come
to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."
Two Blind Beggars Receive Their Sight

29And as they were leaving Jericho, very large crowds were following them. 30And
behold, two blind men sitting alongside the road, when they hear that Jesus is passing by,
they cry out, saying, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"
31But the crowd scolded them, that they should be quiet. But they cried out the
more, saying, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"

32And Jesus stopped, and called out to them and said, "What do you want me to do
for you?"
33They are saying to him, "Lord, that our eyes be opened." 34And feeling sorry for
them, Jesus touched their eyes, and immediately they saw, and they followed him.
Chapter 21
The Triumphal Entry
1And
when they drew near to Jerusalem and arrived at Bethphage on the Mount of
Olives, at that time Jesus sent two disciples, 2telling them, "Go into the village ahead of
you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied up, and her colt with her. Untie them
and bring them to me. 3And if anyone says anything to you, say, 'The Lord needs them,
and will send them right back.'"
4Now this happened so that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled,
which says,
5
"Say to the Daughter of Zion:
these words (B L Z 085 892* 1243* 1342 (1424) copsa,bopt Diatessaron). The reading without these words
is given an A rating of certainty by the editorial committee of the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament,
4th Edition, which means that it is certain.
155
In this phrase, "you are asking" is plural. Whereas, when the mother was worshiping and asking, it was
singular. Whether or not it was the mother's idea, or the sons', or both, Jesus addresses them in the plural. In
the next sentence when he asks, 'Are you able...", plural, he is surely addressing the sons, not the mother.
'Behold, your king is coming to you meek,
and riding on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.'156"
6And those disciples went, and did just as they were instructed by Jesus. 7They
brought the donkey and the colt, and placed their cloaks on them, and he sat on them.
8
And the large crowd of people spread their garments out on the road; and some were
cutting branches off the trees and spreading those on the road. 9And the crowd
proceeding ahead of him, and those following after, were shouting out as follows:
"Hosha na157 to the Son of David!"

"Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord!"158
"Hosha na in the highest!"
10
And when he came into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred, saying, "Who is
this?"
11And
the crowds would say, "This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth, Galilee."
Jesus Clears the Temple

12And
Jesus went into the temple, and he threw out all the ones who were selling or
buying in the temple. And the tables of the moneychangers159 he overturned, and the
seats of the ones selling doves. 13And he says to them, "It is written:
'My house shall be called

a house of prayer';160
but you are making it
'a den of thieves.'161"
14And
the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15But
when the chief priests and the Torah scholars saw the wonders that he performed, and the
children crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosha na to the Son of David," they were
indignant, 16and they said to him, "Do you hear what they are saying?!"
And Jesus says to them, "Yes. Have you never read,
'Out of the mouths of children

and those still nursing
you have arranged for yourself praise'162?"
17And
he left them, and went outside the city, to Bethany, and found lodging there.
156
Zechariah 9:9
157
"Hosanna" here is similar to the Hebrew in Psalm 118:25 meaning "Help" or "Save, I pray," an appeal
that became a liturgical formula. As part of the Hallel (Ps. 113-118), it was familiar to everyone in Israel.
The Septuagint Psalm 117:25 has "O Lord, save now!" or "Save indeed!" No doubt some in the crowd
accompanying him expected him, as the Messiah ben David, to literally "save now," and deliver them from the
Romans and set up the kingdom of David.
158
21:9b Psalm 118:26
159
The Greek word here, , is traditionally translated "moneychangers," but bankers is what
they were. They are called moneychangers here because the main purpose of their "tables" when in the temple
area was to break up larger currency into smaller change, and also perhaps to change foreign currency, if there
was such a thing in the Roman empire. But the fact is, what the "tables" were is little in-temple, mini-branches
of banks. We know they were tables of bankers offering other banking services such as savings accounts
paying interest, because of Luke 19:23, where the "tables" were places to put money on deposit to earn interest.
160
Isaiah 56:7
161
Jeremiah 7:11
162
Psalm 8:2 Note also that in that culture, it was normal for children of speaking age to still be breast
feeding.
The Withered Fig Tree
18And early in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry.
19
And when he saw a lone fig tree by the road, he went up to it. And he found nothing
on it but only leaves. And he says to it, "May there never be fruit from you again."
And immediately the fig tree withered.
20And when the disciples saw this they marvelled, saying, "How did the fig tree
immediately wither?"
21
And in answer Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith, and do not
second guess, not only will you do something like the fig tree, but also should you say to
this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' it would happen. 22In fact anything
whatsoever that you ask for in prayer believing, you will receive."
The Authority of Jesus Questioned

23
And after he had come into the temple, as he was teaching, the high priests and the
elders of the people approached, saying, "By what authority are you doing these things?
And who gave you the authority for these things?"
24And in answer Jesus said to them, "I will also ask you one question, which if you
answer me, I will then tell you by what authority I do these things. 25The baptism of
John, where was it from, from heaven, or from human beings?"
So they discussed it among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will
say to us, 'Then why didn't you believe in him?' 26And if we say, 'From human beings,'
we fear the people, for they all hold John as a prophet."
27And they in answer said to Jesus, "We do not know."
So he also told them, "Neither am I telling you by what authority I am doing these
things."
The Parable of the Two Sons

28"So what do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first son and
said, 'Son, go work in the vineyard today.' 29And he in answer said, 'I will not,' but with
a subsequent change of heart, he went. 30And he went to the other son and said the
same thing. And he in answer said, 'I will, sir,' and did not go.
31Who of the two performed the will of the father?"
They are saying, "The first one."

Jesus says to them, "Truly I say to you: the revenue agents and prostitutes are going
into the kingdom of God before you. 32For John came to you with the way of
righteousness, and you did not believe in him. The revenue agents and prostitutes,
however, did believe in him. And you when you saw that, neither did you subsequently
have a change of heart and believe in him."
The Parable of the Tenants

33"Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, and
he put a hedge around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it
out to tenant farmers, and journeyed away. 34And when the time of harvest had drawn
near, he sent servants of his to the farmers, to take his fruit.
35And this is the reception the farmers gave his servants: one they flogged, another
they killed, another they stoned. 36Again he sent other servants, more than before, and
they treated them the same way. 37So finally he sent his own son to them, thinking,
'They will respect my son.'
38But the farmers when they saw the son said to each other, 'This is the heir. Hey,
let's kill him, and his inheritance will be ours.' 39And they took him and cast him
outside the vineyard and killed him.
40When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those
farmers?"
41They are saying to him, "He will kill those creeps catastrophically, and give the
vineyard to other farmers, who will pay him back the fruits in their seasons."
42
Jesus says to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures,
" 'A stone which the builders rejected,

this one has become
the chief cornerstone.
From the Lord this came about,
and it is marvelous
in our eyes'163?"
43
Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and
given to a nation producing its fruit. 44And the person who trips over that stone will be
broken into pieces, and upon whomever the stone falls, it will turn him into powder."164
45
And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard this parable of his, they knew
that it was about them that he was speaking. 46And though seeking to arrest him, they
feared the crowds, since they held him to be a prophet.
Chapter 22
The Parable of the Wedding Banquet
1And
once again Jesus in response to them spoke by means of a parable, saying,
2"The
kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king, who put on a wedding feast for his
son. 3And he sent his servants to summon those who were invited to the wedding, and
they did not want to come.
4Once more, he sent other servants, telling them, 'Say to those invited, "Look, my
noon meal has been prepared, my bulls and fattened animals are slaughtered, and
everything is ready. Come now to my wedding feast." 5But they disregarded this and
went off, one to his own field, another on his trade route, 6and others of them captured his
servants, and insulted and killed them.
7And the king became angry, and sending his soldiers, he slew those murderers, and
burned their city. 8Then, he says to his servants, 'Seeing as how my wedding feast is
ready, and the ones invited were not worthy, 9go out therefore onto the crossings of the
roads, and whoever you find, invite them to the wedding feast." 10So going out into the
roads, those servants gathered everyone that they could find, both the evil and the good.
And so the wedding hall was filled with guests reclining.
11Now when the king went in to observe the ones reclining, he saw there a man who
was not dressed in wedding clothes. 12And he says to him, 'Friend, how is it you have
come in here without having wedding clothes?' And he was speechless.
13Then the king said to his servants, 'Bind his feet and hands, and throw him outside,
into the outer darkness; there, there will be keening, and gnashing of teeth.' 14For many
are invited, but few are chosen."
Paying the Tribute Tax to Caesar

15Then
the Pharisees left, and plotted how they might entrap him in a saying. 16And
they send disciples of theirs to him, along with Herodians, saying as follows, "Teacher,
we know that you are honest, and that you teach the way of God with integrity, 165 and it
makes no difference to you about anyone, for you pay no attention to the personage of
163
Psalm 118:22,23
164
This verse is not found in Codex Bezae (D), 33, nor in many old Latin manuscripts, nor in the Sinaitic
Syriac, nor possibly, in Papyrus 104 from Oxyrhynchus (early III century). Some say the verse is an
interpolation from Luke 20:18. Yet the words are quite different at the beginning, and according to the UBS
committee, the verse's omission can be accounted for when the eye of the copyist passed from "auths" (last
word of ver. 43) to auton (the last word of ver. 44). Also, the committee says, the more appropriate place
for copyists to have inserted it, if it was an interpolation, would have been after verse 42.
165
Matthew says "you teach the way of God "en alhtheia," whereas Mark and Luke say "epi alhtheias."
people.166 17Tell us then, what do you think? Is it permissible to pay the tribute to
Caesar, or not?"
18
But aware of their evil, Jesus said, "Why are you testing me, you hypocrites?
19Show me the coinage used for the tribute." And they brought him a denarius. 20And
he says to them, "Whose image is this, and whose inscription?"

21
They say to him, "Caesar's."
Then he says to them, "So Caesar's things you give back to Caesar, and God's things
to God." 22And when they heard this, they were amazed, and they left him, and went
away.
Marriage at the Resurrection

23
During that same day, Sadducees approached him, (Sadducees say there is no
resurrection), and they questioned him 24as follows: "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies
without having a child, his brother shall marry the man's wife, and raise up descendants
for his brother.' 25Well, there were seven brothers near us, and the first one after
marrying, died, and since he had no descendant, his brother took his wife. 26And it was
the same with the second, and the third, up till and including all the seven. 27And last of
all, the woman died.
28In the resurrection, then, of which of the seven will she be wife? For all of them
had her."
29And in answer Jesus said to them, "You are mistaken, from not knowing either the
scriptures or the power of God. 30For in the resurrection, they neither marry nor are
given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven.
31Now about the resurrection of the dead, have you never read the declaration to you
from God, where he says, 32'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob'167'? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
33And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
The Weightiest Commandment

34And
when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered
together on that same place, 35and one of them, a lawyer, questioned him, testing him:
36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
37And he told him, "'You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with
all your soul and with all your strength.' 168 38This is the greatest and primary
commandment. 39And the second one is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.'169 40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."
Whose Son is the Messiah?

41And
as long as the Pharisees were collected together, Jesus questioned them,
42saying:
"What do you all think about the Christ— whose son is he?"
They are saying, "David's."
43He says, "How is it then that David, by the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,
44'Yahweh said to my Lord,170 "Sit at my right hand until such time I put your enemies
under your feet."171 45So, since David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"
46And no one was able to answer this argument, nor did anyone from that day on
dare ask him anything else.
166
In other words, "It makes no difference to you who you are dealing with, as far as their status in society."
167
Exodus 3:6
168
Deuteronomy 6:4, 5
169
Leviticus 19:18
170
"Yahweh said to my Lord" is from the Hebrew of Psalm 110:1. In this verse, both the Tetragrammaton
(YHVH) and Adonai are found, together. But one could hardly say, "Adonai said to Adonai." In an attempt
to avoid this, the Masoretes inserted a paseq in between, to make separate them.
171
Psalm 110:1
Chapter 23
Jesus Denounces the Rabbis
1
Then Jesus spoke to the crowd and to his disciples, 2saying, "The Torah scholars
and Pharisees took the seat of Moses; 3therefore whatever they say to you, you should do
and keep, but not according to their works should you do. For they say and don't do.
4
But they bind heavy loads172 and place them on the backs of the people, but they
themselves would not budge them with a finger of theirs.
5
But every act of theirs they do with the goal to be seen by people; for they enlarge
their phylacteries, and lengthen their tassels; 6and they love the places of honor in the
banquets, and the prominent seats in the synagogues 7and the greetings in the
marketplaces and to be called Rabbi by the people.
8
But you, you should not be called Rabbi, because there is only one teacher for you,
and you are all brothers. 9And call no one on earth your father, because there is only
one father for you, the heavenly one. 10Neither should you be called Teacher, because
your teacher is the Messiah. 11But the greatest among you shall be your servant.
12And whoever promotes himself will be lowered, and whoever lowers himself will be
promoted.
13Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you close the
kingdom of heaven in people's faces; you yourselves do not enter, and neither do you
allow those who are entering to enter.
[[14Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you devour the
houses of widows, and for a front, make lengthy prayers. Because of this, you will
receive a greater condemnation.]]173
15Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, you hypocrites! Because you traverse
sea and land to make one convert, and when it happens, you make him twice the son of
Gehenna that you are.
16Woe to you, you blind guides, that say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, that is
nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.' 17O you blind
fools! For which is greater– the gold, or the temple that makes the gold something
holy?
18Or that say, 'Whoever swears by the altar, that is nothing; but whoever swears by
the gift that lies upon it, he is obligated.' 19O you blind men! For which is greater– the
gift, or the altar that makes the gift something holy?
20It follows therefore, that when you swear by the altar, you are swearing by it AND
everything that lies upon it, 21and when you swear by the temple, you are swearing by it
AND by the One residing in it.
22And when you swear by heaven, you are swearing by the throne of God AND by
him who sits on it.

23Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you tithe the mint
and dill and cumin, and have passed over more important matters of the law– justice,
mercy and faith. But these latter you ought to practice, without leaving the former
undone. 24You blind guides, straining out a gnat, but swallowing a camel!
25Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you clean the
outside of the cup and dish, but the inside is full of grabbiness and intemperance.
26O blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, such that the outside will be
clean as well.
27Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you are like
whitewashed tombs, that sparkle beautifully on the outside, but inside are full of bones of
the dead and all sorts of unclean things.
28So you also, outside you appear to people as righteous, but inside you are loaded
up with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
172
There are a variety of readings here in the Greek. Many manuscripts add the words "and oppressive to
bear," but that is probably an interpolation from Luke 11:46.
173
Some early manuscripts do not have verse 14.
29Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you build the
tombs of the prophets, and decorate the graves of the righteous, 30and you say, 'If we had
lived in the days of our forefathers we would not have been parties to the blood of the
prophets.'
31
By so saying, you are bearing witness against yourselves, that you are sons of the
murderers of the prophets.
32
You fill indeed the measure of your forefathers. 174
33O you snakes, you spawn of vipers, how will you wiggle out of the sentence of
Gehenna?
34
Therefore behold, I am sending to you prophets, and wise men, and Torah scholars;
some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your
synagogues and pursue from town to town, 35so that on you will come all of the blood of
the righteous ever spilled upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of
Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you slaughtered between the sanctuary and the altar.
36
Truly I tell you, this will all fall upon this generation.
37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to it! How
often I have wished to gather together your children, as a hen gathers together her young
under her wings, and you were not willing. 38Now behold, your house will be left to
you desolate.
39For I tell you, from now on, me you will not see, until such time you say, 'Blessed
is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'" 175
Chapter 24
Signs of the Times
1
And Jesus was proceeding on his way, and left the temple, and his disciples
approached to show him the construction of the temple. 2But in answer he said to them,
"Do you see all these things? Truly I tell you, by no means will there be a stone left
upon a stone that will not be thrown down."
3Then as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately,
saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your
coming, and of the end of the age?"
4And in answer Jesus said to them, "See that no one misleads you. 5For many will
come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will deceive many. 6And you will
hear about wars and rumors of wars. Do not be alarmed. For such are bound to
happen, but the end is still not yet.
7For nation will rise up against nation, and king against king, and there will be
famines and earthquakes in various places. 8But all these are just the beginning of birth
pains.
9At that time they will deliver you over to trial, and you will be hated by all nations
because of my name. 10And then many will be scandalized, and others will betray and
hate each other; 11and many false prophets shall arise, and lead many astray. 12And
because of the increase of lawlessness, the love of many will grow cold. 13But the
person who remains to the end, that one will be saved. 14And this gospel of the
kingdom will be preached in the whole inhabited earth, for a witness to all nations, and
then the end will come.
15When therefore you see the abomination of desolation spoken of through the
prophet Daniel being in the holy place, (Reader, think.) 176 16then those in Judea should
flee to the mountains, 17the one on the rooftop should not come down to take things from
his house, 18and the person in the field should not turn back to take his coat.
174
This is traditionally translated as an imperative: "Fill up then, the measure of your forefathers." But the
imperative inflection of verbs was usually identical to the indicative. Therefore, it is possible that this could be
an indicative, and be rendered, "You fill indeed the measure of your forefathers."
175
Psalm 118:26
176
Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
19And alas for those who are pregnant, and the ones giving milk during those days!
20
And pray that your flight not happen during winter or on a sabbath. 21For there will be
great distress then, of a sort that has not happened from the beginning of the world till
now, nor ever will again.177 22And if those days had not been made short, no flesh
would survive; but for the sake of the elect, those days will be short.
23
At that time, if anyone says to you, 'Behold, here is the Messiah,' or "There is the
Messiah,' do not believe it. 24For there shall arise many false prophets, and they will
perform great signs and miracles, so as to deceive if possible, even the elect. 25See, I
have told you ahead of time.
26
If therefore they say to you, 'Behold, he is in the desert,' do not go out. Or,
'Behold, he is in a private room,' do not believe it. 27For just as lightning comes out of
the east and shines as far as the west, so shall the appearing of the Son of Man be. 178
28
Wherever the carcass is, there the vultures 179 will be gathered.
29
And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened and
the moon will not give its glow, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the forces of the
heavens will be shaken.180
30And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and at that time, all the
tribes of the earth will wail, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the
sky, with great power and great glory. 31And he will send his angels with a loud
trumpet, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of sky to the
other.
32Now learn this parable from the fig tree: when its branch becomes tender and it
puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33In the same way you also, when you
see all these things, you know that the time is near, right at the door. 34Truly I tell you:
this age will by no means pass away until all these things have taken place. 35Sky and
earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.
The Day and Hour Unknown

36But as for that day and hour, no one knows it except the Father alone; not even the
angels of heaven, not even the Son. 37For just like the days of Noah, that is how the
coming of the Son of Man will be. 38For just as in the days before the flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, right up until the day that
Noah entered the ark, 39and they did not know it right up until the flood came and carried
them away, that is how it will be with the coming of the Son of Man. 40At that time,
two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left.
41Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and the other left.
42Be watchful therefore, because you do not know at what hour your Lord is coming.
43But this you know: that if the home owner had known at what watch of the night
the thief was coming, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken
into.
44For this reason you also must be the same: because the Son of Man is coming at an
hour you would not think he would.

45Who then is the faithful and sensible servant, whom the master places over his
domestic servants, to be giving out rations in due time?

46
Happy is that servant whom his lord will find so doing when he comes.
47Truly I tell you, he will place him over all his possessions.
48But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord is taking a long time,' 49and his fellow
servants he begins to slap around, but eats and drinks with the drunkards, 50the lord of
that servant will come at an hour he is not expecting, and at a time he does not know,
177
Daniel 12:1; Joel 2:2
178
Or, so shall be the coming of the Son of Man. Both 'appearing' and 'coming' are true and appropriate,
and included in the meaning of the Greek word "parousia" here. When someone comes to you, they also
"show." Coming is also an appearing, in English.
179
Greek: "ho aetos," a word used for both eagles and vultures.
180
Isaiah 13:10; 34:4; Joel 2:31
51and will cut him in two, and appoint him his inheritance with the hypocrites. There,
there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Chapter 25
The Parable of the Ten Virgins
1
"At that time, the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who after grabbing
their torches, went out for the meeting up with the bridegroom. 2Now five of them were
foolish, and five of them were wise. 3For the foolish ones when they brought their
torches, had not brought some oil along with them. 4The wise, however, brought along
with their torches, some oil in a container.
5
Now after the bridegroom was taking a long time, they all became drowsy, and fell
asleep. 6And in the middle of the night, there came a loud cry, 'Look, the bridegroom!
Come out to join him.'
7
Then at that time, all those virgins woke up, and trimmed their torches. 8And the
foolish ones said to the wise ones, 'Give us some of your oil, because our torches are
going out.'
9But the wise ones answered saying, 'There may not be enough for both us and you.
Go to the vendors and buy more for yourselves.'

10And while they were gone away to buy some, the bridegroom came, and the ones
who were ready went in with him to the wedding, and then the door was locked.
11And later on, the other virgins also arrive, and they are saying, 'Sir! Sir! Open
the door for us.'

12"But in response, he said, 'Truly I tell you, I do not know you.'
13You all should keep watch therefore; because you do not know the day or the
hour."
The Parable of the Talants

14"For it is like a man going away on a journey. He summoned his own servants,
and handed his possessions over to them. 15And to one he gave five talants,181 and to
another two talants, and to another, one talant, each according to his own ability, and then
he went abroad. Immediately, 16the one who received the five talants went out and
worked with them and gained five more. 17Similarly, the one with the two, gained
another two. 18But the one who had received the one talant went out and dug a hole in
the ground, and he hid his master's silver.
19And after a long time, the lord of those servants returns, and he is settling accounts
with them. 20And when the one who had received the five talants came forward, he
presented another five talants to him, saying, 'Lord, you entrusted to me five talants.
Look, I have gained another five talants.'
21His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been
faithful over a little; over much I will appoint you. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
22And when the one who had received the two talants came forward, he said, 'Lord,
you entrusted to me two talants. Look, I have gained another two talants.'
23His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been
faithful over a little; over much I will appoint you. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
24But then when the one who had received the one talant came forward, he said,
'Lord, I knew you, that you are a hard man, who reaps where he has not sown, and
gathers what he has not winnowed. 25And because I was afraid, I went out and hid your
talant in the ground. See here, you still have what is yours.'
26But in response, his master said to him, 'You wicked and idle servant! You knew
that I reap where I have not sown and gather what I have not winnowed? 27Then you
should have deposited my silver with the bankers, and when I returned I would recover
what is mine with interest.
181
A talant was a measurement of weight for gold, silver, or copper, from 58 to 80 pounds (26 to 36 kg.).
There came to be a coin called a talant, whose worth varied depending on the metal, time, and place used. The
silver coin here was probably worth about two thousand dollars.
28Now then, take the talant away from him, and give it to the one who has the ten
talants. 29For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have himself an
abundance. But the person who does not have, even such that he has will be taken away
from him. 30And as for that worthless servant, cast him into the outer darkness. There,
there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
The Sheep and the Goats

31
"And when the Son of Man returns in his glory, and all the angels with him, then
he will sit on his glorious throne, 32and all the nations will be brought together before
him, and he will separate them one from the other, just as a shepherd separates the sheep
from the goats, 33and he will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34
Then, the king will say to the ones on his right, 'Come, you blessed by my Father,
receive as your inheritance the kingdom that has been prepared for you since the
foundation of the world. 35For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was
thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was traveling through, and you invited me in.
36Naked, and you put clothes on me. Sick, and you came to look over me. I was in
prison, and you came to visit with me.'

37Then the righteous will answer him saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and
feed you, or thirsty and give you a drink? 38And when did we see you a traveler and
invite you in, or naked and put clothes on you? 39And when did we see you sick or in
prison and come to visit with you?'
40"And in answer, the king will say, 'Truly I say to you, as many times as you have
done those things to the least of these of my brethren, you have done them to me.'
"41Then, he will say also to the ones on his left, 'Depart from me, accursed ones, into
the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry, and you
did not give me anything to eat. I was thirsty, and you did not give me a drink. 43I was
traveling through, and you did not invite me in. Naked, and you did not put clothes on
me. Sick, or in prison, and you did not come and look over me.'
"44Then those also will answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty
or traveling through or naked or sick or in prison and not minister to you?'
"45Then he will answer them saying, 'Truly I say to you, as many times as you did
not do those things to one of the least of these, you did not do them to me.' 46And those
he will send off into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life."
Chapter 26
The Plot Against Jesus
1And
it came about that when Jesus had finished all these discourses, he said to his
disciples, 2"As you know, two days from now the Passover takes place, and the Son of
Man will be handed over to be crucified." 3Then the chief priests gathered together,
along with the elders of the people, in the courtyard of the high priest, whose name was
Kaiapha; 4and they came to the decision that they would capture Jesus by trickery and kill
him. 5"But," they were saying, "not in the festival, or there might be an uproar among
the people."
Jesus Anointed at Bethany

6Nowonce when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 7a woman
came to him holding an alabaster bottle of very expensive myrrh, and she poured it on his
head as he was reclining. 8And when the disciples saw this they were indignant,
saying,182 "This is such waste, for what? 9Because this could have been sold for a lot
of money, to be given to the poor."
10But aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you causing trouble for this
woman? For she has performed a good work in me. 11For the poor you always have
with you, but me you do not always have. 12For she did the pouring of this myrrh on
182
Or possibly, "thinking."
my body to prepare me for burial. 13Truly I tell you, wherever in the whole world this
good news is preached, what this woman has done will also be spoken, in honorable
remembrance of her."
14
At that time one of the twelve went to the high priests, the one called Judas of
Kerioth, 15and he said, “What will you give me to betray him to you?" And they placed
out for him thirty pieces of silver.183 16And from then on, he was looking for a suitable
time to betray him.
The Passover Supper

17
And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying,
"Where do you want us getting the Passover meal ready for you to eat?"
18
And he said, "Go into the city to a certain person and say to him, 'The Teacher
says, "My time is near. I am doing Passover with you, along with my disciples."'"
19
And those disciples did as Jesus told them, and prepared the Passover.
20
And as evening was coming on, he was reclining with the Twelve. 21And while
he was eating with them he said, "Truly I say to you, one of you will betray me."
22And deeply saddened, they began every single one to say to him, "It's not me, is it,
Lord?"
23And in answer he said, "The one who dips his hand with mine in the bowl, he is the
one who will betray me. 24The Son of Man is going just indeed like it is written about
him, but nevertheless woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is being betrayed.
It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."
25And in response, Judas, the one betraying him, said, "It's not me, is it Rabbi?"
26And as they ate, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and
gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take and eat. This is my body." 27And when he had
taken the cup and given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it everyone.
28For this is my blood of the covenant, being shed on behalf of many for the forgiveness
of sins.184 29And I say to you, I will certainly not drink from this fruit of the vine from
now on, until that day when I drink it with you new in the kingdom of my Father."
30And when they had sung a hymn, they went out toward the Mount of Olives.
31Then Jesus is saying to them, "You will all be scandalized because of me this very
night, for it is written:
" 'I will strike down the shepherd,

and the sheep of the flock
will be scattered.'185
32But after I am resurrected, I will go ahead of you into Galilee."

33But
in response Peter said to him, "Though everyone else will be scandalized
because of you, I will never be scandalized."
34Jesus said to him, "Truly I tell you, This very night before the rooster crows, you
will disown me three times."

35Peter says to him, "Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you." And
all the other disciples said the same.
Gethsemane
36Then
Jesus goes with them to a park named Gethsemane, and he says to the
disciples, "Sit here during such time I am gone over there to pray." 37And he took Peter
along, and the two sons of Zebedee, and he began to be sorrowful and deeply depressed.
38Then he says to them, "My soul is too sad, to the point of death. Remain here and
stay awake with me." 39And then after he had moved forward a little, he fell on his face,
183
Bauer says under "argurion" 2.(c) that this means 30 silver coins called shekels, each worth about 4
drachmas.
184
Isaiah 53:11
185
Zechariah 13:7
praying and saying, "My Father, if it is possible, remove this cup from me.
Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will."
40
And he returns to the disciples, and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter,
"This is how you guys are,186 lacking the self-control to stay awake with me one hour?
41
Stay awake and pray, that you not go into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but
the flesh is weak."
42
Again for the second time he went away and was praying, saying, "My Father, if it
is not possible for this cup to go away unless I drink it, may your will be done." 43And
when he returned again, he found them sleeping, because their eyelids were weighed
down heavily.
44
And again he left them and went away, praying for the third time, saying the same
thing again. 45Then at that time he comes to the disciples and says to them, "Still
sleeping away and resting? Behold, the hour has drawn near, and the Son of Man is
being betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46Get up, let's go. Look, the one betraying
me is approaching."
Jesus Arrested
47And
while he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived, and
with him a large crowd of people with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders
of the people. 48And the one betraying him had given them a signal, as follows:
"Whomever I kiss is the one. Him you seize."
49And he came straight up to Jesus and said, "Good morning, Rabbi." 187 Then he
kissed him.
50And Jesus said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then at that time they came
up and laid their hands on Jesus, and arrested him.

51And behold, one of those in the company of Jesus raised his hand and drew his
sword, and he struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.
52Jesus then says to him, "Return your sword to its place. For all who take up the
sword will perish by the sword. 53Or do you think I am not able to call on my Father,
and he make available to me right now twelve legions of angels? 54But then how would
the scriptures be fulfilled which indicate that all this needs to happen?"
55At that time, Jesus said to the crowd, "As though after a bandit you have come out
with swords and clubs to capture me? Every day I was sitting in the temple teaching
and you didn't arrest me. 56But, this has all come about so the writings of the prophets
would be fulfilled." Then the disciples all abandoned him and fled.
Before the Sanhedrin

57And
the ones arresting Jesus led him away to Kaiapha the high priest, where the
Torah scholars and the elders had gathered. 58Now Peter had been following him from a
distance, up to the courtyard of the high priest, and once he got inside, he was sitting with
the servants, to see the outcome. 59And the high priest and the entire Sanhedrin were
looking for false testimony against Jesus by which they could put him to death, 60and
they had not found it from the many false witnesses who had come forward. But then
later, two came forward 61and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of
God, and in three days to build it again.'"
62And the high priest rose and said to him, "Aren't you answering anything? What
about this they are testifying against you?" 63But Jesus was keeping silent. And the
high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God that you declare under oath
whether you are the Messiah, the Son of God."
186
There is no Greek word corresponding to the word "guys," but I added it to show that the words here are
plural inflection, and that Jesus is addressing not just Peter but all three of them.
187
The Greek word used as greeting here means literally something like "Joy" or "Rejoice." But insert any
cheerful greeting here used in your culture or language.
64Jesussays to him, "You said that. Nevertheless I say to you: after now you shall
all see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power, and coming on the clouds of
heaven."
65
Then the high priest tore his robe, saying, "He has blasphemed! What more need
do we have for witnesses? Behold, now you have heard the blasphemy. 66How does it
look to you?"
And they said in answer, "He is guilty enough for death." 67Then they spit on his
face and pummeled him; they slapped him 68while saying, "Prophesy to us, you Messiah–
who is the one who hit you?"
Peter Disowns Jesus

69
And Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and one maidservant approached
him, saying, "You also were with Jesus the Galilean."
70
But he was denying it before all of them, saying, "I do not know what you are
saying."
71And after he had moved off into the entrance way, another maidservant saw him
and is saying to the ones there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene."
72And again he was denying it, with an oath: "I do not know the man."
73And after a little while those standing there said to Peter, "You definitely are also
one of them, because your speech also gives you away."

74Then he began to curse and swear, saying, "I do not know the man."
And
immediately a rooster crowed. 75And Peter was reminded of the statement Jesus had
said, that "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times." And he went off
outside, and wept bitterly.
Chapter 27
Judas Hangs Himself
1And very early in the morning, they all, the chief priests and elders of the people,
reached the decision against Jesus that they would put him to death. 2And they bound
him, and led him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor.
3Then, when Judas the one who betrayed him saw that he was condemned, he with
remorse returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4saying, "I have
sinned; I have betrayed innocent blood."
But they said, "What is that to us? You deal with that."
5And after throwing the silver into the temple, he departed, and went off and hung
himself. 6And the chief priests when they picked up the pieces of silver, said, "It is not
permissible to put them in the temple treasury, since it is blood price money."
7And after conferring on a course of action, they bought with the coins the potter's
field, as a burial place for foreigners. 8For which reason that field has been called "the
Field of Blood" to this day. 9Then was fulfilled what was spoken through Jeremiah the
prophet, which says,
"And they took the thirty pieces of silver,

the price of him on whom a price had been set,
as priced by the sons of Israel,
10and they traded them for the potter's field,
just as the Lord directed me." 188
Jesus Before Pilate

11And Jesus was stood before the governor; and the governor examined him, saying,
"YOU are the king of the Jews?"
188
Zechariah 11:12,13; Jeremiah 32:6-9
And he said, "You are saying that, not I." 12And during the whole time he was
being accused by the chief priests and elders, he was not responding at all.
13
Then Pilate says to him, "Don't you hear all the things they are charging you with?"
14And he gave him no answer, not to even a single charge, causing the governor to be
greatly astonished.
15
Now the governor had become accustomed at every Festival to release one prisoner
to the crowd that they wanted. 16And they were holding at that time a particularly well-
known prisoner named Barabbas.189 17When therefore they were gathered together,
Pilate said to them, "Which do you want me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus who is
called Christ?" 18(For he knew that it was out of envy that they had handed him over.)
19And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him as
follows: "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much today
because of a dream about him." 20And the chief priests and the elders manipulated the
crowd so that they would ask to have Barabbas, but Jesus they would put to death.
21But when the governor answered, he said to them, "Which of the two do you want
me to release to you?"
And they said, "Barabbas."
22Pilate is saying to them, "What then should I do with Jesus who is called Christ?"
They are saying, "Let him be crucified!"

23
But Pilate was saying, "Why? What crime has he committed?"
But they kept shouting that much more, saying, "Let him be crucified!"
24And when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead an uproar
was starting, he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, "I
am innocent of this man's blood.190 You see to that yourselves."
25And in response the whole crowd said, "Let his blood be on us and on our
children." 26At that time, he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus, after scourging him,
he handed over to be crucified.
The Soldiers Mock Jesus

27Then
the soldiers who were guarding Jesus, after taking him into the Praetorium,
gathered together onto him the whole cohort. 28And they stripped him of his clothes and
placed around him a scarlet robe, 29and after weaving together a crown of thorns they set
that on his head, and a rod in his right hand, and then they dropped to their knees before
him and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 30And after they spit on him,
they took the rod, and repeatedly beat on his head. 31And when they had mocked him,
they stripped him of the scarlet robe and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to
crucify him.
189
It is possible that the original gospel of Matthew said "Jesus Barabbas." And possible that, according to
the Editorial Committee of the United Bible Societies Greek New Testament, the word "Jesus" in connection to
Barabbas was "deliberately suppressed in most witnesses for reverential donsiderations." For example, acc. to
the UBS textual commentary, Origen stated, it cannot be right, because, "In the whole range of the scriptures we
know that no one who is a sinner [is called] Jesus." Origen, though admitting that Barabbas was called Jesus,
nevertheless suppressed this in his work. In many even later witnesses, the copyists state in the margin that the
earlier copies call Barabbas Jesus as well. But, they suppressed it, and the subsequent copies did not say Jesus
Barabbas. Westcott and Hort however, state that the reading "Jesus Barabbas" was probably due to a scribe's
error in transcription. Some say it is still easier to explain why "Jesus" might have been deleted than why it
might have gotten added. In addition, having two men named Jesus fits better with the phrase of Pilate, found
in all manuscripts, "or the Jesus called Christ," where he seems to be setting them off in a needed
contradistinction. The fact is, according to Josephus, Jesus was a not uncommon name among Jews. After
all, Joshua was a big hero in Judaism, and Jesus is simply a form of the name Joshua.
190
Many manuscripts read "this righteous man's blood." Still others read, "this righteous blood." The
UBS editorial committee, in the Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, comment on this as
follows: "The words "tou dikaiou" (compare the variant reading in ver. 4), which occur at different places in a
variety of manuscripts (but not in the best representatives of the Alexandrian, Western, and Caesarean texts),
appear to be an accretion intended to accentuate Pilate's protestation of Jesus' innocence." The committee
gives the shortest reading, "this man's blood," a B rating of certainty, which indicates that the text is "almost
certain."
The Crucifixion
32
And as they were leading him out, they encountered a Cyrenian man by the name
of Simon. This man they conscripted to carry his cross. 33And when they came to the
place called Gulgolta, which is called the "skull" place, 34they offered him wine to drink,
mixed with a bitter drug; and after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35And once they had
crucified him, they divied up his garments by casting lots. 36And sitting down, they
kept watch over him there. 37And they fastened above his head his specific charge,
written as follows: "THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 38There were being
crucified along with him at that time two bandits, one on his right and one on his left.
39
And those passing by defamed him, wagging their heads 40and saying, "Hey, you who
destroys the temple and builds another one in three days, save yourself, if you are the son
of God, and come down from the cross." 41In the same way also the chief priests,
making fun along with the Torah scholars and the elders, were saying, 42"Others he
saved; himself he cannot save. He is the King of Israel? Let him come down now
from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43He put his trust in God; let Him now
rescue him, if he wants him. Because he did say, 'I am God's son.'" 44In the same way
the bandits who were crucified with him were also taunting him.
Jesus' Death
45And
starting from the sixth hour, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth
hour.191 46And at about the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a very loud voice, saying,
"Eli, Eli, lema shebaqtani?" Which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken
me?"
47And some standing there who heard this were saying, "This man is calling
Elijah."192 48And quickly one of them ran and got a sponge and soaked it with sour
wine, and after sticking it on a reed, was giving him a drink.
49But the rest were saying, "Back off. Let's see if Elijah comes to save him."
50But Jesus, after crying out again in a loud voice, gave up his spirit. 51And behold, the
veil of the temple was rent in two from top to bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the
rocks split open, 52and the tombs were opened up, and many bodies of the saints who had
fallen asleep were raised again, 53and after coming out of the tombs at the time of His
resurrection, they went into the holy city and showed themselves to many.
54And the centurion and the ones with him who were guarding Jesus, when they saw
the earthquake and the other things that happened, they were severely frightened, saying,
"This man really was the Son of God."
55And there were present many women off at a distance observing, who had followed
Jesus from Galiliee providing for him; 56among whom were Mary the Magdalene, and
Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee's sons as well.
Jesus' Burial
57And
when evening had come, a certain rich man of Arimathea by the name of
Joseph came, who himself had also become a disciple of Jesus. 58This man went to
Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate thereupon ordered that it be handed over
to him. 59And after taking the body, Joseph wrapped it in clean linen cloth, 60and placed
it in his own new tomb that he had hewn out of the rock. And after rolling a large stone
up against the entrance of the tomb, he departed.
61Now Mary the Magdalene, along with the other Mary, was 193 there throughout,
sitting opposite the grave site.
191
That is, from noon until 3:00 p.m. In the Jewish system of that time, the first hour was the first hour of
daylight, or 6:00 a.m. Thus, the sixth hour would be 12:00, six hours later, and the ninth hour was 9 hours
after 6, which is 3:00 o'clock.
192
This shows that the bystanders did not know Hebrew or Aramaic. The sign above Jesus’ head was
written in three languages for good reason. Most Jews of that day could not read the scriptures in Hebrew, and
so it is no surprise that they did not recognize this spoken form of the Hebrew name for God.
The Guard at the Tomb
62The next day, that is, the one which is after Preparation Day, the chief priests and
the Pharisees gathered together before Pilate, 63saying, "Sir, we remember how that
deceiver, when he was still living, said, 'After three days I will rise again.' 64Give orders
therefore to secure the grave site through the third day, or his disciples might go steal him
and then tell the people, 'He has risen from the dead,' and this last deception will be worse
than the first."
65
Pilate said to them, "You have a guard.194 Go secure it as best you know how."
66
So they went and secured the grave site, sealing the stone along with stationing the
guard.
Chapter 28
The Empty Tomb
1And after the Sabbath, at the dawning of the first day of the week, Mary the
Magdalene and the other Mary went to view the grave site. 2And behold, there came a
great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord had come down from heaven, and after
going up to the tomb, he had rolled away the stone, and was sitting down now on top of
it. 3And his face was like lightning, and his garments a gleaming white like snow.
4And for fear of him, the guards trembled, and became as dead men.
5But in response, the angel said to the women, "You should not be afraid, for I know
that you are looking for Jesus the crucified man. 6He is not here. For he has risen just
as he said. Come, see the place where he was lying. 7And quick, go tell his disciples
as follows, 'He has risen from the dead. And behold, he is going ahead of you into
Galilee; there you will see him.' There, I have told you."
8And they departed quickly from the tomb, and with fear and great joy they ran to
report this to his disciples. 9And behold, Jesus met up with them, saying, "Good
morning." And after approaching him, they grasped onto his feet, and worshiped him.
10Then Jesus is telling them, "Do not be afraid. Go report to my brothers that I am
leaving for Galilee, and they will see me there."
The Official Cover-Up

11And
while those were on their way, behold, some of the guard went into the city
and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. 12And after coming
together with the elders, they came up with a plan, and took the sufficient amount of
silver coins and gave them to the soldiers, 13telling them, "Say that his disciples came by
night and stole him while you were sleeping. 14And if this should ever reach the ears of
the governor, we will satisfy him and make you have no worries." 15And they accepted
the silver coins and did as they were told. And this story has been propagated by the
Jews to this day.
The Assembly on the Mountain in Galilee

16Andthe eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had directed
them. 17And when they saw him, they worshiped him, though some hesitated. 18And
Jesus approached them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority in heaven and on earth
has been given to me. 19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 20teaching them to keep
193
The verb "was" is in the singular, because the main subject of and focus of this account is Mary the
Magdalene.
194
The word "guard" here is a collective noun. It does not mean one man who is a guard, but a contingent
of guards. Pilate may be giving them some guards here, but more likely, he is referring to the company of
guards that the Jewish religious authorities already had charge of, by Pilate's authority, for the purpose of
guarding the temple, and enforcing their exclusive legal jurisdiction, which Rome allowed in some matters of
their Jewish religious law.
everything, whatever things I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always,
even to the end of the age."
End of Matthew
The Gospel According To Mark
Mark
Chapter 1
1The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
2
As it is written the prophets:
"Behold, I am sending my messenger

before your face,
who will prepare your way,"195
3
"a voice of one calling
in the wilderness,
make the paths straight for him,'" 196
4so
John the Baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for
the forgiveness of sins. 5And the whole region of Judea was going out to him, even all
the Jerusalemites, and were getting baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their
sins. 6And John was dressed in camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and
eating locusts and wild honey.
7And he would preach, saying, "After me is coming someone more powerful than I,
the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. 8I have baptized
you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."
The Baptism and Temptation of Jesus

9And
it came about in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was
baptized by John in the Jordan. 10And going up out of the water he immediately saw
the heavens opening, and the Spirit as a dove coming down to him. 11And a voice from
heaven said, "You are my beloved Son; in you I have taken good pleasure."
12And immediately the Spirit thrusts him forth into the wilderness. 13And he was
in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts. And
the angels were attending him.

14And
after John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good
news of God, 15and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come
near. Repent and believe the good news."
16And passing along beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, Simon's
brother, casting a net in the sea, for they were fishers. 17And Jesus said to them,
"Come, you two. Follow me, and I will make you fishers of people." 18And they
followed him right away, leaving the nets.
19And when he had gone a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and his
brother John. They also were on board a boat, mending the nets. 20At once he called
them, and they went off after him, leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired
hands.
Jesus' Teaching Has Authority

21Andthey enter into Capernaum, and having gone straight into the synagogue on the
Sabbath, he began to teach. 22And they were amazed at his teaching, because he was
teaching them as one having authority, and not like the Torah scholars.197
195
This quotation appears to be a blend of Exodus 23:20 and Malachi 3:1.
196
Isaiah 40:3
23And right then there was a man in their synagogue who was in an unclean spirit.
And he cried out, 24saying, "What business do you have with us, Jesus, you Nazarene? 198
Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are— the Holy One of God!"
25And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet and come out of him!" 26And the
unclean spirit shook him violently back and forth and came out of him, shouting very
loudly.
27
And all were astonished, such that they were discussing it, saying, "What is this?
A new teaching, with authority. He even commands the unclean spirits, and they obey
him." 28And immediately the report went out about him everywhere, in the whole
region of Galilee.
Jesus Heals All in Capernaum

29
And as soon as they came out of the synagogue, they went into the house of Simon
and Andrew, accompanied by James and John. 30And Simon's mother-in-law was
bedridden, burning a high fever, and right away they are telling him about her. 31And
after approaching her and grasping her by the hand, he lifted her, and the fever left her,
and she began to wait on them.
32And when evening had come, when the sun had set, 199 they were bringing to him
all who had an illness, and those being tormented by demons. 33Indeed the entire town
was gathered at the door. 34And he healed many who were ill with various diseases, and
many demons he expelled; and he would not allow the demons to speak, because they
knew him.
Jesus Keeps Moving

35And
rising up very early, in the darkness, Jesus went outside and went off to a
solitary place, and he was praying there. 36And Simon and those with him hunted him
down, 37and found him, and they are saying to him, "Everyone is looking for you!"
38And he says to them, "Let us go somewhere else, to the nearby villages, so I may
preach there also. For that is why I have come."

39And he went preaching in their synagogues in all of Galilee, and driving out the
demons.
A Leper Healed Spreads the Word

40And
a leper comes to him, falling on his knees, and saying to him, "If you are
willing, you can cleanse me."
41And filled with compassion, he reached out his hand and touched him, and says to
him, "I am willing. Be cleansed." 42And immediately the leprosy went away from him
and he was cleansed.
43And he immediately thrust him outside, sternly admonishing him, 44and saying to
him, "See that you don't tell a thing to anyone. Only go show yourself to the priest, and
offer the things Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them."
45But when he left he proceeded to speak out freely, and to spread the word around,
with the result that Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in
deserted places. Yet people were still coming toward him from all directions.
197
Traditionally translated 'scribe.' The original meaning was "writer; clerk; copyist," but after the captivity,
it came to mean a member of the class of professional interpreters of the Jewish Law. They were also one
component of the Sanhedrin, who sat as judges because of their expertise in the law.
198
A Nazarene is someone from the town of Nazareth, just as a Houstonian is someone from the city of
Houston. A Nazarene is not to be confused with a Nazirite, someone who took a time-limited vow not to cut
his hair or to eat grapes or drink wine.
199
The people waited until the Sabbath was over.
Chapter 2
The Paralytic Lowered Through the Roof
1
And some days later, he entered again into Capernaum, and it was heard that he was
home. 2And many gathered, so many that there was no room left, not even at the door;
and he was speaking the word to them.
3
Then some arrive, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four. 4And not being able
to get to him because of the crowd, they removed the roof where he was, and when they
had dug through, they lowered the pallet bed on which the paralytic is lying.
5
And when Jesus saw their faith, he says to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are
forgiven."
6
And some of the Torah scholars were sitting there, and debating in their hearts,
7"Why does this fellow talk like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but
God alone?"
8
And Jesus, knowing immediately in his spirit that they were debating like this inside
themselves, says to them, "Why are you debating these things in your hearts? 9Which is
easier to say to the paralytic: 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up, take up your
bed and walk'? 10But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth
to forgive sins..." He said to the paralytic, 11"I say to you, get up, take up your bed, and
go to your house." 12And he stood up, and immediately took up his bed and went out in
front of them all, with the result that they were all astonished, and glorified God, saying,
"We have never seen anything like this!"
A Tax Collector Joins Jesus

13And
he went out, along beside the lake again. And the entire crowd came with
him, and he was teaching them. 14And as he went along, he saw Levi son of Halphaeus
sitting at the taxes post. And he says to him, "Follow me." And rising up, he followed
him.
15And it comes about that Jesus is reclining at Levi's house, and many tax collectors
and sinners were reclining with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed
him. 16And when the Torah scholars of the Pharisees saw that he was eating with
sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors
and sinners?"
17And hearing, Jesus says to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the
sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

18And
the disciples of John and the Pharisees were fasting. And they come and say
to him, "How is it that the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but
your disciples do not fast?"
19And Jesus said to them, "Are the members of the bridegroom's party able to fast
while the bridegroom is with them? So long as they have the bridegroom with them,
they are not able to fast. 20But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away
from them, and then, in that day, fast they will.
21"No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth onto an old garment. For then, what
filled it up pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear occurs. 22And no
one puts new wine into old wineskins. For then, the wine will burst the wineskins, and
the wine is ruined, along with the wineskins. Rather, new wine is put into new
wineskins."
Man Over the Sabbath

23And it came about during a Sabbath that he was passing through the grainfields,
and his disciples began to practice a custom, plucking the heads.200 24And the Pharisees
200
The "plucking of the heads," was the allowable Jewish practice of Deuteronomy 23:25, "If you enter your
neighbor's grainfield, you may pluck the heads with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor's
said to him, "Look! Why are your disciples doing what on the Sabbath is not
permissible?"201
25
And he says to them, "Have you never read what David did, when he and those
with him were in need and hungry? 26In the account about Abiathar the high priest, he
entered the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which was not permissible to eat,
except for the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him."
27
Then he said to them, "The Sabbath came about for humankind, and not
humankind for the Sabbath. 28Therefore, the Son of Man also is lord of the Sabbath."
Chapter 3
1
And again he went into a synagogue. And a man was there who had a shriveled
hand. 2And they were watching him carefully whether he would heal him on the
Sabbath, so that they might accuse him.
3
And he says to the man with the shriveled hand, "Stand up into view."
4
And he says to them, "Is it permissible on the Sabbath to do good or do evil, to save
life or destroy it?" But they were not speaking.
5And after looking around at them with anger, deeply distressed at the hardness of
their hearts, he says to the man, "Stretch out the hand." So he stretched it out, and his
hand was restored. 6And the Pharisees went out and immediately began to conspire
against him with the Herodians,202 how they might kill him.
The Thronging Crowds Endanger Jesus

7And
Jesus departed with his disciples to the lake, and a great multitude from Galilee
followed. 8And from Judea and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea and beyond the
Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon also, a great multitude, hearing what things he
was doing, came to him. 9And he told his disciples that a boat should be kept handy for
him, because of the crowd, in case they should crush him. 10For he had healed many,
with the result that everyone who had a disease would charge upon him, in order to touch
him. 11And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they would fall down before him and
cry out, saying, "You are the Son of God!" 12And he would strongly warn them not to
make him known.
The Twelve Apostles

13Andhe goes up into the mountain, and calls to him those he wanted, and they came
to him. 14And he appointed twelve, that they might be with him, and that he might send
them out to preach, 15and to have authority to drive out the demons.
16And the twelve he appointed are: Simon, to whom he added the name Peter; 17and
James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James, and to them he added a name:
Boanerges, which means Sons of Thunder; 18and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew,
and Matthew, and Thomas, and James son of Halphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon of
Cana, 19and Judas of Kerioth, the very one who betrayed him.
standing grain." Still, this practice was not allowed on the Sabbath day. And Jesus admitted that it was
unlawful, by comparing it to something David did, which in v. 26, he admits was not permissible.
201
The Greek word translated "permissible" is the impersonal participle , which is derived from the
same root as , the word for authority. If an activity was , that means it was "loosed," or ruled
by the rabbis to be something "allowed" by the Torah. If something was not , as is the case here, that
means it was "bound," that is, the rabbis had adjudged that it was forbidden by the Torah.
202
The Herodians were neither a religious sect nor a political party, but people with a certain attitude and
outlook, Jews of influence and standing who supported the Herodian rule, and hence also that of the Romans,
by whose authority the Herodian dynasty was maintained. In such allegiance they were definitely in the
minority, for most Palestinian Jews were strongly opposed to that regime. In the gospels the Herodians are
mentioned as enemies of Jesus, once in Galilee (Mark 3:6; Diatess. 8:23), and again at Jerusalem (Matt.
22:16; Mark 12:13; Diatess. 26:1).
Jesus Thought to be Out of His Mind
20
And he goes into a house, and once again a crowd gathered, such that they were not
even able to eat bread. 21And when they heard, his relatives set out to go and take
custody of him; for they were saying, "He is out of his mind." 22And the Torah scholars
who had come down from Jerusalem said, "He has Baal-zibbul,"203 and, "By the prince
of demons he drives out the demons."
23
And calling them to him, he spoke to them in parables: "How can Satan drive out
Satan? 24And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand; 25and if
a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 26And if Satan has
stood up against himself and was divided, he cannot stand; he has met his end. 27But in
fact, no one can enter the house of a strong man unless he first ties up the strong man, and
then, he may plunder his house.
28
"Truly I tell you, there will be children of humankind being forgiven of all sin, and
of all blasphemy, no matter how they blaspheme, 29except that whoever blasphemes the
Holy Spirit will have no forgiveness ever, but is guilty of an eternal sin." 30(He said this
because they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit.")

31And
his mother and brothers arrive, and standing outside, they sent word to him,
summoning him. 32And the crowd was sitting around him, and they say to him,
"Behold, your mother and brothers and sisters are wanting you outside."
33And answering them he says, "Who are my mother and brothers?" 34And looking
around at the ones sitting around him in a circle, he says, "Behold my mother and my
brothers. 35Whoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and sister and
mother."
Chapter 4
1And he began to teach beside the lake again, and a very large crowd collects around
him, such that he boards a boat to sit on the lake, and all the crowd was on the land up to
the water's edge.
2And he taught them many things by parables, and in his teaching said to them:
3"Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow. 4And it came about in the process of
sowing that some seed fell beside the way, and the birds came and ate it up. 5And other
seed fell on the rocky place, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up
immediately, because it had no depth of soil. 6And when the sun arose, it was scorched,
and it dried up, because it had no taproot. 7And other seed fell among thorns, and the
thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. 8And others fell into good soil,
and came up, grew, and produced, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold."
9And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear, hear."

10And when he was alone, those around him together with the Twelve were asking
him about the parables.
11And he told them, "To you the mystery of the kingdom of God has been given, but
to those outside, all things are in parables, 12so that:
'Though seeing, they will look,

and not perceive,
and though hearing, they will listen,
and not understand–
203
The Greek text says "Beelzeboul," which is from the Hebrew Baal-zibbul. The Textus Receptus, KJV
and NKJV read "Beelzebub," even though there is not one Greek manuscript that says that.
lest they turn, and be forgiven.' " 204
13
And he says to them, "You don't understand this parable? How then will you
4
understand any parable? 1 The sower is sowing the word. 15And the ones beside the
way where the word is sown, these are those who when they hear, immediately comes
Satan and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16And likewise, the ones sown
on the rocky places, these are those who when they hear the word, they immediately
receive it with joy. 17Yet they do not have a root in themselves, but are short-lived.
When difficulty or persecution come because of the word, they quickly fall away.
18
And others sown among thorns, these are those hearing the word, 19and the worries of
this age, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desires concerning other things, come in
and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 20And the ones sown on the good soil,
these are those who hear the word and embrace it, and bear fruit, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold,
and a hundredfold."
You Determine How Much You Receive

21And
he said to them, "Does the lamp exist to be put under a basket or under a bed?
Is it not meant to be put on a stand? 22For there is nothing hidden that is not meant to be
made manifest, nor covered up but to come into view. 23If anyone has ears to hear,
hear."
24And he said to them, "Consider carefully what you hear. In what size container
you measure, it will be measured to you, and increased for you. 25For whoever has, to
him it will be given, and whoever has not, even what he has will be taken away from
him."
The Parable of the Automatic Earth

26And
he said, "It is with God's kingdom the same way a human might scatter seed
on the ground, 27then may sleep and get up, night and day, and still the seed sprouts and
lengthens; how, he does not know. 28Automatically the earth bears fruit, first the grass,
then the head, then the full kernel in the head. 29And when the grain is ready, he
immediately sends out the sickle, because the harvest has come."
The Parable of the Mustard Seed

30And he said, "How may we compare the kingdom of God? Or in what parable
shall we set it forth? 31It is like a mustard seed, which when sown in the soil is smaller
than all the seeds in the soil, 32yet when it is sown, it grows, and becomes larger than all
the vegetables, and makes branches big enough that the birds of the sky can dwell under
its shadow."
33And with many such parables he was speaking the word to them, as long as they
were able to listen. 34To the crowds, he would not say anything without a parable; but
in private with his disciples, he would explain everything.
Jesus Commands the Elements

35That same day, when evening had come, he says to them, "Let's cross over to the
other side."
36And leaving the crowd behind, they take him along, just as he was, in the boat.
Other boats also were with him.

37And a great storm of wind is coming up, and the waves crashed into the boat, such
that the boat is now filling up.

38And he was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. And they rouse him and say to
him, "Teacher, doesn't it matter to you that we are perishing?"
204
Isaiah 6:9-10
39And when he was awake, he rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Hush. Be
still." And the wind died down, and there came a total calm.
40
And he said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?" 41And they
were very much afraid, and saying to one another, "Who, then, is this, that even the wind
and the sea obey him?"
Chapter 5
1And they went to the other side of the lake into the territory of the Gadarenes.
2
And as he gets out of the boat, there met him out of the tombs a man in an evil spirit,
3
whose abode was in the tombs, and no longer was anyone able to bind him with a chain,
4because he had often been bound hand and foot, only to have the chains burst apart and
the leg irons broken, and no one had the strength to subdue him. 5And through all, night
and day, among the tombs and in the hills, he was crying out and cutting himself with
stones.
6
And seeing Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before him, 7and shouting with a
loud voice, he says: "What business between you and me, O Jesus, you son of the Most
High God? In the name of God, I beg you, do not torture me." 8For Jesus was saying
to him, "Come out of the human, unclean spirit!"
9And Jesus questioned him: "What is your name?"
And he says to him, "Legion is my name, for we are many." 10And he begged him
earnestly not to send them out of the area.
11And on a hillside near there, a large herd of pigs was feeding, 12and they pled with
him, saying, "Send us into the pigs, so that we may enter into them."
13And he allowed them. And coming out, the unclean spirits went into the pigs, and
the herd, about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were
drowned in the lake.
14And those feeding them fled, and reported to the town and to the farms, and people
came to see what it is that took place. 15And they come near to Jesus, and they see the
demon-possessed man dressed and in his right mind, he who had had the legion, and they
were afraid. 16And the ones who had seen how it happened to the demon-possessed
man rehearsed it to them, also about the pigs. 17And they began to beg him to go away
from their territory.
18And as he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed was
begging him that he might always be with Jesus. 19And he did not allow him, but says
to him, "Go home to your people and report to them what things the Lord has done for
you, and what mercy he has shown you." 20And he left and began to proclaim in the
Ten Cities what things Jesus had done for him. And all were amazed.

21And
when Jesus crossed back over to the other side, a large crowd had assembled
for him, and he was beside the lake. 22And one of the synagogue rulers comes, Jairus by
name, and when he sees him he falls at his feet, 23and pleads with him earnestly, saying,
"My little daughter is at the point of death. Oh, that you might come and lay your hands
on her, so that she may be healed and live." 24And he went with him.
And a large crowd was following with him, and compressing around him. 25And a
woman was there with a flow of blood of twelve years, 26and had suffered many things
under many doctors and spent everything she had, and not been helped, but rather had
moved toward the worse. 27And she had heard the things about Jesus, and coming up
behind in the crowd, she touched his garment, 28for she was saying, "If I can touch even
his clothes, I will be healed." 29And immediately the source of her blood dried up and
she knew by her body that she was healed of the scourge.
30And Jesus, noticing immediately in himself that power was going out from him,
turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothes?"
31And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing in together around you,
and you say, 'Who touched me?'" 32Yet he was still looking around to see the one who
had done this.
33The woman then, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before
him, fearing and trembling, and told him all the truth. 34And he said to her, "Daughter,
your faith has healed you. Go with peace, and be free from your scourge."
35
While he was still speaking, they come from the synagogue ruler's, saying, "Your
daughter has died. Why inconvenience the teacher any farther?"
36
But Jesus, having overheard the message being spoken, says to the synagogue
ruler, "Don't be afraid; only believe."
37
And he did not allow anyone to come along with him, except Peter, James, and
John the brother of James. 38And they are coming into the house of the synagogue ruler,
and he sees an uproar, and weeping and much loud wailing. 39And when he had come
in he says to them, "Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not
dead but sleeping." 40And they laughed him to scorn.
Then, having put them all out, he takes the father of the child, and the mother, and
the ones who were with him, and he goes in where the child was. 41And taking hold of
the child's hand, he says to her, "Talitha, koum." (which when translated is, "O little
damsel, I say to you, stand up.") 42And the damsel stood up immediately, and was
walking (for she was twelve years of age). And they were stunned with amazement.
43And he was ordering them sternly that no one know this. And he said to give her
something to eat.
Chapter 6
Jesus Rejected by his Home Town
1And
he moved on from there, and comes into his home town, and his disciples are
accompanying him. 2And when the Sabbath came, he proceeded to teach in the
synagogue, and the many hearing were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these
things? Namely, what is this wisdom given to him? And these miracles happening by
his hands? 3Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James, Joseph,
Judas and Simon? Aren't also his sisters here with us?" And they were offended by
him.
4And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his home town
and among his relatives, and in his house."

5And he was never able to do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick
people; he did heal them. 6And he was amazed at their unbelief.

And he went around the villages in a circuit teaching. 7And calling the Twelve to
him, he began to send them out two by two, and he gave them authority over the unclean
spirits, 8and gave orders to them: that they should take nothing for the trip except a staff
only; no bread, no bag, nothing in the money belt, 9but only the sandals already tied on;
also not to put on two tunics.
10And he further said to them, "Wherever you enter into a house, there stay up until
when you leave that place. 11And whatever place does not receive you nor will they
listen to you, leaving there, shake off the dust under your feet, as a testimony to them."
12And going forth, they proclaimed that people should repent. 13And many demons
they expelled, and many sick ones they anointed with oil and healed.
John the Baptizer Beheaded

14And
Herod the king heard, for his name had become well known, that some were
saying, "John the Baptizer has been raised from the dead; that is why miraculous powers
are at work in him."
15But others were saying, "He is Elijah."
And still others were saying, "He is a prophet, as though one of The Prophets."
16But when Herod heard this, he kept saying, "John, the man I beheaded, has been
raised from the dead!"
17
For Herod himself, sending orders, had seized John and bound him in prison,
because of Herodias his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married. 18For John had
been saying to Herod, "It is not permissible for you to have your brother's wife." 19And
Herodias had been maintaining a grudge against him, and was wanting to kill him, and
could not, 20for Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man, and he
protected him. And when he listened to him, he had much difficulty, yet heard him
gladly.
21
And a suitable day came, when Herod in his birthday celebration made a supper for
his courtiers, and the chiliarchs,205 and the prominent of Galilee. 22And when the
daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those reclining
with him.
So the king said to the girl, "Ask me anything you want, and I will give it to you."
23
And he swore to her, "Whatever you ask for, I will give it to you, up to half my
kingdom."
24
And going out, she said to her mother, "What shall I ask for?"
And she said, "The head of John the Baptizer."
25And she went in at once to the king with speed, saying this request: "I wish that
you would give to me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."
26And the king became greatly distressed. He did not want to refuse her, because of
the words of oath and those reclining. 27And the king immediately gave orders to bring
his head, sending an executioner. And he went, and beheaded John in the prison, 28and
brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl. And the girl gave it to her mother.
29And when his disciples heard, they came and took his corpse and laid it in a tomb.

30And the apostles are collecting around Jesus, and they reported to him all the things
that they had done, and what they had taught. 31And he says to them, "Come by
yourselves to a remote place and rest a little." For those coming and going were many,
and they did not even have opportunity to eat.
32And they went away in a boat by themselves to a remote place. 33And many saw
them leaving and knew, and ran together there on foot from all the towns and arrived
ahead of them.
34And getting out he saw the large crowd, and felt compassion for them, because
they were like sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.
35And now as an advanced hour comes, his disciples approached him and said, "The
place is remote, and it's now an advanced hour. 36Dismiss them so that they may go into
the surrounding farms and villages and buy for themselves something to eat."
37But he in answer said to them, "You give them something to eat."
And they say to him, "Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii 206 of loaves of
bread and give it to them to eat?"
38And he says to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see."
And finding out, they say, "Five, and two fish."

39And he instructed them to get all to recline in dining fellowships on the green
grass. 40And they reclined, in groups of a hundred and in groups of fifty. 41And taking
the five loaves of bread and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke
the loaves of bread and gave to the disciples to set before the people. The two fish also
he divided for all.
42And they all ate and were satisfied, 43and they picked up twelve large baskets full
of fragments from the loaves of bread, and from the fish. 44And there were five
thousand men eating the loaves.
205
Commanders of a thousand; the military leaders of one cohort each. The cohort was a thousand only
when counting the reserves, and usually about 600 men.
206
About 8 months of a man's wages
45And he immediately told his disciples to get into the boat and go on ahead of him
to the other side to Bethsaida, while he would dismiss the crowd. 46And after saying
farewell to them, he went away into the hills to pray.

47
And after evening had come, the boat was in the middle of the lake, and he was
alone on the land. 48And about the fourth watch207 of the night, when he saw them
being sorely taxed in the process of rowing, because the wind was against them, he goes
toward them, walking on the lake, and was intending to pass them. 49But when they saw
him walking on the lake, they thought it was a ghost, and cried out. 50For they all saw
him, and were disturbed by it.
But he immediately talked with them, and he is saying to them: "Take courage! It
is I. Don't be afraid."
51
And he went up into the boat with them, and the wind stopped. And they were
very much, extremely stunned within themselves. 52For they had not learned from the
incident of the loaves of bread; their hearts were hardened.
53And crossing over, they came ashore at Gennesaret and anchored. 54And as soon
as they got out of the boat, people recognized him and 55ran around that whole region,
and those who had invalids began to carry them around on pallets to where they heard
that he was. 56And wherever he would go, into villages, or into towns, or into
countryside, they would place the invalids in the plazas, and the invalids would implore
him that they could just touch the tassel of his cloak. And they were being healed, as
many as touched him.
Chapter 7
Clean and Unclean
1Andthe Pharisees and some of the Torah scholars are coming from Jerusalem and
gathering toward him, 2and they see that some of his disciples are eating bread with
unclean208— that is, unwashed— hands. 3For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat
unless they wash their hands with the fist, holding to the tradition of the elders.209 4And
they do not eat from the marketplaces unless they wash. And there are many others
which they have received instruction to keep, the baptizing of cups, pitchers, and kettles.
5And the Pharisees and Torah scholars are questioning him: "Why are your disciples
not walking according to the tradition of the elders, but eating bread with unclean
hands?"
6And he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is
written:
" 'This people honor me with the lips,

but their heart is far from me.
7They worship me in vain,
207
Between 3 a.m. and 6 a.m.
208
Koinos hands, that is, common, not consecrated, having touched anything and everything without having
that washed off. Also in verse 5.
209
7:3b Ezra had set up a group of men called the Sopherim, whose task it was to teach the Torah to the people.
This was well and good. But the Sopherim decided that to make absolutely sure that no one broke one of the
613 Mosaic laws, they would make a “fence” around those 613 laws by making some more finely tuned laws,
which, if people obeyed these latter, they would be assured of not even getting close to breaking one of the 613
Torah laws. The Sopherim (scribes) acknowldged that only the Torah was authoritative, and that their “fence”
laws could be debated. A few generations later, other teachers of the law arose, called the Tanaim. These
made another fence around the fence laws of the Sopherim. Now, however, the Tanaim’s laws were
considered debatable, but the laws of the Sopherim were considered as final authority. Into this situation Jesus
Christ was born, where the laws of the Sopherim were considered greater in authority than the actual Torah.
In fact, where the “fence” laws conflicted with the Torah, the “fence” laws were considered to have priority.
These laws were called the Mishna, or the Oral Law, or here called the Tradition of the Elders. You were
considered to have sinned if you broke one of them, just as if you had broken one of the laws of Moses
their instruction is the drilling of
the rules of human beings.'
8
"Dropping the commandment of God, you are holding on to the tradition of human
beings."
9
And he said to them, "You have a fine way of setting aside the commandment of
God in order to set up your own traditions. 10For Moses said, 'Honor your father and
your mother,' and, 'The person cursing father or mother must be put to death.' 11But you
say that if someone says to father or mother, 'Whatever financial help you would receive
from me is now korban' (that is, a gift vowed to God), 12you relieve him of doing
anything more for father or mother, 13annulling the word of God by your tradition which
you have handed down. And many similar such things you do."
14
And calling the crowd to him again, he said to them, "Listen to me everyone, and
understand: 15There is nothing outside a human being which by entering him is able to
make him unclean. Rather, the things coming out of a human being are the things
If anyone has ears to hear, hear."210
16
making the human being unclean.
17And when he had entered a house, away from the crowd, the disciples asked him
the meaning of the parable.

18And he says to them, "Are you also this obtuse? Do you not understand that
everything entering a human being from the outside is unable to make him unclean,
19since it is not entering his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer?"
(He is declaring all foods clean.)

20He went on: "What comes out of a human being, that is what makes the human
being unclean. 21For from within, out of the heart of human beings, come evil
reasoning, fornication, theft, murder, 22adultery, covetousness, malice, deceit, lewdness,
an evil eye,211 slander, haughtiness, and folly. 23All these evil things come forth from
within and make the human being unclean."
The Faith of the Gentile Dog

24And
getting up, he departed from there into the vicinity of Tyre. And entering a
house, he wanted no one to know, yet he could not escape notice. 25In fact immediately
upon hearing about him, a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit came, and fell at
his feet. 26And the woman was a Gentile, a Syro-Phoenician by race. And she kept
begging him that he drive the demon out of her daughter.
27And he was saying to her, "Allow the children first to eat their fill, for it is not right
to take the children's bread and toss it to the dogs."

28But she in answer says to him, "Lord, even the dogs under the table eat of the
children's crumbs."
29And he said to her, "Because of this reply, go your way; the demon has left your
daughter." 30And going away to her house, she found the child lying on the bed, and the
demon gone.
Jesus Does All Things Well

31And
going back out of the district of Tyre, he went through Sidon, down to the Sea
of Galilee, into the midst of the region of the Ten Cities. 32And they bring a man to
him, deaf and speaking with difficulty, and they are begging him to place his hand on
him.
33And taking him aside privately, away from the crowd, he put his fingers into his
ears. And after spitting on his fingers, he touched the man's tongue. 34And looking up
to heaven he sighed, and he says to him, "Eppatach!" (which means, "Be opened!").
210
Many early manuscripts and early Bible translations do not contain verse 16.
211
The evil eye is is a Semitic concept, in which the attitude of the heart or the force of a person's thoughts,
are focused out through, and cause the narrowing of the person's eye, out of envy, resentment, scheming, or
even voodoo, toward one's neighbor. See also Matt. 6:23; 20:15; Luke 11:34.
35And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was immediately released, and he
began to speak normally.
36
And he was ordering them that they tell no one. But as much as he ordered them,
all the more they were talking about it. 37And they were being overwhelmed with
admiration, saying, "He has done all things well. He makes both the deaf to hear and
the mute to speak."
Chapter 8
Jesus Feeds the Four Thousand
1
During those days when there was again a great crowd and also having nothing to
eat, he calls the disciples to him and says to them, 2"I feel compassion for this crowd,
because they have stayed with me three days now, and have nothing to eat. 3And if I
dismiss them to their homes, without eating they will collapse in the journey, and some of
them are from a long distance."
4
And his disciples answered him, "Where here in the desert will anyone be able to
get enough loaves of bread to fill these people?"
5And he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?"
And they said, "Seven."

6And he directs the crowd to recline on the ground. And taking the seven loaves of
bread, giving thanks he broke them, and gave to his disciples, for them to serve. And
they served the crowd. 7They also had a few fish, and blessing them, he ordered them to
be served as well. 8And they ate and were filled, and they picked up the fragments left
over, seven basketfuls. 9And they were about four thousand; and he dismissed them.
10And immediately boarding the boat with his disciples, he went to the area of
Dalmanutha.
The Yeast of the Pharisees and Herod

11And the Pharisees came forward and began to debate with him, asking him for a
sign from heaven, testing him.
12
And sighing deeply in his spirit, he says, "Why does this generation ask for a sign?
Truly I say to you, a sign will certainly not be given this generation!" 13And leaving
them, he got back into the boat and went away to the other side.
14And they had forgotten to take bread; and except for one loaf, they had none with
them in the boat. 15And he started warning them, saying, "Take heed, be on your guard
against the yeast of the Pharisees, and the yeast of Herod."
16And they were discussing with one another the fact that they had no bread loaves.
17And knowing, he says to them, "Why are you discussing with one another the fact
that you have no bread loaves? Are you still not understanding, nor putting it together?
Have you completely hardened hearts? 18You have eyes; can't you see? And you have
ears; can't you hear? And don't you remember? 19When I broke the five loaves of
bread to the five thousand, how many basketfuls of fragments did you pick up?"
They say to him, "Twelve."
20"When I broke the seven to the four thousand, how many basketfuls of fragments
did you pick up?"

And they say, "Seven."
21And he said to them, "Do you still not understand?"
The Healing of a Blind Man at Bethsaida

22And
they come to Bethsaida. And they bring a blind man to him, and they are
begging Jesus to touch him. 23And taking hold of the blind man's hand, he led him
outside the village. And after spitting in his eyes and placing his hands on him, he
asked him, "Do you see anything?"
24And looking up he said, "I see people, that I am perceiving as trees walking
around."
25Thenhe put his hands on the man's eyes again. And he looked for a while, and
his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly again. 26And he sent him home,
saying, "Do not go into the village."

27
And Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages of Caesarea of Philip, and on
the way, he was inquiring of his disciples, saying to them, "Who do the people say I am?"
28
And they informed him, saying, "John the Baptizer; and others, Elijah; and still
others, one of the Prophets."
29
And he asked them, "And you, who do you say I am?"
Peter in answer says to him, "You are the Messiah."
30
And Jesus warned them that they should tell no one about him.
Peter Opposes Jesus' Death

31
And he began to teach them that the Son of Man had to suffer many things and be
rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the Torah scholars, and must be killed, and
after three days, rise again. 32And he was stating the matter plainly. And Peter, taking
him aside, started correcting him.
33But he, turning around and seeing his disciples, corrected Peter. And he says,
"Get behind me, Satan! For you are not thinking the things of God, but the things of
human beings."
34And calling the crowd to him, together with his disciples, he said to them, "If
someone wants to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow
me. 35For whoever tries to save his life212 will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for
my sake, and of the good news, will save it. 36For what good will it do a human being
to gain the whole world, only to be penalized his soul? 37And what could a human
being tender in trade for his soul? 38For if anyone is ashamed of me and my words in
this adulterous and sinful age, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him, when he
comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
Chapter 9
1Then
he was saying to them, "Truly I say to you, there are some standing here who
will certainly not taste death before they see the kingdom of God having come with
power."
The Transfiguration
2And after six days Jesus takes Peter and James and John, and he is leading them up
into a high mountain, alone in private. And he was transfigured in front of them, 3and
his clothes became an exceedingly brilliant white, such as no launderer on earth is able to
whiten. 4And Elijah appeared to them, together with Moses, and they were conversing
with Jesus.
5And Peter is responding and saying to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good for us to be here, and
we should make three shelters, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah."
6(For he had not known what to say, because they were so frightened.)
7And there came a cloud overshadowing them, and a voice came from the cloud:
"This is my beloved Son. Listen to him."

8And suddenly, when they looked around, they saw no one else anymore, but only
Jesus, along with themselves.

9And as they were coming down out of the mountain, he admonished them so that
they would not report the things they had seen to anyone, except until such time the Son
of Man should rise from the dead. 10And they kept the matter to themselves, discussing
what the words "rise from the dead" meant.
212
The Greek word means either life or soul, as throughout this passage.
11And they queried him, saying, "Why do the Torah scholars say that Elijah has to
come first?"
12
And he said to them, "Elijah indeed having come first will restore all things. 213
And why is it written about the Son of Man, that he would 'suffer much and be rejected?'
13
But I tell you that Elijah has indeed come, and they did to him whatever they wished,
just as it is written about him."
Disciples Accused of Impotence to Heal

14
And as they were coming near the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around
them, and the Torah scholars debating with them. 15And all the crowd were overcome
with awe as soon as they saw him, and they were running up to him, greeting him.
16
And he asked them, "What are you debating with them?"
17
And one from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought my son to you, who
has a spirit of speechlessness. 18And wherever it seizes him, it convulses him. And he
foams at the mouth, and gnashes his teeth and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to
drive it out, and they did not have the power."
19And in answer to them, he says, "O unbelieving generation, how long shall I stay
with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him to me."
20And they brought him to him. And seeing Jesus, the spirit immediately convulsed
him violently, and falling onto the ground, he was rolling over, foaming at the mouth.
21And he asked his father, "Over what period of time has this happened to him?"
And he said, "From childhood. 22And it has often thrown him into both fire or
water, trying to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us."
23Jesus said to him, "If I can? All things are possible to one who believes."
24Immediately the boy's father cried out saying, "I do believe! Help my unbelief!"
25Then Jesus, seeing that a crowd is running together, rebuked the unclean spirit,
saying to it, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him. And you may
no longer go into him."
26And it came out, with shrieking and much convulsing. And he appeared as dead,
so as to cause many to say, "He's dead." 27But Jesus, taking him by the hand, lifted him,
and he stood up.
28And after he went into a house, his disciples asked him in private: "Why weren't
we able to drive it out?"

29And he told them, "This kind cannot be made to go out by anything except
prayer."214
30And moving on from there, they were passing through Galilee, and he did not want
anyone to know, 31because he was teaching his disciples. And he told them, "The Son
of Man is being transferred into the hands of human beings. And they will kill him.
And three days after being killed, he will rise again." 32But they did not understand the
statement, and they were afraid to query him.
Who is the Greatest?

33And
they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house, he asked them,
"What were you arguing about on the way?" 34But they were keeping quiet, because on
the way they had argued over who was greater.
35And sitting down, he called the Twelve and says to them, "If anyone wants to be
first, he must be last of all, and servant of all."

36And taking a child he set him in the midst of them. And wrapping him in his
arms, he said to them, 37"Whoever welcomes one child like this on the basis of my name,
is welcoming me; and whoever welcomes me is welcoming not me but the one who sent
me."
213
Malachi 4:5-6 (3:23-24 in some Bibles); Luke 1:17; Diatess. 1:5
214
Later manuscripts say "prayer and fasting."
Do Not Hinder Other Camps of God's Little Ones
38
John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who is not following with us driving
out demons in your name, and we forbade him, because he was not following with us."
39
But Jesus said, "Do not forbid him, for there is no one who shall do a miracle on
the basis of my name, who can then be quick to speak evil of me; 40for someone who is
not against us is for us. 41For whoever gives you a cup of water because you are of
Christ, truly I tell you: he will by no means lose his reward. 42And whoever causes one
of these believing little ones to fall, it would be better for him to wear a millstone around
his neck and be thrown into the depths of the sea.
43"And if your hand causes you to fall, cut it off. It is better for you to go into life
maimed, than with both hands to go away into Gehenna, into the fire unquenchable,
44
where
" 'their worm never dies,

and the fire is never quenched.'215
45And
if your foot causes you to fall, cut it off. It is better for you to go into life
crippled, than with both feet to be thrown into Gehenna, into the fire unquenchable,
46where

47And
if your eye causes you to fall, yank it out. It is better for you to go into the
kingdom of God one-eyed, than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, 48where

49For
everyone will be salted with fire.
50"Salt
is good, but if the salt becomes bland, what will you spice it with? Have salt
in yourselves, and cultivate peace among each other."
Chapter 10
Jesus Tested on Divorce
1And getting up to leave from there, he goes into the territory of Judea and beyond
the Jordan. And once again, crowds are going along with him, and as was his custom he
again was teaching them. 2And some Pharisees came and, testing him, asked him, "Is it
permissible for a husband to release a wife?"
3In answer he said to them, "What did Moses command you?"
4They said, "Moses permitted one to write a release of interest form 218 and to
release."
5And Jesus said to them, "It was in view of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you
this instruction. 6But from the beginning of creation he 'made them male and
215
Isaiah 66:24. This verse 44 is lacking in  B C L W   0274 1 28 205 565 892 itk syrs,pal copsa,bo,
fay arm geo. It is believed by some that these words were added by copyists from verse 48.
216
Isaiah 66:24. This verse 46, and also the phrase “into the fire unquenchable” in verse 45, are lacking in
 B C L W   0274 1 28 205 565 892 itk syrs copsa,bo,fay arm. It is believed by some that they were added
by copyists from verse 48.
217
Isaiah 66:24
218
This was a property document, which quit the man's claim to the woman as his property. There was no
provision in the law of Moses for a woman to divorce her husband, since he was not her property. The apostle
Paul in the New Testament, however, states in I Corinthians 7:4, "The wife has not authority over her own
body, but rather the husband: and likewise also the husband has not authority over his own body, but rather the
wife." This is a consequence of being "one flesh.
8
female.'219 7For this reason, a human being shall leave his father and mother, 220 and
the two shall become one flesh. As a result, they are no longer two, but one flesh. 221
9What therefore God has joined together, a human being must not separate."
10
And when back in the house, the disciples were questioning him about this.
11
And he says to them, "Whoever releases his wife and marries another commits adultery
against her, 12and if she after releasing her husband marries another, she commits
adultery."
Little Children Come to Jesus

13
And people were bringing little children to him to have him touch them, but the
disciples scolded them.
14
Seeing this, Jesus was indignant, and said to them, "Let the little children come to
me. Do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God is made of such as these. 15Truly I
tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will certainly not
enter it." 16And wrapping them in his arms, he is blessing them, placing his hands on
them.
The Rich Young Man

17And as he was going forth onto the road, someone ran up to him and fell on his
knees before him, asking him, "Good teacher, what should I do so that I will inherit
eternal life?"
18And Jesus said to him, "Why are you calling me good? No one is good except
one, God. 19The commandments you know: Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do
not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.' 222"
20And he said to him, "Teacher, all these I have kept since my youth."
21And Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said to him, "One thing you are
lacking. Go sell what things you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven. Then come follow me."223
22But he with face aghast because of this word, went away regretting, for he was
owner of much property.

23And looking around, Jesus says to his disciples, "How hard it will be for the ones
who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God."

24The disciples were astonished at his words. But in response Jesus says to them
again, "Children, how hard it is for those who rely on wealth, to enter the kingdom of
God. 25It is easier for a camel224 to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person
to enter into the kingdom of God."
219
Genesis 1:27
220
Later manuscripts add the phrase "and be united to his wife," probably to harmonize this Mark passage
with Matthew's. But Mark's target audience was in Rome, and in Rome, unlike in Jewish culture which
Matthew had in mind, women could divorce their husbans, and for this reason Mark included this concept in
10:12 below, and also left out "release your wives" in v. 5 above, in order to allow the idea of wives releasing
their husbands as well. This omission of the phrase "release your wives" is found in all the ancient texts,
including the ones underlying the King James Version.
221
Genesis 2:24
222
Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20
223
Some later manuscripts add the words "take up the cross," after "come." This was apparently an effort to
"harmonize" Mark's account with that of Matthew, in Matthew 19:21. This kind of harmonization was a
frequent cause of additions made to the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament over the centuries. But it is
certain that these words were not originally a part of the gospel of Mark.
224
26And they became even more astonished, saying to each other, "Who, then, can be
saved?"
27
Jesus looking at them says, "With human beings it is impossible, but not with God.
For all things are possible with God."
28
Peter began to tell him, "Behold how we have left everything and followed you."
29
Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters
or mothers or children or fields for my sake and for the cause of the good news, 30who
will not receive a hundred times as much in this present time, of houses and brothers and
sisters and mothers and children and fields, along with persecutions, and, in the coming
age, eternal life. 31But many first ones will be last, and the last ones first."

32
And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going on ahead of
them; they were stunned, while those following were fearing. And taking the Twelve
aside again, he began to tell them the things about to happen to him. 33"See, we are
going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to the
Torah scholars. And they will condemn him to death, and hand him over to the
Gentiles. 34And they will mock him, and spit on him, and flog him, and execute him.
And after three days he will rise again."
The Ambition of James and John

35And
James and John the sons of Zebedee come up to him, saying to him, "Teacher,
we wish that you would do for us whatever we will ask you."
36And he said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"
37And they said to him, "Grant to us that in your glory, we may sit one on your right,
and one on your left."

38And Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able, to
drink the cup I am drinking, or to be baptized the baptism I am being baptized?"

39And they said to him, "We are able."
And Jesus said to them, "The cup which I drink you will drink, and the baptism I am
baptized you will be baptized. 40But to sit on my right or on my left is not for me to
grant; they belong rather to those for whom they have already been prepared."
41And when the ten heard, they began to be angry about James and John. 42And
Jesus calling them together says to them, "You know that the ones considered to be rulers
among the nations, lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
43Not so among you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your
servant, 44and whoever wants to be first among you shall be slave of all. 45For even the
Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for
many."
An Obnoxious Beggar Gets His Wish

46And they come into Jericho. And as he was going away from Jericho, plus his
disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus (the Son of Timaeus), a blind beggar, was sitting
beside the road. 47And hearing that it is Jesus the Nazarene, he began to shout, and say,
"Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
48And many were telling him to be quiet. But he kept shouting much more: "Son of
David, have mercy on me!"

49Jesus stopped and said, "Call him."
So they call the blind man, saying to him, "Take heart! Get up! He's calling you!"
50So throwing his cloak aside, he jumped up and came to Jesus.
51In answer to him, Jesus said, "What do you want me to do for you?"
The blind man said to him, "Rabboni, that I could see."

52And Jesus said to him, "Go. Your faith has healed you." And immediately he
saw, and was following him in the way.
Chapter 11
The Triumphal Entry
1
And when they had come close to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany on the
Mount of Olives, he sends two of his disciples, 2and tells them, "Go into the village ahead
of you, and just as you enter it you will find a colt225 tied, upon which no one has ever
yet sat. Untie it and bring it. 3And if anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing that?'
say, 'The Lord needs it and is sending it back here shortly.' "
4
And they went, and found a colt tied at a doorway, outside in the street. And they
are untying it. 5And some people standing there said to them, "What are you doing
untying the colt?"
6And they said to them as Jesus said, and they allowed them. 7And they bring the
colt to Jesus, and throw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it.
8
And many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others, fronds cut from the
fields. 9And those proceeding ahead of him, and those following after, were shouting:
"Hosha na!’226
name of the Lord!’227
10"Blessed is the coming kingdom
of our father David!"

"Hosha na in the highest!"
11And
he went into Jerusalem to the temple, and after looking around at everything,
he went out to Bethany with the Twelve, since the hour was now late.

12And the next day as they were on their way from Bethany, he was hungry. 13And
seeing from afar a fig tree that had leaves, he went, if perchance he would find something
on it. And coming upon it he found nothing but leaves. (For it was not the season of
figs.) 14And in response he said to it, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And
his disciples heard.
15And they come into Jerusalem.
And when he had entered the temple, he
proceeded to drive out the ones selling and the ones buying in the temple, and the tables
of the moneychangers and the seats of the ones selling doves he overturned, 16and he did
not allow anyone to carry stuff through the temple courts.
17And he started teaching, and said to them, "Is it not written:
" 'My house will be called

a house of prayer for all nations'?228
But you have made it 'a den of robbers.'229"

18And the chief priests and the Torah scholars heard, and they were looking for a
way to kill him, for they feared him, because the entire crowd was being held enrapt
during his teaching.
225
Polos, a young mount animal, a word used for the foals of both donkeys and horses. But we know from
the other accounts that this was the foal of a donkey.
226
Similar to the Hebrew in Psalm 118:25 meaning "Help" or "Save, I pray," an appeal that became a
liturgical formula. As part of the Hallel (Ps. 113-118), it was familiar to everyone in Israel. The Septuagint
Psalm 117:25 has, "O Lord, save now!" or "Save indeed!" No doubt some in the crowd accompanying him
expected him, as the Messiah ben David, to literally "save now," and deliver them from the Romans and set up
the kingdom of David.
227
Psalm 118:26
228
Isaiah 56:7
229
Jeremiah 7:11
The Withered Fig Tree
19
And when it got late, they would go outside the city.
20
And early, as they were traveling along, they saw the fig tree, withered from the
roots. 21And reminded, Peter says to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has
withered."
22And in response Jesus says to them, "Have faith in God. 23Truly I tell you,
whoever can say to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' and it is not
being questioned in his heart, but he is believing that what he is saying is happening, it
will happen for him.
24
"Therefore I tell you, all things, whatever you are asking for in prayer, believe that
you have received it, and it will happen for you. 25Also, when you stand praying,
forgive, if you are holding anything against anyone, so that your Father in heaven may
also forgive you your trespasses. 26But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in
heaven forgive you your trespasses."
The Authorities Question Jesus' Authority

27And they arrive again in Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief
priests and the Torah scholars come up to him, along with the elders, 28and they were
saying to him, "By what authority are you doing these things? Or, who gave you this
authority, that you may do these things?"
29And Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. You answer me, and I will
tell you by what authority I am doing these things. 30John's baptism— was it from
heaven, or from human beings? Answer me."
31And they were discussing it among themselves, as follows: "If we say, 'From
heaven,' he will say, 'Then why didn't you believe him?' 32On the other hand, dare we
say, 'From human beings'?" (They were fearing the people, for the people all held that
John really was a prophet.)
33And in answer they say to Jesus, "We do not know."
And Jesus says to them, "Neither am I telling you by what authority I do these
things."
Chapter 12
1And
he began to speak to them in parables. "A man planted a vineyard, and put a
hedge around it, and dug a winepress, and built a watchtower, and leased it out to tenant-
farmers, and journeyed away. 2And in the time of harvest he sent a servant to the
tenants, that he might be paid by the tenants out of the fruit of the vineyard. 3And
seizing him they beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. 4And again he sent a
servant to them, a different one. That one they wounded in the head and insulted. 5Yet
another he sent, and that one they killed. And he sent many others; some they beat,
some they killed.
6One alone he still had, a beloved son. Finally, him he sent to them, saying, 'They
will respect my son.'

7"But those tenants said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him,
and the inheritance will be ours.' 8And taking him they killed him, and cast him outside
the vineyard.
9"What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill the tenants, and
he will give the vineyard to others.

10"Have you not read this scripture:
' A stone which the builders rejected,

this one has become the chief cornerstone;
11from the Lord this came about,
and it is marvelous
in our eyes'230?"
12
And they were looking for a way to arrest him, for they knew he had told the
parable in reference to them. Yet they were afraid of the crowd. And they went away,
leaving him alone.

13
And they send some of the Pharisees and Herodians, in order to trap him in a
saying. 14And coming, they say to him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and it
matters not to you about anyone, in that you pay no attention to the personage of people,
but rather on the basis of truth you teach the way of God. Is it permissible to pay the
tribute to Caesar, or not? Should we pay, or should we not pay?"
15
But he, perceiving their hypocrisy, said to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring
me a denarius, so that I may look at it." 16And they brought one. And he says to them,
"Whose image is this, and inscription?"
They say to him, "Caesar's."
17And Jesus said to them, "Caesar's things give back to Caesar, and God's things to
God."
And they were amazed at him.
Marriage and the Resurrection

18Then
some Sadducees come up to him (Sadducees say there is no resurrection), and
they questioned him as follows: 19"Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother
dies and leaves behind a wife and does not leave behind a child, that the brother of the
deceased should take the woman and raise up descendants for his brother. 231
20"There were seven brothers. And the first one took a wife, and dying, he left no
descendant. 21And the second one took her, and he died, leaving no descendant. It
was the same with the third. 22Indeed, the seven left no descendant. Last of all, the
woman also died.
23"In the resurrection, when they rise again, of which of them will she be wife? For
all seven had her as wife."

24Jesus said to them, "Is this not the reason you are mistaken, that you know neither
the scriptures nor the power of God? 25For when they rise from the dead, they neither
marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven. 26Now about the
dead, that they do rise, have you not read in the scroll of Moses, at the part about the
bush, how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob'?232 27He is not the God of dead people, but of living. You are
badly mistaken!"
The Weightiest Commandment

28And
one of the Torah scholars who had approached, after listening to them
debating, recognized that Jesus had answered them well. He asked Jesus, "Teacher, out
of all of them, which commandment is primary?"
29Jesus answered, "Primary of all the commandments is this: 'Hear, O Israel, Yahweh
is our God, Yahweh alone." 30And you shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' 233 This is
the primary commandment. 31Secondmost is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.'234 There is no other commandment greater than these."
230
Psalm 118:22, 23
231
Deuteronomy 25:5; Genesis 38:8
232
Exodus 3:6.
233
Deuteronomy 6:4,5
234
Leviticus 19:18
32And the Torah scholar said to him, "Well done, Teacher. It is on true basis you
have said, that there is one, and there is no other but him; 33and to love him with all your
heart, with all your intelligence, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as
yourself, is more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices."
34
And Jesus, having seen him, that he had answered thoughtfully, said to him, "You
are not far from the kingdom of God." And no one dared to ask him any more
questions.
Whose Son Is the Messiah?

35
And continuing to teach in the temple, Jesus said, "How do the Torah scholars say
that the Messiah is the Son of David? 36David himself said, by the Holy Spirit,
" 'Yahweh said to my Lord:

"Sit at my right hand
until such time I put your enemies
under your feet." '235
37David
himself calls him 'Lord,' so how is he his son?"
And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.
Jesus Denounces the Torah Scholars

38Also
in his teaching he was saying, "Look warily at the Torah scholars, those
loving to walk around in robes, greetings in the marketplaces, 39and chief seats in the
synagogues, and places of honor at banquets; 40who eat up the houses of widows, and for
a front, make lengthy prayers. These will receive extra damnation."
The Widow's Offering

41And
while sitting opposite the temple treasury, he was watching how the crowd
was dropping copper into the donation chest. And many rich people put in much.
42
And when one poor widow came, she put in two lepta (which is equivalent to one
quarter of a penny).
43And calling his disciples to him, he said to them, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow
has put in more than all the others putting into the treasury. 44For they all put in out of
the extra they had. But she out of her lack put in everything, all she had to live on."
Chapter 13
Signs of the Times
1And as he is going forth out of the temple, one of his disciples says to him,
"Teacher, look! What large stones. What great buildings."
2And Jesus said to him, "Do you see all these great buildings? By no means will
there be a stone left upon a stone that will not be thrown down."
3And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James
and John and Andrew asked him privately, 4"Tell us, when will these things be, and what
will be the sign that these are all about to be accomplished?"
5And Jesus proceeded to tell them, "See that no one misleads you. 6Many will
come in my name, saying, 'I am He,' and they will deceive many. 7But when you hear
of wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. Such must happen, but the end is not
yet. 8Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be
earthquakes in various places, there will be famines. These are the beginning of birth
pains.
235
Psalm 110:1
9"But you, you watch yourselves. They will deliver you over to courts, and you
will be beaten in synagogues, and you will be stood before governors and kings, for my
sake, to be a witness to them. 10Indeed the gospel must first be preached to all nations.
11"So when they take you delivering you to trial, do not concern yourself beforehand
what you will speak. Rather, whatever is given you in that hour, that you are to speak.
For you are not the ones speaking, but the Holy Spirit.
12
"And a sibling will betray a sibling to death, and a parent a child, and children will
rise up against parents and put them to death. 13And you will be hated by all because of
me. But the person remaining to the end, that one will be saved.
14
"But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not,
(Reader, understand),236 then the ones in Judea should flee to the mountains, 15the one
on the rooftop should not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house, 16and
the one in the field should not turn back to take his coat. 17And alas for the ones who
are pregnant, and the ones giving milk during those days! 18And pray that it not happen
in winter. 19For those will be days of suffering, such that has not happened from the
beginning of creation which God created until now, nor ever will again. 20And if the
Lord had not made those days short, no flesh would survive. But, because of the elect,
those whom he has chosen, he has made the days short. 21And at that time, if anyone
says to you, 'Look, here is the Messiah!' or, 'Look, there!' do not believe it. 22For false
Messiahs and false prophets will appear, and they will do signs and miracles, trying to
deceive, if possible, the elect. 23But you, you be watchful; I have told you everything
ahead of time.
24"But in those days, after that suffering,
" 'the sun will be darkened,

and the moon will not give its light,
25and the stars will be falling from the sky,
and the forces237 in space

will be shaken.'238
26
"And at that time they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds, with great
power and glory. 27And at that time he will send forth the angels, and they will gather
together his elect out of the four winds, from the farthest points of the earth to the farthest
points of the horizon.
28"Now learn the parable from the fig tree. When its twig has already become
tender and it puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 29And likewise you,
when you see these things happening, you know that it is near, right at the door. 30Truly
I tell you: by no means will this age pass away before all these things have happened.
31Sky and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not pass away.
No One Knows the Day or Hour

32"But
as to that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, not
even the Son, but only the Father. 33Watch, be alert, for you do not know when the time
4
is. 3 It is like a man going away on a journey, leaving his house and giving the authority
of it to his servants, each his task, and the doorman he admonished to keep watch.
35Thus you must keep watch, for you do not know when the lord of the house is coming,
whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn; 36no good
if he comes suddenly, and finds you sleeping. 37And what I am saying to you, I am
saying to all: 'Keep watch!'"
236
Daniel 9:27; 11:31; 12:11
237
Possibly, "the heavenly bodies," referring to the planets, stars, and constellations.
238
Isaiah 13:10; 34:4; Joel 2:31
Chapter 14
Mary Anoints Jesus at Bethany
1
And the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were two days away. And
the chief priests and the Torah scholars were seeking how they might kill him after
arresting him in stealth. 2For they were saying, "Not in the festival, or there will be a
riot of the people."
3
And when he was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper, and reclining, a
woman came holding an alabaster bottle of very expensive perfume ointment, pure oil of
nardroot. Breaking the alabaster, she poured down upon his head.
4
But there were some who were saying indignantly to themselves, "Why has this
waste of perfume occurred? 5For this perfume could have been sold for over three
hundred denarii239 and given to the poor." And they were scolding her.
6
But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why are you causing her hardship? She has
performed a good work with me. 7For the poor you always have with you, 240 and you
can do well with them whenever you want, but me you do not always have. 8She did
what was available to her. She was early to anoint my body in preparation for its burial.
9Truly I tell you, wherever the good news is preached throughout the whole world, what
she has done will also be told, as an honorable remembrance of her."

10And Judas of Kerioth, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray him to
them. 11And hearing this delighted them, and they promised to give him silver. Then
he was planning how he might betray him the most timely.
The Passover Supper

12And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they would sacrifice the Passover
lamb, his disciples say to him, "Where are you wanting us to go to make preparations so
you may eat the Passover?"
13And he sends two of his disciples and tells them, "Go into the city, and a man
carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him. 14And wherever he enters say to
the owner of the house, 'The Teacher says: Where is my guestroom, where I may eat the
Passover with my disciples?' 15And he will show you a large upper room furnished and
ready. And there you shall make preparations for us."
16And the disciples left and went into the city, and found things just as he had told
them. And they prepared the Passover.

17And as evening is coming on, he arrives with the Twelve. 18And as they are
reclining and eating, Jesus said, "Truly I tell you: one of you will betray me. One who
is eating with me."
19They began to be very sad and to say to him one by one, "Surely not I?"
20And he said to them, "It is one of the Twelve, the one dipping into the bowl with
me. 21Therefore indeed the Son of Man is going just as it is written about him. But
woe to that one through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that
man if he had not been born!"
22And when they were eating, Jesus, after taking a loaf of bread and blessing God,
broke it and distributed to them, and said, "Take ye. This is my body."
23And taking a cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
24And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, being shed on behalf of
many. 25Truly I tell you: By no means will I drink of the fruit of the vine any more,
until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."
26And when they had sung a hymn, they went out toward the Mount of Olives.
239
A single denarius was the usual daily wage for a laborer, so 300 denarii would be worth about a year's
wages.
240
Deuteronomy 15:11
Jesus Predicts Peter's Denials
27
And Jesus is saying to them, "You will all be scandalized, for it is written: 'I will
strike down the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.' 28But after I am raised up, I
will go ahead of you into Galilee."
29
But Peter said to him, "Even if everyone else will be scandalized, not I."
30And Jesus says to him, "Truly I tell you: today, this very night, before the rooster
crows two times, you yourself will disown me three times."

31
But he kept saying vehemently, "Even if I have to die with you, no way will I
disown you." And the rest of them were saying things similar.
Gethsemane
32
And they come to an orchard the name of which was Gethsemane, and he says to
his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." 33And he takes Peter, and also James and John
with him. And he began to be overwhelmed with dread and heaviness. 34And he says
to them, "My soul is too sad, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake."
35And going forward a little, he dropped to the ground, and prayed that if it is possible,
the hour might pass aside from him. 36And he was saying, "Abba, Father, all things are
possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but what
you will."
37And he comes back, and finds them sleeping, and he says to Peter, "Simon, are you
sleeping? Had you not the self-control to keep awake one hour? 38Keep awake and
pray, that you not come into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is
weak."
39And going away again, he prayed, saying the same thing. 40And when he
returned, he again found them sleeping, for their eyelids were weighing down; and they
did not know what to say to him.
41And he comes the third time and says to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting?
Enough! The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands
of sinners. 42Get up, let us go. Behold, the one betraying me has come near."
The Arrest of Jesus

43And
right then while he was still speaking, Judas comes, the one of the Twelve,
along with a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the Torah scholars
and the elders.241
44And the one betraying him had given them a signal, saying, "Whomever I kiss is
he; him you arrest and lead away under guard." 45And coming straight up to him, he
says, "Rabbi," and fervently kissed him. 46And they laid hands on him and arrested him.
47Then a certain one of those standing near drew a sword and struck the servant of the
high priest, and cut off his ear.

48And Jesus said to them in response, "As though after a bandit, you have come out
with swords and clubs to capture me? 49Day after day I was right next to you in the
temple, teaching, and you never arrested me. But, may the scriptures be fulfilled."
50Then everyone fled, abandoning him.
51And a certain young man had accompanied him, a linen wrap thrown over his bare
body. And they are seizing him, 52but he escaped naked, leaving the linen behind.
Jesus' Trial by the Sanhedrin

53And
they led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests and the elders
and the Torah scholars are gathering together. 54And Peter followed him at a distance,
right up to within the courtyard of the high priest, and remained, sitting with the guards
and warming himself by the fire.
241
The three elements composing the Sanhedrin. The posse was sent from the Sanhedrin. Those doing the
actual arresting were probably temple police officers or soldier types, for the Sanhedrin was authorized by the
Romans to have a company of guards with powers of arrest.
55And the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to find evidence against
Jesus in order to put him to death, and they were not finding it. 56For many were
bearing false witness against him, yet their statements were not consistent.
57Then some appeared and bore false witness against him as follows: 58"We heard
him saying, 'I will destroy this handmade temple, and by three days I will build another,
not handmade.'" 59Yet not even their testimony was so consistent.
60
And after standing up in front of them all, the high priest examined Jesus, saying,
"You are not making any answer? What about this testimony these are bearing against
you?" 61But he was keeping silent, and making no answer at all.
Again, the high priest was examining him, and saying to him, "Are you the Messiah,
the Son of the Blessed One?"
62And Jesus said, "I am, and you will all see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand
of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven."

63
Then the high priest tearing his robes says, "What more need do we have for
witnesses? 64You have heard the blasphemy. What does it look like to you?" And
they all condemned him as deserving to be put to death.
65And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face and punch him, and say to
him, "Prophesy!" The guards also took him with slaps.
Peter Disowns Jesus

66And
with Peter still below in the courtyard, one of the maidservants of the high
priest comes, 67and having seen Peter warming himself, and having peered at him, she
says, "You were also with that Nazarene, Jesus."
68But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you are saying."
And he moved away, outside into the forecourt.

69And the maidservant who had seen him began again to say to those standing
around, "This fellow is one of them." 70Again, he was denying it.

And after a little while, again, those standing around were saying to Peter, "You
surely are one of them, for you also are Galilean."
71Then he began to curse and to swear: "I do not know this man of whom you are
72
speaking." And immediately a rooster crowed a second time. And Peter
remembered the statement as Jesus had said it to him: "Before a rooster crows two times,
you will disown me three times." And when he thought upon it, he wept.
Chapter 15
Jesus' Examination by Pilate
1And as soon as it was early morning, the chief priests, having made a consultation
with the elders and Torah scholars and the whole Sanhedrin, after first restraining Jesus,
led him away and handed him over to Pilate.
2And Pilate examined him: "Are you the king of the Jews?"
And he in answer to him says, "You are the one saying it."
3And the chief priests were charging him with many things. 4So Pilate again
examined him, as follows: "You are not answering anything? Look how many things
they are charging you with!"
5But Jesus made no further answer, causing Pilate to be astonished.
6Now every Festival he would release for them one prisoner, whomever they would
make plea for. 7And there was one named Barabbas, bound with the rebels who had
committed murder during the uprising. 8And when the crowd came up, they began to
ask that Pilate do for them just as he usually did.
9And Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you wish that I release to you the king of the
Jews?" 10For he knew it was because of envy that the chief priests had handed him
over.
11But the chief priests had stirred up the crowd to ask that he release Barabbas to
them instead.
12And Pilate when he answered again, said to them, "What then should I do with the
one you call the king of the Jews?"
13
And they shouted back, "Crucify him."
14And Pilate said to them, "Why? What crime has he committed?"
But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him!"

15
So Pilate, wanting to make the crowd contented, released Barabbas to them, and Jesus,
after scourging him, he handed over to be crucified.
The Soldiers Mock Jesus

16
And the soldiers led him away, inside the palace, that is, the Praetorium, and they
are calling together the whole cohort. 17And they are draping on him a purple robe, and
setting around him a crown of interweaving thorns. 18And they began to salute him:
"Hail, King of the Jews!" 19And they were striking his head with a cane, and spitting on
him. And dropping their knees, they were doing homage to him. 20And when they had
mocked him, they stripped him of the purple robe and put his own garments on him.
The Crucifixion of Jesus

And they are leading him out to crucify him. 21And a certain Simon passing by, a
Cyrenian coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, they conscript to
carry his cross. 22And they bring him to the place Gulgolta, which when translated is
"skull" place. 23And they were holding out to him wine mixed with myrrh. He,
however, did not take it. 24And they crucify him. And they divide his garments,
casting a lot for them, who would take what.
25And it was 9:00 a.m.242 when they crucified him. 26And the notice of the charge
against him was written above him: THE KING OF THE JEWS. 27And with him they
crucify two bandits, one to the right and one to the left of him. 28And the scripture was
fulfilled which says, 'And he was numbered with transgressors.'243 29And those passing
by were defaming him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha, the one destroying the
temple and building in three days! 30Save yourself by coming down from the cross."
31Likewise also the chief priests, making fun with one another along with the Torah
scholars, were saying, "Others he saved. Himself he cannot save. 32Let the Messiah,
the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe."
Even the ones crucified with him were shaming him.
The Death of Jesus

33And
when it was twelve o'clock noon, darkness came over the whole land, until
3:00 o'clock p.m. 34And at 3:00 p.m. Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Elohi, Elohi,
lema shevaqtani?”— which when translated is, "My God, my God, why have you
forsaken me?"
35And some of the bystanders hearing were saying, "Behold, he is calling Elijah."
36And one ran, and after filling a sponge with sour wine, stuck it on a reed and was
helping him to drink, saying, "Back off. Let's see if Elijah comes to take him down."
37But Jesus expired, letting out a loud cry.
38And the veil of the temple was rent in two from top to bottom. 39And the
centurion, standing across from and facing him, seeing the way that he died, said, "This
man truly was the Son of God."
242
Greek, "the third hour," that is, the third hour from 6 a.m. when the daytime starts, which makes this
9:00 a.m. So also the remaining references to time in Mark: the darkness came over the land at noon (Grk-the
sixth hour), and lasted until 3:00 p.m. (Grk-the ninth hour), when Jesus cried out to the Father. See the
endnote in my Diatessaron regarding the differing clock systems and divisions of the day used by the synoptic
evangelists in contrast to John.
243
Early manuscripts do not contain verse 28. Metzger: The earliest and best witnesses of the Alexandrian
and the Western types of text lack ver. 28. It is understandable that copyists could have added the sentence
in the margin as a note pointing out Lk 22:37, and from there it got put into the text of Mark itself. There is no
reason why, if the sentence were present originally, it should have been deleted. It is also significant that Mark
very seldom expressly quotes the Old Testament.
40Andthere were also women watching from a distance, among whom were both
Mary the Magdalene and Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses; and
Salome, 41they who when he was in Galilee used to follow him and provide for him, plus
many others who had come up to Jerusalem with him.
The Burial of Jesus

42And evening had now come, and since it was Preparation Day, that is, before the
Sabbath, 43Joseph of Arimathea comes, a respected council member, himself also looking
forward to the kingdom of God, who, taking courage, went in to Pilate and asked for the
body of Jesus. 44But Pilate doubted that he was already dead, and calling the centurion
to him, asked him if he had already died. 45And knowing from the centurion, he granted
the corpse to Joseph.
46
And having bought linen, he took him down and wrapped him in the linen, and laid
him in a tomb which was hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone up against the entrance
of the tomb. 47And Mary the Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses were watching
where he was laid.
Chapter 16
The Empty Tomb
1And
when the Sabbath had passed, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary the mother of
James, and Salome, bought spices so that they might go and anoint him. 2And very
early on the first day of the week, they are coming upon the tomb, as the sun broke.
3And they were saying to each other, "Who will roll away for us the stone from the
entrance of the tomb?" 4And when they look up, they behold: the stone has been rolled
away! For it was very large. 5And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man
sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe. And they were greatly alarmed.
6But he says to them, "Do not be alarmed. You are seeking Jesus the Nazarene,
who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. Behold the place where they laid
him. 7But go tell his disciples and Peter, that he is going ahead of you into Galilee.
There you will see him, just as he told you."
8And going out, they fled from the tomb. For trembling shock was holding them;
and they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.
"Mark" 16:9-20244
244
The "longer ending of Mark," chapter 16 verses 9-20, is found at the end of this document in a long end
note discussing it and the other endings of Mark. The oldest manuscripts of Mark do not contain that passage,
and many of those manuscripts that do contain it, have critical marks indicating it is not authentic.
WHAT IS THE AUTHENTIC ENDING OF THE GOSPEL OF MARK?
Here is a composite of all four endings of the gospel of Mark:
And all the things announced they shortly reported to those around Peter. And
after these things also Jesus himself sent out through them, from the rising as far as the
setting of the sun, the holy and enduring proclamation of eternal salvation. Amen.
9 And having risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary
the Magdalene, from whom he had expelled seven demons.
10 She went and reported to the ones mourning and weeping, who had been with
him.
11 And they, upon hearing that he is living and was seen by her, did not believe
it.
12 And after these things he was manifested in a different form to two of them as
they were walking along in the country.
13 And those went and reported to the rest; neither did they believe those.
14 And finally, once when they had reclined, he was manifested to the Eleven
themselves, and he denounced their disbelief and hardness of heart, in that they had not
believed the ones who had seen him risen.
(W) And they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief is
under Satan, who does not allow the truth and power of God to prevail over the unclean
things dominated by the spirits. Therefore reveal your righteousness now." They
spoke to Christ; and Christ responded to them, "The limit of the years of Satan's power is
completed, but other terrible things draw near. And for those who have sinned I was
handed over to death, that they might return to the truth and no longer sin, in order that
they might inherit the spiritual and incorruptible glory of righteousness in heaven. But
after you have gone into all the world,..."
15 And he said to them, "After you have gone into all the world, proclaim the
good news to the whole creation.
16 "The person who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the person who
does not believe will be condemned.
17 "And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will
drive out demons, they will speak in new tongues,
18 "they will pick up serpents, and should they drink something deadly it would
in no wise hurt them; they will lay their hands on sick ones, and they will have health
again."
19 And so the Lord after speaking to them was taken up to heaven, and sat at the
right hand of God.
20 And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord co-working and
confirming the word by the signs accompanying.
The last twelve verses of Mark as found in the King James Version, verses 9-20, are
known as The Longer Ending of Mark. The paragraph before verse 9 is called The
Shorter Ending, and is found in one Italic manuscript as the only ending to the gospel,
and in some other manuscripts is found in combination with verses 9 through 12 as
shown. The paragraph beginning with (W) remains in only one Greek manuscript
today, Codex Washingtoniensis, or "W," although Jerome speaks of others extant in his
time. These latter two passages are so undoubtedly inauthentic that they will not be
examined here.
Mark 16:9-20, known as "The Longer Ending of Mark:"

PROBLEM 1: The connection between verse 8 and verses 9-20 is abrupt and awkward.
Verse 9 begins with the masculine nominative participle anastas, which demands for its
antecedent a masculine topic, i.e., Jesus; but the subject of the last sentence of verse 8 is
the women, not Jesus" (Zondervan's NIV Bible Commentary, Vol II p 204):
8 And going out, they fled from the tomb. For trembling shock was holding them; and
they said nothing to anyone, because THEY were afraid.
9 And having risen early on the first day of the week, HE appeared first to Mary the
Magdalene, from whom he had expelled seven demons.
There is a lack of transition from the plural female topic of verse 8 to the masculine
singular of verse 9. That is not how Greek worked. That is not even how English
works. Even by English rules, when you change the subject of narrative or
conversation, you have to use a proper noun. If you change the subject with a pronoun,
no one knows who or what you are talking about. This problem is one indicator that
verses 9-20 were not originally part of the gospel of Mark.
PROBLEM 2: The passage contains a statement that is contrary to the gospel of Luke.
The statement is found in verses 12 and 13 about the two walking to Emmaus:
12 And after these things he was manifested in a different form to two of them who were
walking along in the country.
13 And those went and reported to the rest; neither did they believe those.
This is contrary to Luke 24:13, 33-35 where we read:
13 And behold, two of them during that same day were making their way toward a
village sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, which was called Emmaus...
33 And they got up and returned that same hour to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and
those with them assembled together,
34 saying, 'The Lord really has risen, and he appeared to Simon.'
35 And the two told what things happened on the way, and how Jesus was recognized
by them when he broke the bread.
Luke says the rest responded "The Lord really has risen," thus agreeing with the two.
The others agreed that Jesus was alive, because Simon Peter had already come back and
told them the same thing as the two were telling them. But "Mark" 16:13 says the rest
disbelieved the two. Thus, Mark 16:12,13 contradicts what Luke 24:33-35 says. So
then, we either have to believe that the scriptures contain an error, or else believe that one
of these passages is not scripture. The problem of the contradiction is solved, by
concluding from the objective external evidence that the longer ending of Mark is not
scripture, therefore we do not have a case here of scripture contradicting other scripture.
Some say that there is not a contradiction between Mark in the TR and Luke, because
later in Luke, in 24:40-41, it says
"40And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41But, since they
were still not believing, out of joy and astonishment, he said to them, "What do you have
to eat in this place?"
But I say this is another event. The passages I already compared, are talking about the
same event. That is the more legitamate comparison.
There are other contradictions involving the ending of Mark also, that do not show
themselves until you do a harmonization of the gospels, as I have. My harmonization,
called Palmer's Diatessaron, will come out when I have finished translating all four
gospels.
PROBLEM 3: The last twelve verses of the gospel of Mark as found in the King James
Version, or footnoted in recent translations, (chapter 16, verses 9-20) are not found in
the two earliest Greek manuscripts. They are also absent from many of the oldest
translations of Mark into other languages, for example, the Latin, Sinaitic Syriac, and
Georgian translations. Clement of Alexandria and Origen show no knowledge of the
existence of these verses; furthermore Eusebius and Jerome attest that the passage was
absent from almost all Greek copies of Mark known to them. The original form of the
Eusebian sections (drawn up by Ammonius) makes no provision for numbering
sections of the text after 16:8. Not a few manuscripts which contain the passage have
scribal notes stating that older Greek copies lack it, and in other witnesses the passage is
marked with asterisks or obeli, the conventional signs used by copyists to indicate an
inauthentic addition to a document. Other manuscripts which do contain the passage
place it in differing locations in Mark, and still another Greek manuscript that contains
the long ending has a large addition following verse 14. There is also another ending
entirely, a shorter one, found in other Greek manuscripts. Add to all this the internal
consideration that none of the endings are written in Mark's style and vocabulary.
Another major internal consideration is how awkwardly verse 9 connects the line of
thought from verse 8, or rather fails to connect.
See Metzger, Bruce M., a Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, on
behalf of and in cooperation with the Editorial Committee of the United Bible Societies'
Greek New Testament: Kurt Aland, Matthew Black, Carlo M. Martini, Bruce M.
Metzger, and Allen Wikgren (Stuttgart, United Bible Societies, Corrected Edition, 1975)
for the details, which are compelling evidence in favor of the spuriousness of the passage.
The Editorial Committee concludes:
"Thus, on the basis of good external evidence and strong internal considerations it
appears that the earliest ascertainable form of the Gospel of Mark ended with 16:8.
(Three possibilities are open: (a) the evangelist intended to close his Gospel at this place;
or (b) the Gospel was never finished; or, as seems most probable, (c) the Gospel
accidentally lost its last leaf before it was multiplied by transcription.) At the same
time, however, out of deference to the evident antiquity of the longer ending and its
importance in the textual tradition of the Gospel, the Committee decided to include verses
9-20 as part of the text, but to enclose them within double square brackets to indicate that
they are the work of an author other than the evangelist."
Eusebius of Caesarea, who died in the year 339, said, in “Questiones ad Marinum”
published by Cardinal Mai, in his “Nova Patrum Bibliotheca” (Romae, 1847,) vol. IV,
pp. 255-7 the following:
"For, on the one hand, the person who rejects the passage itself – the pericope which says
this – might say that it does not appear in all copies of the Gospel of Mark. At any rate,
the accurate copies define the history according to Mark with the words of the young man
who appeared to the women and said to them, "Do not fear. You are seeking Jesus the
Nazarene" and so forth, proceeding to where it says, ‘And having heard, they fled, and
they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.'
"For in this way the ending of the Gospel according to Mark is defined in nearly all the
copies. The material that comes next seldom appears; it is in some copies but not in all,
and may be spurious, especially since it implies a contradiction to the witness of the other
Gospels. This, then, is what someone might say to avoid and completely do away with
a superfluous question.
"On the other hand, someone else, who dares to set aside nothing at all which appears, by
whatever means, in the text of the gospels, says that the reading, like many others, is
double, and each of the two must be accepted,in that they are approved in the opinion of
the faithful and pious; not this one instead of that one, or that one rather than this one.
"Well then, allowing this portion [of Mark] to be really authentic, our business is to
interpret the sense of the passage."
End Quotation of Eusebius.
We see from the above that scribes were far more afraid to OMIT anything, however
suspect it was, than to ADD something to the text.
Which is another prop for the tenet, that the shorter reading is generally to be preferred.
That tenet has that going for it, that scribes were more afraid to remove anything than to
add something.
I say that, since Eusebius indicates that the Gospel of Mark ended at verse 16:8 in
"almost all the copies" in the 4th century, it bolsters the reputation of the two or three
manuscripts currently extant which omit the long ending of Mark, and these must
therefore be considered the most significant manuscripts for consideration. Thus we can
say, that though a majority of late copies now contain it, the "majority text" used to omit
it. What value is there, then, in a "majority text" derived from counting up only the
recent and late copies, when in the 3rd and 4th centuries, the majority of manuscripts read
so differently from the present majority?
The conclusion is, most Textual Criticism scholars agree, we must "weigh" each
manuscript and witness, not "count" them. Thus, the testimony of Codex Vaticanus is
more important than the testimony of 4,000 cursives from the much later centuries.
Some might refer us to John William Burgon, and his book, "The last twelve verses of
the Gospel according to S. Mark vindicated against recent critical objectors established.,"
pp. 41-51. In it Burgon attempts to lessen the impact of the testimony of Eusebius and
Jerome about the the longer ending of Mark not being found in the accurate copies, and
being absent in almost all the copies of Mark.
Burgon spends some time questioning the authenticity of the document provided by
Cardinal Mai entitled "Quaestiones ad Marinum," and its quotations of Eusebius. Why?
Because it appears to be a CONDENSED version of Eusebius, Burgon says. But then, on
p. 44, Burgon says, "Let it, however, be candidly admitted that there seems to be no
reason for supposing that whenever the lost work of Eusebius comes to light, (and it has
been seen within about 300 years,) it will exhibit anything essentially different from what
is contained in the famous passage which has given rise to so much debate,..."
Ok, so reading all that questioning of the authenticity of the Eusebius quotations was a
waste of my precious time.
In the succeeding pages, Burgon's main point seems to be that Eusebius is playing Devil's
advocate, that "some may say that..." Well, Eusebius does not contradict or refute or
dismiss those statements from such advocate.
Burgon's purpose was to show that Eusebius did not question the authenticity of the
passage. In fact, Burgon himself quotes Eusebius, on p. 45, where Eusebius says about
the last 12 verses of Mark, Καὶ δὴ τοῦδε τοῦ μέρους συγχωρουμένου εἶναι ἀληθοῦς,
προσήκει τὸν νοῦν διερμηνεύειν τοῦ ἀναγνώσματος·(KAI DH TOUDE MEROUS
SUGCWROUMENOU EINAI ALHQOUS, PROSHKEI TON NOUN DIEREMHNEUEIN TOU
ANAGNWSMATOS) "Well then, allowing this portion to be really genuine, our business is
to interpret the sense of the passage."
Thus, Burgon himself shows us that Eusebius did in fact question the authenticity of the
longer ending of Mark. Eusebius only allows for the sake of argument that it is "really
genuine." That does not sound to me like Eusebius believed it to be authentic.
PROBLEM 4: The passage can be easily taken to teach doctrines that are contrary to
teachings found elsewhere in the New Testament.
Verses 17-18 say Jesus said,
17
And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out
demons, they will speak in new tongues, 18they will pick up serpents, and should they
drink something deadly, it would in no wise hurt them; they will lay their hands on sick
ones, and they will have health again.
In the book of I Corinthians, chapter 12, verses 7-11, 29-31, on the other hand, the
apostle Paul teaches that not all believers will speak in tongues and not all believers will
have the gift of healing. A new Christian, unfamiliar with the rest of scripture, might
question whether he has truly believed, thinking, "These things have not happened in my
life, so I must not be a real Christian." How discouraging this was to me personally at
one time. And if the new Christian were to deliberately drink deadly poison, he would
be putting God to the test, as Satan urged Christ to do when he suggested that he throw
himself off the highest point of the temple. Jesus responded that although the scriptures
promise the believer that God's angels will not allow his foot to strike against a stone, it
would be sin to deliberately put oneself in harm's way (for example, drinking deadly
poison), for the scriptures also say, "Thou shalt not put the Lord your God to a test."
But, in violation of this prohibition, there is a practice by some churches, based on this
passage, of handling deadly snakes in church. Scores of Christians therefore die each
year from snake bites in church, giving unbelievers a fair opportunity to mock Christians.
SUMMARY: The evidence, both external and internal, is conclusive that the Mark 16:9-
20 pericope is not part of the original Gospel of Mark. In addition, it cannot be
harmonized with the Gospel of Luke. It appears that the author of Mark 16:9-20
considered verse 8 to be an inappropriate ending and felt the need to add to it a better
conclusion. I suggest that the following is what he did: In verses 9-14, he summarized
the endings of Matthew, Luke and John, plus Acts, and perhaps Colossians 1:23, but
carelessly. Then the contents of verses 15-20 are for the most part taken from the book
of Acts. He took some historical happenings of miraculous events such as tongues
speaking, healing of the sick, and the apostle Paul being bitten by a snake but not being
harmed, and tacked them on following Mark 16:8 because he knew from his vantage
point looking back, that these are what in fact happened next. The problem is that the
way it is written, he has in effect put them into Jesus' mouth as if Jesus was saying that all
people who believe in him would have these things happen to them.
It should be noted that there is a great deal of early testimony from early church
writers in favor of the long ending of Mark. James E. Snapp Jr. is one of the main
collectors of that evidence, and you can download his document here. This evidence,
however, does not convince me that the long ending of Mark was penned by Mark.
What it shows is that verses 9-20 were added quite early.
In view of these things, I did not include Mark 16:9-20 in either the text of the gospel
of Mark, nor in my "Palmer's Diatessaron." I believe it is very clear that Mark 16:9-20
is not scripture, but rather belongs on the list of New Testament pseudepigrapha. 245 I
believe that to include Mark 16:9-20 in the text of the New Testament does far more
harm than good. I am praying that New Testament editors and translators around the
world in all languages will soon standardize the text of their products in this matter and
omit Mark 16:9-20. With the firm belief that I am speaking from the grace and gifts
God has given me for the edification of the church, I urge Bible translators and editors
everywhere not to include Mark 16:9-20 in the text of their products.
I believe it is certain that Mark intended to end his gospel at verse 16:8. There is
no "lost" portion of the gospel of Mark.
245 Writings attributed to an author falsely, and regarded as not inspired by God and not authoritative.
To read a harmony, a blending of the four gospels into one seamless story, read my
“Palmer’s Diatessaron,” which you can download free in PDF. Here is the link as
well: http://bibletranslation.ws/trans/diatessaronpalmerniv.pdf
The Gospel According To Luke
Luke
Chapter 1
Introduction
1
Since many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things fully attested
among us, 2as delivered to us by the original eyewitnesses who became stewards of the
word, 3it seemed good to me also, having meticulously traced everything again from the
top, to write it down in sequence for you, O most excellent Theophilus, 4so that you may
know the reliability of things you have been told.
The Birth of John the Baptizer Foretold

5
It came about in the time of Herod, king of Judea, that there was a priest, Zechariah
by name, of the rotation of Abijah.246 He had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and
her name was Elizabeth. 6Both were upright in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in
all the commandments and requirements of the Lord. 7But a child they did not have,
because Elizabeth was barren. And they were both advanced in age.
8And it came about, that once when his rotation was on duty and he was serving as
priest before God, his lot fell 9(normal custom for the priesthood) to go into the temple of
the Lord, and to burn incense.
10The hour of incense came, and all the people in the assembly were praying outside.
11Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of
incense. 12Seeing it disturbed Zechariah, and fear fell over him. 13But the angel said
to him: "Fear not, Zechariah, for your request was heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear
you a son, and you shall call his name John. 14Joy and gladness will be with you, and
many will rejoice over his birth. 15For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord. Wine
and intoxicating beverages by no means shall he drink, and he will be filled with the Holy
Spirit, beginning yet in his mother's womb. 16He will turn many of the children of Israel
toward the Lord their God. 17And he will procede in front of Him, in the spirit and
power of Elijah, such that the hearts of fathers will turn toward their children, and the
disobedient toward the outlook of the righteous: a prepared people will be arranged for
the Lord."
18Zechariah said to the angel, "By what will I know this? For I am old, and my
wife is well advanced in age."

19And in answer the angel said to him, "I am Gabriel, one who stands in the presence
of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you these glad announcements.
20And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak, until the day these things take place,
because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time."
21And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and wondering about his delay in the
temple. 22And when he came out, he was not able to speak to them, and they knew: a
vision he had seen in the temple. He kept motioning to them, and remained mute.
23And when his days of service were completed, he went home.
24After those days, his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she hid herself for five months.
25"The way the Lord has done this for me," she said, "these are days he has looked with
concern upon me, to take away my disgrace among the people."
The Birth of Jesus Foretold

26And
in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent out from God, to a town in
Galilee named Nazareth, 27to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, of
the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. 28And the angel went in to her,
and said, "Hail, O favored one! The Lord is with you."
29But she was very troubled by the utterance, and wondered what sort of greeting this
might be. 30Then the angel said to her, "Fear not, Mary, for you have found favor with
246
The priests were divided up into divisions that took turns in rotation, doing the priestly duties.
God. 31You shall conceive in your womb, and shall bear a son, and you are to call his
name Jesus. 32This man will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High.
And the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33and he will reign over
the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end."
34
And Mary said to the angel, "How will this happen, since I am not knowing a
man?"247
35
And in answer the angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the
power of the Most High will overshadow you. For this reason also, the one to be born
will be called holy,248 the Son of God. 36And behold, Elizabeth your relative, even she
in her old age, has conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her, she who was
called barren. 37Therefore with God, nothing will be impossible."
38
"Here am I, the slave girl of the Lord," Mary said. "May it be to me according to
your statement." Then the angel left her.
Mary Stays With Elizabeth

39
At that time Mary got up and went with speed to the hill country, to a town of
Judah, 40where she entered the house of Zechariah, and greeted Elizabeth. 41And it
came about that when Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby in her womb did leap,
and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42And she shouted out in a loud voice,
saying, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43And
why does it come to me, that to me the mother of my Lord should come? 44For when
the sound of your greeting came into my ears, the baby in my womb did leap in
exultation. 45Blessed is she who believed that there will be a completion of the things
announced to her from the Lord!"
Mary's Song
46And
Mary said:
"My soul does magnify the Lord,

47and my spirit did rejoice
in God my Savior,
48because he looked toward
the lowly station of his servant.

So behold: all generations after now
will consider me blessed,
49because the Mighty One
did great things for me.

And holy will be his name,
50and his mercy
to those who fear him,

into age after age.
51Power he wrought with his arm.
He scattered those who were proud

in the thoughts of their heart.
52He pulled down rulers from
their thrones
and lifted high the humble.
53Hungry ones he filled up
with good things

and rich ones he sent away empty.
54He helped his servant Israel,
and remembered about mercy
247
"I am not knowing a man," with the verb for know in the continuous aspect, is a euphemism meaning, "I
am not being intimate- having sex with a man, now or in the near future."
248
The one to be born would already have been called holy, in that it would be a firstborn male; see Exodus
13:2, 14-16.
55'to Abraham and his seed for ever,'
as he said to our fathers."
56
Mary remained with her about three months, and then returned to her home.
The Birth of John the Baptizer

57Andthe time was fulfilled for Elizabeth to give birth, and she produced a son.
58
Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy to her, and
they rejoiced with her.
59
And it came about that on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and
they were about to call him by the name of his father, Zechariah, 60and his mother
responded and said, "No! He shall be called John."
61
And they said to her, "There is no one among your relatives called by that name."
62Then they signaled to his father, to find out what he wanted him to be called.
63
And he asked for a tablet, and wrote as follows, "His name is John." Everyone was
surprised. 64And immediately his mouth was opened, and also his tongue, and he spoke,
blessing God.
65An awe came over everyone who lived around them, and all through the hill
country of Judea these things were being discussed. 66And everyone who heard, kept
thinking about it, saying, "What then will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was
certainly with him.
Zechariah's Song
67And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit, and he prophesied,
saying:
68"Blessed
be the Lord,
the God of Israel,
because he has turned to concern himself
and has accomplished redemption
for his people.
69He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of David his servant

70as he has said through the mouths
of his holy prophets

since eons ago,
71salvation from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us—

72to demonstrate mercy to our fathers
to remember his holy covenant,

73the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
74to give us rescue from the hand
of our enemies,
that we may serve him without fear
75in holiness and righteousness before him
all our days.

76Yes and you, child, will be called
a prophet of the Most High;

for you will go on before the Lord
to prepare his paths,
77to give his people the knowledge of
salvation
through the forgiveness of their sins,
78because of the tender feelings of our God
with which the Sunrise from on high

will look over us
79to appear to those sitting in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet along the path of peace."
80And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he was in the deserts, until the
days of his being presented to Israel.
Chapter 2
The Birth of Jesus
1
And it came about in those days, that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that
all the inhabited earth should be registered.249 2This was the first registration that took
place while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3And all were making their way to be
registered, each to his own town.
4
Thus Joseph also went up, from the town of Nazareth in Galilee, to Judea, to the
town of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was from the house and line of
David; 5to be registered along with Mary, the one pledged to him, who was pregnant.
6And it came about that while they were there, the days for her to give birth were
completed, 7and she bore her firstborn son. And she swaddled him and placed him in a
feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.
The Shepherds and the Angels

8And
there were shepherds in that same region, camping out in the fields, keeping
watch over their flocks by night. 9And an angel of the Lord came upon them, and the
glory of the Lord shone all around them, and they were terrified. 10And the angel said to
them, "Fear not. For behold, I am announcing to you a great joy that will be with all the
people. 11Because for you is born this day, in the town of David, a Savior, who is
Messiah the Lord. 12And this will be a sign to you: you will find a baby swaddled, and
lying in a feeding trough."
13And suddenly, there was with the angel a great company of the army of heaven,
praising God and saying, 14"Glory to God in the highest realms! And on earth peace,
good will toward men!"250
15And it came about that when the angels had departed from them into heaven, the
shepherds were saying to one another, "Let's go over to Bethlehem, and see this thing that
has happened, which the Lord has made known to us."
16And they went speeding, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in
the feeding trough. 17And once they had seen, they gave an exact report of the message
spoken to them concerning this child. 18And all who heard it were amazed at what the
shepherds said to them. 19As for Mary, she memorized these words, and pondered them
in her heart. 20And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God, because of the
fact that all the things which they had heard and seen, were just as it had been told to
them.
Jesus Presented in the Temple

21And
when the eighth day had arrived, the time to circumcise him, he was called the
name Jesus, the name called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
22And when the days of their cleansing according to the Law of Moses 251 had been
completed, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord, 23as it is written in
249
The whole inhabited earth... This is hype, commonly used in order to magnify the emperors. The
meaning is the whole empire. The registration here is the recording of the names for the purpose of adding
everyone to the tax rolls. The phrase could also be translated that a census should be taken of all the inhabited
earth. The tax is a poll tax, or head tax, or a capitation, as forbidden in the constitution for the U.S.A. This
was a form of tribute forced upon the conquered by the conqueror.
250
Many early manuscripts read, “peace to men of his good pleasure.” Cf. Galatians 6:16
251
Leviticus 12:1-8
the Law of the Lord, "Every male to open a womb 252 shall be called holy to the
Lord,"253 24and to offer a sacrifice, in keeping with what is said in the Law of the Lord:
"a pair of doves or two young pigeons." 254
25And behold, a man was in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was
righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon
him. 26It had been communicated to him by the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death
before he had seen the Lord's Anointed. 27And he came by the Spirit into the temple, at
the same time that the parents of the child Jesus brought him to do for him what the
custom of the Law required. 28And Simeon took him into his arms and blessed God,
and said:
29"Now, Master, keeping your word,

you are dismissing your slave in peace.
30
For my eyes have seen your salvation,
31
which you have prepared in the sight
of all the peoples;
32
a light to be a revelation for the Gentiles,
and the glory of your people Israel."
33And the child's father and mother were marveling at the things being said about
him. 34And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother: "Behold, this one is
being laid down to cause the stumbling or rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that
will be continually denounced – 35yes a sword will be run through your own soul too– so
that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed."
36And there was also a prophetess, Hannah, daughter of Penuel, of the tribe of Asher.
This woman had grown to be very old, having lived with a husband for seven years after
her virginity, 37and then being a widow to eighty-four years of age, one who hardly left
the temple, but served night and day, in fasting and praying. 38And coming up at that
very time, she gave thanks to God, and spoke about the child to all those expecting
redemption in Jerusalem.
39And when they had completed everything required by the Law of the Lord, they
returned to their own town of Nazareth. 40And the child grew and became strong; he
was filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
The Boy Jesus at the Temple

41Now
his parents would go every year to Jerusalem for the festival of Passover.
42And when he turned twelve years old, they went up, according to the custom of the
Festival. 43And when the days were completed and they were returning home, the boy
Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and his parents were not aware of it. 44Thinking he was in
their company, they went a day's journey, and then began looking for him among their
relatives and acquaintances. 45And when they did not find him, they went back to
Jerusalem to look for him. 46And it came about that after three days they found him,
sitting in the temple, in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and questioning
them. 47And all those who heard him were amazed at the understanding of his
responses. 48And when his parents saw him, they were stunned. His mother said to
him, "Son, why have you treated us this way? Look at how distressed your father and I
are, searching for you."
49And he said to them, "Why would you be searching for me? Shouldn't you have
known that I would have to be among my Father's things?" 50But they did not
understand what he said to them.
51Then he went down with them and arrived in Nazareth, and continued to
subordinate himself to them. But his mother was recording all these words in her
252
Or, "every male to inaugurate a womb," or "every offspring first to open a womb, if it is male."
253
Exodus 13:2,12-16
254
Leviticus 12:8
heart.255 52And Jesus kept growing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and
with people.
Chapter 3
1
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, with Pontius Pilate governor of
Judea, and Herod as tetrarch256 of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and
Trachonitis, and Lysanias as tetrarch of Abilene, 2during the high priesthood of Hananiah
and Kayafa, the word of God came upon John the son of Zechariah in the desert. 3And
he appeared, in all the areas around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for
forgiveness of sins, 4as it is written in the scroll of the words of Isaiah the prophet:
"The voice of one calling in the desert,

make the paths straight for him.
5Every valley shall be filled up,
every mountain and hill laid low.

The crooked places shall be made straight,
the rough ways smooth.
6And all flesh shall see
the salvation of God.'257"
7So
John would say to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, "You spawn of
snakes! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8Then produce fruit
characteristic of repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham
as our father.' For I tell you that God can raise up children for Abraham from these
stones. 9Even now the axe is poised at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not
produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."
10And the crowds would ask him, "What should we do then?"
11And in answer he would say to them, "The person who has two tunics should give
away to the one who has none, and the person who has foodstuffs should do the same."
12Revenue agents also came to be baptized, and they asked him, "Teacher, what
should we do?"
13He said to them, "Collect nothing in excess, beyond what is prescribed for you."
14Some soldiers were also questioning him, saying, "And us, what should we do?"
And he told them, "You should no longer shake down anyone, nor frame anyone,
always staying content with your pay."
15And all the people were waiting expectantly, wondering in their hearts if John
might possibly be the Anointed One.

16John responded speaking to everyone, "I baptize you in water, but one who is more
powerful than I is coming, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He
will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and in fire: 17his winnowing fork is in his hand to clear
out his threshing floor, gathering the wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn up in
unquenchable fire."
18And with many and varied other exhortations John was preaching the good news to
the people.
19But when Herod the Tetrarch was rebuked by him, regarding Herodias his brother's
wife, and all the other evil things he had done, 20Herod piled this on top of them all: he
shut John up in prison.
255
Compare Genesis 37:11.
256
From the Greek tetra, four, and arche, to rule. As a monarch is a one and only ruler of a realm, in the
same way a tetrarch is a ruler of one fourth of a realm. (Which implies that there must exist three other one-
fourth divisions of the realm.)
257
Isaiah 40:3-5a
The Baptism of Jesus
21
When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was
praying, the heavens were torn open, 22and the Holy Spirit descended on him in the
bodily form of a dove. And a voice from heaven said, "You are my Son, whom I love;
with you I am well pleased."
The Genealogy of Jesus

23
And this Jesus, being about thirty years old, was the son, so it was thought, of
Joseph,258
the son259 of Eili, 24the son of Matthat,

the son of Levi, the son of Melki,
the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,
25the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos,
the son of Nahum, the son of Esli,

the son of Naggai, 26the son of Maath,
the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein,
the son of Josech, the son of Joda,
27the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa,
the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,

the son of Neri, 28the son of Melki,
the son of Addi, the son of Cosam,
the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,
29the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer,
the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat,

the son of Levi, 30the son of Simeon,
the son of Judah, the son of Joseph,
the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
31the son of Melea, the son of Menna,
the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan,

the son of David, 32the son of Jesse,
the son of Obed, the son of Boaz,
the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,
33the son of Amminadab, the son of Aram,
the son of Hezron, the son of Perez,

the son of Judah, 34the son of Jacob,
the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham,
the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
35the son of Serug, the son of Reu,
the son of Peleg, the son of Eber,

the son of Shelah, 36the son of Cainan,
the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem,
the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,
37the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch,
the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel,
258
3:23a See the following article on the Internet comparing this genealogy to Matthew's genealogy:
http://www.carm.org/diff/2geneologies.htm
259
3:23b Probably, son-in-law of Eili. (In Hebrew this name Eili starts with the consonant Ayin, a gutteral
stop. The NA27/UBS Greek text and the 1550 Textus Receptus have it spelled Eili, but the Hodges & Farstad
"Majority Text" has a Greek rough breathing mark in front, so spelled "Heli.") In that culture, the word "son"
was used more broadly. Ben Crick of England has a good commentary on this, as follows: "The genealogies
in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 are both ostensibly of Joseph, not of Mary. But whereas Matt. 1:16 gives Jacob as
the father of Joseph, Luke 3:23 states that Joseph was the son of Heli. How do we explain this? We know
that Mary had a sister (John 19:25), but nowhere is a brother mentioned. So if Heli had no son, his inheritance
would pass to his nearest male relative, in this case his son-in-law (Numbers 27:1-11), provided he was of the
same tribe (Numbers 36:1-9). Therefore we should read in Luke 3:23 that Joseph was son-in-law of Heli. So
Heli was Mary's father, and Mary was descended from David. Gabriel's words to Mary, "the Lord God shall
give unto Him the throne of His father David," (Luke 1:32) confirm this.
the son of Cainan, 38the son of Enos,
the son of Seth, the son of Adam,
the son of God.
Chapter 4
The Temptation of Jesus
1
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit
into the desert, 2being tempted forty days by the devil. And he ate nothing during those
days, and at the end of them he was hungry.
3
And the devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, speak to this stone, that it
become a loaf of bread."
4
And Jesus responded to him, "It is written, 'A human being shall not live on bread
alone.'"
5
Then leading him up, the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the inhabited earth,
in a moment of time. 6And he said to Jesus, "All this authority and their glory I will
give to you, for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. 7Now
then, if you worship in front of me, it will all be yours."
8In answer Jesus said to him, "It is written: 'You shall worship Yahweh your God,
and him only shall you serve.'260

"
9Then the devil led him into Jerusalem, and had him stand on the gable of the temple.
And he said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here. 10For it
is written:
'He will command his angels

concerning you
to guard you carefully;
11they will bear you up in their hands,
so you will not strike your foot

against a stone.'261"
12
Jesus answered and said to him, "It says: 'You shall not test Yahweh your
262
God.' "
13And having carried out every sort of temptation, the devil left him until an
opportune time.
Jesus Begins to Preach

14And
Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and a rumor about him
spread throughout the whole region. 15And he taught in their synagogues, being praised
by everyone.
Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

16And
he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. And he stood up to read. 17And the
scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place
where it is written:
18"The
Spirit of Yahweh is upon me,
because he has anointed me;
He has sent me
to preach good news to the poor,
to announce release for the prisoners
260
4:8 Deuteronomy 6:13
261
4:10-11 Psalm 91:11,12
262
4:12 Deuteronomy 6:16
and sight for the blind,
to send off the crushed into liberty,
19
to proclaim the year
of Yahweh's favor..."
20
And having closed the scroll, he gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The
eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. 21And he began to speak to
them: "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
22All were speaking well of him and amazed at the gracious words coming from his
mouth. And they were saying, "Isn't this Joseph's son?"

23
And he said to them, "No doubt you will quote to me this proverb: 'Physician, heal
yourself! The things we heard were happening in Capernaum, do here in your home
town.'"
24
And he said, "Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his home town. 25I tell
you, in Elijah's days, during the three years and six months that the sky was shut and
there was a great famine covering the whole land, it is a fact that there were plenty of
widows in Israel. 26Yet it was not to any of them that Elijah was sent, but to Zarephath
in the country of Sidon, to a widow woman there. 27Again, in the case of Elisha the
prophet, there were plenty of lepers in Israel, and not one of them was cleansed; only
Naaman the Syrian."
28And all the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard these things.
29They got up and drove him outside the town, intending to throw him down the cliff.
30But he walked right through them, and went on his way.
Jesus' Teaching Has Authority

31
And he went down to Capernaum, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath began to
teach them. 32And they were amazed at his teaching, because his word was
authoritative.
33And in the synagogue was a man who had a demon, an unclean spirit. He shouted
out with a very loud voice, 34"Ha! What business do you have with us, Jesus, you
Nazarene? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are— the Holy One of
God!"
35And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be quiet and come out of him!" And the demon
threw him down before them all and came out of him, doing him no damage.
36And astonishment overwhelmed them all, and they spoke to each other, saying,
"What is this message, that with authority and power he commands unclean spirits, and
they come out?" 37And a rumor went out about him into every place in that region.
Jesus Heals All in Capernaum

38And
rising up out of the synagogue, he went into the home of Simon. And
Simon's mother-in-law was suffering a high fever, and they asked him about her. 39So
he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once, and
proceeded to wait on them.
40And as the sun was setting, everyone who had anyone ill with various kinds of
sickness brought them to him, and laying his hands on each one of them, he was healing
them. 41Moreover, demons were coming out from many, shouting and saying, "You are
the Son of God!" And he would rebuke them, not allowing them to speak, because they
knew him to be the Messiah.
Jesus Keeps Moving

42And
when day came, he left and went off to a solitary place. And the crowds
were searching for him, and they came up to him and detained him from leaving them.
43But he said to them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to the other towns also,
because on that basis I was sent." 44And he kept on preaching in the synagogues of
Jewdom.
Chapter 5
1
And it came about that as he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the
crowd pressing urgently around him and listening to the word of God, 2he saw two boats
standing idle by the lake; the fishers had gotten out of them, washing the nets. 3And
getting on board one of the boats, which was Simon's, he asked him to put out a little
from shore. And sitting down, he taught the people from the boat.
4And when he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep, and
let down your nets for a catch."

5
And in response Simon said, "Master, working hard through the whole night we
took nothing. But on the basis of your word, I will let down the nets."
6And when they had done so, they had enclosed a great number of fish, and their
nets were beginning to tear. 7So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come
and help them, and they came, and they filled both the boats, such that they began to sink.
8
And when Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me
Lord; I am a sinful man!" 9For astonishment had seized him and all those with him, at
the catch of fish that they had taken, and likewise also James and John the sons of
Zebedee, who were partners with Simon.
10But Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid. From now on you will be catching
human beings." 11And when they had pulled the boats to shore, they gave it all up and
followed him.
A Leper Healed Spreads the Word

12And it came about that he was in one of the towns, and behold, a man covered with
leprosy.263 And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, saying, "Lord,
if you are willing, you can cleanse me."
13And reaching out his hand, he touched him, saying, "I am willing. Be cleansed."
And immediately the leprosy left him.

14And he ordered him to tell no one, but "Go, show yourself to the priest, and offer
for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them."

15But word about him was spreading all the more, and many crowds would walk
alongside to listen, and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16And he would take retreat in
deserted places, and pray.
The Paralytic Lowered Through the Roof

17And it came about during one of the days that, as he was teaching, Pharisees and
teachers of the Torah also were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee
and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present for him to heal
the sick.
18And behold, men carrying on a pallet a man who was paralyzed. And they were
trying to carry him in, to lay him before him. 19And not finding a way to carry in
because of the crowd, they went up onto the roof, and lowered him with his bed down
through the tiles, into the middle, in front of Jesus.
20And when Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven you."
21And the Torah scholars and Pharisees began to reason as follows: "Who is this
fellow who speaks blasphemy! Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
22But knowing their reasonings, Jesus in response said to them, "Why are you
debating this in your hearts? 23Which is easier: to say 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to
say, 'Get up and walk'? 24But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority
on earth to forgive sins..." He said to the paralyzed man, "I tell you, get up, pick up
your mat and be on your way home." 25And immediately he stood up, in full view of
them, and taking up that upon which he had been lying, he went away toward home,
263
5:12 The Greek word was used for various diseases of the skin— not necessarily leprosy.
praising God. 26Everyone was stunned with amazement. And they glorified God, and
were filled with awe, saying, "We have seen remarkable things today."
A Revenue Agent Joins Jesus

27
And after these things he went out, and he saw a revenue agent by the name of
Levi, sitting at the taxes post, and he said to him, "Follow me." 28And he rose up and
followed him, giving it all up.
29
Then Levi held a great banquet for him at his house. And there was also a large
crowd of revenue agents and others who were reclining with him. 30And the Pharisees
and their Torah scholars grumbled to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink
with revenue agents and sinners?"
31
And Jesus responded and said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but
those who are sick. 32I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

33They
then said to him, "The disciples of John are often fasting and making prayers,
and likewise those of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking."
34And Jesus said to them, "Can you make the members of the bridegroom's party fast
during days in which the bridegroom is with them? 35But the days will come. Yes,
when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then in those days they will fast."
36And he also spoke a parable to them: "No one tears a patch from a new garment
and places it onto an old garment. For then, he will both tear the new, and the patch
from the new will not match the old. 37And no one puts new wine in old wineskins.
For then, the new wine will burst the wineskins, and it will be spilled, and the wineskins
will be ruined. 38On the contrary, new wine must be put in new wineskins. 39And no
one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.' "
Chapter 6
Man Over the Sabbath
1
And he happened during a Sabbath to be passing through grainfields, and his
disciples were plucking and eating the heads, rubbing them in their hands. 264 2But
some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what on a Sabbath is not
permissible?"265
3And in answer to them Jesus said, "Have you never read what David did when he
and those with him were hungry? 4How he went into the house of God, and taking the
loaves of offering, he ate, and gave to the ones with him, which was not permissible to
eat, except for the priests only?"
5Then he said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."
6And it came about that on another Sabbath, he went into the synagogue and was
teaching, and a man was there whose right hand was shriveled. 7And the Torah scholars
and the Pharisees were carefully watching him, whether he would heal on the Sabbath, in
order to obtain cause to prosecute him. 8But he knew their reasoning, and said to the
man with the shriveled hand, "Get up and stand in view." And he got up and stood.
9Then he said to them, "I ask you, which is permissible on the Sabbath: to do good or
to do evil, to save life or destroy it?"
264
This was the allowable practice of "plucking the heads," see Deuteronomy 23:24, 25, "If you enter your
neighbor's vineyard, you may eat grapes until you are fully satisfied, but do not put any in a container. If you
enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pluck the heads with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to your
neighbor's standing grain."
265
The Greek word translated "permissible" is the impersonal participle , which is derived from the
same root as , the word for authority. If an activity was , that means it was "loosed," or ruled
by the rabbis to be something "allowed" by the Torah. If something was not , as is the case here, that
means it was "bound," that is, the rabbis had adjudged that it was forbidden by the Torah.
10Andlooking around at them all, he said to him, "Stretch out your hand." He did
so, and his hand was restored. 11And they were filled with rage, and discussed with
each other what they should do to Jesus.
The Twelve Apostles

12
And it came about in those days that he went out into the hills to pray, and spent
the whole night praying to God. 13And when it was day, he called his disciples to him,
and from them he selected twelve, whom he then designated apostles: 14Simon, whom he
also named Peter, and his brother Andrew; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;
15Matthew and Thomas; James son of Halphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas son 266
of James; 16and Judas of Kerioth, who became a betrayer.
Blessings and Woes

17
And when he came down, he stopped at a level place with them and with a large
crowd of his disciples, and with a great multitude of the people from all of Judea and
Jerusalem, and from the coastal areas of Tyre and Sidon 18who had come to hear him and
to be healed of their diseases. And those being oppressed by unclean spirits were cured.
19
And the entire crowd was trying to touch him, because power was going out from him,
and curing everyone.
20And he lifted his eyes toward his disciples, and began to speak:
"Blessed are you who are poor,

for yours is the kingdom of God.
21Blessed are you who are going hungry now,
for you will be satisfied.

Blessed are you who are weeping now,
for you will laugh.
22Blessed are you
when people hate you,

excommunicate you and shame you
and cast out your name as evil,
because of the Son of Man.
23"Rejoice in that day, and skip for joy! For behold, great is your reward in heaven,
because the same things their ancestors did to the prophets.
24"But
woe to you who are rich,
because you have received
your share of comfort.
Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
25Woe to you who are laughing now,
for you will mourn and weep.

26Woe to you when all people
speak well of you,

for the same their ancestors did
to the false prophets.
Love Your Enemies

27"But
I say to you who are listening, love your enemies, treat well the ones hating
you, 28bless the ones cursing you, pray for the ones insulting you. 29To the one striking
you on the cheek, offer the other cheek also. And the person taking your jacket, do not
prevent him from taking your shirt as well. 30To everyone asking you, give, and from
266
Or brother
the one forcefully taking your things, do not demand them back. 31And just as you wish
people would do to you, do likewise to them.
32
"And if you love the ones loving you, what credit is that to you? For the sinners
also love the ones loving them. 33And if you do good to the ones doing good to you,
what credit is that to you? The sinners also do the same. 34And if you lend to the ones
from whom you foresee repayment, what credit is that to you? Sinners also lend to
sinners, in such a way they may receive the equal back. 35But love your enemies, and
do good and lend, expecting nothing, and great will be your reward, and you will be
children of the Most High, for he is kind to the unthankful and evil. 36Be
compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate. 267
The Law of Reciprocity

37
"Do not be judgmental, and you will not be judged. Do not be condemning, and
you will not be condemned. Be forgiving, and you will be forgiven.
38
"Be giving, and it will be given to you. A generous container: compacted, shaken
and running over they will hand into your arms. For with the standard you measure out,
it will be measured back to you."
Correcting Others
39And
he also spoke a parable to them: "Can a blind person lead a blind person?
Will they not both fall into a ditch? 40A student is not above the teacher, but rather,
every student when fully trained will be like his teacher.
41"Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but the log that is in your own
eye you do not consider? 42How are you able to say to your brother, 'Brother, allow me
to take out the speck that is in your eye,' while you are not seeing the log that is in your
own eye? You hypocrite, first get the log out of your own eye, and then you will see
clearly the speck that is in your brother's eye, to remove it.
A Tree and its Fruit

43"Now
there is no good tree producing bad fruit, nor again a bad tree producing
good fruit. 44For each tree is known by its own fruit. For they do not gather figs from
thornbushes, neither do they pick a grape from a brier.
45"The good person, out of the good stockpile of his heart, brings forth good, and the
evil person out of the evil, brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart one's
mouth speaks.
The Two Kinds of Builders

46"And
why do you keep calling me 'Lord, Lord,' and yet not do the things which I
say? 47Anyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you
what that person is like. 48That person is like a man building a house, who dug and
deepened and laid a foundation on the rock. And when a flood occurred, the river
dashed against that house, but was not able to shake it, because it was well built.
49"But the one who has heard them and not done them, is like a man who built a
house on the ground without a foundation, against which dashed the river, and very soon
it collapsed, and the destruction of that house was great."
Chapter 7
One Centurion's Faith with Authority
1When he had finished all his sayings in the ears of the people, he entered
Capernaum. 2And the slave of a certain centurion, who was very valuable to him, was
sick and about to die. 3And having heard about Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to him,
asking him to come and heal his slave. 4So when they came to Jesus, they were
267
Exodus 34:6-7; Psalm 103:8-14; Joel 2:13; Jonah 4:10-11
pleading earnestly with him, saying, "He is worthy that you confer this upon him, 5for he
loves our nation, and he built us the synagogue."
6
So Jesus went with them. And when he was not far from the house, the centurion
sent friends saying to him as follows: "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I am not fit that
you should enter under my roof. 7So also neither did I consider myself worthy to come
to you. But say with a word that my slave must be healed. 8For I too am a man
stationed under authority, having soldiers under myself. And I say to this one, 'Go,' and
he goes; and to another, 'Come,' and he comes; and to my slave, 'Do this,' and he does."
9
And when Jesus heard these words, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd
following him, he said, "I tell you, not in Israel have I found such faith."
10
And when the ones who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave
well.
Jesus Raises a Dead Man at Nain

11And it came about that on the next day he went into a town called Nain, and his
disciples and a large crowd went along with him. 12And as he approached the town
gate, behold, a dead person was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she
was a widow. And a considerable crowd from the town was with her. 13When he saw
her, the Lord was moved with pity for her, and he said to her, "Don't cry."
14And he went up to the coffin and touched it, and the pallbearers stood still. And
he said, "Young man, I say to you, rise up!" 15And the dead man sat up and began to
speak. And he gave him back to his mother.
16And fear took hold of all, and they praised God, saying, "A great prophet has been
raised up among us," and, "God has come to help his people." 17And this news about
him spread throughout the land of the Jews and the surrounding country.
Jesus and John the Baptizer

18And John's disciples reported to him about all these things. And after calling two
of his disciples to him, John 19sent word to the Lord, as follows: "Are you the one who
was to come, or should we expect another?"
20
And when they had come to him, the men said, "John the Baptizer sent us to you
saying, 'Are you the one who was to come, or should we expect another?'"
21In that same hour he healed many people of diseases and sicknesses and evil
spirits, and gave sight to many who were blind. 22And in answer, he said to them, "Go
and report back to John what things you saw and heard: The blind see again, the lame
walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and good news is
preached to the poor. 23And tell him, 'Blessed be whoever is not offended on account of
me.' "
24And as John's messengers were leaving, he began to speak to the crowd about
John: "What did you go out into the desert to see? A reed being swayed to and fro by
the wind? 25On the contrary, what did you go out to see? A man dressed in delicate
clothes? Behold, those in expensive clothes and living in luxury are in royal palaces.
26On the contrary, what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes indeed I tell you, and
more than a prophet. 27This is the one about whom it is written:
'Behold, I am sending my messenger

before your face,
who will prepare your way
before you.'268
28I
tell you, among those born of women, no one is greater than John the Baptizer. Yet
the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."
268
This quote appears to be a blend of Exodus 23:20 and Malachi 3:1.
29(Andall the people who heard, even the revenue agents, vindicated God, having
been baptized with the baptism of John. 30But the Pharisees and the lawyers, not
baptized by him, rejected the purpose of God for themselves.)
31"To what, then, shall I compare the people of this generation? And what are they
like? 32They are like children sitting in a marketplace and calling out one to the other,
who say:
'We played the flute for you,

and you didn't dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you didn't cry.'
33
For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He
has a demon.' 34The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold a
glutton and a drunkard, a friend of revenue agents and sinners.' 35Regardless, wisdom is
vindicated by all her children."269
A Prostitute Washes Jesus' Feet with her Tears

36But one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went to the Pharisee's
house and reclined.270 37And behold, a woman who was being a sinner in that town
came, who having learned that he is reclining at the Pharisee's house, had brought an
alabaster bottle of perfume, 38and appeared behind Jesus, weeping at his feet. And with
the tears she began to bathe his feet. And with the hairs of her head she was wiping off,
and earnestly kissing his feet, and anointing them with the perfume.
39When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he thought to himself as follows,
"If this man were a prophet, he would know who and of what sort is the woman touching
him— that she is a sinner."
40And Jesus spoke up, and said to him, "Simon, I have something to tell you."
"Tell me, teacher," he says.

41"Two men were debtors to a moneylender. One owed five hundred denarii,271
and the other fifty. 42And as they did not have the money to pay him back, he freely
forgave them both. Now which of them will love him more?"
43In answer Simon said, "I suppose the one whom he freely forgave more."
And he said to him, "You have judged correctly." 44And turning toward the
woman, he was saying to Simon, "Do you see this woman? Your house I entered.
Water you did not give me for my feet, but this woman bathed my feet with her tears, and
wiped them off with her hair. 45A kiss you did not give me, but this woman, from the
time I entered, has not stopped earnestly kissing my feet. 46With oil you did not anoint
my head, but this woman with perfume anointed my feet. 47For which reason, I tell you,
her many sins have been forgiven, that she loved much.272 But someone who has been
forgiven little, loves little."
48And he said to her, "Your sins have been forgiven."
49And those reclining with him began to say to themselves, "Who is this who even
forgives sins?"
50But he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go with peace."
269
Greek: TEKNWN; perhaps a misunderstanding of the Aramaic for "works." Which would make sense:
emphasis on ALL. You have to look at ALL the works of a person, not judge on superficial things like eating
and drinking, which in fact Paul says in Romans 14:17, but of righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
270
In that time and culture, those eating a meal lay on a futon of sorts, on their sides and resting on an
elbow, with their feet off the floor. That is how the woman could both stand behind him at his feet, and wipe
his feet with her hair.
271
A denarius was a coin worth about a day's wages.
272
“Love covers a multitude of sins.”
Chapter 8
Jesus' Financiers
1
And it came about after this that he traveled about through one city and village after
another, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The Twelve were with
him, 2and also some women who had been cured of evil spirits and diseases: Mary, called
the Magdalene,273 from whom seven demons had come out; 3and Joanna the wife of
Kuza, the manager of Herod's household; and Susanna; plus many others; these women
were providing for them out of their own means.

4And when a great crowd was coming together, people from every one of those
towns coming toward him, he spoke by means of a parable: 5"The sower went out to sow
his seed. And in the process of sowing, some seed fell beside the way and was trampled
on, and the birds of the sky devoured it. 6And other seed fell on rock, and after it grew,
it withered, having no way to get moisture. 7And other seed fell in the midst of thorns,
and the thorns grew up and choked it. 8And other seed fell into good soil, and when
grown it produced fruit a hundredfold."
After he said these things, he called out, "Whoever has ears to hear, hear."

9And his disciples asked him the intent of this parable, 10and he said, "To you it is
given such that you will know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest in
parables, so that,
"'Though seeing, they will not see,

and though hearing,
they will not understand.'274
11
"This, then, means the parable: The seed is the word of God. 12And the ones
beside the way are those who when they hear, next comes the devil, and takes away the
word from their heart, so that they will not believe and be saved. 13And the ones on the
rock are those who when they hear, receive the word with joy. They are also ones who
have no root, and believe for a time, and in the time of trial shrink back. 14And the seed
falling in the thorns, these are those who hear, and as they go, are choked by the worries
and riches and pleasures of life, and do not bear fruit to the end. 15And the seed in good
soil, these are those who when they hear the word, retain it in a good and worthy heart,
and bear fruit with perseverance.
16"Now no one after lighting a lamp covers it with a bucket, or puts it under a bed,
but instead puts it on the lamp stand, so that those coming in may see the light. 17For
there is nothing hidden that will not be made manifest, nor secret, that will not become
clearly known, and come into illumination. 18Watch therefore how you listen, for
whoever has, it will be granted him, and whoever has not, even what he seems to have
will be taken away from him."

19And his mother and brothers came to him, and were not able to get near him
because of the crowd. 20And it was reported to him, "Your mother and brothers are
standing outside, wanting to see you."
21But he in answer said to them, "These are my mother and brothers, the ones
hearing and doing the word of God."
273
A Magdalene is someone who is from the town of Magdala.
274
Isaiah 6:9
Jesus Commands the Elements
22
And it came about in one of the days that he and his disciples had gotten into a
boat, that he said to them, "Let's cross over to the other side of the lake." And they put
out to sea.
23
And as they sailed, he fell asleep. And a storm of wind came down onto the lake,
and they were being swamped, and in great danger.
24And after approaching him, they roused him, saying, "Master, we are going to die!"
And when he was awake, he rebuked the wind, and the roughness of the water, and
they stopped, and it was calm. 25And he said to them, "Where is your faith?"
But they were amazed and fearful, saying to one another, "Who then is this? For he
even commands the wind and the water, and they obey him!"

26Andthey sailed down into the territory of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee.
27
And as he was going on shore, a man from the town met him, demon-possessed, and
not having put clothes on for quite some time, and who was living not in a house but in
the tombs.
28And when he saw Jesus, he fell down before him crying out, and in a loud voice he
said: "What business is there between you and me, O Jesus, you son of the Most High
God? I beg you, do not torture me!"
29For Jesus was commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. For many
times it had possessed him, and he would be bound with chains and leg irons and
guarded, but tearing the bonds apart, he would be driven by the demon into solitary
places.
30And Jesus questioned him: "What is your name?"
And he said, "Legion.275" For many demons had entered into him. 31And they
begged him that he would not order them to depart into the Abyss.
32And a considerable herd of pigs was feeding there on a hillside, and they pled with
him that he allow them to enter into them, and he allowed them.
33So coming out from the man, the demons entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed
down the steep bank into the lake, and drowned.

34And seeing what had happened, the herders fled, and reported to the town and to
the farms. 35And they came out to see what had happened. And they came to Jesus,
and found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting at Jesus' feet, dressed,
and in his right mind, and they were afraid. 36And the ones who had seen reported to
them how the demon-possessed man had been cured. 37And all the population of the
neighborhood of the Gadarenes asked him to go away from them, for they were
overcome with great fear. So he got into the boat and turned back.
38But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged to accompany him.
But he sent him away, saying, 39"Return to your house, and recount all the things God has
done for you." And he went throughout the whole town, proclaiming what things Jesus
had done for him.

40And
upon his return a crowd was welcoming him, for they were all expecting him.
41And
behold, a man had come whose name was Jairus, and he was a synagogue ruler.
And falling at Jesus' feet, he begged him to come to his house, 42because he had an only
daughter, about twelve years of age, and she was dying.
And as he was on his way, the crowds were pinching him in. 43And a woman
suffering a flow of blood since twelve years, who had not been able to get healing from
275
Among the Romans a legion was a select body of soldiers— a complete army of cavalry and infantry,
numbering from 4,200 to 6,000 men, usually with approximately an equal number of auxiliary troops, thus
totaling about 10,000. The legion was divided into ten cohorts of 1,000 each. In this case, a more general
meaning of the word legion probably applies: a very large number.
anyone, 44came up behind and touched the tassel 276 of his cloak, and immediately her
flow of blood stopped.
45
And Jesus said, "Who was it touching me?"
When everyone denied it, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are pushing in together and
jostling you."
46
But Jesus said, "Someone touched me, for I sensed power going out from me."
47
Then the woman, seeing that she was not going unnoticed, came, trembling.
And falling at his feet, she related before all the people the reason she had touched him,
and how she had been instantly healed. 48And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has
healed you. Go with peace."
49
While he was still speaking, someone comes from the synagogue ruler's, saying,
"Your daughter has died. Don't trouble the teacher any more."
50
But having heard, Jesus responded to him, "Don't be afraid. Only believe, and she
will be healed."
51
And when he went into the house, he did not allow anyone to enter with him except
Peter and John and James, and the father of the maiden and the mother. 52And all were
weeping and wailing for her. But he said, "Do not weep. She is not dead but
sleeping." 53And they laughed scornfully at him, knowing that she had died.
54Then, holding her hand, he called out, as follows: "Damsel, wake up!" 55And her
spirit returned, and she stood up at once, and he ordered that she be given something to
eat. 56And her parents were astonished. Then he charged them not to tell anyone what
had happened.
Chapter 9
1And having called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority over all
the demons and diseases, in order to heal. 2And he sent them to proclaim the kingdom
of God and to cure, 3and said to them: "Take nothing for the journey— neither staffs, nor
knapsack, nor bread, nor silver, neither have two tunics each.
4"And into whatever house you might enter, there remain, and from there go forward.
5
And all the places that do not welcome you, going forth from that town, shake the dust
off your feet, as a testimony against them."
6And going forth they went throughout all the villages, preaching the good news, and
healing everywhere.
Herod Hears of Jesus

7Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was going on, and kept becoming
perplexed, because it was said by some that John had been raised from the dead, 8and by
some that Elijah had appeared, and still others that a prophet, one of the Ancients, had
come back to life.
9But Herod said, "John, I beheaded. Who, then, is this I hear such things about?"
And he tried to see him.

10And
when the apostles returned, they reported to him what things they had done.
Then he took them, and retreated in private toward a town called Bethsaida. 11But the
crowds who knew, followed him. So, welcoming them, he spoke to them about the
kingdom of God, and the ones having need of healing, he cured.
12But the daylight began to decline, and the twelve approached and said to him,
"Dismiss the crowd, so they can go to the surrounding villages and farms to sleep and
find supplies. Because here, we are in a remote place."
13And he said to them, "You give them something to eat."
276
See Numbers 15:38, Deut. 22:12
But they said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we were to go
and buy food for all this crowd." 14For there were about five thousand men.
And he said to his disciples, "Get them to recline in groups of about fifty each."
15
And they did so, and got them all to recline. 16And taking the loaves and the two fish,
and looking up to heaven, he blessed them and broke them, and gave to the disciples to
set before the people.
17
And they all ate and were satisfied, and their leftovers picked up were twelve large
baskets of fragments.

18Andit came about that, when he was praying in private, the disciples were with
him, and he queried them, saying, "Who do the crowds maintain me to be?"
19
And they in answer said, "John the Baptizer; and others, Elijah; and others that a
prophet, one of the Ancients, has risen again."
20
And he said to them, "But you, who do you maintain me to be?"
And Peter in answer said, "The Christ277 of God."
Jesus Predicts His Death

21But
he, admonishing them, charged them to tell this to no one, 22saying, "The Son
of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and Torah
scholars, and be killed, and on the third day be raised again."
23Then toward everyone he was saying, "If someone wants to come after me, he
must deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. 24For whoever wants to
save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake, this one will save it.
25For how does it benefit a human being when he has gained the whole world, but has
lost or been forfeited his very self? 26For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words,
that person the Son of Man will be ashamed of, when he comes in his glory, and of the
Father, and of the holy angels. 27But truly I say to you: There are some, of the ones
standing here, who will certainly not taste death until they see the kingdom of God."
The Transfiguration
28And
it came about, something like eight days after these words, that having taken
Peter and John and James, he went up into the mountain, to pray. 29And it came about
that as he prayed, the appearance of his face was different, and his clothes were a
glistening white. 30And behold, two men were conversing with him, who were Moses
and Elijah, 31who, having been made visible in glory, were relating about the exodus 278
of him, which was soon to be coming true in Jerusalem.
32But Peter and the ones with him were heavy-eyed with sleepiness. But when they
had fully woken up, they saw his glory, and the two men standing with him. 33And it
came about that as those were moving off from Jesus, Peter said to him, "O Master, it is
good for us to be here, and we should make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses
and one for Elijah." (Not knowing what he is saying.)
34And as he was saying these things, a cloud came, and it overshadowed them. And
they were afraid as they went into the cloud. 35And a voice came from the cloud,
saying, "This is my Son, the Chosen One; listen to him." 36And when the voice
happened, they found Jesus alone. And they kept quiet and told no one in those days
anything that they had seen.
The Disciples Accused of Impotence to Heal

37And
it came about that during the following day, as they were coming down from
the mountain, a large crowd met him. 38And behold, a man in the crowd shouted out,
277
That is, the Anointed One of God, or God's anointed; the one God chose and enabled to be the Messiah,
prophet, priest and king of Israel.
278
A euphemism for death, like our phrase, "passing on."
saying, "Teacher, I beg of you to look at my son; because he is my only born, 39and
behold, a spirit takes over him and he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him with
foaming at the mouth. And it hardly goes away from him, wearing him out. 40And I
pleaded with your disciples that they cast it out, and they were not able to."
41
And in response Jesus said, "O unbelieving and perverted generation, how long
must I be with you, and put up with you? Bring your son here."
42
And even as he was approaching Him, the demon dashed him to the ground, and
thrashed him back and forth. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and the child was
restored to wholeness, and He gave him back to his father. 43And all were struck by the
majesty of God.
And while everyone marvelled at all that he was doing, he said to his disciples,
44
"You place into your ears these words. For the Son of Man is about to be transferred
into the hands of human beings."
45
But they were not understanding this statement, and the meaning was being kept
hidden from them, with the result that they did not see it. And they were afraid to ask
him about this statement.
Who Is the Greatest?

46So
contention came into them, as to who of them was greatest.
47And
Jesus, knowing the contention of their hearts, took a child by the hand, and
stood him next to himself. 48And he said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child on the
basis of my name, is welcoming me, and whoever welcomes me, is welcoming the one
who sent me. For the person who is smallest among you all, that is who is great."
Do Not Hinder Other Camps of God's People

49Andin response, John said, "Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your
name, and we tried to stop him; for he is not following you together with us."
50But Jesus said to him, "Do not stop such, for someone who is not against you is for
you."
Jesus Rejected by a Samaritan Village

51And it came about that the days leading to his being taken up were running out, and
he set his face to head toward Jerusalem. 52And he sent out messengers before his face.
And when they proceeded forth they went into a Samaritan village, so as to prepare it for
him. 53And they did not welcome him, because his face was heading toward Jerusalem.
54And when they saw this, the disciples James and John said, "Lord, do you will that
we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"

55But when he turned to them, he rebuked them. 279 56And they moved on, to a
different village.
The Cost of Following Jesus

57And as they were proceeding on the way, someone said to him, "I will follow you,
wherever you might go."

58And Jesus said to him, "The foxes have dens, and the birds of the sky, nestling
places, but the Son of Man has nowhere he can lay his head."
59And to another man, he said, "Follow me."
But he said, "Lord, give me leave to first go and bury my father."

60But Jesus said to him, "Leave those who are dead to bury their dead themselves;
and you, after you have come away, you publicize the kingdom of God."
279
Later manuscripts add, to the end of v. 55 and beginning of v. 56: "...and said, 'You do not know what
spirit you are of. 56For the Son of Man came, not to destroy human souls, but to save.' " The absence of
these phrases, however, from early Alexandrian, antiochan, and Western witnesses show that they are derived
from some extraneous source, written or oral. This conclusion is given an {A} rating of certainty by the UBS
editorial committee in the 4th edition, which means it is certain. Even the Robinson-Pierpont majority text
Greek New Testament has these phrases in brackets.
61And another also said, "I will follow you, Lord. But first give me leave to say
farewell to my household."
62
But Jesus said, "No one putting hand to plow and looking back to the things
behind, is cut out for the kingdom of God."
Chapter 10
Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two
1
And after these things, the Lord appointed another seventy-two,280 and sent them
out two by two before his face, into every town and place where he himself was about to
go. 2And he was saying to them, "The crop is large, but the workers are few. Request
therefore of the lord of the harvest, that he send out workers into his harvest. 3Be on
your way. Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. 4You must
carry no moneybag, no knapsack, no sandals, and greet no one along the way.
5
"And into whatever house you enter, first you say, 'Peace to this house.' 6And if a
child of peace is there, your peace will settle upon him. Otherwise, it will bounce back
onto you. 7And in that same house you are to remain, eating and drinking the things
belonging to them; for the worker is worthy of his pay; you are not to be moving from
house to house.
8"And into whatever town you enter that they welcome you, eat the things being set
before you, 9and heal the sick in it, and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has drawn over
you.' 10But into whatever town you enter that they do not welcome you, go out into the
streets of it, and say, 11'Even the dust sticking to us from your town onto our feet, we are
shaking off to you. Even so, know this, that the kingdom of God has drawn near.' 12I
assure you, it will be more bearable for Sodom in That Day, than for that town.
13"Woe to you, Khorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that took
place in you took place in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in
sackcloth and ashes. 14In any case, it will be more bearable in the judgment for Tyre
and Sidon than for you. 15And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? You
will go down to Hades!
16"The person who listens to you is listening to me, and the one rejecting you, is
rejecting me. And the one rejecting me, is rejecting the one who sent me."
17And the seventy-two returned, with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons submit
themselves to us in your name."

18And he said to them, "I was watching as Satan fell from heaven like lightning.
19"Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon snakes and scorpions, and over
all the power of the enemy; and nothing will by any means harm you. 20Nevertheless,
do not rejoice in this, that the spirits submit to you; but rejoice that your names are
written down in heaven."
21In that same hour, he exulted in the Holy Spirit, and said, "I praise you, Father, O
Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the learned and
intelligent, and revealed them to babes. Yes, O Father, for that is what was pleasing in
your sight.
22"Everything has been turned over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the
Son is, except the Father; and who the Father is, except the Son, and those to whom the
Son decides to reveal it."
23And after he had turned toward his disciples privately, he said, "Blessed are the
eyes that see what you see. 24For I tell you, many prophets and kings wanted to see
what you are seeing, and did not see it, and to hear what you are hearing, and did not hear
it."
The Parable of the Good Samaritan

25And
behold, a lawyer arose, testing him, saying, "Teacher, what must I do to
inherit eternal life?"
26And he said to him, "What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?"
280
Many Greek texts say "seventy."
27
And he in answer said, "You shall love Yahweh your God from your whole heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your
neighbor as yourself."
28
And He said, "You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live."
29
But wanting to justify himself, he said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
30
In reply, Jesus said, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell
among bandits. And they, when they had stripped him and inflicted wounds, went
away, leaving him half dead. 31And by chance a priest was going down that road, and
when he saw him, he avoided him. 32And likewise also a Levite, when he came near
that place and saw, passed on around. 33But a Samaritan man came traveling by him,
and when he saw, was moved with pity. 34And he approached and stopped up his
wounds, and applied olive oil and wine. And mounting him on his own animal, he took
him to an inn and took care of him. 35And on the morrow, he took out two denarii, 281
gave them to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him, and whatever you spend beyond
this, I will reimburse you when I return.'
36
"Which of these three seems to you a neighbor for the one who fell among
bandits?"
37And he said, "The one who did the mercy with him."
And Jesus said to him, "Go yourself and do likewise."
Jesus at Mary and Martha's House

38And
when he moved on, he entered a certain village. And a woman by the name
of Martha housed him. 39There was also a sister to that one, named Mary, and she
having sat down at the Lord's feet, was listening to his word.
40But Martha was being drawn away by many chores of hospitality. But when she
did come over, she said, "Lord, doesn't it concern you that my sister has left me to serve
alone? Tell her therefore that she should help carry the load with me."
41But in answer, Jesus said to her, "Martha, Martha. You are getting concerned and
agitated over many things. 42But there is only one thing that warrants it. For Mary has
selected the good portion, which will not be taken away from her."
Chapter 11
Prayer
1And it came about when he was praying in a certain place, that as he was finishing,
one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, even as John taught his
disciples."
2And he said to them, "When you pray, say:
" 'Father, hallowed be your name.

May your kingdom come.
3Give us each day our daily bread.
4And forgive us our sins,
for we ourselves forgive

everyone who is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation.’ ”282
281
One denarius was worth a day's wage.
282
At this point the words but deliver us from the evil one are added from the original by many witnesses,
probably to harmonize to Matthew 6:13. The UBS editorial committee gives the reading without thiese words
an A rating of certainty. Many other words were similarly added to Luke chapter 11, to conform it with
Matthew. Thus, the "Majority Text" reads, for Luke 11:2-4, "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.
May your kingdom come. May your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us each day our daily
bread. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And lead us not
into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one."
5And he said to them, "Suppose one of you shall have a friend, and will go to him at
midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves, 6because a friend of mine has
shown up, from a journey toward me, and I have nothing to set before him.'
7"That one inside may say in answer, 'Do not cause me hassles. The door is already
shut up, and my children are in bed with me. I can't get up to give you something.' 8I
tell you, even if he will not get up and give you something because of being your friend,
yet because of brash persistence on your part he will get up, and give you as much as you
need.
9
"So I say to you: Keep asking, and it will be given to you; keep seeking, and you
will find; keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. 10For everyone who keeps
asking, receives; and the person who keeps seeking, finds; and to the one who keeps on
knocking, it will be opened.
11
"And which father among you, if his child will ask for a fish, will hand him a snake
instead? 12Or again, if he asks for an egg, will hand him a scorpion? 13If you, then,
though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will
the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"
Jesus and Baalzibbul

14And he was casting out a demon of muteness. And it came about that after the
demon went out, the mute man spoke. And the crowd was amazed.
15But some of them said, "It is by Ba'al-zibbul,283 the prince of demons, that he
drives out the demons." 16And others, testing, wanted from him a sign out of heaven.
17But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself
is desolated, and a house divided against itself falls. 18So also, if Satan was divided
against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I say this because you claim I drive out
the demons by Baal-zibbul. 19Now if I drive out the demons by Baal-zibbul, by whom
do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. 20But if I am
driving out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
21"When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own castle, his possessions are safe.
22But when a stronger one than he comes and overpowers him, he takes away the armor
upon which his confidence was based, and divides out the spoils.
23"The person who is not with me is against me, and the one not gathering with me is
scattering."
24"When an evil spirit comes out of a human being, it goes through waterless places,
seeking rest. And not finding it, at that time it says, 'I will return to the house from
which I came out.' 25And when it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean
and put in order. 26Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than
itself, and they come inside and live there. And the final condition of that human is
worse than the first."
27And it came about that as Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd
lifted up her voice and said to him, "Blessed are the womb that bore you, and the breasts
on which you sucked."
28But he replied, "Blessed rather 284 are those who hear the word of God and obey
it."
The Sign of Jonah

29And
as the crowds were pressing together upon him, he began to say, "This
generation is a wicked generation; it asks for a sign. And no sign will be given it except
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The Greek text says Beelzeboul, which is from the Hebrew Baal-zibbul. The Textus Receptus, KJV and
NKJV say Beelzebub, even though there is not one Greek manuscript that says that; only a few Latin and
Syriac. "Ba'al" means Lord or Prince. Ba'al was a Canaanite god, the son of Dagon, the god of grain. Baal
was the bull prince, the bull being a symbol of fertility. Ba'alzebub, as in the Hebrew text of II Kings 1:2, is a
derisive alteration of Ba'alzibbul meaning "Prince of flies." In this way the followers of Yahweh made fun of
Ba'al. Later the name Baalzebub became associated with the Aramaic Beeldebaba, "enemy." Thus the
conflation of Ba'alzebub and Beeldebaba, "Beelzebub," came to be a name for Satan. To avoid confusion in
all the names, this author thought it best to revert to the original form of the name.
284
Or possibly, "Well yes, but blessed more are those who..."
the sign of Jonah. 30For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of
Man will be to this generation. 31The Queen of the South will be raised at the judgment
with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the
earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.
32
The men of Nineveh will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for
they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
The Light of the Body

33
"No one after lighting a lamp puts it out of view, or under a basket, but rather on
the lamp stand, so that those who come in may see the light. 34The lamp of the body is
your eye. When your eye is open and generous, your entire body is brightly lit also.
But when your eye is suspicious and stingy, your body is in darkness also. 35See to it,
therefore, that the light in you is not darkness. 36If then your whole body is brightly lit,
not having any part dark, it will all be lighted, like when the lamp by its brightness
illumines you."
Six Woes
37And
as he was speaking, a Pharisee asks him to have lunch with him; so having
gone inside, he reclined. 38And the Pharisee when he saw, was shocked that he did not
first baptize before the meal.285
39And the Lord said to him, "As it is, you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and
platter, but the inside of you is loaded with acquisitiveness and wickedness.
40"O foolish ones! Did not the one who made the outside, make the inside also?
41But the things lying within give to the poor, and behold, all things are now clean for
you.
42"But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe the mint, and even the rue and every
kind of garden herb, and neglect the justice and the love of God. But these latter things
you ought to practice, without leaving the former undone.
43"Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the prominent seats in the synagogues, and
the greetings in the marketplaces.

44
"Woe to you! For you are like graves that are not marked, and the people when
walking over them do not know it."
45And in response, someone from the class of lawyers says to him, "Teacher, in
saying these things, you are insulting us also."

46But he said, "And to you lawyers also, woe! For you make people carry loads
oppressive to bear, and you yourselves, not one of your fingers do you touch to such
loads.
47"Woe to you! For you build mausoleums for the prophets, and it was your
forefathers who murdered them. 48So then, approving witnesses you are, to the deeds of
your forefathers; for they kill them, and you build.
49"For this reason also the wisdom of God has said, 'I am sending to them prophets
and apostles; and some of them they will kill, and some of them they will persecute,'
50with the result that the blood of all the prophets spilled since the founding of the world
will be demanded of this generation, 51from the blood of Abel, up until the blood of
Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary; yes, I tell you, all will be
demanded of this generation.
52"Woe to you, lawyers!
For you have taken away the key to the door of
knowledge. You yourselves have not gone in, and the ones going in you have barred."
53And then as he went forth from there, the Torah scholars and Pharisees began to be
extremely hostile, and to provoke him to speak unpreparedly about a great variety of
topics, 54ambushing him, to pounce on something coming from his mouth.
285
The Greek word  (baptizo) was used for the ceremonial dunking of not only human beings'
bodies (vessels), but for the ceremonial dunking of dishes and hands as well.
Chapter 12
Warnings and Encouragements
1
When a vast multitude had gathered, such that they were trampling on one another,
he began to say to his disciples first, "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees,
which is hypocrisy. 2But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and
nothing secret that will not be made known. 3Therefore, what things you have said in
the darkness will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken close to an ear in the
cellars, will be proclaimed on the housetops.
4
"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of the ones killing the body, and after that
having nothing worse left to do. 5But I will suggest to you whom you should fear.
Fear the one who after the killing, has the power to cast into Gehenna. Yes, I tell you,
fear him.
6
"Are not five sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them is forgotten before
God. 7But in your case, even the hairs of your head, each is numbered. You should
not be afraid; you matter more than many sparrows.
8"But I tell you, whoever stands up for me before human beings, the Son of Man also
will stand up for him before the angels of God. 9Whereas the one disowning me before
human beings, will be disowned before the angels of God. 10And everyone who will
speak a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But to the person who
blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven.
11"And when they deliver you over to the synagogues, and to the rulers and to the
authorities, do not worry how or what you should defend, or what you should say. 12For
the Holy Spirit will instruct you in that very hour what needs to be said."
False Financial Security

13And someone in the crowd said, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance
with me."
14But he said to him, "Man, who appointed me judge or arbiter over you two?"
15And he said to them, "Watch out, and be on your guard against every form of
covetousness. For the life of one is not from the increase of one's possessions."
16And he spoke a parable to them as follows: "The land of a certain rich man yielded
abundantly, 17and he was thinking to himself, 'What shall I do? For I have no place
where I can stack my produce.'
18And he said, 'This is what I will do. I will pull down my warehouses, and build
bigger ones, and there I will stack all my wheat, and all my goods. 19And I will say to
my soul, "Soul, you have much goods sitting there into many years. Relax, eat, drink,
be merry." '
20But God said to him, 'You fool, this very night they are demanding your soul back
from you,286 and the provisions you have made, whose will they be?'
21"Such is the person saving up for himself, and not becoming rich to God."
True Financial Security

22And
to his disciples, he said, "Because of this I say to you, do not worry about life,
what you will eat, nor about the body, what you will wear. 23For life means more than
food, and the body more than clothes.
286
Bauer says this is a figure of speech, found in other writers such as Cicero, and Epictetus, using the
concept of a human being's life as a loan. And that now, "they," the creditors, are demanding payment in full,
of the loan, "calling in the loan." This plural "they" reminds me of the place in the prophet Daniel, in chapter 4
verses 13 & 17, where it says, "This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers, and the decision is the
command of the holy ones, in order that the living may know that the Most High is ruler over the realm of
mankind..." It implies in v. 17 that there exists a council of some sort, composed of "holy ones," that is,
angels, who make decisions on behalf of God. See also Psalm 82:1, "God stands in the assembly of gods, and
in their midst, he judges gods." Sometimes angels are referred to as gods, or "sons of god." But the point I
am making is that such a council of angels, like the group who decided when Nebuchadnezzar was to die, are a
"they," plural, like when God told the rich man here in Luke, "they are demanding your soul back from you."
24"Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap, and God feeds them. How
much higher priority you are than birds!
25
"Now which of you by worrying is able to add onto his lifespan one foot? 287 26If
therefore you cannot accomplish even this very little thing, why do you worry about the
rest?
27
"Consider the lilies, how they grow. They neither labor nor weave. But I tell
you, not even Solomon, in all his splendor, was bedecked like one of these. 28Now if
God thus clothes the wild grass, which is here this day and the next is thrown into the
stove, how much more would he rather clothe you, O you of little faith?
29
"And you also should not seek after how you will eat, and how you will drink; that
is, do not be anxious. 30Because all these things, the nations of the world are striving
for. But your Father knows that you have need of these things. 31Only seek instead his
kingdom, and these things will be included for you.
32
"Do not be afraid, little flock; for it has given your Father pleasure to give you the
kingdom. 33Sell your possessions, and give to the poor: make for yourselves money
bags unfailing, a stockpile not shrinking; in the heavens, where neither a thief ever gets
close, nor a moth ever destroys. 34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be
also.
Be Ready
35"You
must keep your waists girded and your lamps burning, 36and you must be like
people waiting for their own master, waiting for when he returns from the wedding
celebrations, so that when he arrives and is knocking, they may immediately open for
him. 37Happy are those slaves who when the master arrives, he finds watching. Truly
I tell you, he will gird himself and bid them recline, and after coming in, he will serve
them. 38Those slaves are happy, whether he arrives and finds them in the second, or
even in the third watch. 39And this you know, that if the manager of the household
knew what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken
into. 40You also must be the same, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you
would not think he would."
41And Peter said, "Lord, are you saying this parable to us, or to everyone else as
well?"
42And the Lord said, "So who is the faithful and sensible steward, whom the master
will place over his domestic service, to be giving out rations in due time? 43Happy will
be that slave who when his lord comes, he finds doing so. 44Truly I tell you, he will
place him over all his possessions.
45"But if that slave says in his heart, 'My master is taking his time to come,' and he
begins to slap around the workboys and the workgirls, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
46the master of that slave will come at an hour he is not expecting, and at a time he does
not know, and will cut him in two, and appoint him his inheritance with the unbelieving.
47"And that slave, knowing the will of his master, and not having prepared or done in
accordance with his will, he will be lashed many times. 48Whereas the one not
knowing, and having done things deserving of scourgings, he will be lashed few times.
So then, anyone to whom much has been given, much will be required of him, and from
him to whom much has been entrusted, that much more will be demanded.
Jesus Causes Division

49"I
have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!
50But
I have a baptism to be baptized, and how tormented I am until that has been
accomplished.
51"You think that I have come to provide peace on the earth. Not at all, I tell you,
but rather division. 52For from now on, five in one household will be divided: three
against two, and two against three. 53A father will be divided against the daughter, and
287
Literally, one cubit. There was an expression in classical Greek, "only one cubit of time." It is
legitimate therefore to translate this as "a single hour to his life."
the daughter against the mother, a mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-
in-law against mother-in-law."
Judge For Yourselves

54
And he was also saying to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west,
right away you say, 'A rainstorm is coming,' and it happens so. 55And when the south
wind blows, you say, 'It will be hot,' and it happens. 56Hypocrites! The face of the
earth and sky you know how to interpret, but this present time you do not know how to
interpret?
57
"And why also do you not judge for yourselves what is right? 58For as you are
going with your adversary to court, on the way make every effort to be free of him, lest
he drag you before the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer
throw you in prison. 59I tell you, no way will you come out of that place, until you have
paid back the very last penny."
Chapter 13
Repent or Perish
1And some who were present at that time, were reporting to him about the Galileans
whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. 2And in response he
said to them, "Do you think that because they suffered these things, those Galileans were
sinners, more so than all the rest of the Galileans? 3Not at all, I tell you; but on the other
hand, if you do not repent, you shall all likewise perish. 4Or those eighteen, on whom
the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think they were debtors worse than all
the rest of the people living in Jerusalem? 5Not at all, I tell you; but on the other hand,
if you do not repent, you shall all likewise perish."
6And he continued with this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard.
And he came seeking fruit on it, and did not find any. 7And he said to the vine dresser,
'Look, it has been three years already I have been coming, seeking fruit on this fig tree
and not finding it. Cut it down. Why is it still using up the soil?'
8"But in answer, he says to him, 'Sir, leave it for this year also, until such time I have
dug and put manure around it; 9and if in the future it does produce fruit, so much the
better. But if not, then you would cut it down.'"
A Crippled Woman Healed on the Sabbath

10And he was teaching in one of the synagogues during the Sabbath. 11And behold,
a woman having had a spirit of disability for eighteen years was there. And she was
bent over double, and not able to look up at all. 12And when Jesus saw her, he called to
her and said to her, "Woman, be set free from your disability." 13And he laid hands on
her; and she became erect at once, and was praising God.
14But in response, the synagogue ruler, being indignant that Jesus had healed during
the Sabbath, was saying to the crowd, "There are six days in which you are supposed to
work; you should therefore be coming during those to be healed, and not during the day
of rest."
15But the Lord answered him, and said, "You hypocrites! Who among you on the
Sabbath does not free his ox or his donkey from its stall, and after leading it out, give it
drink? 16But this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound lo these
eighteen years, she should not be freed from this bondage on the day of rest?!"
17And with his saying these things, all his opponents were being humiliated, and the
whole crowd was cheering, for all the glorious things being accomplished by him.
The Parables of the Mustard Seed

and the Yeast
18Then
he said, "What is the kingdom of God like? And to what may I compare it?
19It
is like a mustard seed, which a man took and cast into his garden, and it grew and
became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."
20And again he said, "To what may I compare the kingdom of God? 21It is like
yeast that a woman took and folded into three measures 288 of dough until the whole was
leavened."
The Narrow Door

22
And he was going through every city and village teaching, even as he was making
his journey toward Jerusalem. 23And someone said to him, "Lord, are those being saved
going to be few?"
And he said to him, 24"Make every effort to go in through the narrow door. For
many, I tell you, will try to enter, and not be able to. 25Once the master of the house has
gotten up and closed the door, after that you may begin to stand outside, and knock on the
door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' and in answer he will say to you, 'I don't know where you
are from.' 26At that time you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and
you taught in our streets.' 27And then at that time he will say to you as follows: 'I don't
know where you are from. Get away from me, all you workers of unrighteousness.'
28
In that place there will be weeping, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you are being cast
outside, 29and people will have come from the east and the west, and from the south and
the north, and be reclined in the kingdom of God. 30And behold, there are those who are
last, who will be first; and there are those who are first who will be last."
Jesus Laments Jerusalem

31In
that hour, some Pharisees came up to him, saying to him, "You should move on,
and get out of this place, because Herod is trying to kill you."
32And he said to them, "Go tell that fox: 'Behold, I am casting out demons and
accomplishing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.'
33Regardless, I would have to be continuing on today and tomorrow and the next day.
For it is not possible for a prophet to be killed outside Jerusalem!

34"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those sent to it! How
often I have wished to gather your children, as a hen does her brood under her wings, and
you were not willing. 35Now behold, your house will be abandoned to you. I tell you,
you will not see me, until the day when you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of
the Lord.'"289
Chapter 14
Jesus at a Pharisee's House
1And
it came about that when he went into the house of a certain ruler of the
Pharisees on a Sabbath, to eat bread, they were watching him closely. 2And behold, a
man with dropsy was right in front of him.
3And in response, Jesus said to the lawyers and Pharisees as follows: "Is it
permissible during a Sabbath to heal, or is it not?" 4But they kept quiet. And after
grasping him, he healed him, and dismissed him.
5And he said to them, "Who among you whose son or ox should fall into a pit during
the Sabbath day, would not immediately pull him out?" 6And they were not able to
rebut these words.
7And toward those who had been invited, he was speaking a parable, referring to
how they were claiming the most prestigious seats, saying to them as follows: 8"When
you are invited by someone to a banquet, do not recline at the place of honor, in case
someone more distinguished than you is invited by him, 9and the one who invited both
you and him comes and says to you, 'Yield place to this person.' And then you would
proceed with embarrassment to make for the last seat. 10Instead, when you are invited,
make your way to the least desirable place and recline, so that when the one who invited
288
Greek: three sata, about 5 gallons, or 22 liters.
289
Psalm 118:26
you comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up to a better place.' Then there will be
honor for you in front of all your fellow dinner guests. 11For anyone who exalts himself
will be humbled; and the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
12
And he was also saying to the man who had invited him, "When you make a
breakfast or dinner, do not call your friends, or your siblings or relatives or rich
neighbors, lest they also invite you back in return, and that would be repayment for you.
13
Instead, when you make a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
14
and you will be blessed, because they do not have the means to repay you. For it will
be repaid to you, you see, at the resurrection of the righteous."
The Parable of the Great Banquet

15
And after hearing these things, one of the dinner guests said to him, "Blessed is that
person who will eat bread in the kingdom of God."
16
And Jesus said to him, "A man held a great banquet, and invited many people.
17And at the hour of the banquet, he sent his slave out to tell those who were invited,
'Come, for it is now ready.'

18"
And they all alike began to ask to be excused. The first one said to him, 'I have
bought a field, and I urgently have to go out and see it. I ask you, consider me excused.'
19"And another one said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try
them out. I ask you, consider me excused.'

20"And another one said, 'I have married a wife, and for this reason I am not able to
come.'
21"And when he came back, the slave reported these things to his master. Angered
then, the master of the house said to his slave, 'Quick, go out into the boulevards and
lanes of the town, and the poor, the crippled, the blind, the lame, lead them here.'
22"And the slave said, 'Master, what you have commanded has been done, and still
there is room.'
23"And the master said to the slave, 'Go out into the trails and the fence lines, and
urgently invite them to come in, so that my house will be filled. 24You can be sure, I tell
you, that not one of those men who were invited, will taste of my banquet!'"
Jesus Qualifies the Crowds

25And great crowds were going along with him, and he turned around, and said to
them, 26"If someone is coming with me, and does not spurn his father, and mother, and
wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yes, even his own life, he cannot be my
disciple. 27Anyone that does not take up his own cross and follow after me, cannot be
my disciple.
28"For who of you wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the
cost, whether he has enough for completion? 29It would be no good if he lays the
foundation, and not being able to finish, all those observing start to ridicule him, 30saying,
'This fellow began to build, and was not able to finish.'
31"Or what king, going out to another king to meet in battle, does not first sit down to
consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand, to match the one who is coming
against him with twenty thousand? 32For indeed if not, while he is still at a distance he
sends out a delegation, and asks what are the conditions for peace.
33"In the same way, then, any of you who does not say good-bye to everything that
he has, cannot be my disciple.

34"Salt then is a good thing; but if the salt itself becomes bland, what will it be spiced
with? 35It is fit neither for the soil, nor for the manure pile; they throw it out.
"Whoever has ears to hear, hear."
Chapter 15
The Parable of the Lost Sheep
1
And all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming up next to him, to listen to
him. 2And both the Pharisees and the Torah scholars were complaining, saying, "This
fellow welcomes sinners, and eats with them."
3
But he spoke this parable to them, as follows: 4"What man among you who has a
hundred sheep and is missing one of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the
desert, and go out after the lost one, until he finds it? 5And when he has found it, he
places it on his shoulder, rejoicing. 6And upon returning home he gathers his friends
and neighbors together, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep that
was lost.' 7I tell you, in just the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one
sinner repenting, than over ninety-nine righteous persons having no need of repentance.
The Parable of the Lost Coin

"Or what woman having ten drachmas,290 if she loses one drachma, does not light
8
a lamp and sweep the house clean, and search diligently until such time she finds it?
9And when she has found it, she gathers her friends and neighbors together, saying,
'Rejoice with me; for I have found the drachma that was lost.' 10In just the same way, I
tell you, rejoicing breaks out among the angels of God over one sinner repenting."
The Parable of the Lost Son

11And
he said, "A certain man had two sons. 12And the younger of them said to the
father, 'Father, pay out to me the applicable share of the holdings.' So he divided to
them the life savings.
13"And not many days later, having gathered everything together, the younger son
journeyed off, to a far away country, and there he wasted his estate, living indulgently.
14And after he had spent everything he had, a severe famine took place over that whole
country, and he himself began to be without. 15And so going forth, he joined on with
one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to tend swine. 16And he
was craving to be fed of the carob pods that the swine were eating, and no one gave him
any.
17"And when he came to himself, he was saying, 'How many hired men of my
father's have more than enough food, and here I am, perishing with hunger. 18I will
arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven,
and before you. 19I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me as one of your
hired men." '
20"And he arose and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his
father saw him, and was moved with pity. And he ran out, flung his arms around him
and kissed him. 21But the son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven, and
before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'
22"But the father said to his servants, 'Quick, bring out the best robe and drape it on
him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes to his feet, 23and bring the fattened calf, and
slaughter it, and let us feast and celebrate; 24for this my son was dead and is alive again;
was lost and has been found!' And they proceeded to celebrate.
25"But his elder son was in the fields. And as he was getting close to the house, he
heard the sound of music and of dancing. 26And calling over one of the workboys, he
was asking what it was all about.
27"And he told him, 'Your brother has returned, and your father has slaughtered the
fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.'

28"Then he was angry, and refused to go inside. And his father, after coming out,
was pleading with him. 29But in response he said to his father, 'All these years I have
been serving you, and not once did I ever deviate from your instructions. Yet to me,
you have never given so much as a baby goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
290
A drachma was worth about a day's wage.
30But when this son of yours comes who ate up your life savings with prostitutes, you
slaughter for him the fattened calf!'
31
"But he said to him, 'Dear child, you are always with me, and everything that is
mine is yours. 32But to celebrate, and be cheered up, is only right; for this your brother
was dead and is alive again; was lost, and has been found!' "
Chapter 16
The Shrewd Money Manager
1
And then toward his disciples he was saying: "There was a rich man, who had a
business manager. And accusations were brought to him against this man, that he was
wasting his property. 2So having summoned him, he said to him, 'What is this I am
hearing about you? Surrender the records of your management; for you can no longer
be manager.'
3
"And the manager said to himself, 'What will I do, now that my master is taking
away the management from me? I am not strong enough to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
4
I know what I will do, so that after I am removed from my management, people will
welcome me into their homes.'
5
"And calling in each and every one of his master's debtors, he said to the first one,
'How much do you owe my master?'
6"And he said, 'A hundred baths of olive oil.'
"And he told him, 'Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write "fifty." '
7"Then, to another one he said, 'And you, how much do you owe?'
"And he said, 'A hundred kors of wheat.'

"He says to him, 'Take your bill and write "eighty."'
8"And that master gave credit to the unrighteous manager, in that he had acted
shrewdly. For the children of this age are more shrewd toward their own generation
than are the children of light. 9And as for me, I say to you, make friends for yourselves
by means of the undependable291 wealth, so that when it fails, they may welcome you
into perpetual dwellings.
10"The person who is faithful with little, is also faithful with much, and the one who
is undependable with little is also undependable with much. 11If therefore you do not
prove faithful with the undependable wealth, who will trust you with the true? 12And if
with someone else's property you have not turned out to be faithful, who will grant you
property of your own?
13"No house slave is able to serve two masters; for he would either spurn the one and
love the other, or devote himself to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve
both God and Wealth."
14And the Pharisees had been listening to all this and, being moneylovers, were
sneering at him.
15And he said to them, "You are ones who justify yourselves before human beings,
but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among human beings, is
detestable in God's sight.
16"The law and the prophets were until John; from that time on the kingdom of God
is being proclaimed, and everyone is pushing their way into it. 17But it is easier for sky
and earth to pass away, than for one serif of the law to fall. 18Everyone dismissing his
wife and marrying another is committing adultery, and he who marries her who has been
dismissed by a husband, is committing adultery.
291
The Greek word “adikos” here is usually rendered “unrighteous, but can also mean “untrustworthy,
undependable,” as indeed Jesus uses it here and in vv. 10-11 with that meaning. Jesus is also making a play
on words, on the word Mammon (here rendered Wealth), which word is based on a Semitic root for
“dependable, reliable.” The idea of mammon was a wealth to such an extent that one could relax and feel
secure and confident financially. But Jesus here is saying that it will fail. When Jesus says “unrighteous
Mammon,” he is saying something like “insecure security.” And this is the same word he used to describe the
manager. A false manager, an undependable manager. Another play is the contrast of the undependable
property with the "true" or "real" property. Wherever I have the word "undependable," you can substitute the
word "false, dishonest" as in whoever is false with little, is also false with much;" and, "false wealth."
The Rich Man and Lazarus
19
"Now a certain man was rich, and used to put on a purple robe and fine linen, and
live it up splendidly every day. 20But a beggar, Lazarus by name, was laid at his gate,
covered with sores, 21and he kept longing in vain to eat the scraps dropping from that rich
man's table. In contrast, even the dogs at least would come and lick his sores.
22"Now the beggar came to die, and was carried off by the angels to Abraham's
bosom. And the rich man also died, and was buried. 23And in Hades, when he lifted
up his eyes, from being in torment, he sees Abraham far away, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24
So after calling out to him, he said, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me, and send
Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water, to cool my tongue, because I am in agony in
this fire.'
25
"But Abraham said, 'Son, recall that in your lifetime, you received your good
things, while Lazarus likewise received his bad; so now here, he is comforted, and you
are suffering. 26And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed,
such that those who want to go from here to you are not able to, neither can anyone cross
over from there to us.'
27"And he said, 'Then I beg you, father, please send him to my father's house, 28since
I have five brothers, so that he can be warning them not to also come to this place of
torment.'
29"But Abraham says, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.'
30"And he said, 'Hardly, father Abraham; but if someone from the dead goes to them,
they will repent.'

31"And he said to him, 'If they are not listening to Moses and the Prophets, neither
will they be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.'"
Chapter 17
A Brother Who Sins
1And he said to his disciples, "It is not possible for there not to come things that
cause people to fall. Nevertheless, woe to that person by whom such comes! 2It would
be better for him if a mill stone is lying around his neck and he is thrown into the sea,
than that he cause one of these little ones to fall.
3"Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive
him. 4And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times he turns toward
you, saying, 'I repent,' forgive him."
Faith and Duty

5And
the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith."
6But
the Lord said, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you could say to
this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
7"Now who of you having a servant plowing or tending sheep, when he comes in
from the field would say to him, 'Come right over here and recline'? 8Would he not
instead say to him, 'Fix something I can eat, and after you have girded yourself, serve me
while I eat and drink, and after these things, you shall eat and drink'? 9Neither does he
thank the servant, that he has done what he has been told. 10In the same way, you also,
when you have done all the things that were prescribed for you, you should say, 'We are
unprofitable servants; we have done what we are supposed to have done.'"
Ten Healed of Leprosy

11And
it came about that as he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing through
the middle of Samaria and Galilee. 12And as he was coming into a village, ten men who
had leprosy met him, who stopped and stood at a distance. 13And they called out loudly,
saying, "Jesus, Master, have pity on us!"
14And when he saw this, he said to them, "Go show yourselves to the priests." And
it came about that as they went, they were cleansed.
15And one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned and came back,
praising God with a very loud voice. 16And he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, thanking
him.
17And in response Jesus said, "Were there not ten cleansed? Where then are the
other nine? 18Were none found to have come back to give glory to God, except this
foreigner?"
19
And he said to him, "Get up and go your way; your faith has saved you."
The Coming of the Kingdom of God

20And when he was questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was
coming, he answered them as follows: "The kingdom of God does not show with careful
observation, 21neither will people say, 'Behold, here,' or 'There.' For behold, the
kingdom of God is within you."
22And he said to the disciples, "Days are coming, when it is one of the days of the
Son of Man you will long to see, and you will not have that experience. 23And people
will say to you, 'Behold, there!' 'Behold, here!' Do not go, neither follow after them.
24For just as lightning shines forth flashing from one end of the sky to the other, so shall
it be with the Son of Man. 25But first he must suffer much at the hands of this
generation and be rejected.
26"And just as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of
Man. 27People were eating, drinking, marrying, being given in marriage, up until the
day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28"It was just the same in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying,
selling, planting, building, 29but the day that Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down
from heaven, and destroyed them all.
30"Along those lines will be the day in which the Son of Man is being revealed.
31In that day, if someone is on the roof, and his stuff is in the house, he should not go
down to get it, and the one in the field should likewise not turn back around.
32Remember Lot's wife. 33Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses
it will keep it alive. 34I tell you, in that night there will be two men on one couch; one
will be taken, and the other left. 35There will be two women together grinding grain;
one will be taken, and the other left. 36Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be
taken, and the other left."292
37And they in response are saying to him, "Where, Lord?"
And he said to them, "Where the body is, there also the eagles 293 will be gathered."
Chapter 18
The Parable of the Persistent Widow
1And
he was speaking a parable to them, with the moral that they ought always to
pray, and not to lose heart, 2as follows: "There was a judge in a certain city, who had no
fear of God, and no regard for man. 3But there was a widow in that city, and she kept
on coming to him, saying, 'Give me redress from my adversary.'
4"And for some time he had been refusing, but after all this, he said to himself, 'Even
if I don't fear God, nor have regard for man, 5just because this widow is causing me
trouble, I will avenge her, lest all her coming in the end wears me out.' "
6And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust kind of judge was saying. 7So God,
would he not bring about the avenging of his elect, who keep crying out to him day and
night? And is he slow to respond to them? 8I tell you, he would bring about justice for
292
If you read an original 1611 King James Version, you will find a marginal note that says that the verse
17:36 was absent from most of their Greek manuscripts. You can view an actual scan of this marginal note,
from just such a KJV, at:
http://www.bibletranslation.ws/gfx/luke17-36.jpg
293
Greek: ho aetos, a word used for both eagles and vultures. But this appears to be an allusion to Job
39:27-30.
them, in short order. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find any faith on
the earth at all?"
The Parable of the Pharisee and the Revenue Agent

9
And also, to some, who were convinced within themselves that they were righteous,
and looking down on everyone else, he told this parable: 10"Two men went up to the
temple to pray, one a Pharisee, and the other a revenue agent. 11When the Pharisee
stood, he was praying inside himself as follows: 'O God, I thank you that I am not like
other people, who are swindlers, dishonest, adulterers, or indeed, like this revenue agent.
12
I fast twice a week, I tithe of everything I get.'
13"But the revenue agent, standing a distance off, was not even willing to lift his eyes
toward heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.'
14
"I tell you, this latter went down to his house justified, rather than the former. For
all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be
exalted."
The Little Children and Jesus

15And people were bringing little children to him, so that he would touch them. But
when the disciples saw this, they started rebuking them. 16But Jesus called them over to
him, saying, "Allow the children to come to me, and stop preventing them, for of such is
the kingdom of God. 17Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God
like a child will certainly not enter it."
The Rich Young Ruler

18And a certain ruler queried him as follows: "Good teacher, with what done will I
inherit eternal life?"

19And Jesus said to him, "Why are you calling me good? No one is good, except
God alone. 20The commandments you know: Do not commit adultery, Do not murder,
Do not steal, Do not give false testimony, Honor your father and mother."
21And he said, "All these I have kept since childhood."
22And when Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is still one thing lacking with
you. Everything you have, sell and hand out to the poor, and you will have treasure in
heaven, and then come follow me."
23But hearing these words made him very sad, for he was extremely wealthy.
24And when Jesus saw this, he said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to go into
the kingdom of God. 25Indeed, it is easier for a camel294 to go through the eye of a
needle, than for the rich to enter into the kingdom of God."
26And those who heard said, "Who then CAN be saved?"
27And he said, "Things impossible with human beings are possible with God."
28And Peter said, "Behold, we have left behind our own things to follow you."
29And he said to them, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife
or siblings or relatives or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, 30who will not
receive back many times as much in this present time; and in the coming age, eternal
life."

31And
after having taken the twelve aside, he told them, "Behold, we are going up to
Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be
294
carried out. 32For he will be handed over to the Gentiles, and be made fun of and
mistreated and spit upon, 33and after scourging him they will kill him, and on the third
day he will rise again."
34And they understood none of these things. Indeed, this statement was hidden
from them, and they did not realize the things being said.
An Obnoxious Beggar Gets His Wish

35
And it came about that when he was drawing near to Jericho, a blind man was
sitting beside the road, begging. 36And when he heard the crowd going through, he was
inquiring what this was all about. 37And they informed him that Jesus the Nazarene was
passing by. 38Then he cried out, saying, "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me!"
39
And those leading the way were rebuking him, that he should be quiet. But he
was shouting that much more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
40
And after stopping, Jesus ordered that he be brought to him. And when he had
come near, Jesus asked him, 41"What do you want me to do for you?"
And he said, "Lord, that I could see again."
42And Jesus said to him, "See again; your faith has saved you." 295 43And at once
he saw again, and he was following him, giving glory to God. And all the people also,
when they saw, gave praise to God.
Chapter 19
Zacchaeus the Revenue Officer
1And
he entered, passing on through Jericho. 2And behold, there was a man called
by the name of Zacchaeus, and he was a revenue officer, and he was rich. 3And he was
trying to see who Jesus was, but being prevented by the crowd, since he was short in
stature. 4And after running on forward ahead, he climbed up onto a sycamore tree, so
that he could see him, for he was about to pass that way.
5And when Jesus arrived to the place, he looked up and said to him, "Hurry down,
Zacchaeus, for today I need to stay at your house."

6And he hurried down, and took him in gladly. 7And all who had seen this were
complaining, saying, "He has gone in to stay the night with a sinful man."
8And Zacchaeus stood up, and said to the Lord, "Look, one half of all I possess,
Lord, I am giving to the poor, and where I have defrauded anyone of anything, I am
making restitution threefold."
9And Jesus said in reference to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, in
view of the fact that this man too is a son of Abraham. 10For the Son of Man came to
seek and to save that which was lost."296
The Parable of the Ten Servants
11And
as they were listening to these things, he included and spoke another parable,
because he was drawing near to Jerusalem, and they thought that the kingdom of God
was about to be appearing shortly. 12He said therefore, "A certain man well born
journeyed off to a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. 13Now
after calling ten of his servants, he had given to them ten minas, 297 and said to them, 'Do
business until such time I return.'
295
Or, "your faith has healed you." As also in many other places in Luke.
296
Jesus is the Good Shepherd of Ezekiel 34:16, and not a false shepherd of Ezekiel 34:4, and does search
for that which was lost, Ezekiel 34:11.
297
That is, he gave the ten servants one mina each. The mina, which was originally a Semitic word that the
Greek language had long since borrowed, was equivalent to 100 drachmas. One drachma was not insignificant
in purchasing power. Culling Greek literature, you can find quite a variance: some times and places, one
drachma could buy you one sheep, but was only one-fifth the price of an ox. Other times, one drachma could
buy you an ox. Either way, a mina was worth at least 100 sheep. That is a lot of money. Anyone could
take that amount of money and by investing, turn it into more.
14"But his subjects hated him, and they sent ambassadors behind him saying, 'We do
not want this man to be king over us.'
15
"And it came about that when he returned, he had received the kingship. And he
ordered his servants to be summoned to him, those to whom he had given the money, in
order to find out what they had earned.
16
"So the first one came, reporting as follows: 'Lord, your mina has grown to ten
minas.'
17
"And he said to him, 'Well done, good servant. Since with a little you have
proven faithful, be therefore ruler over ten cities.'
18
"And the second one came, saying, 'Your mina, Lord, has become five minas.'
19
"So he said to that one, 'And you, you shall be over five cities.'
20"And the other one came, saying as follows: 'Lord, here is your mina, which I have
been keeping laid away in a napkin. 21For I was afraid of you, since you are a
demanding man; you collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.'
22
"He says to him, 'By your own mouth I judge you, you wicked servant. You
knew, did you, that I am a demanding man, collecting what I did not deposit, and reaping
what I did not sow? 23Why then did you not put my money on the table of the
moneychangers, and I having returned would collect it with interest?' 24And to some
standing there he said, 'Take the mina away from him, and give it to the one who has ten
minas.'
25"And they said to him, 'Lord, he has ten minas!'
26'"I tell you, to everyone who has, it will be given, but the one who has not, even
such that he has will be taken away from him. 27But as for my enemies, those who had
not wanted me to be king over them, bring them here, and slay them in front of me.'"
The Triumphal Entry

28And having said these things, he was pressing his way onward, going up to
Jerusalem. 29And it came about that as he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany at the
hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent away two of his disciples, 30saying, "Go into the
village ahead of you, in which as you are entering you will find a colt 298 tethered, upon
which no one has ever yet sat, and you are to untie it and bring it. 31And if someone
asks you, 'Why are you untying it,' say this, 'The Lord needs it.'"
32And when the ones who were sent went, they found things just as he had told them.
33And as they were untying the colt, the owners of it said to them, "Why are you untying
the colt?"
34And they said, "The Lord needs it."
35And they brought it to Jesus, and after throwing garments of theirs on the colt, they
mounted Jesus upon it. 36And as he was proceeding along, people were spreading their
cloaks in the road beneath.
37And having come near now to the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole
company of disciples started rejoicing, to lift God up with a loud voice for all the
miracles that they had seen. 38They were saying,
"Blessed is the king who comes

in the name of the Lord!299
Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"
39And
some Pharisees in the crowd said to him, "Teacher! Rebuke your disciples!"
40And
he in answer said, "I tell you, if these go silent, the stones will cry out."
41And as he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 42saying, "If you, yes
ironically you,300 had only known what would bring you peace on this very day! But
298
pwlos, a young mount animal, a word used for the foals of both donkeys and horses. But we know from
the other accounts that this was the foal of a donkey.
299
Psalm 118:26
now it is hidden from your eyes. 43For the days will come upon you that your enemies
will throw a palisade up against you, and encircle you, and press in on you from every
side, 44and throw you to the ground, you and your children within you, and there will not
be left within you a stone upon a stone, in retribution for the fact you did not recognize
the time of your gracious visitation."

45
And when he had entered the temple, he proceeded to drive out the vendors,
46
telling them, "It is written, 'And my house shall be a house of prayer,' 301 but you have
made it 'a haunt of bandits.'302"
47And he was teaching daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the Torah
scholars, along with the leaders of the people, were trying to kill him. 48Yet they were
not finding any way they could do it, because the entire crowd was hanging on him,
listening to him.
Chapter 20
The Authorities Question Jesus' Authority
1And
it came about during one of those days of his teaching the crowd in the temple
and preaching the good news, that the high priests and Torah scholars and elders came
up, 2and they said to him as follows: "Tell us, by what authority are you doing these
things? Or, who is the one who gave you the authority for these things?"
3And in answer Jesus said to them, "I will also ask you something, that you must tell
4
me: John's baptism, was it from heaven, or from human beings?"
5So they discussed it among themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' he will
say, 'Then why didn't you believe him?' 6But if we say, 'From human beings,' all the
people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet.'"
7And they professed not to know where it was from. 8And Jesus said to them,
"Neither am I telling you by what authority I do these things."

9And
he began to speak this parable to the crowd: "A man planted a vineyard, and
leased it out to tenant-farmers, and journeyed away for quite some time. 10And in the
time of harvest, he sent a servant to the tenants, so they could pay him rent out of the fruit
of the vineyard. But the tenants, after beating him, sent him away empty-handed.
11And he proceeded to send a another servant; and that one also, after beating and
insulting him, they sent away empty-handed. 12And he proceeded to send a third; and
that one also they threw out, after injuring him.
13"So the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my beloved
son; maybe him, they will respect.'

14"But when they saw him, the tenants discussed it among themselves, saying, 'This
is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance will be ours.' 15And they threw him
outside the vineyard and killed him. "What then will the owner of the vineyard do to
them? 16He will come, and he will kill those tenants, and he will give the vineyard to
others."
And those who heard this said, "May it never be!"
17But he, after looking at them, said, "Why then is this written:
'A stone which the builders rejected,

this one has become the chief cornerstone'? 303
300
Jesus says, "yes, even you," because of the irony that the city of Jerusalem, whose name includes the
Semitic root word for peace, did not recognize what would bring it peace, and did not recognize the Prince of
Peace.
301
Isaiah 56:7
302
Jeremiah 7:11
18
Everyone who trips over that stone will be broken into pieces; upon whomever the
stone falls, it will turn him into powder."
19
And at that time, the Torah scholars and high priests wanted to lay their hands on
him, yet they were afraid of the people. For they knew that he had spoken this parable
in reference to them.

20
And beginning to watch him closely, they sent spies presenting themselves as
sincere, in order to catch some statement of his, such that they could hand him over to the
jurisdiction and authority of the governor.
21And they questioned him as follows: "Teacher, we know that you talk straight, and
you teach straight; that is, you do not acknowledge personage, but only on the basis of
truth you teach the way of God. 22Is it permissible for us to pay the tribute tax to
Caesar, or not?"
23But he perceived their trickery, and said to them, 24"Show me a denarius. Whose
image does it bear, and whose inscription?"

And they said, "Caesar's."
25And he said to them, "Well then, Caesar's things give back to Caesar, and God's
things to God."
26And they were not able to catch him in a saying in the presence of the people; and
having been astonished by his answer, they remained silent.
Marriage at the Resurrection

27Then some of the Sadducees approached (Sadducees say there is no resurrection),
and they questioned him 28as follows: "Teacher, Moses wrote for us, 'If a man's brother
dies having a wife, and that deceased is childless, that the man should take the wife of his
brother, and raise up descendants for his brother.' 304
29"Well, there were seven brothers. And the first one, who had taken a wife, died
childless. 30And the second one 31took her, and the third one, and in fact, all seven in
the same way, left behind no child, and died. 32Last of all, the woman also died.
33"So the woman, in the resurrection, whose wife is she going to be? For all seven
had her as wife."

34And Jesus said to them, "The children of this age marry and are given in marriage;
35but those considered worthy to taste of that age and of the resurrection from the dead,
will neither marry nor be given in marriage, 36nor will they be able to die any more, for
they will be like the angels and be children of God, since they are children of the
resurrection.
37"But that the dead are rising, even Moses intimated so, at the part about the bush,
the way he says Yahweh is the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob. 38Now God is not the God of dead people, but of living for to him all of those are
alive."
39And one of the Torah scholars said in response, "Teacher, well said."
Whose Son Is the Messiah

40Indeed,
no longer did any of them dare to question him. 41So he said in reference
to them, "How do they maintain the Messiah to be the son of David? 42For David
himself says in the scroll of the Psalms,
'Yahweh said to my Lord:

"Sit at my right hand
43until such time I make your enemies
303
Psalm 118:22
304
Deuteronomy 25:5; Genesis 38:8
a footstool for your feet.'305"
44
So, David calls him Lord. How then is he his son?"
Jesus Denounces the Torah Scholars

45
And with the entire crowd listening, he said to the disciples, 46"Beware of the
Torah scholars, wanting to walk around in robes, and loving the greetings in the
marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and places of honor at banquets; 47they
devour the houses of widows, and for a front, make lengthy prayers. These will receive
greater condemnation."
Chapter 21
The Widow's Offering
1
And when he looked up, he saw rich people putting their gifts into the donation
chest. 2Then he saw a penniless widow dropping there two lepta,306 3and he said,
"Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all the rest. 4For they all put in
their gifts out of the extra they had, but she out of her lack put in all she had to live on."
Signs of the Times

5And
as some of them were talking about the temple, how with such beautiful stones
and gifts it was adorned, he said: 6"These things that you are looking at, days will come
in which there will not be left a stone upon a stone that will not be thrown down."
7And they questioned him as follows, "Teacher, so when will these things be, and
what sign will happen when they are all about to take place?"
8And he said, "See to it that you are not led astray. For many will come in my
name, saying, 'I am He,' and, 'The Lord is near.' Do not go off after them. 9So when
you hear of wars and unrest, do not be alarmed; for these things need to happen first, but
the end does not come immediately."
10Then, he was saying to them, "Nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom, 11and there will be mega-quakes, and famines and epidemics in various
places, and frightful and awesome signs from heaven.
12"But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute
you, handing you over to synagogues and prisons, being led all the way up to kings and
governors for the sake of my name; 13it will work out for you to be a testimony. 14Put it
in your hearts therefore, not to be practicing how to answer in defense; 15for I will give
you utterance and wisdom that none of those opposing you will be able to stand against
or rebut.
16"But you will also be turned in by parents and siblings and relatives and friends,
and they will put some of you to death. 17And indeed you will be hated by everyone
because of my name. 18Yet not a hair of your head will perish: 19by your enduring, you
will gain your lives.
20"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that her
desolation is near. 21Then, those in Judea should flee to the mountains, and those within
Jerusalem should get without, and those in the fields should not go into her. 22For those
are days of vengeance, in fulfillment of all that is written. 23Alas for the ones who are
pregnant, and the ones giving milk during those days! For it will be a great calamity
upon the land,307 and wrath toward this people. 24And they will fall by the edge of the
sword, and be taken captive to all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled over by
Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are played out.
25And there will be signs in the sun, the moon and the stars, and on earth anxiety of
the nations, in uncertainty over the roar and surge of the sea, 26people holding their breath
305
Psalm 110:1
306
Two small, thin copper coins, totaling one fourth of one cent in value.
307
Or, "upon the earth"
in fear and anticipation because of the things overtaking the world; for the forces of space
will be shaken.
27
"And then at that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud, with power
and great glory. 28So when these things are beginning to take place, stand yourselves
tall and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."
29
And he spoke a parable to them: "Consider the fig tree, indeed all the trees.
30
When they are now putting forth leaves, you see for yourselves and know that summer
is now near. 31So also you, when you see these things taking place, you know that the
kingdom of God is near. 32Truly I tell you: this age will by no means pass away until
this all has taken place. 33Sky and earth will pass away, but my words will certainly not
pass away.
34
"But watch yourselves, that your hearts not be held back 308 by over-indulgence
and drunkenness, and by ordinary concerns of this mortal life, and that day come upon
you suddenly 35like a trap. For it will come upon everyone who lives on the face of the
whole earth. 36So you must be watchful at all times, praying that you might manage to
avoid all these things about to come to pass, and stand before the Son of Man."
37And he was spending the days teaching in the temple, and the nights he was going
out and lodging on the hill called the Mount of Olives. 38And all the people would get
up early to come to the temple and hear him.
Chapter 22
The Contract on Jesus
1And the Festival of Unleavened Bread, called Passover, was approaching, 2and the
chief priests and the Torah scholars were still yet looking for a way to put him to death,
because they were still yet fearing the people.
3Then Satan entered into Judas, the one called Ish Keriot, who was one of their
number, of the Twelve. 4And he went away, and discussed with the chief priests and the
commanders of the temple guard how he might hand him over to them. 5And they were
delighted, and contracted to give him money. 6And he accepted, and was looking for
the best time for handing him over to them, without the crowd.
The Passover Supper

7And the day of Unleavened Bread arrived in which it was customary to slaughter
the Passover. 8And he sent Peter and John, saying, "Go, prepare the Passover for us so
we can eat it."
9And they said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?"
10And he told them, "Behold, at the point of your arriving into the city a man
carrying a water jar will encounter you. Follow him to whatever house he goes into.
11
And say to the owner of the house, 'The teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room
where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?" ' 12And that person will show you a
large upstairs room all furnished. You shall prepare it there." 13So when they went,
they found things just as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover.
14And when the hour had come, he reclined, and the disciples along with him.
15And he said to them, "It is with great longing and anticipation I have wanted to eat this
Passover with you before my suffering. 16For I tell you: I will certainly not eat it again
until such time it has been fulfilled in the kingdom of God."
17And after taking hold of the cup, he gave thanks, and said, "Take this, and share it
among yourselves; 18for I tell you: By no means will I drink of the fruit of the vine from
this point on until such time the kingdom of God has come."
308
Or, "desensitized." The heart is not literally weighed down. The spiritual strength, alertness,
sensitivity, sharpness, and passion might be lessened by the things mentioned.
19And after taking the bread and giving thanks, he broke it and gave it to them,
saying, "This is my body, being given for you. This you should do as a commemoration
of me."309
20And the cup after the meal310 in the same way, saying: "This cup is the new
covenant in my blood, being poured out for you.

21
"But lo, the hand of the one betraying me is with mine on the table. 22Therefore
indeed the Son of Man is going out exactly as is planned. Even so, woe to that man
through whom he is betrayed!"
23And they began to debate with each other which of them therefore might be the one
about to do this.
24
Then there also arose another dispute among them, as to which of them was
considered to be greater.
25And he said to them, "The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those
exercising authority over them are called 'benefactors.' 26But not so with you. Rather,
the greatest among you should be like the youngest, 311 and the leader as the one who
serves. 27For who is greater: the one reclining, or the one serving? Is it not the one
reclining? Among you though, I am as the one serving.
28"But you are the ones who have stuck with me through my trials; 29and I am
assigning to you a kingdom, just as my Father did to me, 30such that you will eat and
drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Jesus Predicts the Disciples' Crisis of Faith

31"Simon,
Simon, behold, Satan has obtained permission to have you all, to sift you
all like wheat. 32But I have prayed for you, that your faith will not completely die.
And you, when you have come back around, strengthen your brothers."
33But he said to him, "Lord, I am prepared to go with you both to prison and to
death."
34But Jesus said, "I tell you, Peter: the rooster will not crow this day, until you have
denied three times that you know me."

35And he said to them, "When I sent you without purse, knapsack and sandals, did
you lack anything?"

And they said, "Nothing."
36Then he said, "But now, he who has a purse should bring it, or a knapsack likewise,
and he who does not have a sword, should sell his cloak and buy one. 37For I tell you,
this which is written has to be fulfilled in me:
'And he was considered

one of the outlaws.'312
Yes indeed, that about me is reaching fulfillment."

38So they said, "Lord, look. There are two swords here."
And he said to them, "That is enough."
Gethsemane
39And
after going out, he proceeded as was his custom to the Mount of Olives; and
his disciples followed him also. 40And coming upon the place he said to them, "Pray not
to come into temptation." 41And he withdrew from them, about a stone's throw away.
And having dropped his knees, he was praying, 42as follows: "Father, if you are willing,
43
remove this cup from me. However, not my will, but yours be done." And an angel
309
"This you should do" is referring to the Passover. From now on, they and we should do the Passover in
commemoration of Jesus' death on our behalf. Both the unleavened bread and the Passover lamb or kid are
His body figuratively.
310
Or possibly, "with" the meal.
311
The youngest, as in Acts 5:6, customarily performed the menial tasks, and submitted to the elders.
312
Isaiah 53:12
from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. 44And being in agony, he was praying
more earnestly; and his sweat became like drops of blood falling onto the ground.313
45
And after rising from prayer and returning to the disciples, he found them sleeping,
out of sorrow. 46And he said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray, that
you not go into temptation."
Jesus Arrested
47
While he was yet speaking, behold, a crowd, and the one called Judas, one of the
Twelve, was leading them. And he came up to Jesus, and kissed him. 48But Jesus said
to him, "Judas, with a kiss you betray the Son of Man?"
49
And seeing what was going to be happening, those around him said, "Lord, shall
we strike with swords?" 50And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, and cut
off his right ear.
51
But in response Jesus said, "Let that be enough of that." And he touched his ear
and healed him.
52
Then, toward those coming against him, the chief priests, temple officers and
elders, Jesus said, "As though after a bandit, you have come out with swords and clubs?
53Every day with me being next to you in the temple you didn't lay your hands on me.
But this is the hour for you, and the authority of darkness."
Peter's Denials
54And after seizing him, they took him and led him into the house of the high priest;
and Peter was following at a distance. 55And since people had lit a fire in the middle of
the courtyard and were all sitting together, Peter was sitting among them. 56But a
maidservant noticed him sitting toward the fire, and after studying him, she said, "This
man also was with him."
57But he denied it, saying, "I don't know him, woman."
58And shortly thereafter, another person who saw him was saying, "You are also one
of them."
And Peter was saying, "Man, I am not."
59And after about an hour had passed, someone else was affirming, saying,
"Definitely, this man was also with him; he is also Galilean."

60But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about." And
immediately as he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. 61And the Lord turned and
looked at Peter, and he remembered the statement of the Lord, how he had said to him,
"Before the crowing of the rooster today, you will have denied me three times." 62And
he went off outside, and bitterly wept.
Before the Sanhedrin

63And the men guarding Jesus were making fun of him as they beat him up. 64After
blindfolding him, they were asking him, "Prophesy, who is it that hit you?" 65And they
were saying many other insulting things against him.
66And as the day broke, the elders of the people and the high priests and the Torah
scholars were assembled, and they brought him over into their Sanhedrin, 67saying, "Tell
us whether you are the Christ."
And he said to them, "If I told you, you would certainly not believe, 68and if I asked
questions, you would certainly not answer. 69Nevertheless, from now on, the Son of
Man will be sitting at the right hand of the power of God."
70So they all said, "You are the Son of God then?"
And he was saying to them, "You are saying that I am."

71And they said, "What more need do we have for witnesses? For we ourselves
have heard from his own mouth." 314
313
22:43-44 The words in these verses may be an extra-canonical tradition which got added to the gospel of
Luke. They are absent in very early and geographically widespread manuscripts and witnesses.
Chapter 23
Jesus Before Pilate and Herod
1
And the whole assembly of them got up, and they took him before Pilate. 2And
they began to accuse him, as follows. "We found this man misleading our nation and
forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and claiming to be a king himself, the Christ."
3
So Pilate examined him, saying, "Are you the king of the Jews?"
And he in answer to him was saying, "You are the one saying that."
4And Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no causa capitalis in this
man."315
5
But they were getting more insistent, saying, "He incites the people, teaching
throughout the entire land of the Jews, starting from Galilee and all the way to here."
6
And when Pilate heard this, he asked, "Is the man a Galilean?" 7And when he had
confirmed that he is in fact from Herod's jurisdiction, he referred him to Herod, who was
in Jerusalem too for those days.
8
Now Herod was very glad when he saw Jesus. He had been wanting for some time
to meet him, because of hearing about him, and he hoped to see something miraculous
happening through him. 9So he was plying him with a considerable amount of
questions; but Jesus never gave any response at all. 10And the chief priests and the
Torah scholars were standing there throughout, vehemently accusing him.
11Then Herod, together with his soldiers, after treating him with contempt and
mocking him by draping a splendid robe around him, sent him back to Pilate. 12Which
caused Herod and Pilate to become friends with each other that same day (for they had
previously always been hostile toward each other).
13And Pilate summoned the high priest, together with the rulers and the people, 14and
he said to them, "You have brought this man up to me as someone inciting the people to
treason, and here now is my finding after trying him in your presence. I have found in
this man no basis for the charges you are bringing against him. 15And neither has
Herod, for he has sent him back to us. So you see, nothing being done by him is worthy
17
of death. 16Therefore, having scourged him, I will release him." [[ Now he was
obligated by custom according to the festival to release one person to them.]] 316
18But they all together shouted back, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us
Barabbas!" 19(He was someone who had been thrown in prison because of a certain
uprising and murder that took place in the city.)
20But Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, called out to them again. 21But they cried
out, saying, "Crucify him, crucify him!"

22But a third time, he said to them, "Why? What crime has this man committed?
Having scourged him therefore, I will release him."

23But with loud shouts the crowd kept urgently demanding that he be crucified.
And their shouts prevailed, 24and Pilate decided to grant their request. 25And he
released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one
whom they had asked for, and Jesus he handed over to their will.
314
The Sanhedrin would not be satisfied with anything less than a vehement and passionate denial from Jesus.
Thus the Sanhedrin's reaction, of needing no more witnesses or evidence. But even what Jesus had already
said here earlier, in 22:69, that Jesus would be seated at the right hand of God, that would be offense enough.
315
That is, basis for capital punishment.
,
316
These words now called verse 17 are not found in P75, a B L T 070 892* 1241 ita vgms copsa, bopt and
included, with minor variants, as harmonized to Matthew 27:15 and Mark 15:6, in the following:  W 
1 13 28 157 (180 579 imperfect) 205 565 597 700 892c 1006 1010 1071 (1243 h- one
prisoner)1292 1342 1424 1505 Byz [E F G H (N  for ) Lect itaur, b, c, e, f, ff2, l, q, r1 vg syrp,
h (copboms) arm eth geo slav Eusebian Canons; Augustine. And the following include these words in a
different place- after verse 19: D itd syrc, s. The UBS editorial committee gives the omission an A rating of
certainty.
The Crucifixion
26
And as they led him away, they seized a Cyrenian who was returning from the
country, and they placed the cross on him, to carry it behind Jesus. 27And a great
multitude of the people were following him, and women who were mourning and
lamenting him.
28
But Jesus turned to them, and he said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for
me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. 29For behold, days are coming in
which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the
breasts that never nursed.' 30At that time they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall
on us,' and to the hills, 'Cover us.'317 31For if they do these things when the wood is
green, what will happen when it is dry?"318
32
Now two others, criminals, were also being taken with him to be executed. 319
33
And when they came to the place called The Skull, there they crucified him, along with
the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. 34And Jesus said, "Father, forgive
them, for they do not know what they are doing."320 And they cast lots, for dividing out
his clothing.
35And the people stood there, watching. And the rulers were sneering at him,
saying, "He saved others; he should save himself, if this is the one chosen the Christ of
God."
36And the soldiers, when they were approaching bringing him vinegar, also made fun
of him. 37They also were saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself."
38Now there was also a notice inscribed above him: "THIS IS THE KING OF THE
JEWS."
39And one of the criminals hung there was deriding him, saying, "If you really are
the Christ, save yourself and us."

40But in response the other one was rebuking him, saying, "Don't you fear God at all,
considering that you yourself are in this same judgment? 41And we indeed justly; for we
have gotten back what was fitting to how we have lived. But this man, he has done
nothing wrong."
42And then he was saying, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your
kingdom."
43And he said to him, "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in Paradise."
Jesus' Death
44And it was now about noon, 321
and darkness came across the whole land until
3:00 p.m., 45for the sun was darkened.
And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46And crying out with a loud voice,
Jesus said, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." And after he had said this, he
expired.
47Now the centurion when he saw what had happened, was giving glory to God, by
saying, "This really must have been a righteous man."

48And all the crowds who had gathered around for this spectacle, when they observed
what took place, they were turning away, beating their breasts. 49But all those who
317
Hosea 10:8
318
This could also possibly be translated, "...if they do these things to a green (healthy, sap-filled) tree, what
will happen to the dry?" It could mean "if these things happen to a righteous, fruitful person, what will happen
to the unfruitful?" And it could also mean, "if they do these things in good and prosperous times, what will
they do in bad times?" Perhaps this is a proverb current at that time, but no one knows for sure.
319
The Greek syntax here may be more properly translated, "Now two other criminals were also being taken
with him to be executed." Later Greek manuscripts were possibly modified to take away this possibility. But
Jesus had predicted in Luke 22:37 that he would be considered one of the outlaws.
320
This sentence, Luke 23:34, is absent in many early manuscripts.
321
Greek, "the sixth hour," that is, the sixth hour from 6 a.m. when the daytime starts, which makes this
12:00 noon. So also the remaining references to time in Luke: the darkness lasted until 3:00 p.m. (Grk-the
ninth hour), when Jesus cried out to the Father. See the endnote in my Diatessaron regarding the differing
clock systems and divisions of the day used by the synoptic evangelists in contrast to John.
knew him, including the women who had followed with him from Galilee, stood off at a
distance throughout, watching these things.
Jesus' Burial
50
And behold, there was a council member named Joseph, who was a good and
righteous man 51(he was not going along with their decision and actions), from
Arimathea, a city in Judea, who was looking forward to the kingdom of God. 52This
man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. 53And when he had taken it down
he wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a hewn-out tomb, which no one was lying in yet.
54
And it was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was coming on.
55
Now some women had followed close behind, which were the ones who had come
with him from Galilee; they observed the tomb, and how his body was interred. 56Then
when they returned home, they prepared spices and perfumes. And for the Sabbath
though, they did rest, in keeping with the commandment;
Chapter 24
The Resurrection
1but
at the crack of dawn on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb,
carrying the spices they had prepared. 2But they found the stone had been rolled away
from the tomb.
Jesus Appears to the Women

3And
when they went inside, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4And it
happened that as they stood hesitating about this, behold, two men appeared to them, in
gleaming robes.
5And when terror came over them, such that they had bowed their faces down to the
ground, the men said to them, "Why are you looking for the living among the dead? 6He
is not here, but is risen! Recall how he spoke to you while still in Galilee, 7saying that
the Son of Man must be transferred into the hands of sinful mortals, and be crucified, and
on the third day rise again."
8And they did recall his statements. 9And when they returned from the tomb, they
related all these things to the Eleven and to all the rest.
10Now it was the Magdalene Mary, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and
the others with them who were telling these things to the apostles; 11and these statements
appeared to them as nonsense, and they did not believe them.
12But Peter got up and ran to the tomb, and after stooping down, he sees only the
linen bandages. And he went away, wondering to himself what had happened.
On the Road to Emmaus

13And
behold, that same day, two of them were on their way to a village named
Emmaus, which was seven miles322 from Jerusalem. 14And these two were conversing
with each other about the outcome of all these things.
15And it came about, that they are in conversation, and Jesus himself has come up,
walking along with them. 16Their eyes, however, were being restrained, so as not to
recognize him.
17And he said to them, "What is this discussion you are having with each other as
you walk along?" And they came to a stop, looking dismal.

18And in response, the one named Cleopas said to him, "Are you just visiting
Jerusalem, and unaware of the things happening in her during these days?"
19And he said to them, "What things?"
And they said to him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet
powerful in deed and in word, in the eyes of both God and all the people; 20how the chief
priests and our rulers handed him over for the sentence of death, and how they crucified
322
Greek: sixty stadia, or about 11 kilometers.
him. 21And here we had been hoping he was the one who was going to redeem Israel.
And what is more, he is already spending his third day in the grave since when these
things took place.
22
"And not only that, now some of our women have confounded us. They were at
the tomb early this morning, 23and not finding his body, they came back, claiming also to
have seen a vision of angels, which were maintaining that he was alive. 24So some of
our number went to the tomb, and found it just as the women had said; but him they did
not see."
25
And he said to them, "O you thick headed, and slow of heart to believe on all the
things the prophets have spoken! 26Were not these things required for the Christ to
suffer in order to go on into his glory?" 27And beginning with Moses, and through all
the prophets, he interpreted for them the things in all the writings that were about himself.
28
And they came near to the village to which they were going, and he pretended to
go on farther. 29And they urged him insistently, saying, "Lodge with us, because it is
near evening, and the daylight is almost gone." And he went inside, to lodge with them.
30
And it came about that as he reclined with them, he took bread, gave thanks and
broke it, and was distributing it to them. 31Then their eyes were opened, and they
recognized him. And he disappeared from them.
32And they said to each other, "Weren't our hearts burning within us as he talked to
us on the road, as he explained the scriptures to us?" 33And after rising up that very
hour, they returned to Jerusalem, and found the Eleven and those with them all gathered
together, 34who were saying that the Lord really was risen, and had appeared to Simon.
35And then the former were recounting the events on the road, and how he was made
known to them in the breaking of the bread.
Jesus Appears to the Apostles

36And
while they were speaking these things, he stood in the midst of them, and he is
saying to them, "Peace be with you."
37But alarmed they were, and terrified, thinking they were seeing a ghost. 38And he
said to them, "Why are you troubled? And for what reason are doubts arising in your
hearts? 39Behold my hands and my feet, that I am me. Touch me, and know, because
a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see me having." 40And when he had said
this, he showed them his hands and his feet.
41But, since they were still not believing, out of joy and astonishment, he said to
them, "What do you have to eat in this place?" 42So they handed him a piece of broiled
fish. 43And he took it, and ate it in front of them.
The Ascension
44And he said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still
with you, how all the things written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and
the psalms must be fulfilled." 45Then at that time he opened their minds to understand
the scriptures.
46And he said to them, "This is what is written: the Christ was to suffer, and to rise
from the dead the third day, 47and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be
preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48You are witnesses
of these things. 49And I am sending my Father's promise down upon you. So you are
to stay put in the city until such time you are endued with power from on high."
50Then he led them outside, as far as Bethany. And after lifting up his hands, he
blessed them. 51And it came about that as he was blessing them, he parted from them,
and was taken up into heaven.
52And they, after worshiping him, returned back to Jerusalem with great rejoicing.
53And throughout those days they were continually at the temple, praising God.
The Gospel According To John
John
Chapter 1
The Word Became Flesh Among Us
1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
2
God. He was with God in the beginning.
3
Through him all things were made, and without him not one thing was made that
has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light for humankind. 5And the
light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not mastered it.
6
There came a man sent from God; his name was John. 7He came as a witness to
testify about that light, so that through him all people might believe. 8He himself was
not the light; he came rather to bear witness to the light. 9The true light, which gives
light to every human being, was coming into the world.
10
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did
not recognize him. 11He came to that which was his own, and his own did not receive
him. 12But to all who did receive him, to those believing on his name, he gave the right
to become children of God— 13children born, not from bloods, nor from body desire, nor
from a man's decision, but born of God.
14And the Word became flesh, and moved his tent in among us; and we beheld his
glory, the glory as of an only begotten from a Father, full of grace and truth.
15John testifies concerning him, and he has cried out, saying: "This is he of whom I
said, 'The one coming after me has outranked me, because he existed before me.'"
16And out of his fulness we have all received, yes, grace upon grace. 17For the law
was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18No one has ever
seen God; but the Only Begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made
him known.323
323
Most manuscripts read hh (ho monogenees huios). But the four earliest Greek
manuscripts of John, plus some early translations and church fathers, read monogenees
theos), which has been variously translated as God the Only Son, God the only begotten, and, the only son who
is God, as opposed to the rest of God's children, who, though also sired by God, are not God. In the UBS
textual commentary, the editorial committee gave the monogenees theos reading a B rating of certainty. Their
main reasons were that this was the earliest reading, and that this was the most difficult reading (one of the
canons of textual criticism is that the more difficult reading be preferred, since copyists would tend to smooth
over or simplify, rather than the other way around.) The testimony to the NA27 reading (monogenees theos) is
not unimpressive; it is over 200 years earlier than the Majority Text reading, since the earliest MT reading is
supported by the old Italic manuscript No. 3 (ita), which is 4th century, and the NA27 has support from Papyrus
66, the year 200. But there are those who say that the reading monogenees theos is far too difficult to be
genuine. I understand this point of view, since it is very hard to translate. Just witness the widely divergent
renderings of this reading in current English Bible translations. Alan Wikgren dissented with the UBS
committee majority, and said, "It is doubtful that the author would have written monogenees theos which may
be a primitive, transcriptional error in the Alexandrian tradition ( / ). At least a D decision would be
preferable." Bart Ehrman says the “God” reading is an “orthodox corruption,” a reading introduced by
orthodox scribes in order to make this scripture a more clear refutation of the Adoptionists. This idea has
merit, especially since the same early manuscripts Papyrus 66, Papyrus 75, and B contain the seeming orthodox
corruption in John 7:8, “I am not YET going up to this feast.” On the other hand, I propose we examine the
“orthodox corruption” idea from a different angle, as follows. Today, there are many Byzantine Text
advocates who argue that the “God” reading here was introduced by Egyptian Gnostics, that is, introduced by
the NON-orthodox. The Byzantine advocates say that the idea of a “begotten God” is Gnostic and heretical.
If that is so, then the Byzantine reading could be the “orthodox corruption” of sorts, in order to more clearly
refute the Gnostics. Whether or not it was Gnostics who introduced the “God” reading, and whether or not a
Gnostic-type rendering is the only possible rendering of the Alexandrian reading, the “God” reading may be
taken advantage of by Gnostics, and thus the later change to the seemingly more orthodox “Son” reading.
Since Christ is both God and man, he can explain God to men. There is also an Eastern concept of the
firstborn son which we Westerners do not fully appreciate. The firstborn son received the greater inheritance
of all the father has and is. This glory would be compounded by being the only son from a father.
The Pharisees Question John
19
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from
Jerusalem in order to ask him, "Who are you?" 20And he confessed, and did not resist;
but confessed, "I am not the Anointed One."
21
And they asked him, "Who then? Are you Elijah?"
And he says, "I am not."
"Are you the Prophet?"324
And he answered, "No."
22
They said therefore to him, "Who are you? So we may give an answer to those
who sent us, what do you say about yourself?"
23
He said, "I am just as Isaiah the prophet said: 'the voice of one calling in the
wilderness, "Prepare the way for the Lord." ' "325'
24And those who were sent were of the Pharisees. 25And they questioned him and
said to him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Anointed One, nor Elijah, nor
the Prophet?"
26John answered them as follows, "I baptize in water, but among you stands one you
do not know, 27the one coming after me, the thong of whose sandal I am not worthy to
untie."
28These things happened in Bethany, on the other side of the Jordan, where John was
baptizing.
Behold the Lamb of God

29The
next day he sees Jesus coming toward him, and says, "Behold! The lamb of
God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30This is he of whom I said, 'After me will
come a man who has outranked me because he existed before me.' 31And I myself did
not know him, but the reason I came baptizing in water was that he might be revealed to
Israel."
32Then John testified, saying: "I have seen the Spirit come down from heaven like a
dove, and it remained upon him. 33And I myself had not known him, but the one who
sent me to baptize in water, he told me, 'On whomever you see the Spirit coming down
and remaining upon, this is the one who will baptize in the Holy Spirit.' 34And now I
have seen, and now I have testified, that this is the Son of God." 326
John and Andrew Have Found the Messiah

35The
next day, again, John was standing with two 327 of his disciples. 36And
seeing Jesus walking, he says, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"
37The two disciples heard him saying this, and they followed Jesus. 38And Jesus
turned around; and seeing them following, says to them, "What do you want?"
And they said to him, "Rabbi," (which when translated is Teacher), "where are
you staying?"
39He says to them, "Come, and you will see."
They went therefore, and saw where he was staying, and spent the rest of that day
with him, it being about 10 a.m.
324
Deuteronomy 18:14-20
325
Isaiah 40:3 Or, "He said just what the prophet Isaiah said: ..." A matter of interpretation here is how
to place the quotation marks. Is John the Baptizer the one saying, "just as Isaiah the prophet said"? (NASB,
NAB, NKJV, CBW, JB, JBP) Or is it John the apostle narrating who said it? (NIV, NRSV, NCV, CEV, NLT,
JNT, REB) It is reasonable to think that John the Baptizer was aware of how the Isaiah passage pertained to
himself, and that he so stated. Verse 20 says that he confessed and did not resist. In other words, he
communicated openly and freely about what he believed he was. On the other hand, it may be well to leave it
such that the Isaiah prophecy is applicable to both John the Baptizer and to the two witnesses in Revelation
11:3-12, one of which is Elijah.
326
Some manuscripts say “the chosen one of God” instead of “the Son of God.”
327
John the son of Zebedee and Andrew the brother of Peter
40Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two hearing from John and
following Jesus. 41This man first thing finds his own brother Simon, and he tells him,
"We have found the Messiah" (which when translated is Anointed One).
42He led him to Jesus.
Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon son of John. You will be called
Kephas" (which when translated is Rock.) 328
Philip and Nathaniel

43
The next day Jesus decided to go forth into Galilee; and he finds Philip. And
Jesus says to him, "Follow me."
44
And Philip was from Bethsaida, of the city of Andrew and Peter. 45Philip finds
Nathaniel, and tells him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law, and also the
prophets wrote: Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth."
46
And Nathaniel said to him, "Is it possible for anything good to be from Nazareth?"
Philip says to him, "Come and see."
47When Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him, he says about him, "Behold a true
Israelite, in whom there is no artifice."

48Nathaniel says to him, "Where do you know me from?"
And Jesus answered and said to him, "I saw you while you were under the fig tree,
before Philip called you."
49Nathaniel answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the King of
Israel."
50Jesus answered and said to him, "You believe because I told you I saw you under
the fig tree? You shall see greater things than that." 51He then says to him, "Truly,
truly I say to you, you shall all see heaven torn open, and the angels of God ascending
and descending on the Son of Man."
Chapter 2
Water Into Wine
1And
on the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was
there, 2and both Jesus and his disciples had been invited to the wedding. 3And when
wine was lacking, Jesus' mother says to him, "They have no wine."
4Jesus says to her, "What business is there between you and me, woman? My time
has not yet come."

5His mother says to the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do."
6And there were six stone water jars lying there, for the ceremonial washing of the
Jews, each holding from two to three measures. 329

7Jesus says to them, "Fill the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim.
8And he tells them, "Now draw some out, and take it to the master of the banquet."
And they took some.

9When the master of the banquet tasted the water become wine, not knowing where it
had come from, but the servants having drawn the water knowing, the master of the
banquet calls the bridegroom, 10and says to him, "Everyone sets out the good wine first,
and the cheaper after they have become drunk. You have kept the good wine till now."
11This, the first of the miraculous signs, Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested
his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

12After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother, and brothers, and his
disciples, and there they stayed for a few days.
328
Greek, Petros. The writers of the gospels translated the name from the Aramaic language, which Jesus
spoke, to the language of the readers— Greek, because they apparently desired that their readers know the man
as Rock, which is the English translation of Petros. In that spirit of the writers, we English speakers are to
know him as Rock. With that in mind, I have nonetheless from this point on used the Anglicized
transliteration of Petros, which is Peter, since it is so familiar.
329
Twenty to thirty gallons, or from 75 to 115 liters. Each measure contained 72 sextarii or pints.
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
13
And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14And in
the temple he found those selling cattle, sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting.
15
And having made a whip out of ropes, he expelled all from the temple, including the
sheep and the cattle, and he poured out the coins of the money changers, and overturned
the tables, 16and he said to those selling the doves, "Take these out of here! Do not
make the house of my Father a house of commerce!"
17
His disciples remembered that it is written: "The zeal for your house will consume
me."330
18The Jews331 responded therefore and said to him, "What sign are you showing us,
that you can do these things?"

19
Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will
raise it."
20
Then the Jews said, "This temple was built in forty-six years, and you in three days
will raise it?" 21But he had spoken of the temple of his body. 22When therefore he was
raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed
the scripture, and the word that Jesus had spoken.
23And while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover during the Festival, many believed
in his name— seeing the miraculous signs he was doing. 24But Jesus on his part did not
commit himself to them, because he knew all people, 25and because he had no need that
anyone testify about a person, for he knew what was in the person.
Chapter 3
You Must Be Born Again
1And
there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2He
came to Jesus by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has
come from God. For no one would be able to do these miraculous signs you are doing,
unless God were with him."
3Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly I say to you, Unless one is born again
from above, it is not possible to see the kingdom of God."

4Nicodemus says to him, "How is it possible for someone who is old, to be born?
Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?"
5Jesus answered, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born from water and spirit,
it is not possible to enter into the kingdom of God. 6That born from flesh is flesh, and
that born from Spirit is spirit. 7You should not be surprised that I said to you, 'You 332
must be born from above.' 8The wind blows where it will, and the sound of it you hear,
but you do not know where it is coming from, and where it is going. Such is everyone
born from the Spirit."
9Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these things be?"
10Jesus answered and said to him, "You are Teacher for Israel, and not familiar with
these things?333 11Truly, truly I tell you, we are saying what we know, and testifying to
what we have seen, and you people do not accept our testimony. 12If I have told you
330
Psalm 69:9
331
Wasn't Jesus a Jew? Wasn't the apostle John, who wrote this account, a Jew? Yes they were, so why
does John set "the Jews" as a contrast to Jesus? There are a couple possible explantions of this. One
explanation is that he means, "Judeans, those who live in Jerusalem and Judea as opposed to Galilee, people
who did in fact look down on Galileeans. John 7:1 says, "And after these things, Jesus was walking around in
Galilee, for he was not wanting to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him." John 11:53-54
says, "Thus from that time on they [the Sanhedrin] were resolved that they would kill him. Therefore, Jesus
no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there to an area next to the desert, to a town called
Ephraim, and there he stayed, along with his disciples." This may be a hint indicating that by leaving the area
of Jerusalem, he was leaving "the Jews." Another explanation is that by the time John wrote his gospel, the
followers of Jesus, even the Jewish ones, thought of themselves more as Christians than as Jews.
332
The Greek is in the plural.
333
Nicodemus should have known these concepts from I Samuel 10:6,7,9,11; Ezekiel 11:19,20; 18:31,32;
36:26,27; Isaiah 26:11-19
earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
13
And no one has gone up into heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the
Son of Man. 14And as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, in like manner the Son of
Man must be lifted up, 15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
16
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone
who believes in him would not perish, but have everlasting life. 17For God did not send
his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through
him. 18The person who believes in him is not condemned. The person who does not
believe, is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of God's only
begotten Son.
19
And this is the condemnation:
The light
has come into the world.
And human beings
loved the darkness
more than the light,
because their works
were continually evil.
20For
everyone practicing evil things, hates the light, and does not come toward the light,
so that his works not be exposed. 21But one doing the truth comes toward the light, so
that his works may be manifest, that they have been accomplished in God."
"He Must Increase; I Must Decrease"

22After these things, Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean territory, and there
he was spending time with them, and baptizing. 23And John also was baptizing at
Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there, and they were coming and
getting baptized. 24For John was still not yet thrown into prison.
25Then a dispute arose between the disciples of John and a certain Jew 334 about
ceremonial washing. 26And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was
with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified, behold, that man is
baptizing, and everyone is moving to him."
27John answered and said, "A human being is not able to receive a thing that is not
given to him from heaven. 28You yourselves bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the
Anointed One, but am sent ahead of him.' 29The one possessing the bride is bridegroom,
and the one standing and hearing him, the friend of the bridegroom, who rejoices with a
joy on account of the voice of the bridegroom. That joy, my joy, is therefore fulfilled.
30He must increase, and I must decrease.
31"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth is of
the earth, and speaks of the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all; 32what
he has seen and heard, this he testifies to, and no one accepts his testimony. 33The
person who accepts his testimony has vouched that God is truthful. 34For he whom God
has sent speaks the words of God; because to him God gives the Spirit without measure.
35The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36The person who
believes in the Son, has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life,
but rather, the wrath of God remains upon him."
334
Since this passage is in John, and John customarily refers to himself in an anonymous way, in the third
person, there is a good possibility that such is the case here also. An argument would not be out of character
for John. Jesus named John and his brother James "the sons of thunder," (Mark 3:17; Diatess. 9:2) which
seems to indicate that John was hotheaded and judgmental. See also Luke 9:49 & 54 (Diatess. 17:31 & 18:2)
for other examples of John's former attitude to people who differed from his own circle.
Chapter 4
The Samaritan Woman at the Well
1
Then, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and
baptizing more disciples than John, 2(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his
disciples), 3he left Judea, and went back into Galilee.
4
But he had to pass through Samaria. 335 5Thus it is he comes to a town in Samaria
called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6And Jacob's
well was there. So there Jesus was, sitting down by the well, tired from the journey. It
was about 6 p.m.
7
A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, "Give me a drink."
8(For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9
Then the Samaritan woman says to him, "How is it you, being a Jew, are asking a
drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews do not use dishes in common
with Samaritans.)
10Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is saying
to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living
water."
11She says to him, "Sir, you do not have a bucket, and the shaft is deep. Where then
do you hold the living water? 12Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us
the well, and drank from it himself, and also his sons and his animals?"
13Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks from this water will thirst
again, 14but whoever drinks from the water which I will give him will by no means ever
thirst again. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fountain of water
springing up into life without end."
15The woman says to him, "Sir, give me this water. Then I wouldn't get thirsty, and
neither would I have to keep coming over here to draw."

16He says to her, "Go call your husband, and come back here."
17The woman answered and said, "I do not have a husband."
Jesus says to her, "Commendably, you said, 'I do not have a husband.' 18For you
have had five husbands, and he you now have is not your husband. This you have said
honestly."
19The woman says to him, "Sir, I am perceiving that you are a prophet. 20Our
ancestors worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that the place where one must
worship is in Jerusalem."
21Jesus says to her, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you 336 will
worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans
worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, for salvation is of the
Jews. 23Nevertheless, a time is coming, and is now come, when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for indeed that is the kind the Father seeks as
those worshiping him. 24God is spirit, and those worshiping him, must worship in spirit
and in truth."
25The woman says to him, "I do know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming.
When he comes, he will teach us everything."

26Jesus says to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am he."
Lift Your Eyes, See My Food and My Harvest

27And
at this point his disciples came, and they were surprised that he was talking
with a woman. Still, no one said, "What do you want?" or, "Why are you talking with
her?"
335
Samaria was the district north of Judea and south of Galilee. For Jesus to get to Galilee from where he
was (Judea), he had to pass through Samaria in between; either that or go all the way around the east side of the
Jordan River and Sea of Galilee, as some Jews would actually do, wanting so much to avoid Samaria.
336
In the Greek, "you" is in the plural.
28Then, the woman left her water jar, and went away into the town. And she says to
the people, 29"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could he be the
Messiah?"
30They were proceeding out of the town and coming toward him. 31In the
meantime, his disciples were pleading with him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
32
But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."
33
His disciples therefore were saying to each other, "Has someone brought him
something to eat?"
34
Jesus says to them, "That I may do the will of him who sent me, is food to me, and
that I may finish his work. 35Do you not say, 'There is four months yet, and then comes
the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and look upon the fields. For they
are white even now for harvest. 36The one harvesting is taking his wages, and gathering
fruit resulting in eternal life, so that the one sowing and the one harvesting may rejoice
together. 37For the saying, 'One is the sower and another is the reaper,' is true in this: 38I
have sent you to harvest what you have not worked. Others have done the hard work,
and you have joined in their labor."
The Woman's Talk Bears Fruit

39And
many of the Samaritans from that town had believed in him because of the
woman's word testifying, "He told me everything I ever did." 40When therefore the
Samaritans came to him, they asked him to remain with them, and he remained two days.
41And, because of his word, many more believed.
42And to the woman they said, "No longer because of your talk do we believe; for we
have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world."
The Official's Son Stays Alive

43And
after the two days he departed from there into Galilee. 44(Now Jesus himself
testified, that in his own native place a prophet has no honor.) 45When then he arrived
in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him– having seen all the things that he had done in
Jerusalem at the festival, for they also had gone to the festival.
46He came again therefore to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine.
And there was a certain royal official there whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47When
this man heard that Jesus was coming out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and asked
that he would come and heal his son, for he was about to die.
48Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you people see miraculous signs and terrifying
omens, you will never believe."

49The royal official says to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
50Jesus says to him, "Go. Your son stays alive."
The man believed the word that Jesus had said to him, and departed. 51And even as
he was going back down, his servants met him saying that his boy was living. 52He
therefore ascertained from them the exact time in which he had gotten better. They
therefore said to him, "The fever left him yesterday at 7 p.m."
53Then the father realized: that was the hour in which Jesus had said to him, "Your
son stays alive." And he and his whole household believed.

54
Again, this second miraculous sign Jesus performed while coming out of Judea into
Galilee.
Chapter 5
Jesus Heals in the Spa on the Sabbath
1After
these things, there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2Now
there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Hebrew is called
Bethesda, having five colonnades. 3In these a great number of disabled people used to
lie, the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 337 5And one man was there who had had a
disability thirty-eight years. 6When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had
had his condition now for a long time, he says to him, "Do you want to get well?"
7The invalid answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the
water is stirred, and while I am going, someone else goes down ahead of me."
8
Jesus says to him, "Stand up. Pick up your mat and walk." 9And immediately the
man became well, and he picked up his mat and walked. And that day was during a
Sabbath.
10
The Jews therefore said to the man who had been healed, "It is a Sabbath, and not
lawful for you to carry your mat."
11
He answered them, "The man who made me well, he told me, 'Pick up your mat
and walk.' "
12
They asked him, "Who is the man telling you to pick up and walk?"
13
But the man who was healed had not known who it was, for Jesus had slipped
away, a crowd being in the place.
14After these things Jesus finds him at the temple and said to him, "Behold, you are
well. Do not sin any longer, or something worse might happen to you." 15The man
went away and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who had made him well.
Hear the Voice of the Son and Live

16And
for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and looked for a way to kill him,
because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. 17But he answered them, "My Father
is working continuously up to now, so I also am working." 18For this reason the Jews
tried all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was
also saying God was his own father, making himself equal to God.
19Therefore Jesus responded and said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, the Son is
not able to do anything of himself, 338 but only what he sees the Father doing. For
whatever things that One does, these things also the Son does likewise. 20For the Father
loves the Son, and shows him every thing that he does. And indeed, greater works than
these he will show him, such that you will be constantly amazed. 21For just as the
Father raises the dead and makes them alive, in this way also the Son makes alive those
whom he wishes. 22Moreover, the Father judges no one, but instead has given all
judgment to the Son, 23that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The
person who does not honor the Son is not honoring the Father who sent him.
24"Truly, truly I say to you, the person who hears my word and believes the one who
sent me, has eternal life, and is not going into judgment, but has crossed over out of death
into life. 25Truly, truly I say to you, a time is coming, and is now come, when the dead
will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live. 26For just as the
Father has life in himself, so he has granted to the Son also to have life in himself.
27And to him he has given authority to do the judging, because he is the son of a
human.339
337
The earliest Greek manuscripts of John do not contain the last part of what is now known as verse 3, and
do not contain all of verse 4. The earliest manuscripts that do contain the passage, say at the end of verse 3,
and then also add verse 4: "..., waiting for the movement of the water. 4For an angel of the Lord from time to
time would wash in the pool, and stir up the water. So the first one getting down in after the stirring of the
water would be healed, whatever disease he had formerly been afflicted with." Then manuscripts subsequent
to those, appear to have replaced the clearly absurd "washing" by the angel with "an angel would come down
into." There should not be any doubt that this passage was not in the original gospel of John.
338
According to Bauer, ap' heaoutou is an expression known in Classical Greek using the
preposition apo to indicate the originator or authorizer of the action. So also 5:30; 7:17; 7:28;
8:28, 42; 10:18; 11:51; 14:10; 15:4; 16:13; 18:34
339
Or, "The Son of Man." "Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise also
partook of the same, that through death he might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the
devil," Hebrews 2:14. "For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one
who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin," Hebrews 4:15. And because Jesus became
flesh and overcame the flesh, the Father gave him jurisdiction of all flesh, John 17:2.
28"Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming, when all those in the graves will
hear his voice, 29and stream out, the ones who have done good into a resurrection of life,
and the ones who have done evil into a resurrection of judgment. 340 30I of myself am
not able to do a thing; only as I hear do I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I
am not seeking my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.
Testimonies About Jesus

31
"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not valid. 32There is another who
testifies about me, and I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
33
"You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. 34I do not accept
testimony from a human being; but I am saying these things so that you may be saved.
35
That one was a burning and shining lamp, and in his light you were willing to exult, for
a time.
36
"But I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works which the
Father has given me to finish, the same works which I am doing, they testify about me
that the Father has sent me. 37And the Father who sent me, He has testified about me.
You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form. 38And His word, you
do not have living in you, because the one he has sent, him you do not believe. 39You
diligently study the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life.
And these are the ones that testify about me. 40Yet you refuse to come to me so that you
may have life.
41"I do not accept praise from human beings; 42but I know you, that you do not have
the love of God in yourselves. 43I have come in my Father's name, and you do not
accept me; if someone else comes in his own name, him you will accept. 44How is it
possible for you to believe, accepting honor from one another, and not seeking the praise
from the only God?
45"But do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. The one accusing you
is Moses, on whom you have placed your hope. 46For if you were believing Moses, you
would be believing me, for he wrote about me. 47But since you are not believing his
writings, how will you believe my statements?"
Chapter 6
1After
these things, Jesus went across to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (the Sea
of Tiberias). 2And a large crowd followed him, because they had seen the miraculous
signs he had been performing on the sick.
3Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he was sitting, with his disciples. 4And
the Passover was near, the festival of the Jews. 5Then, lifting up his eyes and seeing
that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus says to Philip, "Where might we buy
loaves so that these people can eat?" 6But he said this testing him, for he himself had
known what he was about to do.
7Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii341 are not enough loaves for them to
each get a little!

8One of his disciples, andrew the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, 9"There is a
youth here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they in the face of so
many?"
10Jesus said, "Get the people to recline." Now there was plenty of green grass in the
place. The men therefore reclined, the number about five thousand. 11Then Jesus took
the loaves, and after giving thanks, he distributed to those reclining, and likewise from
the fish, as much as they wanted.
340
Isaiah 26:19 - 27:1, Daniel 12:1-3
341
About 8 months of a man's wages
12And when they were full, he says to his disciples, "Gather the fragments that are
left over, so that nothing is wasted." 13So they gathered, and filled twelve large baskets
with fragments of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.
14Then the people, having seen the miraculous sign he had done, were saying, "This
surely is the Prophet who was to come into the world." 342 15Jesus therefore, knowing
that they were about to come and take him by force to try to make him king, withdrew
again into the mountain, himself alone.

16
And when evening had come, his disciples had gone down to the lake, 17and gotten
into a boat, and were proceeding across the lake toward Capernaum. And now darkness
came, and Jesus had not yet come to them, 18and as a great wind was blowing, the lake
was becoming very rough. 19Then, after having rowed about twenty-five or thirty
stadia,343 they behold him walking on the lake, and getting close to the boat, and they
were afraid.
20But he says to them, "It is I. Don't be afraid."
21Then they willingly took him into the boat. And immediately the boat was at the
shore to which they were headed.
I Am the Bread Come Down out of Heaven

22Thenext day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the lake realized that
no other boat had been there except one, and that Jesus had not gotten into the boat with
his disciples, but his disciples had gone away alone. 23(Other boats, from Tiberias,
arrived near the place where they had eaten the loaves, where the Lord had given thanks.)
24When therefore the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got
into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.

25And finding him across the lake, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"
26Jesus answered them, and said, "Truly, truly I say to you, you are looking for me,
not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and were satisfied.
27Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that abides, resulting in eternal life,
which the Son of Man will give you. For him God the Father has sealed."
28They therefore said to him, "What should we do in order to be working the works
of God?"
29Jesus answered, and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in that
one whom he has sent."

30So they said to him, "What miraculous sign then are you performing, so that we
may see, and believe you? What works are you working? 31Our forefathers ate the
manna in the desert; as it is written: 'He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.' 344"
32Jesus therefore said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, the bread out of heaven is
not given you by Moses; no, the real bread out of heaven my Father is giving you. 33For
the bread of God, is the one coming down out of heaven and giving life to the world."
34They said therefore to him, "Sir, give us that bread evermore."
35Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The person who comes to me, would
never hunger, and the one believing in me would never thirst. 36But as I told you, you
have seen me and still you are not believing. 37All flesh that the Father gives to me will
come to me, and the one who comes to me, I would certainly not drive away. 38For I
have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.
39And this is the will of him who sent me: that of all flesh that he has given me, I would
not lose any of it, but raise it up at the last day. 40For this is the will of my Father: that
anyone looking to the Son and believing in him would have eternal life, and I would raise
him up at the last day."
342
343
This is about halfway across the lake. (Three or three and a half miles, or five or six kilometers.)
344
Exodus 16:4; Psalm 78:24-25; Nehemiah 9:15
41Then the Jews started grumbling about him, because he said, "I am the bread
having come down out of heaven." 42And they were saying, "Isn't this the Jesus son of
Joseph whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I have come down
out of heaven'?"
43
Jesus answered and said to them, "Stop grumbling among yourselves. 44No one
can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I would raise him up at the
last day. 45It is written in the Prophets: 'And they shall all be taught by God. 345
'
46
Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to me. Not that anyone
has seen the Father except the one who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47Truly,
truly I say to you, the person who does believe in me has eternal life. 48I am the bread
of life. 49Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, and they died. 50But this is
bread coming down out of heaven such that one may eat of it and would not die. 51I am
the living bread come down out of heaven. If someone eats of this bread, he will live
for ever. Namely, the bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
52
Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, saying, "How can this
man give us his flesh to eat?"
53Jesus therefore said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of
the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54The person eating my
flesh and drinking my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
55For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56The one eating my flesh and
drinking my blood abides in me, and I in him. 57Just as the living Father has sent me,
and I live by means of the Father, so also that person eating me will live by means of me.
58This bread coming down out of heaven is not like the bread the forefathers ate and then
died. The person eating this bread will live for ever." 59These things he said while
teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.
A Teaching Too Scandalous for Some

60Then
many of his disciples hearing said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can listen
to it?"
61But
knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to
them, "This is shocking you? 62Then what if you were seeing the Son of Man ascend to
where he was before? 63Spirit is what makes alive; flesh counts for nothing. The
words that I have spoken to you are spirit, and they are life. 64Yet some of you are not
believing." For Jesus had known from the beginning who the ones not believing were,
and who the one was, who would betray him. 65He went on to say, “This is why I told
you that no one has the ability to come to me, unless it is given to him from the Father.”
66From this, many of his disciples drew back, and no longer went along with him.
67Jesus therefore said to the twelve, "You are not thinking of leaving too, are you?"
68Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of
eternal life. 69And we have believed and have come to know that you are the Holy One
of God."
70Jesus responded to them, "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve, for myself? Yet
one of you is a devil." 71He was speaking of Judas, son of Simon of Kerioth; for he, one
of the Twelve, was going to betray him.
Chapter 7
Jesus' Brothers Judge Him Falsely
1And after these things, Jesus was walking around in Galilee, for he was not wanting
to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. 2But the Jewish Festival of
Booths was near. 3So his brothers said to him, "Remove yourself from here and go to
Judea, so that your disciples there also will see the miracles you are doing. 4For no one
who wants to become famous, acts in secret. If you really are doing these things, show
yourself to the world." 5For even his own brothers did not believe in him.
345
Isaiah 54:13
6
Jesus therefore said to them, "The time for me has not yet come. But for you the
time is always suitable. 7The world cannot hate you, but me it hates, because I testify
about it, that its works are evil. 8You go up to the festival. I am not going up346 to
this festival, because for me the time is not yet fully come." 9And having said these
things, he remained in Galilee.
Jesus Goes Up for Sukkot

10And when his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up, not
openly, but in secret. 11The Jews therefore were looking for him in the festival, and
saying, "Where is that fellow?"
12And there was much whispering about him in the crowds. Some were
maintaining, "He is a good man."
Others were saying, "No. On the contrary, he is misleading the people."
13
Though none would speak about him openly, for fear of the Jews.
14
And when it was already the middle of the festival, Jesus went up to the temple,
and was teaching. 15The Jews then were marveling, saying, "How does this man know
letters, not having received instruction?"
16Jesus therefore answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but rather his
who sent me. 17If someone is inclined to do His will, he will find out about the
teaching, whether it is from God, or I am speaking from myself. 18One who speaks
from himself is seeking his own glory. But one seeking the glory of Him who sent him,
such a one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him. 19Has not Moses given you
the law? Yet none of you performs the law. Why are you trying to kill me?"
20The crowd responded, "You have a demon. Who is trying to kill you?"
21Jesus answered and said to them, "One work I did, 347 and you are all appalled.
22Why is it Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but rather from the
patriarchs) and during the Sabbath you circumcise a man? 348 23If a man receives
circumcision during the Sabbath so that the law of Moses not be broken, why are you
incensed at me that I have made the whole man whole during the Sabbath? 24Judge not
by appearances, but judge the righteous judgment." 349
346
The earliest Greek manuscripts, and also the vast majority of Greek manuscripts and witnesses
altogether, read, "I am not yet going up." They include the Greek word houpw. The witnesses indicating
non-inclusion of this word houpw but instead of it theword ouk, "not," are  D 205 1424 ita, b, d, e r1 syrc, s
copbo arm eth geo slav Diatessaron Porphyryacc to Jerome Epiphanius Chrysostom Cyril; Ambrosiaster,
augustine. The currently dominant theory about the reading "not yet going up" is that it was introduced early
in the transmission of the text (P66, about the year 200), to alleviate the seeming inconsistency between verse 8
and what Jesus actually did in verse 10. It is understandable if copyists wanted to defend Jesus, to keep him
from appearing to be a liar. Yet I say, that if that was their goal, they did not accomplish it, one, because Jesus
was still deceptive, in that he "went up, not openly, but in secret," v. 10. Even without the word "yet" added,
Jesus still deceived his brothers, and also those in Jerusalem who were trying to kill him. It is ethically
permissible to lie to those trying to kill you. And two, the presence of the word houpw is not necessary for a
third time in this context for the purpose of defending Jesus from deception, seeing that Jesus already said it two
other times: in verse 6 and verse 8, so he still basically did not actually deny altogether that he would go up to
this feast ever. On the other hand, since the reading "not yet" is found in the earliest manuscripts, including
the ones currently thought to be the most reliable, and included in the vast majority of manuscripts, it is
understandable why the UBS editorial committee gives their reading only a C rating of certainty. As for me, I
have not seen any convincing argument as to why the copyists who produced those manuscripts not containing
the word "yet," why they might have deleted it. It is much easier to explain why copyists might add the word
"yet," than why they might delete it.
347
They were still indignant that he had worked on the Sabbath, healed the cripple on the Sabbath the last
time he was in Jerusalem, in John 5:8-10; Diatessaron 8:3-4.
348
When a male child was born, it was commanded he be circumcised on the eighth day. (Gen. 17:12;
Ex. 22:30; Lev. 12:3) If the eighth day happened to fall on a Sabbath, no matter; they had to cut part of the
boy off on the Sabbath, even though it was work on the Sabbath. This aspect of cutting off part of a man,
circumcision, is also what Jesus was asking about- “You cut off part of a man on the Sabbath, so how can you
be upset with me if I made the whole man whole on the Sabbath?”
349
"judge the righteous judgment." The definite article in this use may well be "anaphoric," in that it is
meant to refer back to something with which they are already familiar: that judgment commanded in
Deuteronomy 16:18, "they shall judge a righteous judgment," without the article. For indeed, those Jesus was
Is Jesus the Anointed One?
25
Then some of the Jerusalemites were saying, "Is this not the man they are trying to
kill? 26And behold he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him. Could it be
the authorities have actually come to know that this is the Christ? 27Except this man,
we know where he is from; but the Christ, when he comes, no one will know where he is
from."
28
Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, "Yes, me you know, and
you know where I am from. Yet I have not come of myself. True rather is the one
who sent me; him you do not know. 29I know him, because I am from him, and that one
has sent me."
30Then they were trying to seize him, yet no one laid a hand on him, because his
hour had not yet come. 31But many of the crowd put trust on him, and they were
saying, "When the Christ comes, will he perform more signs than this man has done?"
32
The Pharisees heard these whisperings of the crowd about him, and the chief priests
and the Pharisees sent officers350 to arrest him.
33Jesus continued and said, "Just a short time more I am with you, and then I am
going away, to the one who sent me. 34You will look for me, and will not find me, and
where I am, you are not able to come."
35The Jews therefore said among themselves, "Where is this man about to go, that
we will not find him? Is he about to go into the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach
the Greeks? 36What is the meaning of this statement that he said, 'You will look for me
and will not find me, and where I am you are not able to come'?"
37And in the great and final day of the festival, there stood Jesus. And he cried out,
saying, "If anyone is thirsty, he should come to me; and drink, 38he who believes on me.
As the scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from His belly." 39Now this
he said in reference to the Spirit, whom those believing in him were about to receive.
For the Spirit was not yet present, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.
40Some in the crowd therefore who heard these words were saying, "Surely this man
is the Prophet."351
41Others were saying, "This man is the Christ."
The former were then saying, "What? The Christ comes from Galilee? 42Didn't
the scripture say that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the
village where David lived?" 43A split therefore occurred among the crowd because of
him. 44And some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him.
Unbelief of the Jewish Authorities

45Then
the officers went to the chief priests and Pharisees, and those said to them,
"Why have you not brought him?"
46The officers answered, "Never has someone spoken so, like this man speaks."
47The Pharisees therefore answered them, "Have you also been deceived? 48Has
anyone of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed on him? 49As for this crowd,
cursed are they, not understanding the law."
50Nicodemus, the one who had come to him previously, who was one of them, says
to them, 51"Our law does not judge the man unless it first hears from him, and knows
what he is doing, does it?"
52They answered and said to him, "You aren't from Galilee too, are you?
Investigate and see, that no prophet arises out of Galilee." 352
probably talking to were judges. The scribes also sat in judgment, being one component of the Sanhedrin, and
the subjects of Deuteronomy 16:18 were "judges and clerks."
350
Probably temple police officers or guards. Rome did authorize the Sanhedrin to have a company of
guards with powers of arrest.
351
352
The reading foun in papyri 66 and 75 is, "the Prophet does not arise out of Galilee." Papyrus 66 is our
earliest or second earliest of all the Greek manuscripts of the gospels. The other manuscripts do not have the
The Woman Caught in Adultery
53And each went to his home.353
Chapter 8
1
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2And at dawn, he showed up in the temple
again, and all the people were coming toward him. And having sat down he was
teaching them. 3And the Torah scholars and the Pharisees are bringing toward him a
woman caught in adultery. And after they stood her in the midst, 4they say to him,
"Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery. 5In the Law, Moses
charged us to stone such women. What then do you say?" 6Now this they were saying
tempting him, in order that they might obtain basis to accuse him.
But Jesus bent down and was writing on the ground with his finger, [taking no
notice]. 7And after they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them,
"The one among you who is sinless should be first to throw a stone at her." 8And after
bending down again, he continued writing on the ground.
9And after they heard this, they went away, one by one, starting with the oldest, until
he alone was left, and the woman still in the midst. 10And Jesus straightened up, and
said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
11And she said, "No one, sir."
And Jesus said, "Neither am I condemning you. Go, and sin no more."
The Validity of Jesus' Testimony

12Jesus then spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. The person
who follows me will not walk around in the darkness, but on the contrary, he will have
for himself the light of life."
13The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You are testifying about yourself. Your
testimony is not valid."

14Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is
valid, because I know where I came from, and where I am going. But you do not know
where I am coming from, or where I am going. 15You judge by the flesh; I judge no
one. 16But even if I judge, my judgment is valid, because I am not alone: it is I and the
one who sent me. 17Now even in your law it is written, that the testimony of two
persons is valid.354 18I am one testifying about myself, and the one who sent me is
testifying about me, the Father."
19Then they were saying to him, "Where is your father?"
Jesus answered, "Neither me nor my Father do you know. If you knew me, you
would know my Father also." 20These statements he spoke in the treasury, teaching in
the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.
21Continuing, he said to them, "I am going; and you will seek me, and you will die
in your sins. Where I am going, you are not able to come."

22So the Jews were saying, "Is he going to kill himself, that he says, 'Where I am
going, you are not able to come'?"
article, "the." And the Majority Text says, no prophet "has arisen." A prophet had in fact come out of
Galilee before. According to II Kings 14:25, the prophet Jonah was from Gath Hepher, in Galilee, in the
territory of the tribe of Zebulun (Joshua 19:13), only one hill over from Nazareth, if not the same hill. This is
yet another way in which Jonah was a sign of Christ.
353
The passage known as "The Woman Caught in Adultery," or "the Pericope of the Adulteress," John 7:53
through 8:11, is absent from many ancient Greek manuscripts and early translations into other languages, in
some manuscripts it is in other locations in John, and in some it is even found in the gospel of Luke. See the
endnote in my stand-alone translation of the gospel of John for a full discussion of this issue, or here:
http://bibletranslation.ws/trans/pachart.pdf Here is another article about it as well, an Acrobat Reader pdf
document:
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/TCG/TC-John-PA.pdf
354
Deutronomy 19:15
23
And he said to them, "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world,
I am not of this world. 24I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not
believe that I am who I am, you will die in your sins."
25
Therefore they were saying to him, "Who are you?"
Jesus said to them, "Why am I even speaking to you at all?355 26I have many things
to say about you, and to judge. But the one who sent me is true, and I, what things I
hear from him, those are the things I speak in the world."
27
They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father. 28Then
Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will find out that I am he, and of
myself I do nothing, but rather exactly as the Father has taught me, those things I speak.
29
And the one who sent me is continually with me. He has not left me alone, because I
always do the things pleasing to him." 30As he was speaking these things, many
believed in him.
The Children of Abraham

31Jesus
was therefore saying to the ones who had believed in him, "If you continue
in my word, you are true disciples of mine, 32and you will know the truth, and the truth
will make you free."
33They responded to him, "We are seed of Abraham, and to no one have we ever
been enslaved. How do you mean, that we will become free?"

34Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I say to you, everyone doing sin is a slave of
sin. 35And the slave does not abide in the house in perpetuity; the Son abides in
perpetuity. 36If therefore the Son should make you free, you will be free indeed. 37I
know that you are seed of Abraham; yet you are trying to kill me, because my word has
no room in you. 38The things that I have seen with the Father, I speak, and you then the
things you have heard from your father, you are doing."
39They answered and said to him, "Our father is Abraham."
Jesus says to them, "If you were children of Abraham, you would be doing the works
of Abraham. 40But as it is, you are trying to kill me, someone who has spoken to you
the truth he has heard from God. This, Abraham did not do. 41You are doing the
works of your father."
They said to him, "We were not conceived in fornication. We have one father:
God."
The Children of the Devil

42Jesussaid to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I went out
from God and have arrived here. For neither did I come of myself, but that One sent
me. 43What is the reason you do not understand my speech? Because you are not able
to tolerate my word. 44You are of your father, the Devil, and the yearnings of your
father you want to do. That one has been homicidal from the beginning, and in the truth
he has never stood still, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he is
speaking from his own things, for he is a liar, and the father of the lie. 45So I, because I
am saying the truth, you do not believe me. 46Who of you is convicting me of a sin?
If I am saying the truth, why is it you do not believe me? 47The ones who are of the
Father hear the statements of the Father. This is why you do not hear; you are not of
God."
355
A problem with the traditional rendering "I am what I have told you from the beginning," is that Jesus had
not really told them who he was, prior to this. He was rather evasive to them about it. Clearly from context,
these are not conversation partners with whom he was sympathetic: "You are from below, I am from above...
You shall die in your sins..." And Jesus' next words, "I have much to say to you, but...I only speak what I
hear from the Father," would be a natural continuance from him saying something like "Why do I speak to you
at all?" For his next words indicate a holding back from speaking. Both sentences then would have a theme
of him not speaking.
The Authorities Attempt Stoning for Claim of Pre-Eminence of Abraham
48The Jews answered and said to him, "Do we not rightly say that you are a
Samaritan, and have a demon?"
49
Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon. Quite the opposite, I am honoring my
Father. And you are dishonoring me. 50It is not me seeking my glory. There is One
seeking, and judging. 51Truly, truly I say to you, If someone follows my word, death he
will by no means see, into all time."
52
The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died,
and also the Prophets, and you say, 'If someone follows my word, death he will by no
means experience, into all time.' 53Are you greater than our forefather Abraham, who
died? And the Prophets also died. What sort of man do you reckon yourself?"
54
Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, that glory of mine is worthless. My Father is
the one glorifying me, the one that you say is your God. 55And you have never known
him, but I know him. Now if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like
you. But I do know him, and his word I am following. 56Abraham, your forefather,
made exultation yearning to see my day. And he saw it, and was thrilled."
57The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty, and you have beheld
Abraham?"
58Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am." 59Then
they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went forth from the
temple.
Chapter 9
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
1And as he was going along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2And his disciples
queried him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born
blind?"
3Jesus answered, "Neither that this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the works of
God might be displayed in him. 4We must be working at the works of him who sent
me, while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5As long as I am in the
world, I am the light of the world."
6When he had said these things, he spit on the ground, and made mud with the
saliva, and rubbed the mud on the man's eyes. 7And he said to him, "Go, wash in the
pool of 'Siloam'" (which when translated is 'Sent'). He went therefore and washed, and
came back seeing.
8His neighbors therefore, and those who had previously observed him being a
beggar, were saying, "Isn't this the man usually sitting and begging?"
9Some were saying, "This is the same man."
Others were saying, "No; he only looks like him."

He himself kept saying, "I am the one."
10They were saying therefore to him, "How were your eyes opened?"
11He answered, "The man named Jesus made mud and rubbed my eyes with it, and
he told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So when I went and washed, I saw again."
12And they said to him, "Where is that man?
He says, "I don't know."
The Authorities Investigate the Healing

13And
they take him to the Pharisees, the man who had once been blind. 14And the
day on which Jesus had made mud and opened his eyes had been a Sabbath. 15So again,
the Pharisees also asked him how he came to see. And he told them, "He put mud on
my eyes, and I washed, and now I see."
16Some of the Pharisees therefore were saying, "This man is not from God, because
he does not keep the Sabbath."

But others were saying, "How can a sinful man do such miracles?" So there was a
split among them.
17
Then they are talking to the blind man again: "What do you say about him? For it
was your eyes he opened."
And he said, "He is a prophet."
18
The result was the Jews did not believe about him that he used to be blind and then
saw; until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight. 19And
they questioned them, saying, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? And if
so, how does he now see?"
20
His parents therefore answered and said, "We know that this is our son, and that he
was born blind. 21But how he now sees, we do not know. Or who opened his eyes,
we do not know. Ask him; he has majority. He will speak for himself." 22His
parents said these things because they were fearing the Jews. For the Jews had already
decided that anyone who acknowledged Him to be the Christ would be put out of the
synagogue. 23This is why his parents said, "He has majority; ask him."
24
Then the man who had been blind they summoned a second time. And they said
to him, "Give credit to God. We know that this man is sinful."356
25
He then answered, "Whether he is sinful, I do not know. One thing I know:
Whereas I used to be blind, now I see."
26They said therefore to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your
eyes?"
27He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want
to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?"

28And they ridiculed him and said, "You are the disciple of that one. We are
disciples of Moses. 29We know for sure that God has spoken to Moses; but this fellow,
we don't know where he comes from."
30The man answered and said to them, "Well, there certainly is something strange in
this, that you don't know where he comes from, and he opened my eyes. 31We know
that God does not hear the sinful. But if someone is God-fearing, and practicing his
will, this kind he hears. 32Since time began, reports have not been heard that someone
opened the eyes of one born blind. 33If this man were not from God, he would not have
been able to do anything."
34They answered and said to him, "You were born totally in sin, and you are
teaching us?" Then they threw him out.
Spiritual Blindness
35Jesus
heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you
believe in the Son of Man?"
36That one answered and said, "And who is he, sir, so that I may believe in him."
37Jesus said to him, "Not only have you seen him, but he is the one talking with
you."
38And he said, "I believe, Lord." And he worshipped him.
39And Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those not seeing
may see, and that those seeing, may become blind."

40Some of the Pharisees heard these words, some who were with him, and they said
to him, "And us, we are not blind, are we?"

41Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sins. But as you are
now saying, 'We see,' your sins remain.
Chapter 10
The Good Shepherd
1"Truly,
truly I say to you, the one not entering the sheep fold through the door, but
instead climbing up another way, that one is a thief and a bandit. 2But the one entering
through the door, is the shepherd of the sheep. 3The doorkeeper opens for this one, and
356
Literally, "Give glory to God." Or give credit to God, that he knows the truth anyway, so you might as
well admit that this man is sinful. Give up on trying to hide the truth from God.
the sheep hear his voice. And he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them forth.
4
When he has brought out all his own, he goes on before them, and the sheep follow him,
because they know his voice. 5But a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from
him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."
6
This parable Jesus told them, but they did not understand what the principles were
that he was speaking to them.
7
Again therefore Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, I am the door of the
sheep. 8All who came before me are thieves and bandits; but the sheep did not hear
them. 9I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will go in
and go out, and find pasture. 10The thief does not come, except to steal, and to kill, and
to ruin. I have come so they might have life, and have it more.
11
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
12
The wage earner, not being a shepherd, and for whom the sheep are not his own, sees
the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and flees, and the wolf seizes them and scatters
them. 13For he is a wage earner, and it matters not to him about the sheep.
14
"I am the good shepherd, and I know mine, and mine know me. 15Just as the
Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.
16Other sheep I also have, which are not of this fold. Those also I am to bring, and my
voice they will hear, and the result will be one flock, one shepherd. 17For this reason
my Father loves me, that I lay down my life, such that I will take it up again. 18No one
takes it from me; I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have
authority to take it up again; this order I received from my Father."
19Because of these words, there was again a split among the Jews. 20Many of them
were saying, "He has a demon, and he's crazy. Why are you listening to him?"
21Others were saying, "These are not the expressions of someone demonized. Can
a demon open the eyes of the blind?"
The Authorities Again Attempt Stoning for Claim of Equality With God
22Then
came the Festival of Dedication357 at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and
Jesus was walking in the temple, in the Portico of Solomon. 24Then the Jews
surrounded him, and were saying to him, "How long are you keeping our souls in
suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us clearly."
25Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I am
doing in the name of my Father, these testify for me. 26Yet, you are not believing,
because you are not of my sheep. 27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and
they follow me. 28And I give to them eternal life, and they will by no means perish,
into all time, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29My Father, the one who
gave them to me, he is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the
Father's hand. 30I and the Father are one."
31Again, the Jews lifted up stones in order to stone him. 32Jesus responded to
them, "Many good works I have shown you from the Father. For which work of them
are you stoning me?"
33The Jews answered him, "Not for good works are we stoning you, but for
blasphemy, because you, being a human, are making yourself God."

34Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I have said, "You are
gods"'?358 35Why, since he called those to whom the word of God came 'gods,' and the
scripture cannot be voided, 36do you say to the one the Father has consecrated and sent
into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because he said, 'I am the Son of God'? 37If I am
not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me. 38And if I am doing them, even if
you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may acknowledge and know that
the Father is in me, and I in the Father." 39And again they were trying to arrest him.
And he got out of their grasp.
357
Hanukkah, or Feast of Lights, an annual festival for eight days beginning on the 25th day of the month of
Kislev.
358
Psalm 82:6, identical to the letter, to the Septuagint.
40
And he went back to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John had
earlier been baptizing, and he stayed there a while. 41And many came to him. And
they were saying, "Though John performed no miraculous sign, everything John said
about this man was true." 42And many there believed in him.
Chapter 11
The Death of Lazarus
1
Now a certain man was ailing, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her
sister Martha. 2And the Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed ointment and who
wiped his feet off with her hair, was the one whose brother was ailing. 3The sisters
therefore sent to him, saying, "Lord, behold, the one you love is ailing."
4
And when he heard, Jesus said, "This sickness is not to death, but rather for the
glory of God, in order that the Son of God be glorified through it." 5(But Jesus loved
Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.) 6When then he heard that he was ailing, at that
time he actually remained in the place in which he was, for two days. 7Only then, after
this, he says to the disciples, "Let us go back to Judea."
8The disciples are saying to him, "The Jews were just now trying to stone you, and
you are going back there?"

9Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of day? If someone walks around in
the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10But if someone
walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not with him."
11He said these things. And after this, he is saying to them, "Our friend Lazarus
has fallen asleep, but I am going in order to wake him up."

12The disciples therefore said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, that will help
him." 13But Jesus had spoken of his death, whereas they thought he was speaking of the
repose of sleep.
14So then, Jesus said to them plainly, "Lazarus died. 15And for your sakes I am
glad I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."
16Then Thomas, the one called the Twin, said to the rest of the disciples, "Let us go
also, and die with him."
"I Am the Resurrection and the Life"

17Arriving
therefore, Jesus found him already in the tomb four days since. 18Now
Bethany was close to Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia apart,359 19and many of the Jews
had come to Martha and Mary, to console them regarding their brother. 20When
therefore Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary stayed put
in the house.
21Martha therefore said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not
have died. 22Even now, I know that whatever things you ask God for, God will grant
you."
23Jesus says to her, "Your brother will rise again."
24Martha says to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last
day."
25Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection, and the life. The person who believes in
me, even though he dies, will live; 26and everyone who is living and believes in me, will
never die. Do you believe this?"
27She says to him, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the
Son of God, the one expected to come into the world."

28And having said this she went off, and discreetly invited her sister Mary, as
follows, "The Teacher is here, and is asking for you." 29That one then, when she heard,
quickly got up and was coming toward him. 30(Jesus had not yet come into the village,
but was still at the place where Martha had met him.) 31The Jews therefore who were
359
About 3 kilometers, less than 2 miles.
with Mary in the house and consoling her, when they saw how she quickly got up and
went out, they followed her, thinking, "She is going to the tomb, to grieve there."
32
Mary therefore, when she arrived where Jesus was, fell at his feet when she saw
him, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."
33
Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her
weeping, heaved with deep emotion, and churned inside himself. 34And he said,
"Where have you laid him?"
They are saying to him, "Lord, come and see."
35
Jesus showed tears.
36The Jews therefore were saying, "See how he loved him."
37
But some of them said, "Shouldn't he who opened the eyes of the blind man, also
have been able to make it so this man would not have died?"
Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead

38
Then Jesus, again heaving inside himself, arrives at the tomb. And a cave it was,
and a stone was there, covering over it. 39Jesus says, "Take away the stone."
Martha, the sister of the one who was dead, says, "Lord, by now he smells; it is the
fourth day."
40Jesus says to her, "Did I not tell you, that if you believed, you would see the glory
of God?"
41They therefore took away the stone. And Jesus lifted his eyes aboveward, and
said, "Father, I thank you, that you have heard me. 42But I already knew that you
always hear me. Only for the sake of the crowd standing around did I say this, so that
they may believe that it was you who sent me."
43And having said these things, he shouted out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come
out!" 44The dead man came out, his feet and hands bound up with bandages, and his
face wrapped in a handkerchief.
Jesus says to them, "Untangle him and allow him to go."
Sanhedrin Decides Jesus Must Die

45Many
of the Jews therefore, of those who had come to Mary and seen what he did,
believed in him. 46But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them what things
Jesus had done. 47So the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled a Sanhedrin.
And they were saying, "What are we doing, that this man is performing so many
signs? 48If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans
will come, and take away both our place360 and our nation."
49
But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You
people know nothing. 50Neither are you considering how it is expedient for you that
one man die for the people, and not the whole nation perish."
51But this, from himself he did not say. But rather, being high priest that year, he
prophesied, that Jesus was about to die for the nation. 52And not for the nation only, but
such that the children of God scattered about, he would gather also, into one people.361
53Thus from that time on they were resolved that they would kill him. 54Therefore,
Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but departed from there to an area next to
the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed, along with his disciples.
55But then the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from
out of the country before the Passover, to purify themselves. 56They were watching for
Jesus therefore, and speaking with one another, as they stood in the temple, "How does it
seem to you? That he is not coming to the festival at all?" 57Now the chief priests and
the Pharisees had given orders, that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, so
that they might arrest him.
360
Perhaps, "our place of worship," or temple.
361
Ephesians 3:6; 2:15; John 10:16; I John 2:2; Romans 4:9,12; 11:25,26; Gal. 3:26-29; 6:16; Eph.
2:19,20; Rev. 21:9-14
Chapter 12
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
1Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was,
whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2So they made a supper for him there, and
Martha was serving, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him. 3Then Mary,
having taken a litre362 of expensive ointment of pure oil of nardroot, anointed the feet of
Jesus, and with her hair, she wiped his feet. And the house was filled with the smell of
the ointment.
4But Judas the Keriothite, one of his disciples, the one about to betray him, says,
5
"Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii 363 and given to the poor?"
6
But he said this not because it mattered to him about the poor, but because he was a
thief, and having charge of the moneybag, he would steal from what was put in.
7
Jesus said therefore, "Leave her alone. It was that she kept it for the day of my
burial. 8The poor you always have with you, but me, you do not always have."
9Then the great crowd of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not
only because of Jesus, but also that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the
dead. 10So the chief priests resolved that they would kill Lazarus also, 11for many of
the Jews were going out because of him, and then believing in Jesus.
The Triumphal Entry

12The
next day, the great crowd that had come for the festival, hearing that Jesus is
arriving into Jerusalem, 13took the fronds of palm trees, and went out into a merging with
him. And they were crying out:
"Hosha na!’364
name of the Lord,365
the king of Israel!’
14And
Jesus, having found a young donkey, took his seat upon it, just as it is written:
15"Fear
not, O daughter of Zion;
Behold, your king is coming
sitting on the foal of a donkey."366
16These things his disciples did not know at first, but once Jesus was glorified, then
they remembered that these things had been written in reference to him, and that these
things they had done to him.
17The crowd therefore, the one that had been with him when he called Lazarus from
the tomb and raised him from the dead, had been bearing witness. 18Because of this the
crowd had come out to join him, that they had understood him to have done this sign.
19Then the Pharisees said to each other, "Observe, that you are not prevailing at all.
Behold, the world has gone after him!"
362
In modern litres, about one half litre, or about a pint. The litra was a loanword from the Latin libra, for
"pound," a 12-ounce pound.
363
About a year's wages.
364
From Psalm 118:25 "Save now!" or "Save indeed!" No doubt some in the crowd accompanying him
expected him, as the Messiah ben David, to literally "save now," and deliver them from the Romans and set up
the kingdom of David.
365
Psalm 118:26
366
Zechariah 9:9
Jesus Ponders Crucifixion
20And among those going up to worship at the festival, were some Greeks.
21
These, then, came up to Philip, he from Bethsaida, Galilee. And they beseeched him,
saying, "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." 22Philip comes and tells Andrew; Andrew and
Philip come and tell Jesus.
23
And Jesus responds to them as follows: "The hour has come, that the Son of Man
should be glorified. 24Truly, truly I say to you, if a kernel of wheat does not fall to the
ground and die, it remains only one; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25The person who
loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world will preserve it into
eternal life. 26If someone is serving me, he must follow me; and where I am, there also
my servant will be. If someone is serving me, my Father will honor him.
27
"Now, my soul has become troubled. And what shall I say– 'Father, save me
from this hour?' No, for this very thing I have arrived to this hour."
28
"Father, glorify your name."
Then a voice came from heaven: "I both have glorified it, and will glorify again."
29The crowd therefore standing and hearing was maintaining thunder to have happened.
Others were saying, "An angel spoke to him."

30
Jesus answered and said, "Not for my sake has this voice happened, but for you.
31Now comes judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.
32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will attract all mankind to me." 33Now this he
was saying signaling what manner of death he was about to die.

34The crowd then responded to him: "We have heard out of the law that the Christ
remains for ever, so how is it you are saying that the Son of Man is to be lifted up? 367
Who is this Son of Man?"
35Jesus therefore said to them, "The light is among you a little while longer. Walk,
while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you. For the person
walking in darkness does not know where he is going. 36While you have the light,
believe in the light, so that you may be children of light."
Jesus spoke these things, then went away and was hidden from them.
The Authorities Continue in Unbelief

37But,though having done so many signs right in front of them, they were not
believing in him, 38so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled, which said,
"Lord, who has believed our report?

And the arm of the Lord,
to whom has it been revealed?"368
39Because
of this they were not able to believe: that again, Isaiah said,
40"He has blinded their eyes,

and he has hardened their hearts,
so that they would neither see
with their eyes,
nor understand with their hearts,
nor look back around,
such that I would heal them."369
41(Isaiah
said these things, because he saw Jesus' glory, so he spoke about him.)
42Even
so, many even of the rulers believed in him. But, because of the Pharisees,
they were not confessing it, for fear they would be put out of the synagogue. 43For:
367
Even the Jews understood the phrase “lifted up” to mean crucifixion and death. It does not mean
“praised.”
368
Isaiah 53:1
369
Isaiah 6:10
They loved the approval
of human beings
over and above
the approval of God.370
44
But Jesus cried out, and said, "The person believing in me, is not believing in me
but in the one who sent me, 45and the one looking upon me, is looking upon the one who
sent me. 46I have come into the world as a light, so that everyone believing in me may
not abide in darkness.
47"And if someone hears my sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him.
For I did not come in order to judge the world, but to save the world. 48The person
rejecting me and not believing my statements, has what judges him: the word which I
spoke, that will judge him at the last day. 49For I from myself have not spoken; rather,
the Father who sent me, he has given me commandment, what I should say, and how I
should speak. 50And I know, that his commandment means eternal life. Therefore,
what things I speak, just as the Father has said them to me, I speak them just so."
Chapter 13
The Passover Supper
1And before the Festival of Passover, Jesus, aware that the hour had come for him to
pass on from this world to the Father, and having loved those of his own in the world,
loved them to the end. 2And supper having started, with the devil having already put it
in the heart of Judas son of Simon of Kerioth to betray him, 3and aware that the Father
had given all things into his hands, and that he had come forth from God and to God he
was going, 4Jesus rises from the supper and lays down his clothing, and taking a towel,
he fastened it around himself. 5Then, he is putting water into a basin. And he began to
wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them off with the towel in which he was
girded.
6Thus he comes to Simon Peter. Who says to him, "Lord, You are washing my
feet?"
7Jesus answered, and said to him, "What I am doing, you do not know yet, but after
these things, you will know."

8Peter says to him, "No way will you ever wash my feet."
Jesus answered him, "Unless I wash you, you have no place with me."
9Simon Peter says to him, "Lord. Not just my feet, but my hands and my head as
well."
10Jesus says to him, "One who is bathed has no need, except for the feet, to wash,
but is clean on the whole. And you men are clean; though not all of you." 11For he
already knew of the one betraying him; for this reason he said, "Not all of you are clean."
12When therefore he had washed their feet and taken his clothes and reclined again,
he said to them, "Do you know what I have done for you? 13You call me 'Teacher' and
'Lord,' and rightly you say so, for I am. 14If therefore I, the Lord and the Teacher, have
washed your feet, you also ought to wash the feet of one another. 15For I have given an
example for you, so that just as I have done, you also might do. 16Truly, truly I say to
you: A servant is not greater than his lord, neither an emissary greater than the one who
sent him. 17Since these things you are knowing, blessed are you if you do them.
18"I am not speaking about all of you; I know whom I have chosen; but, so that the
scripture is fulfilled, 'Someone eating my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'371
19"Yes indeed: I am telling you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may
believe who I am.372 20Truly, truly I say to you, The person who accepts whomever I
370
The words are in the character of a solemn pronouncement or verdict.
371
Psalm 41:9
send, is accepting me; and the person who accepts me, is accepting the One who sent
me."
21
When he had said these things, Jesus was disturbed in his spirit, and he testified,
and he said, "Truly, truly I say to you: One of you will betray me."
22The disciples were looking at one another, puzzling over about whom he was
speaking. 23One of his disciples was reclining in the bosom of Jesus, the one Jesus
loved. 24Simon Peter therefore nods to this one to inquire of Jesus about whom he was
speaking. 25That one therefore simply leaned back onto the chest of Jesus and says to
him, "Lord, who is it?"
26
Jesus replied, "It is that one for whom I shall dip and give the piece of bread."
After dipping the piece of bread therefore, he takes it and gives it to Judas, the son of
Simon of Kerioth.
27
And after the bread transaction, at that time Satan entered into that one. Then
Jesus says to him, "What you are doing, do quickly."
28
But none of those reclining knew why he said this to him. 29For some thought
that since Judas was in charge of the money bag, Jesus was telling him, "Buy things we
need for the festival," or, that he should give something to the poor. 30When therefore
that one had taken the piece of bread, he immediately went out. And it was night.
Where Is Jesus Going?
31Then
after he had gone out, Jesus says, "Now is the Son of Man glorified, and in
him God is glorified. 32If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify the Son in
himself, and glorify him at once.
33"Children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will seek me, and just as
I said to the Jews, I now say to you also: 'Where I am going, you are not able to come.'
34"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have
loved you, so you also should love one another. 35By this will everyone know that you
are my disciples: if you have love among one another."
36Simon Peter says to him, "Lord, where are you going?"
Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you are not able to follow me now, but you will
follow later."
37Peter says to him, "Why am I not able to follow you now? I will lay down my life
for you."
38Jesus answers, "You will lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I say to you, a
rooster will not crow, until such time you deny me three times.
Chapter 14
1"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God. Trust also in me. 2In my
Father's house there are many abodes. Otherwise, would I have told you that I am going
to prepare a place for you? 373 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back
and take you in with myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. 4And where I
am going, you know the way."
Jesus the Way to the Father
5Thomas
says to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going— how is it we
know the way?"
6Jesus says to him, "I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me. 7If you have come to know me, you will come to know my
Father as well; indeed, from now on you know him, and have seen him."
372
Or, "you may believe that I am he," or, "may believe that I AM," or, "may believe that I am who I am."
373
See chapter 13 verse 36.
8
Philip says to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that will satisfy us."
9
Jesus says to him, "All this time I have been with you, and you have not come to
know me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father; how is it you say,
'Show us the Father'? 10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in
me? The statements which I say to you I do not speak from myself, but the Father
abiding in me is doing his works. 374 11Believe me that I am in the Father and the
Father is in me. But if not, believe because of those works. 12The person who
believes in me, truly, truly I say to you, the works that I do, that one also shall do, and
even greater than these shall do, because I am going to the Father. 13Indeed, whatever
you shall request in my name, this I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the
Son. 14If you ask me for something in my name, I will do it.
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15"If
you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16And I will ask the Father,
and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be ever with you, 17the Spirit of
truth, which the world is unable to receive, because it neither perceives him nor knows
him. You know him, because he abides among you, and will be in you. 18I will not
leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. 19Just a little while longer and the world will
be seeing me no more; but you will be seeing me. Because I will be living, you also
will live. 20In that day you will know, that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in
you. 21The person who has my commandments and also keeps them, that is the one
who loves me. And the one who loves me, will be loved by my Father, and I also will
love him, and will reveal myself to him."
22Judas (not the Keriothite) says to him, "Lord, and on what basis is it that, to us,
you intend to reveal yourself, and not to the world?"

23Jesus answered, and said to him, "If someone loves me, he will keep my word, and
my Father will love him; and we will come to him, and make our abode with him.
24One who does not love me will not keep my word. And the word that you are hearing
is not mine, but the Father's, who sent me.

25"These things I have spoken to you while abiding with you. 26But the Counselor,
the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, that one will teach you all things,
and remind you of all the things I have said to you.
27"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives, do I
give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28"You heard how I said to you, 'I am going away, and will be coming to you.' If
you loved me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater
than I. 29And now I have told you, before it happens, so that when it happens, you will
believe. 30I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming.
And he has no pull in me; 31but, just as the Father has commanded me, this I do, so that
the world may know that I love the Father.
"Arise, let us leave here."
Chapter 15
"I Am the Vine, You Are the Branches"
1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. 2Every branch in me bearing no
fruit, he removes, and every branch bearing the fruit, he cleans, so it may bear more fruit.
3You are now clean, because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me,
and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit from itself, unless it abides in
the vine, in the same way neither are you, unless you abide in me.
374
See Isaiah 26:12, "Yahweh, you will establish peace for us, since you have also performed for us all our
works." And Galatians 2:20, "I am no longer living, but Christ lives in me; and what life I now live in the
flesh, I am living by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me."
5"I
am the vine; you are the branches. The one who abides in me and I in him, this
one bears much fruit, for without me you can produce nothing. 6If someone does not
abide in me, he is thrown aside like the branch that is withered; and they gather such and
cast them in the fire, and they are burned.375 7If you abide in me, and my sayings abide
in you, ask whatever you will, and it will happen for you. 8In this my Father is
glorified, that you bear much fruit, and show to be my disciples.
9
"Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you; abide ye in my love. 10If
you keep my commandments, you are abiding in my love, just as I have kept my Father's
commandments and am abiding in his love. 11These things I have spoken to you, so that
my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. 12This is my commandment: that
you love one another, as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this: that one
lay down one's life for one's friends. 14You are my friends, if you practice the things I
am commanding you. 15No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know
what his lord is doing. But you I have called friends, because all things that I have
heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16You have not chosen me, but I
have chosen you, and appointed you, that you go and bear fruit, and that your fruit might
abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, it may be granted to you.
17These instructions I am giving you, so that you will love one another.
For This the World Hates You

18"If
the world hates you, be assured that it hated me first, before you. 19If you
were of the world, the world would like its own; but because you are not of the world,
and indeed rather I have chosen you out of the world, for this the world hates you. 20Be
mindful of the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' 376 If they
persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they took my word to heart, they will
take yours to heart also. 21But all these things they will do against you because of my
name, for they do not know the One who sent me. 22If I had not come and spoken to
them, they would have no sin; but now, they have no excuse for their sin. 23One who
hates me also hates my Father. 24If I had not done works among them which no one else
has done, they would have no sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and
my Father. 25But so that the word written about them in the law might be fulfilled,
'They hated me without a cause.'377
26"When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the
Spirit of Truth, who flows forth from the Father, he will bear witness about me. 27And
you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Chapter 16
1"Thesethings I have spoken to you so that you may not fall away. 2They will
cause you to be put out of the synagogue; but an hour is coming such that everyone who
kills you will reckon to be offering up religious service to God. 3And these things they
will do, because they have not known the Father, neither me. 4But these things I have
spoken to you, so that when the hour of them comes, you might remember them, that I
told you.
The Holy Spirit Will Finish My Work

"And I have not told you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
5But
now, I am going to the one who sent me, and none of you is asking me, 'Where are
you going?' 6Instead, because I have spoken these things to you, sorrow has filled your
heart. 7But I am telling you the truth: it works out better for you that I go away, for if I
were not to go away, the Counselor would not come to you. Whereas if I go, I will send
375
Psalm 80:15-16; Ezekiel 15:4-6; Matt. 3:10
376
John 13:16; Diatessaron 28:32
377
Psalm 35:19; 69:4
him to you. 8And when he has come, that one will refute the world concerning sin, and
concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment; 9concerning sin, because they do not
believe in me; 10concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will
be observing me no longer; 11and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world
has been judged.
12
"I have many things yet to say to you, but you are not able at the present time to
bear it. 13But when that one comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you in all the truth.
For he will not speak from himself, but rather, whatever things he hears he will speak;
and he will report to you the things that are coming. 14That one will glorify me, because
from mine he will take, and report it to you. 15Everything the Father has is mine; this is
how I said, 'from mine he will be taking, and report it to you.'
16
"A little while, and you will be observing me no longer; and another little while,
and you will see me."
The Disciples' Pain Will Be Turned to Joy

17Then
some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he is saying to us,
'A little while, and you will not be observing me; and another little while, and you will
see me'? And, 'because I am going to the Father'?" 18They kept saying therefore,
"What is this 'little while'? We don't know what he is saying."
19Jesus knew that they were wanting to query him, and he said to them, "Is it this you
are deliberating among yourselves about, that I said, 'A little while and you will not be
observing me, and another little while and you will see me'? 20Truly, truly I say to you,
You will weep and lament, and the world will be cheered. You will be in pain. But
your pain will be turned into joy. 21In the case of the woman about to give birth, she has
pain, because for her the hour has come. But when she has delivered the child, no
longer is she mindful of the distress, because of the joy that a human being is brought
forth into the world. 22Thus you also, now you do have pain; but I will see you again,
and your hearts will be cheered, and your joy, no one is taking away from you. 23And in
that day you will not query me at all. Truly, truly I say to you: whatever you will ask
the Father in my name, he will grant it to you. 24Up to now you have not asked anything
in my name; ask, and you will receive, so that your joy may be full.
25"These things I have spoken to you in allegories; an hour is coming when I will no
longer speak to you in allegories, but I will tell you about the Father plainly. 26In that
day you will make requests in my name, and I am not saying to you that I will make
request of the Father on your behalf. 27For the Father himself likes you, because you
have liked me, and have believed that I came forth from God. 28I went forth from the
Father and have come into the world; I am taking leave of the world, and going my way
back to the Father."
29His disciples are saying, "There, now you are talking with clarity and not speaking
any allegory. 30Now we know that you know all, and with you there is no need that
someone query you. By this we believe that you have come forth from God."
31Jesus answered them, "For now you believe. 32Behold, an hour is coming, and
indeed has come, that you will be scattered apart, each to his own, and me you will have
abandoned, alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
33"These things I have spoken to you, so in me you may have peace. In the world
you do have tribulation; but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world."
Chapter 17
Jesus Prays for Himself
1Jesus spoke these things, and when he had lifted up his eyes to heaven, he said:
"Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son, so that the Son may glorify you;
2
inasmuch as to him you have granted jurisdiction of all flesh, so that to all flesh that378
you have given him, he may grant to them eternal life. 3And this is eternal life: to know
you, the only true God, and the one whom you have sent, Jesus Christ. 4I have glorified
you upon the earth, having finished the work which you have given me to do. 5And
now, Father, glorify thou me, along with yourself, with the glory which I used to have
along with you, before the existence of the world.
Jesus Prays for His Disciples

6
"I have made known your name to the humans of the world that you have given to
me. They had been yours, and you gave them to me, and they have taken your word to
heart. 7Now they are persuaded that all the things you have given to me are indeed from
you; 8for the sayings which you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted and
knew for sure that I came forth from you, and they believed that you had sent me. 9I am
making request concerning them; not concerning the world am I making request, but only
concerning those whom you have given to me. For they are yours; 10indeed everything
of mine is yours, and of yours is mine. And I am glorified in them; 11yes, no longer am
I to be in the world, yet they are in the world, and I am coming to you. O holy Father,
keep them in your name, that flesh that379 you have given to me, so that they may be
one, just as we are one. 12While I was with them, I kept them in your name, that flesh
that380 you have given to me, and I stood guard, and not one of them met destruction,
except the Son of Destruction, so that the scripture may be brought to completion.
13"But now I am coming to you, and I am speaking these things in the world, so that
they may have in them my joy brought to completion. 14I have given them your word,
and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the
world. 15I am not asking that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them
from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
17Sanctify381 them in the truth; your word is truth. 18Just as you sent me into the world,
I also have sent them into the world. 19And on their behalf I sanctify myself, so that
they also may be ones sanctified in truth.
Jesus Prays for All Believers

20"And
not concerning these only am I making request, but also concerning the ones
who through their word believe in me, 21that they all may be one. Just as you, Father,
are in me and I in you, so let them also be in us, so that the world might believe that you
sent me. 22The glory which you have given to me, I also have given to them, so that
they may be one, just as we are one: 23I in them, and you in me, so that they may become
fully developed into one,382 that the world may know that you sent me, and that you
have loved them just as you loved me.
24"O Father, that flesh that383 you have given to me, I desire that where I am, they
might also be along with me, so that they may behold that glory of mine, which you have
given to me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
378
See the footnote on 6:39.
379
This is not referring to “your name,” but to those the Father has given him; see John 18:9. See the
footnote on 6:39.
380
This is not referring to “your name,” but to those the Father has given him; see John 18:9. See the
footnote on 6:39.
381
That is, dedicate or set something apart for God's holy purposes.
382
This is the way the apostle Paul understood it; see Ephesians 4:11-16. Pauls says that God gave the
apostles and other offices so that someday the believers will be fully developed into one, in unity with God and
with one another. Apparently, neither Jesus nor Paul expected such oneness to occur in his own lifetime.
Just as with the individual new birth, mautirity is a process and not instantaneous at birth, so also it is with the
corporate man, that maturity is a process, and not instantaneous at its creation. But, if you believe that Jesus
was asking that this unity take place at once, then surely you must admit that Jesus’ prayer has gone ungranted,
up to and including this present day.
383
See the footnote on 6:39.
25"Orighteous Father, indeed the world has not known you, but I have known you,
and these have known that you sent me. 26And I have made known to them your name,
and will do so in the future, so that the love with which you have loved me might always
be in them, and I also in them."
Chapter 18
Gethsemane
1After
he said these things, Jesus went forth with his disciples to the other side of the
wadi Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he himself went, and also his
disciples. 2And Judas, the one betraying him, knew the place, because Jesus had often
met there with his disciples.
Jesus Arrested
3
Judas therefore, after taking the cohort 384 and some guards, from the high priests
and from the Pharisees, comes there, with lamps and torches and weapons. 4Then,
aware of all the things coming upon him, Jesus went forward, and he says to them,
"Whom are you seeking?"
5They answered him, "Jesus the Nazarene."
He says to them, "I am he.

And Judas the one betraying him is also standing there with them. 6When therefore
he said to them, "I am he," they moved away backward, and fell to the ground. 7Again
therefore, he asked them, "Whom are you seeking?"
And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene."
8Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore it is me you are seeking,
allow these to go their way." 9In order that the word which he had said would be
fulfilled: "Of those you have given me, I have not lost even one."
10Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the servant of the high priest,
and cut off his right ear. And the name of the servant was Malchus. 11Jesus therefore
said to Peter, "Put the sword in the sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, am I
not to drink it?"
Jesus Taken to Hananiah

12Thenthe cohort and its chiliarch and the guards from the Jews took Jesus prisoner
and bound him, 13and they led him to Hananiah first, for he was father-in-law of
Caiaphas, who was high priest for that year. 14And Caiaphas was the one having
advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man die instead of the people.
Peter's First Denial

15And
Simon Peter was following Jesus, along with another disciple. And that
other disciple was known to the high priest, and he entered with Jesus into the courtyard
of the high priest, 16but Peter had stopped outside, at the door. The other disciple
therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the doormaid, and
brought Peter in. 17Then the maidservant, the doorkeeper, says to Peter, "You are not
also one of this man's disciples, are you?"
He says, "No I am not."
18And the servants and the guards stood by a fire they had made, for it was cold, and
they were warming themselves. So Peter also was with them, standing and warming
himself.
384
A cohort, if a complete one including reserves, was a thousand soldiers, (one tenth of a legion)
commanded by ten centurions, who commanded a hundred men each. The number here was probably the
lesser, about 600 soldiers, but could have been up to 1,000.
The High Priest Questions Jesus
19
The high priest, then, questioned Jesus, about his disciples and about his teaching.
20
Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in a
synagogue or in the temple, where all the Jews come together. 21Why ask me? Ask
the ones who have heard, what I spoke to them. You see, they know what things I said."
22As he was saying these things, one of the guards standing by gave Jesus a whack,
saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?"

23
Jesus answered him, "If I spoke wrongly, testify to the wrong; but if acceptably,
why are you hitting me?"
24Then Hannaniah sent him, bound, to Caiaphas the high priest.
Peter's Second and Third Denials

25
And Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "Are
you not also one of his disciples?"
He denied it and said, "No I am not."
26
One of the servants of the high priest, who was a relative of him whose ear Peter
had cut off, says, "Did I not see you with him in the garden?" 27Again therefore, Peter
denied it, and immediately a rooster crowed.
Jesus Before Pilate and Herod

28They then are leading Jesus away from Caiaphas toward the Praetorium; and it was
very early. And they entered not into the Praetorium, so that they would not be defiled
but rather might eat the Passover. 29So Pilate came outside to them. And he says,
"This man? You are bringing what kind of charge against him?"
30They answered, and said to him, "If he were not doing wrong, we would not have
brought him over to you."

31Pilate therefore said to them, "You take him, and you judge him according to your
law."
The Jews said to him, "For us it is not lawful to execute anyone." 32So the word of
Jesus would be fulfilled, which he had spoken indicating by what means of death he was
going to die.
33So Pilate went back into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus, and he said to him,
"You are the king of the Jews?"

34Jesus answered, "From yourself are you saying this, or have others spoken to you
about me?"
35Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? It was your people and your chief priests who
handed you over to me. What have you done?"

36Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this
world, my servants would have fought so that I not be handed over to the Jews. But in
fact my kingship is not from here."
37Pilate therefore said to him, "So then you ARE a king."
Jesus answered, "You are saying that I am a king; I, for this reason have been born,
and for this reason have come into the world: to testify to the truth. Everyone on the
side of truth hears my voice."
38Pilate says to him, "What is truth?" And with that said, he went out again to the
Jews, and says to them, "I find in him no causa capitalis.385 39But there is a custom
with you that I release to you one prisoner during the Passover. Would you therefore
have me release to you the king of the Jews?"
40They then shouted back, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas
was a bandit.
Chapter 19
385
Basis for capital punishment.
1At that time therefore, Pilate took Jesus and scourged him. 2And the soldiers, after
weaving a wreath of thorns, set it on his head, and threw a purple robe around him.
3
Then they were approaching him and saying, "Hail, O king of the Jews," and giving him
slaps in the face.
4
And Pilate went outside again, and says to them, "Look, I am bringing him out to
you, so that you will know that I find no causa capitalis in him." 5Jesus came outside
therefore, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate says to them,
"Behold the man."
6
When therefore the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out,
saying, "Crucify! Crucify!"
Pilate says to them, "You take him yourselves and crucify him. As for me, I do not
find causa capitalis in him.
7The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law, he deserves to
die because he called himself the son of God."

8
When therefore Pilate heard this information, he was more afraid, 9and he entered
the Praetorium again, and says to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not give
him an answer.
10Pilate then says to him, "To me you are not speaking? Do you not know, that I
have authority to free you, and I have authority to crucify you?"

11Jesus answered, "You would have no authority over me if it had not been given
you from above. Because of this, the one who handed me over to you has the greater
guilt."
12From this point on Pilate tried to free him; but the Jews shouted out, saying, "If you
release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Everyone calling himself a king is
opposing Caesar."
13When therefore Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside, and he sat
down on the judgment seat, at a place called The Pavement, but in Hebrew called
Gabbatha. 14And it was Preparation for the Passover, about 6:00 am. And he says to
the Jews, "Behold, your king."
15They then shouted out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!"
Pilate says to them, "Shall I crucify your king?"

The chief priests responded, "We have no king but Caesar."
16At that time therefore he handed him over to them, to be crucified.
The Crucifixion
They took Jesus therefore. 17And carrying the cross by himself, he proceeded forth,
to what is called the Skull Place, which in Hebrew is pronounced Gulgolta, 18where they
crucified him, and with him, two others, one on this side and one on the other, and Jesus
in the middle. 19And Pilate also wrote a notice and put it on the cross, and it was
inscribed: "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 20Many of the
Jews therefore read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was close to
the city, and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
21The chief priests of the Jews therefore were saying to Pilate, "Do not write 'The
King of the Jews,' but rather: 'He SAID, I am King of the Jews.'"
22Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
23The soldiers then, when they crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four
shares, a share for each soldier, plus the tunic. For the tunic was seamless, woven
continuously from the top through the whole. 24They said therefore to one another, "We
should not tear it, but cast lots as to whose it shall be." So that the scripture would be
fulfilled,
"They divided my garments

among them;
and cast lots
over my clothing,"386
those things therefore the soldiers did.

25
And near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, and his mother's sister; and the Mary
belonging to Clopas, and the Magdalene Mary. 26Jesus therefore, seeing his mother and
the disciple whom he loved standing near, says to his mother, "Dear woman, behold your
son."
27
Then he says to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that time on, that
disciple took her into his own home.
Jesus' Death
28
Jesus, knowing that after these things, all things were now completed, next says, "I
am thirsty," so that the scripture would be fulfilled.387 29A container full of vinegar 388
was sitting there, so after sticking a sponge full of the vinegar around a hyssop stem, they
held it out to his mouth. 30When therefore he had received the vinegar, Jesus said, "It is
finished." And after he bowed his head, he gave up his spirit.
31The Jews therefore, since it was Preparation Day, asked Pilate that their legs be
broken and they be taken away, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross during
the Sabbath; for that day was great among Sabbaths. 32The soldiers came therefore, and
broke the legs of the first one, and of the other crucified with him, 33but when they came
to Jesus they realized he was already dead, and did not in his case break the legs. 34But
one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood
and water. 35And the one who has seen has borne witness, and his testimony is reliable,
and he knows that he is saying something true; so you may believe. 36And these things
happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled:
"Not a bone of it shall be broken." 389
37And again, another scripture says:
"They shall look upon him

whom they have pierced."390
Jesus' Burial
38And
after these things, Joseph from Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but
secretly because of the fear of the Jews, made request of Pilate that he might take the
body of Jesus; and Pilate consented. He went therefore, and took his body. 39And
Nicodemus, the one who earlier had come to Him by night, came as well, carrying a
mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. 391 40They then took the body of
Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths, with the spices, as is the burial custom with the Jews.
41And there was in the place where he was crucified, a garden, and in the garden a new
tomb, one in which no one had ever yet been laid. 42So, since it was Preparation for the
Jews, and because the tomb was close at hand, that is where they laid Jesus.
Chapter 20
386
Psalm 22:18
387
Psalm 22:15
388
Psalm 69:21; This was a sour wine, a cheaper drink than regular wine, and yet more refreshing to the
thirst.
389
Numbers 9:12; Exodus 12:46; Psalm 34:20
390
Zechariah 12:10
391
Greek, "a hundred litras," a loan-word from the Latin, libra. The libra was the Roman pound, which was
comprised of 12 ounces, so when translated to 16-ounce pounds, it comes to about 75 pounds, or 34 kilograms.
The Empty Tomb
1
And on the first day of the week, very early while still dark, Mary the Magdalene is
coming to the tomb; and she sees the stone having been removed from the tomb. 2She
runs therefore, and goes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, the one whom Jesus
loved, and she says to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we 392 don't
know where they have put him."
3
Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple also, and they were going toward the
tomb. 4And the two were running together; and the other disciple ran faster ahead, and
came to the tomb first. 5And after stooping down, he sees the linen cloths lying there.
He did not enter inside, however. 6Then comes Simon Peter also, following behind him.
And he entered into the tomb, and he observes the linen cloths lying there, 7and also the
sweat cloth which used to be on his head, except not lying with the linen cloths, but
folded up in one place apart. 8Then at that time the other disciple entered, the one who
had arrived to the tomb first; and he saw and believed. 9For they did not yet understand
the scripture that he had to rise from the dead.
Jesus Appears to Mary of Magdala

10The disciples then went back to their own homes. 11But Mary stayed with the
tomb, and there she stands, outside, weeping. As she thus was weeping, she stooped
down into the tomb, 12and she beholds two angels in white, one sitting at the head and
one sitting at the foot of where the body of Jesus had been lying.
13And they say to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?"
She says to them, "They have taken my Lord away, and I don't know where they
have put him."
14When she had said these things, she looked toward the rear, and beholds Jesus
having been standing; and she did not realize that it was Jesus.
15Jesus says to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?"
She, thinking he is the gardener, says to him, "Sir, if it is you who took him, tell me
where you put him, and I will get him.
16Jesus says to her, "Mary."
She when she turned around, says to him in Hebrew, "Rabbouni!" (which means
Teacher).
17Jesus says to her, "Do not cleave to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father;
but go to my brothers, and tell them: 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father; to my
God and your God.'"
18Mary goes, announcing to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and also
announcing those things he had said to her.
Jesus Appears to the Ten Apostles

19Then,
when it was evening on that first day of the week, with the doors locked
where the disciples were, because of the fear of the Jews, Jesus appeared, and stood in
their midst. And he says to them, "Peace be with you." 20And when he had said this,
he showed them both his hands and his side. Therefore the disciples rejoiced, seeing the
Lord.
21Then Jesus again said to them, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so
also I send you." 22And having said this, he blew, 393 and says to them, "Receive the
392
Some people make much of the fact that John mentions only Mary the Magdalene by name, as if she were
the only woman who went to the tomb, as a contradiction of the other gospels, like the gospel of Mark, which
names three women. But this view reflects a very shallow, careless, and probably prejudiced reading of John.
For here in John, Mary the Magdalene says "We" don't know where they have put him, indicating that she was
not alone. And so also, most other so-called contradictions between the four gospels may be resolved by those
truly wanting to know the truth, and not coming to it with prejudice.
393
Greek: emphusaw, breathe out or blow; the same verb used in Genesis 2:7 to translate the Hebrew verb
used for how God breathed into the nostrils of the dust-man the breath of life, causing the man to become a
living being. Here in John, there is no object for the verb; I do not believe we are to imagine that Jesus
Holy Spirit. 23Whose ever sins you forgive, they are forgiven them; whose ever you
retain, they are retained."
Jesus Appears to Thomas

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But Thomas, one of the Twelve, the one who was called the Twin, was not with
them when Jesus came. 25So the other disciples were telling him, "We have seen the
Lord."
But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my
finger into the place from the nails, and put my hands into his side, there is no way I will
believe."
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And after eight days, his disciples again were inside, and Thomas with them.
Jesus is appearing, even though the doors were locked. And he stood in the midst, and
said, "Peace be with you." 27Thereupon he says to Thomas, "Bring your finger here, and
see my hands, and bring your hand and put it into my side, and do not be unbelieving, but
believing."
28Thomas responded and said to him, "My Lord and my God."
29Jesus says to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are
those believing without having seen."

30While therefore Jesus did also do many other signs in the sight of his disciples
which are not written in this book, 31these have been written so that you might believe
that Jesus is the Christ,394 the Son of God, and that believing, you might have life
through his name.
Chapter 21
Resurrection Fish & Bread
1After
these things, Jesus revealed himself another time to his disciples, on the Sea of
Tiberius. And this is how he revealed himself. 2Simon Peter, and Thomas called the
Twin, and Nathaniel from Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other
disciples of his, were together. 3Simon Peter says to them, "I am going to fish."
They say to him, "We are also coming with you."
They went, and embarked in the boat. And throughout that night, they caught
nothing. 4And now that it is turning morning, Jesus had stood at the shoreline.
However, the disciples have not realized that it is Jesus. 5Jesus therefore says to them,
"Children, have you no fish?"
They answered, "No."
6And he said to them, "Cast the net into the area to the right of the boat, and you will
find something." They cast it therefore, and they were not strong enough to retrieve it,
because of a fullness of fish.
7So that disciple whom Jesus loved says to Peter, "It is the Lord." When therefore
Simon Peter heard that it is the Lord, he fastened his cloak around himself, for he was
stripped for work, and he threw himself into the lake 8(for they were not far from shore,
but only about two hundred cubits395 away), while the other disciples came in the boat,
towing the fish net. 9As they get down therefore onto the beach, they see a fire of coals
established, and fish lying on it, and bread.
10Jesus says to them, "Bring some of the fish which you have now caught."
11Simon Peter therefore got up, and dragged the net to the beach, very full of fish, 153 of
them; and though there were so many, the net was not torn.
 12Jesus says to them, "Come, eat breakfast." And not one of the disciples got up the
courage to challenge him, "Who are you?" For they knew it was the Lord. 13Jesus
comes, and he takes the bread and distributes to them, and the fish likewise. 14This was
approached each of the ten individually, and breathed upon each of them in turn, but rather gave them a
corporate breathing on.
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That is, the promised Anointed One, the Messiah, Ha-Moshiach.
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Equivalent to 100 yards, or 92.4 meters.
now the third time Jesus had revealed himself to the disciples after having risen from the
dead.
Jesus Reappoints Peter

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When therefore they had eaten breakfast, Jesus says to Simon Peter, "Simon son of
John, do you love me more than these?"
He says to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."
He says to him, "Feed my lambs."
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Again, he says to him a second time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?"
He says to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you."
He says to him, "Pastor my sheep."
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He says to him the third time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?"
Peter was hurt that he said to him the third time, "Do you love me." And he says to
him, "Lord, you know all. You know that I love you."
Jesus says to him, "Feed my sheep." 18Truly, truly I say to you: When you were
younger, you would dress yourself, and walk around where you wanted; but after you
have become old, you will stretch out your hand, and someone else will dress you, and
lead you somewhere you will not want." 19This he said signifying by what kind of death
he would glorify God. And having said this, he says to him, "Follow me."
And What About John?

20Peter
turned around, and sees the disciple whom Jesus loved following, that is, the
one who in the supper had leaned back onto His chest and said, "Lord, who is the one
betraying you?" 21So when he saw this one, Peter says to Jesus, "Lord, and what about
him?"
22Jesus says to him, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You
follow me." 23This therefore is the word that got out to the brothers: that that disciple
would not die. But Jesus had not said to him that he would not die; rather, "If I want
him to remain until I come, what is that to you?"
24That disciple is the one who is bearing witness to these things, and the one who
wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true.

25And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if written in detail, I
reckon not even the world itself would be able to hold the books that would be written.
The Acts of the Apostles
Chapter 1
¹I made my previous account, O Theophilus, about all that Jesus began both
to do and to teach, ²up until the day he was taken up, after he had given orders
through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen; ³to whom also he showed
himself to be alive, following his suffering, by many convincing proofs (being
seen by them over a period of forty days) and telling them things about the
kingdom of God.
⁴And convening them around himself, he ordered them: “Do not leave
Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you have heard about
from me.
⁵For John baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit, not
many days from now.”
⁶When therefore they were gathered together, they queried him, saying,
“Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?”
⁷And he said to them, “It is not for you to know the times and the seasons,
which the Father has placed within his own authority; ⁸but you will receive
power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses,
both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest part of the
earth.” ⁹And after he had said these things, he was lifted up away while they
were watching. And a cloud removed him from their view. ¹⁰And as he was
going, they were concentrating intently into the sky, and behold! Two men
dressed in white clothing had been standing beside them.
¹¹And they said: “Men of Galilee, why are you standing looking into the sky?
This same Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will come in the same
manner in which you saw him go into heaven.”
¹²At that time they went back into Jerusalem, from the hill called the Mount
of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s walk away. ¹³And when
they got back inside the city, they went up into the upper room where they were
staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew
and Matthew, James son of Halphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of
James. ¹⁴These all with one mind were devoting themselves persistently to
prayer, along with the women, including Mary the mother of Jesus and his
brothers.
¹⁵And during those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren,
(altogether the company of persons was about 120). He said, ¹⁶“Brethren, it was
necessary for that scripture to be fulfilled which the Holy Spirit spoke
beforehand through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide
for those who arrested Jesus, ¹⁷because he was numbered among us and obtained
one share of this ministry.” ¹⁸(This man therefore had bought himself a field out
of the payment from unrighteousness, and after falling headlong, he burst open
in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out. ¹⁹And it became known to
everyone living in Jerusalem, so that the field is called in their language,
“Hakeldama.” This means “Field of Blood.”) ²⁰“For it is written in the book of
Psalms: ‘Let his settlement be desolate, and be in it no inhabitant,’ and, ‘Let his
position be taken by someone else.’ ²¹So then, it must be out of the men who
have been with us during the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among
us, ²²beginning from the baptism of John all the way until the day he was taken
up from us; one of those who were witnesses of his resurrection with us.”
²³And they nominated two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed
Justus; and Matthias.
²⁴And getting down in prayer, they said, “You, Lord, are knower of all
hearts. Reveal which one of these two you have chosen ²⁵to receive this place of
ministry and apostleship, from which Judas turned aside to go to his own proper
place.”
²⁶And they cast lots over them, and the lot fell to Matthias. And he was
added in with the eleven apostles.
Chapter 2
¹And when it was time for the Day of Pentecost, they were all together in
one place, ²and suddenly there came the sound of words from heaven as if being
carried by a swirling wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting,
³and there appeared to them tongues of flame, dividing apart, just as if a fire, and
it came to rest on each one of them, ⁴and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit,
and they began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit was giving them
utterance.
⁵Now there were Jews staying in Jerusalem who were devout men from all
the nations under heaven. ⁶And as the sound of this was produced, a crowd
gathered on, and they were captivated, because each one was hearing them
speaking in their own particular language. ⁷And they were astonished, and
marveling, saying, “Behold, these people speaking, are they not all Galileans?
⁸So how are we each hearing them in our own particular language in which we
were born? ⁹Parthians, Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia;
Jews also from Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia; ¹⁰both Phrygia and Pamphylia;
Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; and Romans who are visiting, ¹¹both
Jews and proselytes; Cretans and Arabs; we hear them telling the mighty deeds
of God in our own languages!” ¹²And they were all stunned and struggling.
Some were saying to each other, “What does this mean?”
¹³But others were saying with scorn, “They are full of new wine.”
¹⁴But Peter stood forward, along with the Eleven, and he lifted up his voice,
and spoke out boldly to them: “Men of Judea, and all you living in Jerusalem, let
this be known to you, and take heed to my words. ¹⁵For these people are not
drunk, as you are thinking, since it is the third hour of the day. ¹⁶But rather this
is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
¹⁷ ‘And it will be, in the last days,’ God says,

‘I will pour out of my spirit onto all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,
and your young will see visions,
and your older will dream dreams;
¹⁸and onto both my male servants and my female servants
will I pour out from my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
¹⁹And I will provide wonders in the heaven above,
and signs on the earth below,
blood and fire and atmosphere of smoke;
²⁰the sun will be turned into darkness and the moon into blood
before that great and terrible Day of the Lord is come.
²¹And it will be, that whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
²²”Men of Israel, listen to these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man

commended to you from God by powerful deeds and wonders and signs, which
God performed through him in your midst, as you yourselves know, ²³this man,
who was delivered up according to the established plan and foreknowledge of
God, you lifted up, to be nailed by the hand of Torah-less men, ²⁴him God has
raised again, breaking the bonds of death, since it was never possible for him to
be held by it.
²⁵For David says regarding him,
‘I have foreseen the Lord going before me through it all.

Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
²⁶For this reason my heart was cheered,
and my tongue did rejoice,
and my flesh also now will dwell in hope,
²⁷because you will not abandon my soul in Hades,
nor will you assign your holy one to see decay.
²⁸You have made known to me the paths of life.
You will fill me with joy with your company.’
²⁹Brothers, I venture to say with certainty to you about the patriarch David,
that he both died and was buried, and his tomb remains among us to this day.
³⁰But because of being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with
an oath that fruit of his loins would sit on his throne, ³¹it was in reference to the
resurrection of the Messiah he spoke, with foresight, that He was not abandoned
in Hades, nor did His flesh see decay. ³²This man Jesus, God raised to life, to
which we all are witnesses. ³³Having been exalted then to the right hand of God,
and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has
poured out this which you are seeing and hearing. ³⁴For David did not ascend
to heaven, yet he says, ‘The Lord said to my Lord: Sit at my right hand, ³⁵until I
make your enemies a footstool for your feet.’ ³⁶Therefore let all the house of
Israel know for a certainty, that the one whom you crucified, God has made that
same Jesus both Lord and Messiah.”
³⁷And when they heard this, they were shocked. And they said to Peter
and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what should we do?”
³⁸And Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized each one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins. And you will receive for
yourselves the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹For the promise is to you, and to your
children, and also to everyone far off, however many the Lord our God will call.”
⁴⁰With many other words also, he was solemnly testifying to them, saying,
“You must be saved from this perverse generation.” ⁴¹The ones therefore who
accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand souls were added
during that day.
⁴²And they were devoting themselves continually to the teaching of the
apostles, and to the fellowship, to the breaking of the bread, and to the prayers.
⁴³And fear came into every soul, and many wonders and signs were taking place
through the apostles. ⁴⁴And all the believers were together, and possessing
everything in common. ⁴⁵And they were selling their property and possessions,
and distributing the proceeds to everyone, according to whomever had the need.
⁴⁶And every day they were as one mind, devoting themselves constantly in the
temple, and breaking bread from house to house, sharing food with gladness and
simplicity of heart, ⁴⁷praising God, and having favor in the eyes of all the people.
And the Lord was adding to the assembly daily, those who were being saved.
Chapter 3
¹Now Peter and John went up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of
prayer, ²and a man lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they
would place daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so he could
ask for charity from those going into the temple; ³who when he saw Peter and
John about to enter the temple, he asked to receive charity. ⁴And Peter, after
studying him together with John, said, “Look at us.”
⁵So he was holding his attention on them, expecting to receive something
from them.
⁶And Peter said, “Silver and gold, I have none. But what I do have, this I
give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!” ⁷And he
gripped him by the right hand and lifted him. And his feet and ankles were
instantly strengthened, ⁸and springing up, he stood, and started walking around.
And he went into the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
⁹And all the people saw him walking and praising God, ¹⁰and they recognized
him, that this was the man usually sitting at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to
ask for charity, and they were filled with amazement and wonder over what had
happened to him. ¹¹And as he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people
ran together toward them in admiration, at the gate called Solomon’s Gate.
¹²But when Peter saw this, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why
are you marveling over this, and why are you looking upon us as if our own
power or godliness caused him to walk again? ¹³The God of Abraham and Isaac
and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you
delivered over to and disowned before the face of Pilate. He had made the
judgement to release him, ¹⁴but you rejected the holy and righteous one, and
asked that a murderer be released on pardon to you, ¹⁵and you killed the
architect of life, whom God has raised from the dead, to which we all are
witnesses. ¹⁶And it is on the basis of faith in his name, Jesus’ name, that this
man whom you see and know has been made firm, and this faith, which is
through that Jesus, has given this man complete healing in front of you all. ¹⁷So
now, brothers, I realize it was because you were unaware, that you acted so, and
likewise your leaders. ¹⁸But in this way were fulfilled the things God had
foretold through the mouths of all the prophets: that his Anointed had to suffer.
¹⁹Repent therefore, and turn yourselves around, so that your sins be wiped away,
²⁰so that times of refreshing may come from having access to the Lord, and he
send the pre-appointed Messiah to you, Jesus, ²¹whom heaven must take in until
the time of the restoration of all things, about which God has spoken through the
mouths of his holy prophets since long ago.
²²For indeed Moses said to our fathers, 'The Lord God will raise up for you a
prophet like me from your brethren. To him you must take heed, in accordance
with everything he says to you, ²³and it will be that every soul who does not
listen to that prophet will be utterly cut off from among the people.' ²⁴And
indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession, as many as have
spoken, have also predicted these days. ²⁵You are the heirs of the prophets, and
of the covenant which God set in place with our fathers, saying to Abraham,
'And through your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.' ²⁶God,
having now raised up his servant, has sent him to you, blessing you first, in
order to turn each of you from your wicked ways.”
Chapter 4
¹And as they were talking to the people, the priests and the captain of the
temple guard and the Sadducees pressed upon them, ²all worked up because
they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the
dead, ³and they put their hands on them and placed them under guard until
morning (for by then it was evening). ⁴But many of those who heard the word
believed, and the number of the men came to be about 5,000.
⁵And the next morning an assembly of the leaders and elders and Torah
scholars was convened in Jerusalem, ⁶including Hananiah the high priest, and
Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and all the ones who were relatives of the
high priest, ⁷and after they had stood them in their midst, they were inquiring,
“By what power or what name did you do this?”
⁸Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Leaders of the people,
and elders of Israel, ⁹If we are on trial for a good deed done to a lame man, as to
by what means he was healed, ¹⁰be it known to you all, and to all the people of
Israel, that in this name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom
God has raised from the dead, in that name this man is presented before you
healthy. ¹¹This Jesus is ‘the stone that you builders rejected; he has become the
cornerstone.’ ¹²And salvation is not in anyone else, for there is not even another
name under heaven given among man by which we must be saved.”
¹³Now when they observed the confident speech of Peter and John, and
considered the fact they were uneducated and ordinary men, they were amazed.
And they recognized them, that they had been with Jesus. ¹⁴And as they saw
that the man who was with them was standing, the one who had been healed,
they had nothing to say in rebuttal. ¹⁵And after ordering them to go out of the
Sanhedrin, they were conferring with one another, ¹⁶saying, “What shall we do
with these men? For to be sure, a notable sign has happened through them,
well known to everyone living in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. ¹⁷But, so it
does not spread to the people any further, let us threaten them to speak no
longer in this name to anyone.” ¹⁸And after summoning them, they gave them
orders not to utter at all nor to teach in the name of Jesus.
¹⁹But in response Peter and John said to them, “Whether it is right in God’s
eyes to obey you rather than obey God, you decide. ²⁰Because for us, it
impossible to not tell the things we have seen and heard.”
²¹But they threatened them further, and then released them, having found
no way to punish them, because of the people. For they were all praising God
over what had happened. ²²For the man on whom this sign of healing had
happened was over forty years old. ²³So being released they went to their own
people and reported what things the chief priests and elders had said to them.
²⁴And who when they heard, they with one mind lifted their voice to God,
and said, "Master, you who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all
things in them, ²⁵who said by the mouth of our father David your servant,
through the Holy Spirit, 'Why have the nations raged, and the peoples devised
vain things? ²⁶The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers assemble together
against the Lord and against his Anointed.' ²⁷For in fact they have assembled in
this city against your holy servant Jesus whom you anointed, both Herod and
Pontius Pilate, along with the nations and the peoples of Israel, ²⁸to do those
things which your hand and your design have fore-ordained to happen. ²⁹And
now, Lord, look upon their threats, and give to all your servants the ability to
speak your word with boldness, ³⁰by stretching forth your hand so that curing
and signs and wonders will happen through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”
³¹And as they were making this request, the place in which they were
assembled was shaken, and they all were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they
spoke the word of God with boldness. ³²Now the hearts and souls of the
multitude of those who had believed were one, and not one person said any of
the possessions belonging to him were his own, but instead were held in
common for every one of them. ³³And with great power the apostles gave the
testimony about the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon
them all. ³⁴For not even one among them was needy. Because whoever of
them were owners of lands or houses, they were selling, and they would bring
the proceeds of the things that were sold, ³⁵and donate it at the feet of the
apostles. Then it was distributed to each person, according as anyone had the
need.
³⁶Thus it was that Joseph, who was nicknamed Barnabas by the apostles
(which when translated is Son of Encouragement), a Levite, Cypriot by birth,
³⁷who was the owner of a field, he sold it and brought the proceeds and donated
it at the feet of the apostles.
Chapter 5
¹Then a man named Hananiah, together with his wife Saphira, sold some
property, ²and part of the proceeds he secretly set aside for himself (his wife also
aware) and part he brought to the feet of the apostles and donated.
³And Peter said, “Hananiah, why has Satan emboldened your heart to lie to
the Holy Spirit and secretly set aside for yourself part of the proceeds from the
field? ⁴Was not the field yours, and after it was sold, the proceeds still within
your rights to keep? What happened, that put this issue in your heart? It was
not to people that you lied, but to God.”
⁵And after Hananaiah heard these words, he fell down dead. And great
fear gripped all those who were listening. ⁶And the young men got up, and
when they had wrapped him, they carried him out and buried him. ⁷And there
was an interval of about three hours, and then his wife came in, not knowing
what had happened. ⁸And Peter responded to her, “Tell me, was this how
much you sold the land for?”
And she said, “Yes, this much.”
⁹And Peter said to her, “What happened, that you two were united to tempt
the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who buried your husband are at
the door. They will also carry you out.” ¹⁰And she immediately dropped near
his feet and died. And when the young men came in, they found her dead, and
they carried her out, and buried her next to her husband. ¹¹And great fear came
over the whole assembly, and over all those who heard these things. ¹²And
through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were happening
among the people, and they were regularly at the Portico of Solomon with one
accord. ¹³But none of the rest dared to be seen with them. (Though the people
thought highly of them.)
¹⁴Even so, more believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men
and women; ¹⁵with the result that they also brought out their sick into the streets
and placed them on pallets and mats, in case if Peter came by even his shadow
might pass over one of them. ¹⁶And the multitude from the cities surrounding
Jerusalem also collected there, carrying the sick and those being tormented by
unclean spirits, who were healed, all of them.
¹⁷But the high priest rose up, and all those with him, which was the sect of
the Sadducees. They were filled with jealousy, ¹⁸and they put their hands on
the apostles and placed them in custody publicly. ¹⁹But during the night an
angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, and led them out, and said, ²⁰
“Go, stand in the temple, and speak to the people all the words of this life.”
²¹They took heed, and at about dawn they went into the temple, and were
teaching. And when the high priest and those with him had opened for
business, they called together the Sanhedrin and all the senate of the sons of
Israel, and sent men to the jail to have them brought. ²²But when the attendants
got there, they found they were not in the prison, and went back and reported,
²³saying, “We found the jail locked up securely and the guards standing at the
doors, but when we opened it, we found no one inside.”
²⁴And as the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard these
words, they were completely at a loss as to what might become of it all. ²⁵Then
someone came and reported to them, “Behold, the men you had put in prison are
standing in the temple, and teaching the people.” ²⁶At that time the captain
went out, along with the attendants, and brought them, not with force, because
they were afraid of the people, not wanting to be stoned.
²⁷And they brought them and stood them in the Sanhedrin. And the high
priest interrogated them, ²⁸saying, “We very strictly charged you not to teach in
this name, and behold you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching. And you
intend to bring on us this man’s blood.”
²⁹And in answer Peter and the apostles said, “We ought to obey God rather
than people. ³⁰The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed by
hanging him to a tree. ³¹This man God has exalted to his right hand as a Ruler
and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. ³²And we are
witnesses of these matters, as is also the Holy Spirit, which God gave to those
who obey him.”
³³And those hearing this were enraged, and began planning to kill him.
³⁴But a certain man in the council stood up, a Pharisee by the name of Gamaliel, a
teacher of the law respected by all the people. And he ordered that the men be
put outside for a little while. ³⁵And he said to them, “Men, Israelites, take heed
to yourselves over these men, what you intend to do. ³⁶For prior to these days,
Theudas had risen up, declaring himself to be someone, to whom a number of
men attached themselves, about four hundred. He was killed, and all who
obeyed him were dispersed and came to nothing. ³⁷After that, during the days
of the registration, Judas the Galilean rose up and drew away people after him.
That man also perished, and all who obeyed him were scattered. ³⁸And the
ones now, I am telling you, stand back from these men, and leave them alone.
Because if this argument is of man, or this effort, it will come to an end. ³⁹On
the other hand, if it is of God, you will not be able to stop them. And no good
you are found being opponents of God.”
With that they obeyed him. ⁴⁰And they called for the apostles, and beat
them, and ordered them not to speak on the name of Jesus, and released them.
⁴¹They as a result were proceeding from the presence of the Sanhedrin rejoicing
that they were considered worthy to be despised for the sake of that name.
⁴²And every day, in the temple, and from house to house, they never ceased
teaching and preaching the Messiah Jesus.
Chapter 6
¹Now during those days, with the number of disciples having multiplied
greatly, there arose some grumbling from the Greek speakers toward the Hebrew
speakers, that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of
food. ²Then the Twelve called the multitude of the disciples to them, and said,
“It is not fitting that we abandon the word of God to wait on tables. ³So,
brothers, search out seven men of you who are witnessed to be full of the Spirit
and of wisdom, whom we will appoint over this office; ⁴whereas we will be
devoted to prayer and service of the word.”
⁵And this word was pleasing before all the multitude, and they chose
Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; and Philip, and Prochorus,
and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte from Antioch.
⁶Whom they set before the apostles. And they prayed and laid their hands on
them.
⁷And the word of God grew, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem
multiplied greatly. A large crowd of the priests also was coming to obey the
faith. ⁸And Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great signs and
wonders among the people.
⁹But some men stood up, debating with Stephen, men from what was called
the Synagogue of the Freedmen, including Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and
some from Cilicia and Asia, ¹⁰and they were not able to withstand the wisdom
and the spirit with which he was speaking. ¹¹Then they secretly instigated some
men to say, “We have heard him speaking blasphemous things against Moses
and against God.” ¹²And that stirred up the people, and the elders, and the
Torah scholars. And having stood ready nearby, they seized him and took him
to the Sanhedrin. ¹³They also had arranged false witnesses, who were now
saying, “This man never stops saying things against this holy place and the law.
¹⁴For we have heard him saying that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this
place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.” ¹⁵And everyone
sitting in the Sanhedrin who watched him saw his face was like the face of an
angel.
Chapter 7
¹But the high priest said, “Are these things true?”
²And he said, “Men, brothers, and fathers, listen: The glorious God
appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived
in Haran, ³and He said to him, ‘Leave your country and your relatives, and go to
whatever country I will show you.’
⁴At that time he left Chaldea, and lived in Haran. And then, after his father
died, God removed him to this country in which you now live. ⁵Yet he did not
give him tenure in this country, not even a foothold, yet promised to give it for a
possession to his seed after him, this while he had no child. ⁶But God spoke this:
‘Your seed will be aliens in the country of others, who will enslave them and
treat them badly for 400 years. ⁷And whatever nation enslaves them, I will
judge,’ said God, ‘and after those things they will come out, and will worship me
in this place.’
⁸And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and thus Abraham begat
Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the
twelve patriarchs. ⁹And the patriarchs, out of envy, sold Joseph off to Egypt.
Yet God was with him. ¹⁰And He rescued him from all his troubles, and gave
him favor and wisdom in the eyes of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who made him
ruler over Egypt, and over his entire household.
¹¹But a famine came over all of Egypt and Canaan, and great suffering, and
our fathers were not finding food. ¹²So when Jacob heard there was bread in
Egypt, he sent our fathers out the first time. ¹³And during the second time,
Joseph allowed himself to be recognized by his brothers, and his race became
evident to Pharaoh.
¹⁴So Joseph sent word inviting his father to come, Jacob and the whole clan,
75 souls in all, ¹⁵and Jacob went down to Egypt. And he and our fathers died,
¹⁶and were transferred to Shechem and laid in the tomb which Abraham had
bought with a payment in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.
¹⁷Now just as the time was drawing near for the promise which God had
declared to Abraham, the people grew in strength and were multiplied in Egypt,
¹⁸until such time another king arose who did not know Joseph. ¹⁹This man dealt
shrewdly with our race. He mistreated our fathers, causing their newborn
babies to be thrown out, so they would not survive.
²⁰At which time Moses was born, and he was very good looking. For three
months he was nurtured in the house of his father. ²¹Then when he was put out,
the daughter of Pharaoh took him as a son for herself. ²²And Moses was trained
in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in his words and his deeds.
²³But when he reached 40 years old, it came upon his heart to go check on
his brothers the sons of Israel. ²⁴And when he saw one being injured he
defended him, and he got vengeance for the one getting the worse, by striking
the Egyptian. ²⁵Now he thought his brothers would understand that God
would give salvation to them through his hand. But they did not understand.
²⁶And on the following day he appeared to some of them, who were fighting,
and he attempted to reconcile them in peace saying, “Men, you are brothers.
Why are you injuring each other?”
²⁷But the one injuring his neighbor pushed him away, saying, “Who
appointed you ruler and judge over us? ²⁸Do you intend to kill me the same
way you killed that Egyptian yesterday?”
²⁹And with this said, Moses fled. And he became an alien camping out in
Midian, where he begat two sons. ³⁰And when he was forty years old, the angel
of the Lord appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a
burning thorn bush.
³¹And Moses saw it and marvelled at the vision. As he approached it
therefore to investigate, there came the voice of the Lord: ³² ‘I am the God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ But Moses started to tremble
and dared not to look.
³³And the Lord said to him, ‘Remove the sandals from your feet; because the
place on which you are standing is holy ground. ³⁴I have looked, I have seen
the ill treatment of my people in Egypt, and I have heard their groans, and I have
come down to rescue them. And now, you come; I will send you to Egypt.’
³⁵This Moses, the one they had denied saying, ‘Who appointed you ruler
and judge;’ this man God sent as ruler and redeemer by means of the angel
appearing to him in the bush. ³⁶This man led them forth, performing wonders
and signs, in Egypt and in the Red Sea, and in the desert for forty years. ³⁷This
is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, ‘God will raise up a prophet for you
like me out of your brothers.’ ³⁸This is the one who was present in the
congregation in the desert, who was with the angel speaking to him in Mount
Sinai, and who was with our fathers. He who received living oracles to give to
us. ³⁹To whom our fathers refused to be obedient, but pushed him away, and
turned their hearts toward Egypt, ⁴⁰saying to Aaron, ‘Make gods for us that will
go before us. Because this Moses who led us out of Egypt, we do not know
what happened to him.’ ⁴¹And they molded a calf in those days, and led a
sacrifice up to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
⁴²And God turned away, and gave them up to worship the heavenly bodies,
just as it is written in the scroll of the prophets: ‘Have you presented Me
slaughtered animals and sacrifices for forty years in the desert, O house of Israel?
⁴³Yet you carried around the booth of Moloch, and the star of your god Saturn.
The images which you made, you worshiped them. I therefore will deport you
beyond Babylon.’ ⁴⁴The tent of testimony was there for our fathers in the desert,
just as the one speaking had directed Moses to make it according to the model
which he had seen. ⁴⁵Which then our fathers had passed on to them, and they
with Joshua, took it into the land possessed by the nations whom God drove
away from the face of our fathers until the days of David. ⁴⁶Who found favor
before God and asked to find a tent for the God of Jacob.
⁴⁷But Solomon built a house for him. ⁴⁸But the Most High does not dwell in
hand-made things. As the prophet says, ⁴⁹’Heaven is my throne, and Earth is
my foot-stool. What kind of house will you build for me?’ says the Lord, ‘or
what place for my rest? ⁵Has not my hand created all these things?’
⁵¹O you stiff-necked people, and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, you
always resist the Holy Spirit. Just as your fathers were, so are you. ⁵²Which of
the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they killed those who
predicted the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you now are become the
betrayers and murderers. ⁵³Who have received the law by the direction of
angels, and not kept it.”
⁵⁴Now those hearing these things had been seething inside, and were
grinding their teeth at him. ⁵⁵But he, being filled with the Holy Spirit, gazed
intently into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right
hand of God. ⁵⁶And he said, “Look! I can see heaven open, and the Son of
Man standing at the right hand of God!”
⁵⁷But they howled loudly while plugging their ears, and with one accord
charged upon him, ⁵⁸and when they had cast him outside the city, they
proceeded to stone him. And the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a
young man named Saul. ⁵⁹And as they stoned Stephen, he was calling out, and
saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” ⁶⁰Then he dropped to his knees, and he
cried out with a loud voice: “Lord, do not hold these sins against them.” And
after he said these things, he died.
Chapter 8
¹And Saul was in agreement with his killing. Then there occurred at that
time a great persecution against the congregation at Jerusalem, and they all
became scattered over the territories of Judea and Samaria, except for the
apostles. ²But some devout men recovered the body of Stephen, and made a
great lamentation over him.
³Meanwhile Saul was ravaging the church, entering house to house,
dragging off both men and women and handing them over to prison. ⁴But
those who were scattered consequently passed through preaching the word.
⁵Thus Philip, having gone down to a city of Samaria, preached Christ to those
people.
⁶And those crowds, when they heard, and saw the signs he was performing, with
one mind took heed to the things that were spoken by Philip. ⁷For many had
unclean spirits, which came out with loud shrieks, and many who had been
paralyzed and lame were healed. ⁸And so there was great joy in that city.
⁹Now there was a man in that city named Simon who had been practicing
sorcery and astonishing the nation of Samaria, declaring himself to be someone
great. ¹⁰To whom all would pay attention, from the small to the great, saying,
“This is what you call the great power of God.” ¹¹And they were paying
attention to him because it was for quite a while he had been astonishing them
with his sorceries. ¹²But when they believed what Philip had preached about
the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were getting baptized,
both men and women. ¹³And Simon himself also believed, and after he was
baptized, he was staying close to Philip, and when he saw the great signs and
miracles that were happening, he was astonished.
¹⁴And when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had welcomed the
word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, ¹⁵who went down and prayed for
them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. ¹⁶For He had not yet fallen on
even one of them. They were baptized ones, but baptized only in the name of
the Lord Jesus. ¹⁷Then at that time, they laid their hands on them, and they did
receive the Holy Spirit.
¹⁸Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given by the laying on of the
apostles’ hands, he offered them money, ¹⁹saying, “Give me this authority also,
so that whoever I lay my hands on receives the Holy Spirit.”
²⁰But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you
presumed to buy the gift of God with money! ²¹There is no part or place for you
in this thing, because your heart is not pure before God. ²²Repent therefore of
this evil of yours, and ask of the Lord if the intent of your heart will be forgiven.
²³For I see you being with bitter poison and the bondage of unrighteousness.”
²⁴And in response Simon said, “Pray to the Lord on my behalf so that
nothing you said will befall me.”
²⁵When therefore they had given solemn testimony, they also returned to
Jerusalem speaking the word of the Lord, evangelizing even more Samaritan
villages.
²⁶Then an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying: “Get up, and go down
southward on the road that goes from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This is desert.)
²⁷And he got up and went, and behold, an Ethiopian man, who was an
official eunuch of the Kentakee (queen of the Ethiopians), in charge of all her
finance. He had come to worship at Jerusalem. ²⁸And he was going back
home, and was sitting on his chariot and reading the prophet Isaiah.
²⁹And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go up and meet this chariot.”
³⁰So Philip ran up to him. And he heard him reading Isaiah the prophet
and said to him, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
³¹And he said, “How would I truly be able to, unless someone guides me?”
And he invited Philip up, to sit with him.
³²And the passage of scripture he was reading was,
“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter.

And as a lamb before the shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
³³In his meekness his right was taken away.
Who will describe his generation?
For his life is being removed from the earth.”
³⁴So in response the eunuch said to Philip, “I ask you please, about whom is
the prophet saying this? About himself? Or about someone else?”
³⁵Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with that very scripture, he
told him all the good news about Jesus. ³⁶And as they were proceeding along
the road, they came upon some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, water. Is
there anything forbidding me to be baptized?” 396
³⁸And he ordered the chariot to stop, and the two went down into the water,
both Philip and the eunuch, and Philip baptized him. ³⁹And when they had
come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord snatched Philip up, and the
eunuch saw him no more. He sure was rejoicing as he went on his way.
⁴⁰Then Philip was found in Azotus, and he preached the gospel to all the
towns as he passed through, until he arrived at Caesarea.
Chapter 9
¹Now Saul was still breathing threats of murder against the disciples of the
Lord. And he approached the high priest, ²and obtained letters from him to the
synagogues at Damascus, to the effect that anyone he found belonging to The
Way, both men and women, he could bind them and bring them to Jerusalem.
³When therefore he was on his way, it came about, that as he was getting close to
Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven shone all around him, ⁴and he fell to
the ground. He heard a voice. It was saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you
persecuting me?”
⁵And he said, “Who are you, Lord?”
And He said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to
kick against the goads.”
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Acts 8:37: "And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, it is permissible. And he answered and said,
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God." This verse was added later, after early church fathers added many
unbiblical traditions to the rite of baptism, such as, there being a waiting period or probationary period before
baptism, to make sure the convert was genunine, and such as the baptism only being carried out under the direct
supervision of “the bishop.”
⁶Then, trembling and awe-struck, he said, “Lord, what do you want me to
do?”
And the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and it will be told you
what you are to do.”
⁷Now the men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the
voice, but not seeing anyone. ⁸Then Saul got up off the ground, and though his
eyes were open, he could see nothing. So leading him by the hand, they took
him into Damascus. ⁹And he went three days without seeing, and neither ate
nor drank.
¹⁰Now there was a disciple in Damascus by the name of Hananiah, and the
Lord spoke to him in a dream, “Hananiah.”
And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”
¹¹And the Lord said to him, “Get up, go to the street called Straight Street,
and inquire in the house of Judas for a man named Saul of Tarsus. For behold,
he is praying, ¹²and in a vision he has seen a man named Hananiah come in and
lay hands on him so that he would see again.”
¹³But Hananiah answered, “Lord, I have heard from many people about this
man, what bad things he has done to your saints in Jerusalem; ¹⁴and he has
authority here from the high priest to bind all those who are called by your
name.”
¹⁵And the Lord said to him, “Go. For this man is to me a choice vessel to
bear my name before the Gentiles, and even before kings, and before the sons of
Israel as well. ¹⁶Indeed I will show him what things he himself is destined to
suffer for the sake of my name.”
¹⁷So Hananiah went, and came into the house. And he placed his hands on
him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord has sent me—Jesus, who appeared to you
in the road on which you came—so that you may see again, and so you may be
filled with the Holy Spirit.”
¹⁸And immediately there fell off of him something like scales from his eyes,
and he saw again, and he rose up and was baptized. ¹⁹And after receiving food,
he gained strength. And he was with the disciples in Damascus a few days,
²⁰and then immediately began preaching Jesus in the synagogues, saying “This is
the Son of God.”
²¹And those hearing were amazed, and saying, “Is this not the man who
ravaged those in Jerusalem connected to this name? Was this not also the
reason he had come here, to take them chained up before the high priests?”
²²And Saul was getting stronger and stronger, and confounding the Jews
who lived in Damascus, proving that this man was the Messiah. ²³And after
many days of this had gone by, the Jews conspired to kill him. ²⁴But their plan
was made known to Saul. Now they were also keeping close watch on the gates,
both by day and by night, so as to kill him. ²⁵So the disciples took him away at
night by way of the wall instead. They lowered him down in a basket.
²⁶And when he arrived in Jerusalem, he kept trying to join with the disciples,
and everyone was afraid of him, not believing he was a disciple. ²⁷But Barnabas
came beside him, and led him to the apostles, and recounted to them how the
Lord had appeared to Saul on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how
in Damascus Saul had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus.
²⁸So he was with them at Jerusalem going in and out, speaking boldly in the
name of the Lord, ²⁹both speaking to and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews.
They however were taking steps to kill him. ³⁰And when the brethren found
out, they took him to Caesarea, and assigned him out to Tarsus.
³¹Then the church throughout all of Judea, Galilee and Samaria had peace,
and it was strengthened. And proceeding in the fear of the Lord and the
assurance of the Holy Spirit, it grew in numbers.
³²Now it came about that as Peter was going through all those areas, he
went to be with the saints that were living in Lydda. ³³And he found there a
man by the name of Aeneas, who was paralyzed, lying in bed for eight years.
³⁴And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ is healing you. Get up and make
your bed.” And he got up immediately. ³⁵And everyone living in Lydda and
Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
³⁶And in Joppa there was a disciple by the name of Tabitha, which when
translated means Dorkas. This woman was wholly occupied with the good
works and charitable giving that she was doing. ³⁷And it came about that
during those days she became ill, and died. And after they washed her, they
placed her in the upper room. ³⁸And since Lydda was close to Joppa, and the
disciples heard that Peter was in that town, they sent two men to him, begging
him, “Please come to our town without delay.”
³⁹So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they led him up
into the upper room. And all the widows came forward, weeping, showing him
the coats and garments that Dorkas had made when she was with them. ⁴⁰But
Peter put everyone outside, and he got down on his knees, and prayed. Then
he turned toward the body, and said, “Tabitha, get up.” And she opened her
eyes. And when she saw Peter, she sat up. ⁴¹And lending her a hand, he lifted
her up, and called the saints and widows, and presented her to them alive.
⁴²And this became known throughout all of Joppa, and many believed on the
Lord. ⁴³And it came about that Peter stayed on for a considerable number of
days in Joppa, with a tanner, Simon.
Chapter 10
¹Now a man in Caesarea by the name of Cornelius, the centurion of the
cohort called The Italian Cohort, ²a devout and God-fearing man along with his
whole household, who was doing many charitable deeds for the Jewish people,
and praying to God continually, ³saw distinctly at about the ninth hour of the
day in a vision, that an angel of God had come in to him, and who said to him,
“Cornelius.”
⁴And Cornelius looked upon him, and became very afraid, and said, “What
is it, Lord?”
And he said to him, “Your prayers and your deeds of charity have gone up
as a memorial before God. ⁵And now, send men to Joppa, and invite a Simon to
come to you who is nicknamed Peter. ⁶This man is staying as a guest with
Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.”
⁷So when the angel speaking to him had left, he called two of his house
servants from among those who attended him, and a devout soldier, ⁸and after
recounting it to each one of them, he sent them to Joppa.
⁹The next day, as those men were walking the road and getting close to the
city, Peter went up onto the roof to pray, around the sixth hour. ¹⁰Then he
became very hungry, and wanted to eat. And while they were preparing it, a
trance came over him, ¹¹and he sees heaven being opened, and then a container
coming down, something like a giant bedsheet tied at the four corners, being
lowered to the earth. ¹²In it were all the four-footed animals, and all the things
that creep on the ground, and all the birds of the sky.
¹³And there came a voice to him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
¹⁴But Peter said, “Certainly not, Lord. Because never have I ever eaten
anything common or unclean.”
¹⁵And the voice spoke again to him a second time: “What God has made
clean you must not call unclean.”
¹⁶And this happened three times; then the container was immediately taken
up into heaven. ¹⁷Then, as Peter was puzzling inside himself as to what might
be the meaning of the vision he had seen, behold, the men who were sent by
Cornelius had ascertained the house of Simon and stood at the gate. ¹⁸And they
called out, asking if Simon who was nicknamed Peter was staying as a guest
there. ¹⁹And as Peter was reflecting on the vision, the Spirit said to him,
“Behold, three men are looking for you. ²⁰Get up instead, and go downstairs,
and leave with them, not questioning anything, since I have sent them.”
²¹So Peter went down and said to the men, “Here I am, the one you are
looking for. What is the reason you are here?”
²²And they said, “Cornelius the centurion, a righteous man and fearing God,
and vouched for by the whole Jewish nation, he has been directed by a holy
angel to summon you to his house, and to hear words from you.”
²³He invited them inside therefore as his guests. And the next day he rose
up and left with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him.
²⁴And the following day he came into Caesarea. And since Cornelius was
expecting him, he had called together his relatives and his close friends. ²⁵And
it came about that as Peter was entering, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet
and worshipped him.
²⁶But Peter lifted him up saying, “Stand up. I myself am also a human
being.”
²⁷And as he was talking with him he went inside, and finds many people
gathered. ²⁸And he said to them, “You know full well how it is unlawful for a
Jewish man to join with or visit someone of another race. Yet God has shown
me to call no human being common or unclean. ²⁹This then is the reason I came
without objection to the summons. I ask therefore, what is the reason you have
summoned me?”
³⁰And Cornelius said, “Four days ago to this hour, I was in my house
praying, at the ninth hour, and behold, a man in radiant clothing stood before me.
³¹And he said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been answered, and your deeds of
charity have gone up as a memorial before God. ³²Send therefore to Joppa and
call for Simon who is knicknamed Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the
house of Simon the tanner, by the sea.’ ³³Right away then I sent men to you,
and you on your part did well getting here. Now therefore, we all are present
before God, to hear all the things told to you by the Lord.”
³⁴Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, “I truly understand now, that God
is not a discriminator of faces, ³⁵but that a person of any nation who fears him
and works at righteousness is acceptable to Him. ³⁶This is the word which He
sent to the sons of Israel, that announces peace through Jesus Christ: This man is
the Lord of everyone.
³⁷You know the thing that happened throughout the whole land of the Jews,
beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached, ³⁸the man from
Nazareth, Jesus, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and power, who
traveled around doing good and healing all those oppressed by the Devil,
because God was with him. ³⁹And we are witnesses of everything he did in the
country of the Jews and Jerusalem; whom then they killed by hanging him to a
tree. ⁴⁰This man God raised up on the third day, and granted him to be visible;
⁴¹not to all the people but to witnesses chosen beforehand by God; to us, who ate
and drank with him after he rose from the dead. ⁴²And he commanded us to
preach to the people and to solemnly testify that this man is the one appointed
by God as judge of the living and the dead. ⁴³All the prophets testify: that all
who believe on him are to receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”
⁴⁴While Peter was still speaking these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon
everyone who was listening to the word. ⁴⁵And those believers who were of the
Circumcision, who had come with Peter, were astonished that the gift of the
Holy Spirit was poured out upon Gentiles also. ⁴⁶For they were hearing them
speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter responded: ⁴⁷”Can
anyone forbid water baptism to these people, who received the Holy Spirit just
as we did?” ⁴⁸And so he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus
Christ. Then they asked him to remain for several days.
Chapter 11
¹Now those apostles and brothers who were living throughout Judea, they
heard that Gentiles had also received the word of God. ²And when Peter went
up to Jerusalem, they began to argue against him, those who were of the
Circumcision.
³They were saying, “You have gone indoors with uncircumcised men, and
you ate with them!”
⁴So Peter began explaining to them step by step, saying, ⁵”I was in the city of
Joppa, praying, and in a trance, I saw a vision: a container, something like a giant
bedsheet, being let down out of heaven by its four corners, and it came close to
me. ⁶When I looked inside, I recognized and saw the four-footed animals of the
earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeeping things, and the birds of the sky.
⁷And then I heard a voice saying, ‘Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.’
⁸But I said, ‘Certainly not, Lord. Because never has anything common or
unclean ever gone into my mouth.’
⁹The voice came back a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made
clean you must not call unclean.’
¹⁰And this happened three times, then it was all pulled back into heaven.
¹¹And behold, right then three men stood at the house in which I was staying,
sent from Caesarea to me. ¹²And the Spirit said to me, ‘Go with them, not
questioning anything. And these six brothers went with me also, and we
entered the man’s house. ¹³Then he related to us how he saw an angel who had
stood in his house and had said, ‘Send to Joppa and summon Simon who is
knick-named Peter, ¹⁴who will speak words to you by which you and all your
household will be saved.’ ¹⁵And so, as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell
upon them just as upon us at the beginning. ¹⁶Then I remembered the statement
of the Lord. As he said, ‘John baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the
Holy Spirit.’ ¹⁷If therefore God has given them the same gift as to us when we
also believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to have been able to hold back
God?”
¹⁸And after they heard these things they calmed down, and they glorified
God, saying, “So, even to Gentiles God has granted repentance unto life.”
¹⁹Those then who had been scattered as a result of the persecution in
connection to Stephen, they had gone as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and
Antioch, generally speaking the word to no one except Jews only. ²⁰But there
were a few of them, Cypriot and Cyrenian men, who had gone into Antioch
speaking to Greeks as well, preaching the good news about the Lord Jesus.
²¹And the hand of the Lord was with them, and the number of those who
believed and turned to the Lord was large.
²²And the report about them was heard as far as the ears of the congregation
that was in Jerusalem, and they assigned Barnabas out to Antioch. ²³Who, when
he arrived and saw the blessedness that is from God, was glad, and exhorted
them all to continue in the Lord with determination in their hearts. ²⁴For he was
a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and faith. And a great number of people
were brought to the Lord. ²⁵Then he went away to Tarsus, to look for Saul,
²⁶and when he found him he brought him to Antioch. And so it came about that,
for a whole year they joined forces to work with that congregation, and to teach a
considerable throng of people. It was also in Antioch the disicples were first
called “Christians.”
²⁷And during those same days some prophets came down to Antioch from
Jerusalem. ²⁸And one of them by the name of Agabus indicated through the
Spirit that a great famine was going to take place over the whole inhabited earth.
Which did take place during the reign of Claudius Caesar. ²⁹Then the disciples
determined, according to the extent each of them was prospering, to send money
in support to the brethren living in Judea. ³⁰And this they did, sending it to the
elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
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¹Now around that time, King Herod arrested some from the church, and
mistreated them. ²And James the brother of John he put to death by the sword.
³And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews, he went on to hunt down
Peter also (and it was during the days of Unleavened Bread), ⁴whom he then
arrested and put in prison, delivering him over to be guarded by four squads of
four soldiers each, intending after Passover to bring him out before the people.
⁵While Peter was being kept in prison, prayer was earnestly being made by
the church on his behalf to God. ⁶And when Herod was just about to bring him
up, that very night before, Peter was sleeping chained between two soldiers by
two chains, with guards also in front of the door watching the prison. ⁷And
behold, an angel of the Lord stood over, and light shone in the room. And he
tapped on the side of Peter’s body and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.”
And the chains fell off his wrists.
⁸Then the angel said to him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” And
Peter did so. And the angel says to him, “Throw your cloak on and follow me.”
⁹And Peter was following him outside, not knowing, that what was
happening through the angel was real. He thought he was seing a dream. ¹⁰So
after passing by the first guards, then the second, they were at the iron gate that
leads to the city. Which opened for them by itself. And they got outside, and
when they had gone one block, the angel pulled away from him.
¹¹And Peter came to himself, and said, “Now I truly know, that the Lord has
sent out his angel, and plucked me out of Herod’s hand and from all that the
Jewish people were expecting.” ¹²And once he realized this, he went to the
house of Mary, the mother of the John whose other name was Mark, which was
where a lot of those convened and praying were. ¹³And he knocked on the door
of the courtyard, and a maidservant by the name of Rhoda came out to answer,
¹⁴and when she recognized Peter’s voice, from her joy she did not open the gate
but ran inside and reported Peter to be standing at the gate.
¹⁵And they said to her, “You’re crazy.” But she kept insisting it was true.
So then they were saying, “It’s his angel.”
¹⁶But Peter kept knocking. And when they opened the gate they saw him,
and were astounded. ¹⁷And he waved his hand downward for silence, and
recounted to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. Then he
said, “Report these things to James and the brothers.” And he left and went to
another location.
¹⁸Now when morning came, there was no small anxiety among the soldiers
as to what had happened to Peter. ¹⁹And Herod conducted a search for him,
and when he did not find him he interrogated the guards, then ordered them off
to be executed, and went down to Caesarea, spending some time away from
Judea.
²⁰Now Herod had become angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. So
they made a joint appearance before him, and after they had first won Blastus
over to their cause, the man in charge of the king’s bedroom, they sued for peace.
This was because their region was dependent upon the food crops from the royal
farms. ²¹And on the day appointed, Herod dressed in the royal robes and sat at
the tribunal, and delivered a speech before them. ²²And the crowd began
raising a cheer: “The voice of a god, and not of a man!” ²³But an angel of the
Lord struck him on the spot, because he did not give the glory to God. And he
was eaten by worms, and died.
²⁴Now the word of God was spreading, and winning over more and more
people. ²⁵And Barnabas and Saul returned, having fulfilled their mission at
Jerusalem, and they brought with them John whose other name was Mark.
Chapter 13
¹Now among that congregation in Antioch there were prophets and teachers:
both Barnabas and Simeon― the one called the black Simeon; and also Lucius
the Cyrenian; Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch; and Saul. ²And
while they were devoting themselves to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said,
“Now set apart Barnabas and Saul to me, for the work to which I have called
them.”
³Then, after fasting and praying and laying their hands on them, they sent
them off. ⁴Those two therefore, sent out by the Holy Spirit, went down to
Seleucia, and from there they sailed to Cyprus, ⁵and once they were in Salamis,
were proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. Now they
also had John along as an assistant.
⁶And when they had traveled through the whole island as far as Paphos,
they encountered a man who was a magician and Jewish false prophet, whose
name was Bar-Jesus, ⁷who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus. This latter
was an intelligent man, and he summoned Barnabas and Saul, desiring to hear
the word of God. ⁸But Elymas the magician (for that is how his name is
translated) kept working against them, always trying to steer the proconsul away
from the faith.
⁹Then Saul, the one also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his
gaze straight at him, ¹⁰and said, “O you, full of all spincraft and every kind of
fraud, you son of the devil, you opponent of all that is righteous, are you never
going to stop distorting the right ways of the Lord? ¹¹And now behold, the
hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a
time."
And immediately there fell upon him a mist, and darkness, and he was
going around looking for a guiding hand. ¹²At that time the proconsul believed,
when he saw what had happened, completely amazed at the teaching about" the
Lord.
¹³Then, setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to Perga of
Pamphylia; except for John, who parted from them and returned to Jerusalem.
¹⁴And they passed on through from Perga and arrived in Antioch of Pisidia.
And on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. ¹⁵And
after the reading of the law and the prophets, the synagogue rulers sent word to
them, saying, "Men, brothers, if there is among you any word of exhortation to
the people, you may speak."
¹⁶So Paul stood up, and waving his hand downward for silence, he said,
Men, Israelites, and those who fear God, please listen. ¹⁷The God of this people
Israel chose our fathers, and he exalted the people during their sojourning in
Egypt, and with a mighty arm led them out of it, ¹⁸and, for about forty years time
he bore them in the desert, ¹⁹then after destroying seven nations in the land of
Canaan, he divided their land out to them as an inheritance, ²⁰all this over a
period of about 450 years. And after those things, he gave them the judges,
until Samuel the prophet.
²¹And from then on they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son
of Kish for 40 years, a man of the tribe of Benjamin. ²²And after removing him,
he raised up David for them as king, about whom he also testified and said, 'I
have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will perform all
my wishes.' ²³From the seed of that man, according to the promise, God
brought to Israel a savior, Jesus, ²⁴with John having announced ahead of His
appearance a baptism of repentance to all the people Israel.
²⁵And as John was completing his run, he was saying, 'What are you
surmising me to be? I am not the one. But behold, there is coming after me
someone whose sandals I am not worthy to untie.'
²⁶Men and brothers, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you who
fear God, the message of this salvation has been assigned over to us, ²⁷since those
living in Jerusalem and their rulers, being ignorant of this and of the voices of the
prophets which are read on every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning Him.
²⁸And even though they found no case for the death penalty, they asked Pilate to
execute Him. ²⁹And when they had fulfilled all those things written about him,
they took him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
³⁰But God raised him up from the dead. ³¹Over a period of many days he
appeared to those who had come up to Jersualem with him from Galilee, those
who are now witnesses of him to the people. ³²And we are announcing to you
this good news: that the promise made to the fathers, ³³God has fulfilled that
promise to us their children by raising up Jesus, as it is also written in the second
Psalm about him: 'You are my son. Today I have begotten you.'
³⁴And that he raised him from the dead, to revert no more to decay, this is
spoken: 'I will grant to you the sure blessings of David.'
³⁵Pertaining to which also it says in another place, 'You will grant that your
blessed one not see decay.'
³⁶Now certainly: David fell asleep, after he had served his own generation
by the will of God, and he was laid to rest with his fathers and he saw decay.
³⁷But the one whom God has raised, he did not see decay. ³⁸Be it known to you
therefore, men and brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is being
announced to you. ³⁹And of everything from which it was not possible to be
justified through the Law of Moses, he who believes is being justified.
⁴⁰Take heed therefore, that this which was spoken in the prophets may not
apply:
⁴¹'Watch, O scornful ones, and marvel, and perish.

Because I am accomplishing a feat in your days,
a feat which you would not believe
if someone were explaining it to you.' "
⁴²And when they went outside, they were being invited to the next Sabbath,
to speak these same words to them. ⁴³Then after the synagogue meeting had
broken up many of the Jews and devout proselytes accompanied Paul and
Barnabas, who, as they continued to speak to them, were prevailing upon them
to continue with this grace of God. ⁴⁴Consequently on the following Sabbath,
almost the entire city gathered to hear the word about the Lord.
⁴⁵But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and
they were rebutting the arguments of Paul by denigrating him. ⁴⁶So Paul and
Barnabas bluntly said, "It was mandatory that the word of God be spoken to you
first. But since you are pushing it away and convicting yourselves not worthy
of eternal life, behold: we turn to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷For the Lord has commanded
us this: 'I have set you to be a light for the Gentiles, salvation reaching the
farthest part of the earth.'" ⁴⁸And the Gentiles listening were cheering, and
praising the message about the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to
eternal life believed.
⁴⁹So the message about the Lord was being carried throughout that whole
region. ⁵⁰But the Jews stirred up the influential of the pious proselyte women
along with the chief men of the city, and instigated a persecution against Paul
and Barnabas. And they expelled them out of their borders. ⁵¹So they, after
shaking the dust off their feet against them, were on their way to Iconium,
⁵²while the disciples were filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.
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¹And the same thing happened in Iconium. They went into the synagogue
of the Jews and spoke in this same manner, with the result that a large number of
both Jews and Greeks believed. ²As for those who did not believe, the Jews
stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
³They then stayed though quite a while, speaking boldly on the Lord, who
was bearing witness to the word of his grace by granting signs and wonders to
happen through their hands. ⁴But the multitude of the city became divided, and
some were with the Jews and some were with the apostles. ⁵And when a
campaign arose on the part of both the Gentiles and Jews with their leaders to
assault and stone them, ⁶they heard about it, and fled to the Lycaonian cities of
Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding country, ⁷and started evangelizing there.
⁸And a man was sitting in Lystra who was disabled in his feet, lame from
his mother's womb, who never at any time had walked. ⁹He was listening to
the preaching of Paul, who studied him, and knew that he had the faith to be
healed. ¹⁰He said in a loud voice, "Stand up straight, on your feet!" And he
jumped up, and was walking.
¹¹And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices
in Lycaonian, saying, "The gods have come down to us, made like humans."
¹²And they were calling Barnabas Zeus, and Paul Hermes, since Hermes was the
ruler of speech. ¹³And the priest of Zeus, who dwelt before the city, brought
bulls and garlands to the gates, intending to join with the crowds to offer
sacrifice.
¹⁴But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they ripped their
clothing and rushed in among the crowd, crying out ¹⁵and saying, "Men, why are
you doing this? We also are humans with the same frailties as you, preaching
that you should turn from these worthless things to the God that is alive, the one
who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and everything that is in them;
¹⁶who in the ages gone by has allowed all nations to go in their own paths;
¹⁷though he did not leave himself without evidence, acting good toward you,
providing rain from the heaven and seasons bearing fruit, satisfying your hearts
with food and good cheer."
¹⁸And saying these things just barely dissuaded the crowds from sacrificing
to them. ¹⁹But some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning
over the crowds and stoning Paul, they dragged him outside the city, thinking he
was dead.
²⁰But the disciples circled around him, and carried him into the city. And
the following day, he left for Derbe with Barnabas. ²¹And after evangelizing
that city and making many disciples, they reversed their tracks through Lystra
and through Iconium and through Antioch, ²²confirming the hearts of the
disciples, exhorting them to persevere in the faith, seeing as how we must go
through much tribulation into the kingdom of God. ²³And after appointing
elders for them in each congregation, and praying for them with fasting, they
handed them over to the Lord in whom they had placed their trust.
²⁴And when they had passed all the way through Pisidia they came into
Pamphylia, ²⁵and after speaking the word in Perga they went down to Attalia,
²⁶and from there set sail for Antioch, for that is where they had been commended
to the grace of God for the work they had completed. ²⁷So they presented
themselves. When they had brought the congregation together, they were
reporting what things God had done through them, and how He had opened the
door of faith to the Gentiles. ²⁸And it was no small amount of time they were
spending with those disciples.
Chapter 15
¹And some who had come down from Judea had been teaching the brothers,
"Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be
saved." ²So after there arose no small division and debate between those men
versus Paul and Barnabas, they appointed Paul and Barnabas plus some others
among them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem about this question.
³They therefore were sent forth now by the assembly, and as they passed
through both Phoenicia and Samaria, they were telling all about the conversion
of the Gentiles, and causing great joy among the brethren. ⁴And when they
arrived in Jerusalem they were welcomed by the congregation and the apostles
and the elders, and they reported the things God had done through them.
⁵But some from the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying
it was necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of
Moses. ⁶And the apostles and elders gathered together to deliberate about this
issue.
⁷But after an intense debate occurred, Peter stood up, and he said to them,
"Men and brothers, you know full well from the early days, that God chose in
your presence Gentiles to hear by my mouth the word of the gospel and to
believe, ⁸and God, the knower of hearts, has testified, in that he gave the Holy
Spirit to them also, just as to us, ⁹and he made no distinction between us and
them, cleansing both of our hearts by means of faith. ¹⁰So why tempt God now
to place a yoke upon the necks of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we
were able to bear? ¹¹But rather we believe to be saved by the grace of the Lord
Jesus, the same way also as they."
¹²Then the whole multitude was quiet and listening to Barnabas and Paul
recounting at length what signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles
through them.
¹³And after they had held their peace, James responded, saying, "Men,
brothers, listen to me. ¹⁴Simeon has described how it was that God first turned
his attention to obtain from the Gentiles a people called by his name. ¹⁵And this
is in harmony with the words of the prophets, just as it is written:
¹⁶'After these things I will turn back around,

and raise again the fallen tent of David,
and rebuild the ruins of it and set it up aright.
¹⁷so the rest of humanity may seek the Lord,
even all the Gentiles upon whom my name is applied,
says the Lord, the one doing these things,
¹⁸known since long ago.'
¹⁹Therefore it is my judgment not to further dismay those from the Gentiles

who are turning to God, ²⁰but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of
idols and sexual sins and strangled animals and blood. ²¹After all, Moses since
ancient times has people proclaiming him in every city, reading him aloud in the
synagogues on every Sabbath."
²²At that time, it seemed good to them, the apostles and elders, together
with the whole church, to send select men from among them to Antioch with
Paul and Barnabas: Judas the one called Barsabbas, and Silas; leading men
among the brothers, ²³having sent a letter by their hand: "The apostles and elders
and brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles of Antioch and Syria and Cilicia:
Greetings. ²⁴Because we have heard that some men have troubled you with
words, upending your souls, who came from among us but to whom we had
given no such direction, ²⁵it seemed good to us, after coming to one accord, to
send select men to you together with our beloved brothers Barnabas and Paul,
²⁶people who have dedicated their lives to the cause of the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ. ²⁷We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, and they will be telling
you by speech these same things: ²⁸for it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to
us to place no burden upon you beyond these essentials: ²⁹to abstain from things
sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from strangled animals, and from sexual
sins. Keeping yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell."
³⁰Those men therefore when they were dismissed went down to Antioch,
and after gathering the congregation together, they delivered the letter. ³¹And
when they had read it, they rejoiced over its encouragement. ³²And Judas and
Silas, both being prophets also themselves, encouraged the brethren with much
speaking, and they strenghened them as well. ³³And after they had spent some
time, they were released back from those brethren with a "Peace be with you" to
the ones who sent them.397 ³⁵Paul and Barnabas, however, stayed in Antioch,
teaching and preaching the word about the Lord, along with many others.
³⁶Then some days later, Paul said to Barnabas, "Now let us go back and
check on our brethren in all the cities in which we have announced the word of
the Lord, to see how they are doing." ³⁷So, Barnabas was wanting to take John
with them, also called Mark. ³⁸But Paul thought it better not to take this man
along with them, who had withdrawn from them, and from Pamphylia onward
had not continued with them in the work.
³⁹There was a disagreement therefore, so sharp, that they parted ways from
each other. And Barnabas took Mark, to sail to Cyprus. ⁴⁰Paul however chose
Silas, and went forth, committed by the brethren to the grace of the Lord. ⁴¹And
he was traveling through Syria and Cilicia, confirming those congregations.
Chapter 16
¹Then he went over to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold, there was a
disciple there by the name of Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who believed,
but whose father was a Gentile. ²He was well spoken of by the brethren in
Lystra and Iconium. ³Paul wanted this man to journey with him, and he took
him and circumcised him, because of the Jews living in those places. For they
all knew that his father was a Gentile.
⁴So as they were going through the cities, they were delivering the decrees
that had been decided for them to keep by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem.
⁵Those congregations were thus indeed being strengthened in the faith; and they
were growing in number daily. ⁶And when they passed through the Phrygian
and Galatian territory, they were prevented from speaking the word in Asia by
the Holy Spirit, ⁷so they went along the border of Mysia, trying to go into
397
Acts 15:34 is absent in the vast majority of Greek manuscripts, both early and late. TCGNT: ‘The later
Greek text, followed by the Textus Receptus, reads, “But it seemed good to Silas to remain there” (several
manuscripts, including C, read, “But it seemed good to Silas that they should remain”). Codex Bezae presents
a still more expanded reading, “But it seemed good to Silas that they remain, and Judas journeyed alone.” The
insertion, whether in the longer or the shorter verion, was no doubt made by copyists to account for the presence
of Silas at Antioch in ver. 40.’
Bithynia― and the Spirit would not let them. ⁸So they passed all the way
through Mysia and went down to Troy.
⁹And during the night a vision appeared to Paul. It was a man of
Macedonia standing, and he was pleading with him and saying, "Cross over to
Macedonia and help us." ¹⁰So since he had seen that vision, we worked on
leaving for Macedonia immediately, because we gathered that God had called us
to evangelize them. ¹¹We set sail therefore from Troy, and made a straight run
to Samothraiki, and the next day on to Neapolis, ¹²and from there to Philippi,
which was the first city in the region of Macedonia, a Roman colony. And we
continued in that city, spending some days.
¹³And on the Sabbath, we went outside the gate by the river, where we were
expecting prayer usually to take place. And after sitting down, we were talking
to the women who had gathered. ¹⁴And a woman of the city of Thyatira was
listening, by the name of Lydia, a merchant dealing in purple cloth, who
worshiped God. Whose heart the Lord opened so that she would take heed to
the things being said by Paul. ¹⁵And after she and her household were baptized,
she made an appeal as follows, "If you really have judged me to be a believer in
the Lord, come stay at my house." And she persuaded us.
¹⁶And it came about that once when we were heading to the place of prayer,
a slave girl who had an oracle spirit came across us, who generated much income
for her owners by her fortune telling. ¹⁷She continued to follow close after Paul
and us, yelling and saying, "These men are servants of the most high God, who
are announcing to you the way of salvation!" ¹⁸She kept doing this over a
period of many days. And Paul was fed up, and he turned to the spirit and said,
"I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came
out of her that very instant.
¹⁹Then when her owners saw that their hope of income was gone, they
grabbed Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the public square before the
authorities. ²⁰And when they moved them up to the magistrates, they said,
"These men, who are Jews, are agitating our city, ²¹and they are proclaiming
customs which are not permissible for us, being Romans, to either accept or to
practice." ²²And the crowd rushed together onto them, and then the magistrates
ripped off the clothes and ordered them to be beaten. ²³And after imposing
many blows, they threw them in prison, and ordered the warden to keep them in
high security; ²⁴who when he got such orders, put them in the inner cell, and
secured their legs in stocks.
²⁵And around midnight, Paul and Silas were singing hymns to God, and the
guards were listening with interest. ²⁶And suddenly there was an earthquake,
so big, that it caused the foundation of the prison to shift, and all the doors to
instantly open. All the chains were released as well. ²⁷And when the warden
woke up and saw that the doors of the prison were open, he drew his dagger,
and was about to kill himself, figuring the prisoners had escaped. ²⁸But Paul
called out in a loud voice, and said, "Do not harm yourself. We are all here."
²⁹So he ordered lights, and rushed inside. And he was trembling, and threw
himself down before Paul and Silas. ³⁰Then he led them outside, and said, "Sirs,
what must I do to be saved?"
³¹And they said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved,
you and your household." ³²And they spoke to him the word about the Lord,
together with all those in his household. ³³Then he took Paul and Silas, washed
them of their wounds, and got baptized on the spot, he and all his household, at
that hour of the night. ³⁴And after leading them back into the house, he set out
a table for them. And he and all his household were rejoicing, having believed
in God.
³⁵And when it was daytime, the magistrates sent the sheriffs, saying,
"Release those men." ³⁶So the prison warden declared these words to Paul, as
follows: "The magistrates have sent orders that you be released. Now therefore,
you may go in peace."
³⁷But Paul said to them, "They gave us a beating in public without due
process of law, though we men are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison.
And now they are pushing us away quietly? Certainly not! On the contrary
they shall come and escort us out themselves." ³⁸So the sheriffs reported these
statements to the magistrates. And when they heard that they were Roman
citizens, they were afraid. ³⁹And they came and apologized to them. And
when they escorted them out, they asked them to go away from the city.
⁴⁰Now after getting out of prison, they went and stayed with Lydia. And
they saw those brethren, and exhorted them, and moved on.
Chapter 17
¹And when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came
to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. ²And as was Paul's
custom, he went in to them, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them
from the scriptures, ³explaining and pointing out that the Messiah had to suffer,
and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This man Jesus who I am telling you
about, he is the Messiah." ⁴And some of them were persuaded, and attached
themselves to Paul and Silas, including a great many of the Greek proselytes, and
of the leading women not a few.
⁵And the Jews were jealous, and recruited some worthless men off the
streets, and when they had formed a mob, they were putting the city in an
uproar. And they assaulted the house of Jason, intending to bring them out to
the mob. ⁶But when they did not find them, they proceeded to drag Jason and
some other brothers up before the magistrates, crying, "Those men who have
overturned the whole inhabited earth, they have arrived here also; ⁷whom Jason
has taken under his roof. And they all are acting contrary to the decrees of
Caesar, declaring someone else to be king, Jesus." ⁸Thus they riled up the
crowd and the magistrates who were hearing these words. ⁹And after taking a
bail bond from Jason and the others, they released them.
¹⁰Then the brethren sent Paul and Silas immediately away during the night
to Berea. When they arrived they went into the synagogue of the Jews. ¹¹And
these people were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word
with a completely open mind, each day examining the scriptures to see if they
were there as described. ¹²Consequently many of them believed, including
some Greek women of high standing, and of the Greek men not a few.
¹³But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that the word of God was
proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came over there as well, and they stirred
up the crowd. ¹⁴So immediately at that time the brethren sent Paul away, to
journey to the sea coast, while both Silas and Timothy remained there. ¹⁵And
those escorting Paul took him as far as Athens, and after receiving orders for
Silas and Timothy that they should come join him with all speed, they left.
¹⁶Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was getting
stirred up within him, when he saw the city was rife with idols. ¹⁷He therefore
every day was holding discussions with the Jews and devout proselytes in the
synagogues, and also in the public square with anyone who happened to be
nearby. ¹⁸Thus some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began joining
him. And some were saying, "Whatever is this blowhard trying to say?" And
others said, "He seems to be a herald for foreign deities." (For he was
announcing Jesus and the resurrection.) ¹⁹And they took hold of him and led
him to the Hill of Aries, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is, the
one being spoken by you? ²⁰For you are announcing some things that are
strange to our ears. Therefore we wish to know what these things mean."
²¹For you see, all the Athenians, and also non-citizens visiting, would devote
their spare time to nothing else than to speak or to hear anything that was new.
²²So Paul stood at the center of the Hill of Aries, and he said, "Men of Athens,
I notice that you are thoroughly religious. ²³For, as I was passing along and
reviewing your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which had been
inscribed, 'TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.' Now then, the one you venerate
without knowing, that God I am proclaiming to you. ²⁴The God who created
the world and everything in it, being Master of both heaven and earth, he does
not settle in shrines made with hands. ²⁵Nor is he served by human hands as
though he needed anything― he is the one who gives to all, life and breath, and
everything else. ²⁶And he has made of one blood all nations of people, to dwell
over the face of the whole earth, having marked off the predetermined time
periods and boundaries of their habitation, ²⁷to seek after God, if perhaps they
will grope for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸For
in Him we live, and move, and have our being. As even one of your own
prophets has said, 'We are his offspring.' ²⁹We ourselves being offspring of
God, we ought not therefore to think that the divine nature is anything like gold
or silver or stone, like an engraved work of art and of human conception.
³⁰Though God indeed forbore times of such ignorance, he now commands all
people of all places to repent. ³¹Because he has set a day on which he is about to
judge the world with righteousness by the man whom he appointed, giving
assurance to everyone by raising him from the dead."
³²But some, when they heard resurrection from the dead, were scoffing,
while others said, "We will hear from you on this again." ³²And with that Paul
went out from their midst. ³³But some men joined up with him and believed;
among whom was Dionysius― a member of the Hill of Aries; and a woman also,
by the name of Damaris, plus others with them.
Chapter 18
¹After these things, Paul departed from Athens, and went to Corinth.
²And he encountered a Jew by the name of Aquila, Pontic by birth, who had
recently come from Italy along with his wife Priscilla since Claudius had ordered
all Jews to go away from Rome. Paul approached them, ³and because of being
in the same trade, he stayed with them, and they were doing the work together,
for they were tentmakers by trade. ⁴Except every Sabbath he would have a
discussion in the synagogue, persuading both Jews and Greeks. ⁵But when both
Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began restricting himself to
the word, testifying solemnly to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah. ⁶But when
they set themselves against him and were reviling him, Paul shook out his
garments toward them, and said, "Your blood is on your own heads. I am clean.
From now on, I am going to the Gentiles."
⁷And he left there, and entered the home of someone by the name of Titus
Justus, a worshiper of God, whose house abutted the synagogue. ⁸Then Crispus,
a leader of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his whole house,
and many of the Corinthians hearing this were believing and getting baptized.
⁹And the Lord said to Paul during the night in a dream: "Do not be afraid,
but speak, and not be silent. ¹⁰Because I am with you, and no one will lay hands
on you to harm you, for in this city the crowd that is mine is large." ¹¹So he
stayed put for a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
¹²But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one mind rose up
against Paul. And they were leading him to the tribunal, ¹³saying, "This man
misleads the people, to worship God apart from the Law."
¹⁴And when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "O
you Jews, if it were a case of intentional crime or a harmful misdeed, I would
admit you; ¹⁵but if a dispute about a word or a term or a law specific to you all,
you take care of that. I am not willing to be judge of those things." ¹⁶And he
expelled them from the tribunal. ¹⁷So they all seized Sosthenes, the chief ruler
of the synagogue, and were beating him right in front of the tribunal. And that
mattered to Gallio not one bit.
¹⁸But Paul after remaining several more days with those brethren, bid them
farewell, got his head shaved in Kengkreia, keeping a vow, and then sailed away
for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. ¹⁹But when they made landfall at
Ephesus, Paul left them behind, and went rather by himself into the synagogue,
reasoning with the Jews. ²⁰And when they asked him to stay with them
additional time, he did not agree, ²¹but bid them farewell, and said, "I will swing
back to you again if God wills." And he sailed away from Ephesus.
²²And he arrived over at Caesarea, disembarked and greeted that church,
then went down to Antioch, ²³and after spending some time, he left, and went
through one place after another in the Galatian and Phrygian territory,
strengthening all the disciples.
²⁴And a Jew by the name of Apollos, Alexandrian by birth, an eloquent man,
came to Ephesus, who was powerful in the scriptures. ²⁵This man was orally
instructed in the way of the Lord, and burning with spirit, he was speaking and
teaching accurately the things about Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John;
²⁶and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. And when Priscilla and
Aquila heard him, they took him and explained to him more accurately the way
of God.
²⁷And when he wanted to go into Achaia, he was encouraged by the
brethren, who wrote to those disciples to welcome him. When he was there, he
was contributing much to those who through grace had believed; ²⁸for he was
thoroughly refuting the Jews in view of all, proving by the scriptures that Jesus
was the Messiah.
Chapter 19
19:1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through
the upper borders came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
19:2 He said to them, Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed? And they
said to him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Spirit.
19:3 And he said to them, To what then were you baptized? And they said, To John's
baptism.
19:4 Then said Paul, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people,
that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.
19:5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
19:6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and
they spoke with tongues, and prophesied.
19:7 And all the men were about twelve.
19:8 And he went into the synagogue, and spoke boldly for the space of three months,
disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.
19:9 But when different were hardened, and believed not, but spoke evil of that way
before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily
in the school of one Tyrannus.
19:10 And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelled in
Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
19:11 And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul: 19:12 So that from his
body were brought to the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from
them, and the evil spirits went out of them.
19:13 Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over those
who had evil spirits the name of the LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom
Paul preaches.
19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did
so.
19:15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are
you?
19:16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and
prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
19:17 And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear
fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
19:18 And many that believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds.
19:19 Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and
burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty
thousand pieces of silver.
19:20 So mightily grew the word of the Lord and prevailed.
19:21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed
through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, after I have been there, I must
also see Rome.
19:22 So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered to him, Timotheus and
Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.
19:23 And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.
19:24 For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for
Diana, brought no small profit to the craftsmen;
19:25 Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, you
know that by this craft we have our wealth.
19:26 Moreover you see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all
Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods,
which are made with hands:
19:27 So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the
temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be
destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships.
19:28 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying,
Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
19:29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and
Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord
into the theater.
19:30 And when Paul would have entered in to the people, the disciples did not permit.
19:31 And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent to him, desiring him
that he would not adventure himself into the theater.
19:32 Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused:
and the more part did not know why they were come together.
19:33 And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward.
And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defense to the people.
19:34 But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two
hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.
19:35 And when the town clerk had appeased the people, he said, You men of Ephesus,
what man is there that knows not that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great
goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
19:36 Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, you ought to be quiet, and
to do nothing rashly.
19:37 For you have brought to here these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor
yet blasphemers of your goddess.
19:38 Therefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter
against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them plead with one another.
19:39 But if you inquire any thing concerning other matters, it shall be determined in a
lawful assembly.
19:40 For we are in danger to be called in question for this day's uproar, there being no
cause whereby we may give an account of this concourse.
19:41 And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.
Chapter 20
20:1 And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called to him the disciples, and embraced
them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.
20:2 And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he
came into Greece,
20:3 And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was
about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.
20:4 And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians,
aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and
Trophimus.
20:5 These going before waited for us in Troy.
20:6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came to
them to Troy in five days; where we abode seven days.
20:7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread,
Paul preached to them, ready to depart on the next day; and continued his speech until
midnight.
20:8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered
together.
20:9 And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a
deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from
the third loft, and was taken up dead.
20:10 And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not
yourselves; for his life is in him.
20:11 When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked
a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
20:12 And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
20:13 And we, going ahead to the ship, sailed to Assos, there intending to take in Paul:
for so had he appointed, minding himself to go on foot.
20:14 And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.
20:15 And we sailed from there, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next
day we arrived at Samos, and the following day came to Miletus.
20:16 For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, because he did not want to spend the
time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem for the day of
Pentecost.
20:17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.
20:18 And when they had come to him, he said to them, You know, from the first day
that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,
20:19 Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and
temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:
20:20 And how I held back nothing that was profitable to you, but have shown you, and
have taught you publicly, and from house to house,
20:21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and
faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
20:22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what things
shall befall me there:
20:23 Save that the Holy Spirit witnesses in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions
await me.
20:24 But none of these things move me, neither do I count my life dear to myself, so
that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received from the
Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
20:25 And now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the
kingdom of God, shall see my face no more.
20:26 Therefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
20:27 For I have not shunned to declare to you all the counsel of God.
20:28 Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy
Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with
his own blood.
20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you,
not sparing the flock.
20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away
disciples after them.
20:31 Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to
warn every one night and day with tears.
20:32 And now, brothers, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is
able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
20:33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
20:34 Yes, you yourselves know, that these hands have ministered to my necessities, and
to them that were with me.
20:35 I have shown you all things, that so laboring you ought to support the weak, and to
remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to
receive.
20:36 And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.
20:37 And they all wept intensely, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,
20:38 Sorrowing most of all for the words which he spoke, that they should see his face
no more. And they accompanied him to the ship.
Chapter 21
21:1 And it came to pass, that after we were gotten from them, and had launched, we
came with a straight course to Coos, and the day following to Rhodes, and from there to
Patara:
21:2 And finding a ship sailing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.
21:3 Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into
Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unload her cargo.
21:4 And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the
Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
21:5 And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and
they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and
we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.
21:6 And when we had taken our leave one of another, we took ship; and they returned
home again.
21:7 And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais, and saluted
the brothers, and abode with them one day.
21:8 And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came to Caesarea:
and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and
abode with him.
21:9 And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.
21:10 And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judaea a certain
prophet, named Agabus.
21:11 And when he was come to us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and
feet, and said, Thus says the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that
owns this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
21:12 And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, asked him not to
go up to Jerusalem.
21:13 Then Paul answered, What mean you to weep and to break my heart? for I am
not only ready to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.
21:14 And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be
done.
21:15 And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
21:16 There went with us also certain of the disciples of Caesarea, and brought with them
one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.
21:17 And when we had come to Jerusalem, the brothers received us gladly.
21:18 And the day following Paul went in with us to James; and all the elders were
present.
21:19 And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had
wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.
21:20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord, and said to him, You see, brother,
how many thousands of Jews there are which believe; and they are all zealous of the law:
21:21 And they are informed about you, that you teach all the Jews which are among the
Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither
to walk after the customs.
21:22 What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear
that you are come.
21:23 Do therefore this that we say to you: We have four men which have a vow on
them;
21:24 Them take, and purify yourself with them, and be at charges with them, that they
may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed
concerning you, are nothing; but that you yourself also walk orderly, and keep the law.
21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they
should observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to
idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.
21:26 Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into
the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an
offering should be offered for every one of them.
21:27 And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when
they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him,
21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teaches all men everywhere
against the people, and the law, and this place: and further, he brought Greeks also into
the temple, and has polluted this holy place.
21:29 (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they
supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
21:30 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and
drew him out of the temple: and immediately the doors were shut.
21:31 And as they went about to kill him, reports came to the chief captain of the band,
that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
21:32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them: and when
they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.
21:33 Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound
with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
21:34 And some cried one thing, some another, among the multitude: and when he could
not know the certainty for the tumult, he commanded him to be carried into the castle.
21:35 And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for
the violence of the people.
21:36 For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, away with him.
21:37 And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said to the chief captain, May I speak
to you? who said, You can speak Greek?
21:38 Are you not that Egyptian, who prior to these days caused an uproar, and led out
into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
21:39 But Paul said, I am a man who is a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no
mean city: and, I beseech you, permit me to speak to the people.
21:40 And when he had given him permission, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned
with the hand to the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spoke to them
in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
Chapter 22
22:1 Men, brothers, and fathers, hear my defense which I make now to you.
22:2 (And when they heard that he spoke in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the
more silence: and he says,)
22:3 I am in fact a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the
feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and
was zealous toward God, as you all are this day.
22:4 And I persecuted this way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men
and women.
22:5 As also the high priest does bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from
whom also I received letters to the brothers, and went to Damascus, to bring those who
were there, tied up to Jerusalem, to be punished.
22:6 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come close to Damascus
about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
22:7 And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do you
persecute me?
22:8 And I answered, Who are you, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth,
whom you persecute.
22:9 And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not
the voice of him that spoke to me.
22:10 And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said to me, arise, and go into
Damascus; and there it shall be told you of all things which are appointed for you to do.
22:11 And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them
that were with me, I came into Damascus.
22:12 And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all
the Jews which dwelled there,
22:13 Came to me, and stood, and said to me, Brother Saul, receive your sight. And the
same hour I looked up upon him.
22:14 And he said, The God of our fathers has chosen you, that you should know his will,
and see that Just One, and should hear the voice of his mouth.
22:15 For you shall be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard.
22:16 And now why do you tarry? arise, and be baptized, and wash away your sins,
calling on the name of the Lord.
22:17 And it came to pass, that, when I was come again to Jerusalem, even while I
prayed in the temple, I was in a trance;
22:18 And saw him saying to me, Make haste, and go quickly out of Jerusalem: for they
will not receive your testimony concerning me.
22:19 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them
that believed on you:
22:20 And when the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and
consenting to his death, and kept the clothing of them that slew him.
22:21 And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far from here to the Gentiles.
22:22 And they gave him audience until this word, and then lifted up their voices, and
said, rid the earth of such a fellow: for it is not fit that he should live.
22:23 And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
22:24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he
should be examined by scourging; that he might know why they cried so against him.
22:25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion that stood by, Is it
lawful for you to whip a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
22:26 When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take
heed what you are doing: for this man is a Roman.
22:27 Then the chief captain came, and said to him, Tell me, are you a Roman? He
said, yes.
22:28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And
Paul said, But I was free born.
22:29 Then immediately they departed from him which should have examined him: and
the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had
bound him.
22:30 On the next day, because he would have known the certainty why he was accused
by the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their
council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
Chapter 23
23:1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brothers, I have lived in
all good conscience before God until this day.
23:2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the
mouth.
23:3 Then said Paul to him, God shall smite you, you whitewashed wall: for do you sit to
judge me after the law, and command me to be smitten contrary to the law?
23:4 And they that stood by said, Do you revile God's high priest?
23:5 Then said Paul, I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest: for it is written,
You shall not speak evil of the ruler of your people.
23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees,
he cried out in the council, Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of
the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
23:7 And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the
Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the
Pharisees confess both.
23:9 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose,
and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel has spoken to
him, let us not fight against God.
23:10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should
have been ripped into pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take
him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
23:11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul:
for as you have testified of me in Jerusalem, so must you bear witness also at Rome.
23:12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves
under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
23:13 And they were more than forty that had made this conspiracy.
23:14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves
under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
23:15 Now therefore you with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him
down to you tomorrow, as though you would inquire something more perfectly
concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
23:16 And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into
the castle, and told Paul.
23:17 Then Paul called one of the centurions to him, and said, Bring this young man to
the chief captain: for he has a certain thing to tell him.
23:18 So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner
called me to him, and prayed me to bring this young man to you, who has something to
say to you.
23:19 Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside secretly, and
asked him, What is that you have to tell me?
23:20 And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire you that you would bring down Paul
tomorrow into the council, as though they would inquire somewhat of him more
perfectly.
23:21 But do not yield to them: for there lie in wait for him more than forty men of them,
which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink until they
have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from you.
23:22 So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See that you
tell no man that you have shown these things to me.
23:23 And he called to him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to
go to Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of
the night;
23:24 And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe to Felix the
governor.
23:25 And he wrote a letter after this manner:
23:26 Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix sends greeting.
23:27 This man was taken by the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I
with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
23:28 And when I would have known the cause why they accused him, I brought him
forth into their council:
23:29 Whom I perceived to be accused by questions of their law, but to have nothing laid
to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
23:30 And when it was told me that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent immediately to
you, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before you what they had against
him. Farewell.
23:31 Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night
to Antipatris.
23:32 On the next day they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
23:33 Who, when they came to Caesarea and delivered the epistle to the governor,
presented Paul also before him.
23:34 And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was.
And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;
23:35 I will hear you, said he, when your accusers are also come. And he commanded
him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.
Chapter 24
24:1 And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a
certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
24:2 And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that
because of you we enjoy great tranquility, and that very worthy deeds are done for this
nation by your providence,
24:3 We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.
24:4 Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious to you, I pray you that you would hear
us out of your clemency a few words.
24:5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all
the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
24:6 Who has also gone about to profane the temple: [[whom we took, and would have
judged according to our law.
24:7 But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away
out of our hands,
24:8 Commanding his accusers to come to you:]] by examining of whom yourself may
take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
24:9 And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.
24:10 Then Paul, after the governor had beckoned to him to speak, answered, Since as I
know that you have been of many years a judge for this nation, I do the more cheerfully
answer for myself:
24:11 For you could verify, that but twelve days have passed since I went up to
Jerusalem for to worship.
24:12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up
the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
24:13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
24:14 But this I confess to you, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the
God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a
resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offense
toward God, and toward men.
24:17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
24:18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with
multitude, nor with tumult.
24:19 Who ought to have been here before you, and object, if they had ought against me.
24:20 Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I
stood before the council,
24:21 Unless it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the
resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
24:22 And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he
deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the
last of your matter.
24:23 And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that
he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come to him.
24:24 And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a
Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
24:25 And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix
trembled, and answered, Go your way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I
will call for you.
24:26 He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose
him: therefore he sent for him the more often, and communed with him.
24:27 But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to
show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.
Chapter 25
25:1 Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days went up from
Caesarea to Jerusalem.
25:2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and
besought him,
25:3 And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait
on the way to kill him.
25:4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself
would depart shortly to there.
25:5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and
accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
25:6 And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down to
Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.
25:7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round
about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
25:8 While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against
the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended anything at all.
25:9 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Do you want
go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
25:10 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to
the Jews have I done no wrong, as you very well know.
25:11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not
to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver
me to them. I appeal to Caesar.
25:12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Have you
appealed to Caesar? to Caesar shall you go.
25:13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to salute Festus.
25:14 And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause to the king,
saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
25:15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews
informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
25:16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die,
before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have license to answer
for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
25:17 Therefore, when they had come to here, without any delay on the morrow I sat on
the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.
25:18 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such
things as I supposed:
25:19 But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus,
which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
25:20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would
go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
25:21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus, I
commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
25:22 Then Agrippa said to Festus, I would also hear the man myself. Tomorrow, said
he, you shall hear him.
25:23 And on the next day, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and
was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the
city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
25:24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, you
see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at
Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
25:25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he
himself has appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
25:26 Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought
him forth before you, and specially before you, O king Agrippa, that, after examination
had, I might have somewhat to write.
25:27 For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not also to signify the
crimes laid against him.
Chapter 26
26:1 Then Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then Paul
stretched forth his hand, and answered for himself:
26:2 I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day
before you touching all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews:
26:3 Especially because I know you to be expert in all customs and questions that are
among the Jews: therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.
26:4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among my own nation at
Jerusalem, all the Jews know;
26:5 Who knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that according to the
strictest sect of our religion I lived as a Pharisee.
26:6 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God, to our
fathers:
26:7 To which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to
come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews.
26:8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the
dead?
26:9 Indeed, I thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name
of Jesus of Nazareth.
26:10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison,
having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave
my voice against them.
26:11 And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme;
and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to strange cities.
26:12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief
priests,
26:13 At midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of
the sun, shining round about me and those who journeyed with me.
26:14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and
saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? it is hard for you to
kick against the pricks.
26:15 And I said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom you persecute.
26:16 But rise, and stand upon your feet: for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to
make you a minister and a witness both of these things which you have seen, and of those
things in which I will appear to you;
26:17 Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send you,
26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of
Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who
are sanctified by faith that is in me.
26:19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision:
26:20 But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the
borders of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and
do works suitable for repentance.
26:21 For these reasons the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to
small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did
say should come:
26:23 That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the
dead, and should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles.
26:24 And as he thus spoke for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, you are
beside yourself; much learning does make you mad.
26:25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth
and soberness.
26:26 For the king knows of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am
persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a
corner.
26:27 King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.
26:28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, In such short time you can persuade me to be a
Christian?
26:29 And Paul said, I would to God, that either short time or long, not only you, but also
all who hear me this day, were such as I am, except these bonds.
26:30 And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice,
and they that sat with them:
26:31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man
does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
26:32 Then said Agrippa to Festus, This man might have been set free, if he had not
appealed to Caesar.
Chapter 27
27:1 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and
certain other prisoners over to someone named Julius, a centurion of Augustus' band.
27:2 And entering into a ship of Adramyttium, we launched, meaning to sail by the
borders of Asia; one Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.
27:3 And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously treated Paul, and
gave him liberty to go to his friends to refresh himself.
27:4 And when we had launched from there, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds
were contrary.
27:5 And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a
city of Lycia.
27:6 And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us
in it.
27:7 And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce had come over against
Cnidus, the wind not permitting us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;
27:8 And, hardly passing it, came to a place which is called The fair havens; close
whereunto was the city of Lasea.
27:9 Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the
fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,
27:10 And said to them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much
damage, not only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives.
27:11 Nevertheless the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship, more
than those things which were spoken by Paul.
27:12 And because the haven was not suitable to winter in, the majority advised to depart
from there also, if by any means they might reach Phenice, and there to winter; which is a
haven of Crete, and faces both southwest and northwest.
27:13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their
purpose, loosing from there, they sailed close by Crete.
27:14 But not long after, there arose against it a tempestuous northeast wind, called
Euraclydon.
27:15 And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let go and
let her be driven.
27:16 And when running alee of a a certain islet which is called Clauda, we were just
barely able to get control of the skiff;
27:17 Which when they had hoisted up, they used bracing, undergirding the ship. And,
fearing they might be driven off course onto the Sands of Syrtis, they dropped the anchor,
and were dragged in that manner along.
27:18 And since we were being severely tossed in the grip of a storm, the next day they
jettisoned stuff to lighten the ship;
27:19 And the third day we threw off with our own hands the tackle of the ship.
27:20 And when for many days, neither sun nor stars appeared, and no small tempest lay
upon us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
27:21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forward in the midst of them, and said, Sirs,
you should have listened to me, and not left Crete and come by this harm and loss.
27:22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's
life among you; only of the ship.
27:23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, to whom I belong, and whom I
serve,
27:24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; you must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God has given
to you all them that sail with you.
27:25 Therefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be just as it was
told to me.
27:26 However we must be cast away upon some island.
27:27 But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria,
about midnight the sailors guessed that they were getting near to some land;
27:28 And they sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little
farther, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
27:29 Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of
the stern, and prayed for daylight.
27:30 And the sailors intended to flee out of the ship, and they began lowering the skiff
into the sea, the while pretending they were going to cast anchors out of the bow.
27:31 Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Unless these remain in the ship, you
cannot be saved.
27:32 Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the skiff, and let her fall off.
27:33 And while the daylight was coming on, Paul asked them all to take food, saying,
This day is the fourteenth day that you have tarried and continued fasting, having taken
nothing.
27:34 Therefore I urge you to take some food: for this is to your salvation: for there shall
not a hair fall from the head of any of you.
27:35 And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in the
presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
27:36 Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some food.
27:37 And we in the ship were 276 souls in all.
27:38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat
into the sea.
27:39 And when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they discovered a certain
creek with a beach, into which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
27:40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves to the sea,
and released the rudder ropes, and hoisted up the mainsail to the wind, and made for
shore.
27:41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the
bow stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the stern was broken by the violence of the
waves.
27:42 And the soldiers' intent was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them swim out, and
escape.
27:43 But the centurion, wanting to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and
commanded that those who could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get
to land,
27:44 and the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it
came to pass, that they all escaped safely to land.
Chapter 28
28:1 And after they had escaped, then they found out that the island was called Melita.
28:2 And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and
took in every one of us, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.
28:3 And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper,
getting away from the heat, fastened onto his hand.
28:4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous creature hang on his hand, they said
among themselves, Surely this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea,
poetic justice still did not allow him to live.
28:5 He however, shaking off the creature into the fire, felt no harm.
28:6 Now they watched, for when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly.
But after they had watched a great while and saw no harm come to him, they changed
their minds, and said that he was a god.
28:7 In the same environs were lands of the chief man of the island, whose name was
Publius; who welcomed us, and housed us three days courteously.
28:8 And it so happened, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and dysentery, to
whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.
28:9 So when this was done, others also, who had diseases on the island, came, and were
healed:
28:10 Who also honored us with many honors; and when we departed, they loaded us
with such things as were necessary.
28:11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered at
the island, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.
28:12 And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days.
28:13 And from there we tacked about, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the
south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli:
28:14 Where we found brothers, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so
we went toward Rome.
28:15 And from there, when the brothers heard about us, they came to meet us as far as
Appii forum, and The Three Taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took
courage.
28:16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of
the guard: but Paul was permitted to live by himself with a soldier that guarded him.
28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together:
and when they had come together, he said to them, Men and brothers, though I have
committed nothing against the people, or against the customs of our fathers, yet was I
delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
28:18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no
basis for death in me.
28:19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was forced to appeal to Caesar; not that I had
anything to accuse my nation of.
28:20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you:
because for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
28:21 And they said to him, We have neither received letters out of Judea concerning
you, nor have any of the brothers that came, shown or spoken anything bad about you.
28:22 But we desire to hear from you what you think: for as concerning this sect, we
know that everywhere it is spoken against.
28:23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging;
to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning
Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.
28:24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some did not believe.
28:25 And when they did not agree among themselves, they departed, after Paul had first
spoken one statement: “Well has the Holy Spirit spoken by Isaiah the prophet to our
fathers,
28:26 Saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing you shall hear, and shall not
understand; and seeing you shall see, and not perceive:
28:27 For the heart of this people is become fat, and their ears are dull of hearing, and
their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I would heal them.
28:28 Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and
that they will heed it.”
[[28:29 And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning
among themselves.]]
28:30 And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and welcomed all who
came in to visit him,
28:31 Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord
Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
The Epistle of Paul to the Romans
Romans
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God,
1:2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)
1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who was made of the seed of David
according to the flesh;
1:4 And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by
the resurrection from the dead:
1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among
all nations, for his name:
1:6 Among whom are you also the called of Jesus Christ:
1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace
from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of
throughout the whole world.
1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that
without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;
1:10 Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey
by the will of God to come to you.
1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end you
may be established;
1:12 That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you
and me.
1:13 Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that oftentimes I purposed to come to
you, (but was hindered until now,) that I might have some fruit among you also, just as
among other Gentiles.
1:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians; both to the wise, and to the
unwise.
1:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome
also.
1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God for salvation
to every one that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1:17 For in it is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The
just shall live by faith.
1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shown it
to them.
1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being
understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they
are without excuse:
1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were
thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
1:23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible
man, and like birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things.
1:24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own
hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature
more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
1:26 For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change
the natural use into that which is against nature:
1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust one toward another; men committing with men that which is unseemly, and receiving
in themselves that recompense for their error which was due.
1:28 And just as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over
to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness,
maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents,
1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable,
unmerciful:
1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy
of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Chapter 2
2:1 Therefore you are inexcusable, O man, whosoever you are that judge: for in that
which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you that judge are doing the same
things.
2:2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who
commit such things.
2:3 And think you this, O man, who judges those who do such things, and are doing the
same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?
2:4 Or do you despise the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not
knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
2:5 But after your hardness and impenitent heart you are storing up toward yourself wrath
against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
2:6 Who will render to every man according to his deeds:
2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honor and
immortality, eternal life:
2:8 But to them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness,
indignation and wrath,
2:9 Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that does evil, of the Jew first, and
also of the Gentile;
2:10 But glory, honor, and peace, to every man working what is good, to the Jew first,
and also to the Gentile:
2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many
as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;
2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be
justified.
2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in
the law, these, having not the law, are a law to themselves:
2:15 Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also
bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one
another;)
2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my
gospel.
2:17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,
2:18 And know his will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed
out of the law;
2:19 And are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of them which
are in darkness,
2:20 An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, and have the form of knowledge and
of the truth in the law.
2:21 You therefore which teach another, teach you not yourself? you that preach a man
should not steal, do you steal?
2:22 You that say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? you that
abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?
2:23 You that make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor
God?
2:24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is
written.
2:25 For circumcision truly profits, if you keep the law: but if you be a breaker of the
law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.
2:26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his
uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
2:27 And shall not uncircumcision, which is naturally speaking, if they fulfill the law,
judge you, who by the letter and circumcision do transgress the law?
2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is
outward in the flesh:
2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the
spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Chapter 3
3:1 What advantage then has the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?
3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because to them were committed the oracles of God.
3:3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without
effect?
3:4 By no means. But let God be true, and every man a liar; as it is written, That you
might be justified in your sayings, and might overcome when you are judged.
3:5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say?
Is God unrighteous who takes vengeance? (I speak as a man)
3:6 By no means: for then how shall God judge the world?
3:7 For if the truth of God has more abounded through my lie to his glory; why still am I
also judged as a sinner?
3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let
us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.
3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no way: for we have before proven
both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
3:11 There is no one that understands, there is no one that seeks after God.
3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is no
one who does good, no, not one.
3:13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used deceit; the
poison of asps is under their lips:
3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
3:17 And the way of peace they have not known:
3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law says, it says to them who are under
the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before
God.
3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by
the law is the knowledge of sin.
3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is manifested, being witnessed
by the law and the prophets;
3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ to all and upon all
them that believe: for there is no difference:
3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
3:25 Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
3:26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the
justifier of him which believes in Jesus.
3:27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by
the law of faith.
3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the
law.
3:29 Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the
Gentiles also:
3:30 Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and
uncircumcision through faith.
3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? By no means; on the contrary, we
establish the law.
Chapter 4
4:1 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, has found?
4:2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he has whereof to glory; but not before God.
4:3 For what says the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him for
righteousness.
4:4 Now to him that works is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
4:5 But to him that works not, but believes on him that justifies the ungodly, his faith is
counted for righteousness.
4:6 Just as David also describes the blessedness of the man, to whom God imputes
righteousness without works,
4:7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
4:8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
4:9 Comes this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision
also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.
4:10 How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?
Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith
which he had while yet uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that
believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed to them
also:
4:12 And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but
who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had while yet
uncircumcised.
4:13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to
his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
4:14 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made
of no effect:
4:15 Because the law works wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be
sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the
faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
4:17 (As it is written, I have made you a father of many nations,) before him whom he
believed, even God, who gives life to the dead, and calls those things which be not as
though they were.
4:18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many
nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall your seed be.
4:19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he
was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:
4:20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith,
giving glory to God;
4:21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
4:22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
4:23 Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
4:24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up
Jesus our Lord from the dead;
4:25 Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.
Chapter 5
5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ:
5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice
in hope of the glory of God.
5:3 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation works
patience;
5:4 And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
5:5 And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts
by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet perhaps for a good man some
would even dare to die.
5:8 But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us.
5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him.
5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,
much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we
have now received the atonement.
5:12 Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and thus
death passed upon all men, since all have sinned:
5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not
sinned in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him who was to
come.
5:15 But not as the offense, is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many be
dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus
Christ, has abounded to many.
5:16 And not like the result of that one man sinning is the gift; for after that one sin came
the judgment unto condemnation, but after the many who have trespassed came the
gracious gift unto justification.
5:17 For if by one man's offense death reigned through one; much more they which
receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life through one,
Jesus Christ.)
5:18 Therefore as by the offense of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation;
even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of
life.
5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of
one shall many be made righteous.
5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin
abounded, grace did much more abound:
5:21 That as sin has reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness
unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Chapter 6
6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
6:2 May it never be! How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer in it?
6:3 Do you not know, that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized
into his death?
6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that just as Christ was raised
up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of
life.
6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in
the likeness of his resurrection:
6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be
destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin.
6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
6:8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
6:9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more
dominion over him.
6:10 For in that he died, he died to sin once: but in that he lives, he lives to God.
6:11 Likewise reckon you also yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
6:12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts
of it.
6:13 Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin: but yield
yourselves to God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as
instruments of righteousness to God.
6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under
grace.
6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?
May it never be!
6:16 Do you not know, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants
you are to whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
6:17 But God be thanked, that you were the servants of sin, but you have obeyed from
the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered to you.
6:18 Being then made free from sin, you became the servants of righteousness.
6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the weakness of your flesh: for as you
have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity to iniquity; even so
now yield your members servants to righteousness to holiness.
6:20 For when you were the servants of sin, you were free from righteousness.
6:21 What fruit did you have then in those things of which you are now ashamed? for
the end of those things is death.
6:22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, you have your fruit
unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord.
Chapter 7
7:1 Do you not know, brothers, (for I speak to them that know the law,) that the law has
dominion over a man as long as he lives?
7:2 For the woman which has a husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he
lives; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.
7:3 So then if, while her husband lives, she be married to another man, she shall be called
an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no
adulteress, though she be married to another man.
7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ;
that you should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we
should bring forth fruit to God.
7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work
in our members to bring forth fruit to death.
7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, having died to that in which we were held, so
that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? By no means. No, I had not known sin,
but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, You shall not covet.
7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of desire.
For without the law sin was dead.
7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived,
and I died.
7:10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.
7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.
7:12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
7:13 Was then that which is good made death to me? By no means. But sin, that it
might appear sin, produces death in me by that which is good, so that sin by means of the
commandment might become exceedingly sinful.
7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
7:15 For that which I do I understand not: for what I would, that I do not do; but what I
hate, that I do.
7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent to the law that it is good.
7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells within me.
7:18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is
present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
7:19 For the good that I would, I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
7:20 Now if I do what I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells within
me.
7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and
bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve
the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Chapter 8
8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin
and death.
8:3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his
own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
8:4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit.
8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after
the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
8:7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God,
neither indeed can be.
8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
8:9 But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in
you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because
of righteousness.
8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that
raised up Christ from the dead shall also give life to your mortal bodies by his Spirit that
dwells in you.
8:12 Therefore, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
8:13 For if you live after the flesh, you shall die: but if you through the Spirit do mortify
the deeds of the body, you shall live.
8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
8:15 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but you have received
the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, abba, Father.
8:16 The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
8:17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we
suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
8:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
8:19 For the eager anticipation of creation waits for the revealing of the sons of God.
8:20 For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but by reason of him
who has subjected the same, in the hope
8:21 that the creation itself also shall be freed from the bondage of corruption into the
glorious liberty of the children of God.
8:22 For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, which means the redemption
of our body.
8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for
what he sees?
8:25 But if we hope for what we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps us in our weakness: for we know not what we should
pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself makes intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered.
8:27 And he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he
makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them
who are the called according to his purpose.
8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image
of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them
he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things?
8:33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifies.
8:34 Who is he that condemns? It is Christ that died, indeed rather, that is risen again,
who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or
persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
8:36 As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter.
8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Chapter 9
9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy
Spirit,
9:2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
9:3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, my
kinsmen according to the flesh:
9:4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,
and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
9:5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over
all, God blessed forever. Amen.
9:6 Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel,
which are of Israel:
9:7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac
shall your seed be called.
9:8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God:
but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9:9 For this is the word of promise, at this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived children by one man, even
by our father Isaac;
9:11 (With the children being not yet born, neither one having practiced anything good or
evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him
that calls;)
9:12 It was said to her, The elder shall serve the younger.
9:13 As it is written, “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”
9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? By no means.
9:15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whom I will have compassion.
9:16 So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God who shows
mercy.
9:17 For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very purpose have I raised you up, that I
might show my power in you, and that my name might be declared throughout all the
earth.
9:18 Therefore he has mercy on whom he wishes to have mercy, and whomever he
wishes, he hardens.
9:19 You will say then to me, Why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his
will?
9:20 No but, O mortal, who are you that replies against God? Shall the thing formed
say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus?
9:21 Has not the potter power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for
honor, and another for dishonor?
9:22 What if God, wishing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured
with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction:
9:23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy,
which he had previously prepared for glory,
9:24 Even us, whom he has called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
9:25 As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people which were not my people; and
her beloved which was not beloved.
9:26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said to them, You are not
my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
9:27 Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as
the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work
will the Lord make upon the earth.
9:29 And as Isaiah said before, Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had
been as Sodom, and been made like to Gomorrha.
9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness,
have attained to righteousness, a righteousness which is of faith.
9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law
of righteousness.
9:32 Why? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.
For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stumblingstone and rock of offense: and
whosoever believes on him shall not be ashamed.
Chapter 10
10:1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
10:2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but not according to
knowledge.
10:3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their
own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God.
10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes.
10:5 For Moses describes the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which does
those things shall live by them.
10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith it says like this: Say not in your heart, Who
shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)
10:7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ back from the
dead.)
10:8 But what does it say? The word is close to you, even in your mouth, and in your
heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
10:9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your
heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.
10:10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession
is made unto salvation.
10:11 For the scripture says, Whosoever believes on him shall not be put to shame.
10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over
all is rich to all that call upon him.
10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall
they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a
preacher?
10:15 And how shall they preach, unless they are sent? as it is written, How beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed
our report?
10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? yes truly, their sound went into all the earth, and
their words to the ends of the world.
10:19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy
by them that are not a people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
10:20 But Isaiah is very bold, and says, I was found of them that sought me not; I was
made manifest to them that asked not after me.
10:21 But to Israel he says, all day long I have stretched forth my hands to a disobedient
and obstinate people.
Chapter 11
11:1 I say then, Has God cast away his people? By no means. For I also am an
Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
11:2 God has not cast away his people which he foreknew. Do you not know what the
scripture says of Elijah? how he appeals to God against Israel saying,
11:3 Lord, they have killed your prophets, and dug down your altars; and I alone am left,
and they seek my life.
11:4 But what says the answer of God to him? I have reserved for myself seven
thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
11:5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of
grace.
11:6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no longer grace.
But if it be of works, then it is no more grace: otherwise work is no longer work.
11:7 What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the elect have
obtained it, and the rest were blinded.
11:8 (According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they
should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) to this day.
11:9 And David says, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block,
and a recompense to them:
11:10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back
always.
11:11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? By no means: but rather
through their fall, salvation is come to the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
11:12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the
riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I
magnify my office:
11:14 If by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and might save
some of them.
11:15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the
receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
11:16 For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the
branches.
11:17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were
grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
11:18 Boast not against the branches. But if you boast, you do not bear the root, but the
root bears you.
11:19 You will say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
11:20 Fine; because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Be not
high minded, but fear:
11:21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not you.
11:22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but
toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also shall be cut
off.
11:23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able
to graft them in again.
11:24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted
contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which are the
natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
11:25 For I wish not, brothers, that you be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be
wise in your own conceits: That blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness
of the Gentiles be come in.
11:26 And in this way all Israel shall be saved. As it is written, There shall come out of
Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
11:27 For this is my covenant with them, when I shall take away their sins.
11:28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as concerning
election, they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without change of mind.
11:30 For as you in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy
through their unbelief:
11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may
obtain mercy.
11:32 For God has bound them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how
unsearchable his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
11:34 For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor?
11:35 Or who has first given to Him, such that it could be payed back to him?
11:36 For from him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory
forever. Amen.
Chapter 12
12:1 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your
bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
12:3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every man that is among you, not to
think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as
God has dealt to every man the measure of faith.
12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same
function:
12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether
prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teaches, on teaching;
12:8 Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with simplicity; he
that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
12:9 Let love be without pretention. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is
good.
12:10 Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one
another;
12:11 Not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
12:13 Distributing to the need of saints; given to hospitality.
12:14 Bless those who persecute you: bless, and curse not.
12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not only high things, but be
conversant with men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
12:17 Return to no man evil for evil. Have regard for what is right in the view of all
men.
12:18 If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.
12:19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather leave room for wrath: for it is
written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord.
12:20 Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him; if he thirsts, give him a drink: for in so
doing you shall heap coals of fire on his head.
12:21 Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Chapter 13
13:1 Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God:
the powers that be are ordained by God.
13:2 Whosoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and they that
resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wish you then not be
afraid of the power? do that which is good, and you shall have praise of the same:
13:4 For he is the minister of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be
afraid; for he bears not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to
execute wrath upon him that does evil.
13:5 Therefore you must be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.
13:6 For for this cause you pay tribute tax also: for they are God's ministers, attending
continually upon this very thing.
13:7 Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom
custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.
13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loves another has
fulfilled the law.
13:9 For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal,
You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other
commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.
13:10 Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now
is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of
darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in
pomiscuity and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
13:14 But put you on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to
fulfill the lusts of it.
Chapter 14
14:1 Receive him that is weak in the faith, but not to doubtful disputations.
14:2 For one believes that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eats herbs.
14:3 Let not him that eats something despise him that does not eat it; and let not him
which does not eat, judge him that eats: for God has received him.
14:4 Who are you that judges another man's servant? to his own master he stands or
falls. Yes, he shall be held up: for God is able to make him stand.
14:5 One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day alike. Let
every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
14:6 He that regards the day, regards it to the Lord; and he that regards not the day, to the
Lord he does not regard it. He that eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and
he that eats not, to the Lord he eats not, and gives God thanks.
14:7 For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.
14:8 For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to the Lord:
whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
14:9 For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of
the dead and the living.
14:10 But why do you judge your brother? or why do you set at nought your brother?
for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
14:11 For it is written, as I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every
tongue shall confess to God.
14:12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man
put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
14:14 I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself:
but to him that esteems any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
14:15 But if your brother be grieved with your food, now you do not walk with love.
Do not destroy him with your food, for whom Christ died.
14:16 Let not then your good be evil spoken of:
14:17 For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and
joy in the Holy Spirit.
14:18 For he that in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God, and approved by
men.
14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with
which one may edify another.
14:20 For food destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for
that man who eats with offense.
14:21 It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby your
brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.
14:22 Have you faith? have it to yourself before God. Happy is he that condemns not
himself in that thing which he allows.
14:23 But he that doubts is condemned if he eats, because he eats not of faith: for
whatsoever is not of faith is sin.
Chapter 15
15:1 We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please
ourselves.
15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification.
15:3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that
reproached you fell on me.
15:4 For whatsoever things were written earlier were written for our learning, that we
through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
15:5 Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward
another according to Christ Jesus:
15:6 That you may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
15:7 Therefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.
15:8 Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God,
to confirm the promises made to the fathers:
15:9 And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause
I will confess to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.
15:10 And again he says, Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.
15:11 And again, Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles; and laud him, all you people.
15:12 And again, Isaiah says, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign
over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may
abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
15:14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brothers, that you also are full of
goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
15:15 Nevertheless, brothers, I have written the more boldly to you in some sort, as
putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me from God,
15:16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel
of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the
Holy Spirit.
15:17 I have therefore about which I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things
which pertain to God.
15:18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ has not wrought by
me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,
15:19 Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from
Jerusalem, and round about to Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.
15:20 Yes, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I
should build upon another man's foundation:
15:21 But as it is written, To whom he was not spoken of, they shall see: and they that
have not heard shall understand.
15:22 For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.
15:23 But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many
years to come to you;
15:24 Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you
in my journey, and to be brought on my way to there by you, if first I be somewhat filled
with your company.
15:25 But now I go to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.
15:26 For it has pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution
for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem.
15:27 It has pleased them truly; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been
made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them in carnal
things.
15:28 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will
come by you into Spain.
15:29 And I am sure that, when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing
of the gospel of Christ.
15:30 Now I beseech you, brothers, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of
the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me;
15:31 That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judaea; and that my
service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;
15:32 That I may come to you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be
refreshed.
15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Chapter 16
16:1 I commend to you Phoebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at
Cenchrea:
16:2 That you receive her in the Lord, as becomes saints, and that you assist her in
whatsoever business she has need of you: for she has been a helper of many, and of
myself also.
16:3 Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:
16:4 Who have for my life laid down their own necks: to whom not only I give thanks,
but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved
Epaenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia to Christ.
16:6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labor on us.
16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are of note
among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
16:8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
16:9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
16:10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute those who are of Aristobulus'
household.
16:11 Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus,
which are in the Lord.
16:12 Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis,
which labored much in the Lord.
16:13 Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.
16:14 Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brothers which are
with them.
16:15 Salute Philologus, and Julia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints
which are with them.
16:16 Salute one another with a holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
16:17 Now I beseech you, brothers, mark those who cause divisions and offenses
contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.
16:18 For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by
good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
16:19 For your obedience is come abroad to all men. I am glad therefore on your
behalf: but yet I would have you wise to that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
16:20 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
16:21 Timotheus my fellow worker, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen,
salute you.
16:22 I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.
16:23 Gaius my host, and of the whole church, salutes you. Erastus the chamberlain of
the city salutes you, and Quartus a brother.
16:24 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
16:25 Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the
preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept
secret since the world began,
16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the
commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of
faith:
16:27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes
our brother,
1:2 to the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus,
called to be saints, with all who in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our
Lord, both theirs and ours:
1:3 Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by
Jesus Christ;
1:5 That in everything you are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
1:6 Just as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you:
1:7 So that you are lacking in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1:8 Who shall also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
1:9 God is faithful, by whom you were called to the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ
our Lord.
1:10 Now I beseech you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all
speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that you be perfectly
joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1:11 For it has been declared to me about you, my brothers, by those who are of the
house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.
1:12 Now this I say, that each of you says, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of
Cephas; and I of Christ.
1:13 Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized in the name
of Paul?
1:14 I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius;
1:15 Lest any should say that I had baptized in my own name.
1:16 And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides that, I know not whether I
baptized anyone else.
1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of
words, lest the cross of Christ be made of none effect.
1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but to us which are
saved it is the power of God.
1:19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the
understanding of the prudent.
1:20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world?
has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1:21 For since in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased
God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks
foolishness;
1:24 But to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the
wisdom of God.
1:25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is
stronger than men.
1:26 For you see your calling, brothers, that not many wise men after the flesh, not many
mighty, not many noble, are called:
1:27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God
has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty;
1:28 And base things of the world, and things that are despised, has God chosen, yes, and
things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are:
1:29 So that no flesh should glory in his presence.
1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.
Chapter 2
2:1 And I, brothers, when I came to you, came not with excellence of speech or of
wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.
2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him
crucified.
2:3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
2:4 And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but
in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
2:6 Yet we speak wisdom among those who are mature: but not the wisdom of this
world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nothing:
2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God
ordained before the world to our glory:
2:8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not
have crucified the Lord of glory.
2:9 But as it is written, eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart
of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.
2:10 But God has revealed them to us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, even
the deep things of God.
2:11 For what man knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man which is in
him? So also the things of God no man knows, except the Spirit of God.
2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God;
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but
which the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
2:14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are
foolishness to him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2:15 But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged by no man.
2:16 For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have
the mind of Christ.
Chapter 3
3:1 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to babes in
Christ.
3:2 I have fed you with milk, and not with food: for until now you were not able to bear
it, but neither now are you able still.
3:3 For you are still carnal: for since there is among you envying, and strife, and
divisions, are you not carnal, and walking as men?
3:4 For when one says, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are you not carnal?
3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom you believed, as the
Lord has given to each?
3:6 I have planted, apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
3:7 So then neither is he that plants any thing, neither he that waters; but God who gives
the increase.
3:8 Now he that plants and he that waters are one: and every man shall receive his own
reward according to his own labor.
3:9 For we are laborers together with God: you are God's farming, you are God's
building.
3:10 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have
laid the foundation, and another one builds on it. But let every man take heed how he
builds upon it.
3:11 For other foundation no man can lay but what is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
3:12 Now if any man builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood,
hay, stubble;
3:13 Every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, because it
shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
The First Corinthians
Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the
3:14 If any man's work abides which he has built upon it, he shall receive a reward.
3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be
saved; yet so as by fire.
3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells
in you?
3:17 If any man defiles the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God
is holy, which temple you are.
3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seems to be wise in this
world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes
the wise in their own craftiness.
3:20 And again, The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.
3:21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
3:22 Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things
present, or things to come; all are yours;
3:23 And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.
Chapter 4
4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the
mysteries of God.
4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I be judged by you, or by man's judgment:
neither judge I even my own self.
4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet I am not hereby justified; but he who judges me is
the Lord.
4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to
light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and
then shall each man have praise from God.
4:6 And these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for
your sakes; that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, so
that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.
4:7 For who makes you differ from another? and what do you have that you did not
receive? now if you did receive it, why do you glory, as if you had not received it?
4:8 Now you are full, now you are rich, you have reigned as kings without us: and I wish
to God that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.
4:9 For I think that God has set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death:
for we are made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
4:10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are
strong; you are honorable, but we are despised.
4:11 Even to this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are
buffeted, and have no steady dwelling place;
4:12 And labor, working with our own hands. Though reviled, we bless; though
persecuted, we bear it:
4:13 Though defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the
offscouring of all things to this day.
4:14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.
4:15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have you not many
fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
4:16 Therefore I beseech you, be followers of me.
4:17 For this cause have I sent to you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in
the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I
teach every where in every church.
4:18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
4:19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of
those who are puffed up, but the power.
4:20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
4:21 What do you wish? shall I come to you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of
meekness?
Chapter 5
5:1 It is reported commonly that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual
immorality as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his
father's wife.
5:2 And you are puffed up, and have not instead mourned, that he that has done this deed
might be taken away from among you.
5:3 For I indeed, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I
were present, concerning him that has so done this deed.
5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, and my spirit,
with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
5:5 You are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit
may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
5:6 Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole
lump?
5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are
unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:
5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice
and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
5:9 I wrote to you in an epistle not to keep company with fornicators:
5:10 yet not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with its covetous or
extortioners, or with its idolaters; for then you would have to leave out of the world.
5:11 But rather I have written to you not to keep company if any man that is called a
brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an
extortioner; with such a one not even to eat.
5:12 For what have I to do with juding them also that are outside? do you not judge
them that are inside?
5:13 But them that are outside God judges. Therefore put away from among yourselves
that wicked person.
Chapter 6
6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not
before the saints?
6:2 Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be
judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
6:3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to
this life?
6:4 If then you have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set even those to judge
who are least esteemed in the church.
6:5 I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? Not
even one, that shall be able to judge between his brothers?
6:6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law with one
another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? why do you not rather permit
yourselves to be defrauded?
6:8 Instead, you do wrong, and defraud, and that your brothers.
6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor
homosexuals,
6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit
the kingdom of God.
6:11 And such were some of you: but you are washed, you are sanctified, you are
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
6:12 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful
for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
6:13 Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both it and them.
Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
6:14 And God has both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to theCorinthians
6:15 Do you not know that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the
members of Christ, and make them the members of a harlot? May it never be!
6:16 What? do you not know that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? for two,
says he, shall be one flesh.
6:17 But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that
commits fornication sins against his own body.
6:19 What? do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in
you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?
6:20 For you are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
Chapter 7
7:1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to
touch a woman.
7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every
woman have her own husband.
7:3 Let the husband render to the wife the sexual duty: and likewise also the wife to the
husband.
7:4 The wife has not authority over her own body, but rather the husband: and likewise
also the husband has not authority over his own body, but rather the wife.
7:5 Deprive ye not one the other, unless it be with mutual consent for a time in order to
devote yourselves to prayer; then come together again, lest Satan tempt you for your lack
of self control.
7:6 But I speak this by concession, and not by commandment.
7:7 For I wish that all men were just as I myself am. But every man has his proper gift
from God, one after this manner, and another after that.
7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they remain so, as
I also remain.
7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with
lust.
7:10 And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, The wife must not depart
from her husband:
7:11 But even if she departs, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband:
and the husband must not put away his wife.
7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother has a wife that believes not, and
she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
7:13 And the woman which has a husband that believes not, and he is pleased to dwell
with her, let her not leave him.
7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is
sanctified by the husband: else your children would be unclean; but now are they holy.
7:15 But if the unbelieving departs, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under
bondage in such cases: but God has called us to peace.
7:16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you shall save your husband? or how do
you know, O man, whether you shall save your wife?
7:17 But as God has distributed to every man, as the Lord has called every one, so let him
walk. And so ordain I in all churches.
7:18 Was any man circumcised at the time of being called? let him not become
uncircumcised. Was any in uncircumcision when called? let him not be circumcised.
7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but rather the keeping of
the commandments of God.
7:20 Let every man remain in the same calling in which he was called.
7:21 Were you called while a slave? Let it not concern you; yet if you become able to
be free, rather take advantage of it.
7:22 For he that is called in the Lord while being a slave, is the Lord's freeman: likewise
also he that is called while being free, is Christ's slave.
7:23 Ye are bought with a price; be ye not the slaves of men.
7:24 Brethren, let every man, in the state in which he was called, in that remain with
God.
7:25 Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my
judgment, as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
7:26 I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for
a man so to be.
7:27 Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife?
seek not a wife.
7:28 But even if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not
sinned. Nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the flesh, and I am trying to spare you
this.
7:29 Now this I say, brothers, the time is short: for the remaining time, they also that
have wives should live as though they had none;
7:30 And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they
rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;
7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes
away.
7:32 But I wish you to be free of care. He that is unmarried cares for the things that
belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
7:33 But he that is married cares for the things that are of the world, how he may please
his wife.
7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares
for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is
married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
7:35 And this I speak for your own benefit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for
that which is proper, and so you may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
7:36 But if any man thinks that he is conducting himself improperly toward his virgin, if
she is past the flower of her age, and so it has to be, let him do what he will, he sins not:
let them marry.
7:37 Nevertheless he that stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power
over his own will, and has so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, he does
well.
7:38 So then he that gives her in marriage does well; but he that gives her not in marriage
does better.
7:39 The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be
dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
7:40 But she is happier if she so remains, after my judgment: and I think also that I have
the Spirit of God.
Chapter 8
8:1 Now as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge.
Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
8:2 And if any man thinks that he knows any thing, he knows nothing yet as he ought to
know.
8:3 But if any man loves God, this one is known by Him.
8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice to
idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
8:5 For though there do exist what are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as
there be gods many, and lords many,)
8:6 Yet to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and
one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
8:7 But there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol to
this hour eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
8:8 But food commends us not to God: for neither if we eat, are we the better; nor if we
eat not, are we the worse.
8:9 But take heed lest by some means this liberty of yours becomes a stumbling block to
them that are weak.
8:10 For if someone sees you who have knowledge sit at food in the idol's temple, shall
not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are
offered to idols;
8:11 And through your knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
8:12 But when you sin in this manner against the brothers, and wound their weak
conscience, you sin against Christ.
8:13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh while the world
stands, lest I cause my brother to stumble.
Chapter 9
9:1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are
not you my work in the Lord?
9:2 If I be not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine
apostleship are you in the Lord.
9:3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,
9:4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?
9:5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the
brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?
9:6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we the right to refrain from working?
9:7 Who goes to warfare any time at his own expense? who plants a vineyard, and eats
not of the fruit of it? or who feeds a flock, and eats not of the milk of the flock?
9:8 Say I these things as a man? or says not the law the same also?
9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, You shall not muzzle the mouth of the ox that
treads out the corn. Is God taking care for oxen?
9:10 Or is he saying it altogether for our sakes? It is for our sakes, no doubt, this is
written: that he who plows should plow in hope; and that he who threshes in hope should
be partaker of his hope.
9:11 If we have sown to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your
carnal things?
9:12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we more so? Nevertheless we
have not used this power; but bear all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
9:13 Do you not know that they which minister about holy things live off the things of
the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
9:14 Even so has the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live off the
gospel.
9:15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things that it might
be done so for me: for it would be better to me to die, than that any man should make my
glorying void.
9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon
me; yes, woe to me, if I preach not the gospel!
9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation
of the gospel is committed to me.
9:18 What is my reward then? it is that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the
gospel of Christ free of charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
9:19 For though I am free from all men, yet have I made myself servant to all, that I
might gain the more.
9:20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are
under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
9:21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but
under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
9:22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to
all men, that I might by all means save some.
9:23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker of it with you.
9:24 Do you not know that they which run in a race all run, but one receives the prize?
Run in such a manner that you will obtain it.
9:25 And every man that strives for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do
it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
9:26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beats the air:
9:27 But I keep my body under, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when
I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Chapter 10
10:1 Moreover, brothers, I would not have you be ignorant, how that all our fathers were
under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
10:2 And were all baptized to Moses in the cloud and in the sea;
10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual food;
10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that
followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
10:5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the
wilderness.
10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil
things, as they also lusted.
10:7 Neither be idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to
eat and drink, and rose up to play.
10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day
three and twenty thousand.
10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by
serpents.
10:10 Neither murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the
destroyer.
10:11 Now all these things happened to them for examples: and they are written for our
admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
10:12 Therefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.
10:13 There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is
faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted above what you are able; but will with the
temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
10:14 Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
10:15 I speak as to wise men; judge what I say.
10:16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of
Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?
10:17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that
one bread.
10:18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of
the altar?
10:19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to
idols is any thing?
10:20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and
not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with devils.
10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: you cannot be
partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful
for me, but all things edify not.
10:24 Let no man seek his own good, but every man that of the other.
10:25 Whatsoever is sold in the meat market, that eat, asking no question for conscience
sake:
10:26 For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness of it.
10:27 If any of them that believe not invite you to a feast, and you be disposed to go;
whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
10:28 But if any man says to you, "This is offered in sacrifice to idols," eat not for his
sake who showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness
of it:
10:29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other. For why should my liberty be
condemned by another man's conscience?
10:30 For if I by grace am a partaker, why be evil spoken of for that for which I give
thanks?
10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of
God.
10:32 Give no one offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of
God:
10:33 Just as I please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of
many, that they may be saved.
Chapter 11
11:1 Be followers of me, just as I also am of Christ.
11:2 Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and keep the
traditions, as I delivered them to you.
11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of
the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
11:4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head.
11:5 But every woman that prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her
head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
11:6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a
woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and
glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
11:8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
11:9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
11:10 For this cause ought the woman to have authority on her head because of the
angels.
11:11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the
man, in the Lord.
11:12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also born by the woman; but
all things are of God.
11:13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray to God uncovered?
11:14 Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame to
him?
11:15 But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a
covering.
11:16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the
churches of God.
11:17 Now in this that I declare to you I praise you not, in that you come together not for
the better, but for the worse.
11:18 For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions
among you; and I partly believe it.
11:19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be
made manifest among you.
11:20 When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's
supper.
11:21 For in eating every one takes before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and
another is drunken.
11:22 What? have you not houses to eat and to drink in? or do you despise the church
of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in
this? I praise you not.
11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you, That the Lord
Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
11:24 And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body,
which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup
is the new testament in my blood: this do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
11:26 For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death
till he comes.
11:27 Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord,
unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
11:28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that
cup.
11:29 For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not
discerning the Lord's body.
11:30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
11:31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be
condemned with the world.
11:33 Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, tarry one for another.
11:34 And if any man is hungry, let him eat at home; so that you not come together to
condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
Chapter 12
12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I would not have you ignorant.
12:2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, just as you
were led.
12:3 Therefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls
Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.
12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
12:5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which works all in all.
12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man for the profit of all.
12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of
knowledge by the same Spirit;
12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same
Spirit;
12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of
spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
12:11 But all these works that one and the very same Spirit, dividing to every man
severally as he will.
12:12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one
body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or
Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.
12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore
not of the body?
12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it
therefore not of the body?
12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were
hearing, where were the smelling?
12:18 But now has God set the members every one of them in the body, as it has pleased
him.
12:19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?
12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
12:21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you: nor again the head to
the feet, I have no need of you.
12:22 No, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are
necessary:
12:23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these
we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant
comeliness.
12:24 For our comely parts have no need: but God has tempered the body together,
having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked.
12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the
same care one for another.
12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be
honored, all the members rejoice with it.
12:27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
12:28 And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly
teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of
tongues.
12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of
miracles?
12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show I you a more excellent way.
Chapter 13
13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am
become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all
knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not
love, I am nothing.
13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be
burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.
13:4 Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed
up,
13:5 Does not behave itself unseemly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no
evil;
13:6 Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
13:7 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
13:8 Love never fails: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be
tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done
away.
13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child:
but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part;
but then shall I know just as also I am known.
13:13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Chapter 14
14:1 Follow after love, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.
14:2 For he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men, but to God: for no man
understands him; howbeit in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
14:3 But he that prophesies speaks to men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.
14:4 He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies
the church.
14:5 I wish that you all spoke with tongues, but even more, that you prophesied: for
greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that
the church may receive edifying.
14:6 Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you,
unless I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or
by doctrine?
14:7 And even things without life that give sound, whether pipe or harp, unless they give
a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?
14:8 For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?
14:9 So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how
shall it be known what is spoken? for you shall speak into the air.
14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is
without signification.
14:11 Therefore if I do not know the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaks a
barbarian, and he that speaks shall be a barbarian to me.
14:12 Even so you, forasmuch as you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may
excel to the edifying of the church.
14:13 Therefore let him that speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.
14:14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is
unfruitful.
14:15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding
also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
14:16 Else when you shall bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupies the room of
the unlearned say Amen at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not understand what you
say?
14:17 For you may in fact give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
14:19 yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that by
my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be children, but in
understanding be men.
14:21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak to this
people; and yet for all that they will not hear me, says the LORD.
14:22 Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe
not: but prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for those who believe.
14:23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with
tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that
you are mad?
14:24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believes not, or one unlearned, he is
convinced of all, he is judged of all:
14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his
face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
14:26 What then is the conclusion, brothers? when you come together, every one of
you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let
it all be done to edifying.
14:27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three,
and that by course; and let one interpret.
14:28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak
to himself, and to God.
14:29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
14:30 If any thing be revealed to another that sits by, let the first hold his peace.
14:31 For you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
14:33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the
saints.
14:34 Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to
speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also says the law.
14:35 And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a
shame for women to speak in the church.
14:36 What? came the word of God out from you? or came it to you only?
14:37 If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the
things that I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.
14:38 But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.
14:39 Therefore, brothers, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
14:40 Let all things be done decently and in order.
Chapter 15
15:1 Moreover, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also
you have received, and in which you stand;
15:2 By which also you are saved, if you keep in memory what I preached to you, unless
you have believed in vain.
15:3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our
sins according to the scriptures;
15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the
scriptures:
15:5 And that he was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve:
15:6 After that, he was seen by over five hundred brothers at one time; of whom the
majority remain to this present time, but some are fallen asleep.
15:7 After that, he was seen by James; then by all the apostles.
15:8 And last of all he was seen by me also, as of one born out of due time.
15:9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not suitable to be called an apostle,
because I persecuted the church of God.
15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon
me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of
God which was with me.
15:11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
15:12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you
that there is no resurrection of the dead?
15:13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:
15:14 And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.
15:15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God
that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
15:16 For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:
15:17 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; you are yet in your sins.
15:18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
15:19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that
slept.
15:21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
15:23 But every man in his own order: Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are
Christ's at his coming.
15:24 Then comes the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even
the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
15:25 For he must reign, till he has put all enemies under his feet.
15:26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
15:27 For he has put all things under his feet. But when he says all things are put under
him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
15:28 And when all things shall be subdued to him, then shall the Son also himself be
subject to him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
15:29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all?
why are they then baptized for the dead?
15:30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
15:31 I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our LORD, I die daily.
15:32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantages it
me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.
15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I
speak this to your shame.
15:35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they
come?
15:36 You fool, that which you sow is not given life, unless it die:
15:37 And that which you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but bore grain, it
may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
15:38 But God gives it a body as it has pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh
of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial
is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of
the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory.
15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in
incorruption:
15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in
power:
15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and
there is a spiritual body.
15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam
was made a life-giving spirit.
15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and
afterward that which is spiritual.
15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.
15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are
they also that are heavenly.
15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the
heavenly.
15:50 Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;
neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on
immortality.
15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have
put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is
swallowed up in victory.
15:55 O death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your victory?
15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the
work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
Chapter 16
16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given the order to the
churches of Galatia, even so should you do.
16:2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God has
prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
16:3 And when I come, whomsoever you shall approve by your letters, them will I send
to bring your liberality to Jerusalem.
16:4 And if it be suitable that I go also, they shall go with me.
16:5 Now I will come to you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through
Macedonia.
16:6 And it may be that I will abide, yes, and winter with you, that you may bring me on
my journey to wheresoever I go.
16:7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the
Lord permit.
16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
16:9 For a great and effective door is opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
16:10 Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he works
the work of the Lord, as I also do.
16:11 Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may
come to me: for I look for him with the brothers.
16:12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come to you with the
brothers: but his will was not at all to come at this time; but he will come when he shall
have convenient time.
16:13 Watch you, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
16:14 Let all your things be done with love.
16:15 I beseech you, brothers, (you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits
of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
16:16 That you submit yourselves to such, and to every one that helps with us, and
labors.
16:17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which
was lacking on your part they have supplied.
16:18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge you them that
are such.
16:19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the
Lord, with the church that is in their house.
16:20 All the brothers greet you. Greet you one another with a holy kiss.
16:21 The salutation of me Paul with my own hand.
16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
16:23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
16:24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
The Second Epistle Of Paul The Apostle To The Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the
church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:
1:3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and
the God of all comfort;
1:4 Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are
in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
1:5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds by
Christ.
1:6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is
effective in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be
comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
1:7 And our hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as you are partakers of the sufferings,
so shall you be also of the consolation.
1:8 For we would not, brothers, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in
Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired
even of life:
1:9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves,
but in God which raises the dead:
1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver: in whom we trust that he
will yet deliver us;
1:11 You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the
means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and
godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our
conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
1:13 For we write none other things to you, than what you read or acknowledge; and I
trust you shall acknowledge even to the end;
1:14 As also you have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as you
also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1:15 And in this confidence I was minded to come to you before, that you might have a
second benefit;
1:16 And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia to you,
and of you to be brought on my way toward Judaea.
1:17 When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I
purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yes yes, and no
no?
1:18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yes and no.
1:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me
and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yes and no, but in him was yes.
1:20 For all the promises of God in him are yes, and in him Amen, to the glory of God by
us.
1:21 Now he which establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, is God;
1:22 Who has also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
1:23 Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet
to Corinth.
1:24 Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by
faith you stand.
Chapter 2
2:1 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.
2:2 For if I make you sorry, who is he then that makes me glad, but the same which is
made sorry by me?
2:3 And I wrote this same to you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of
whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.
2:4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not
that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have more
abundantly to you.
2:5 But if any have caused grief, he has not grieved me, but in part: that I may not
overcharge you all.
2:6 Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
2:7 So that contrariwise you ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps
such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
2:8 Therefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love toward him.
2:9 For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether you be
obedient in all things.
2:10 To whom you forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I
forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
2:11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troy to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened
to me of the Lord,
2:13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave
of them, I went from there into Macedonia.
2:14 Now thanks be to God, which always causes us to triumph in Christ, and makes
manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.
2:15 For we are to God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that
perish:
2:16 To the one we are the savour of death to death; and to the other the savour of life to
life. And who is sufficient for these things?
2:17 For we are not as many, which peddle the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of
God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
Chapter 3
3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of
commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
3:2 You are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3:3 Since as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us,
written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in
fleshy tables of the heart.
3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our
sufficiency is of God;
3:6 Who also has made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the
spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life.
3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraved in stones, was glorious, so that
the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his
countenance; which glory was to be done away:
3:8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
3:9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more does the ministration of
righteousness exceed in glory.
3:10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the
glory that excels.
3:11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remains is
glorious.
3:12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
3:13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could
not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
3:14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remains the same veil untaken away
in the reading of the old testament; which veil is done away in Christ.
3:15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart.
3:16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away.
3:17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed
into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the LORD.
Chapter 4
4:1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor
handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending
ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
4:3 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
4:4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who believe not, lest
the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine to them.
4:5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants
for Jesus' sake.
4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts,
to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be
of God, and not of us.
4:8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in
despair;
4:9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
4:10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of
Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
4:11 For we which live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of
Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
4:12 So then death works in us, but life in you.
4:13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and
therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
4:14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and
shall present us with you.
4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the
thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
4:16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward
man is renewed day by day.
4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen:
for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Chapter 5
5:1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a
building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
5:2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is
from heaven:
5:3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
5:4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be
unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
5:5 Now he that has wrought us for the very same thing is God, who also has given to us
the earnest of the Spirit.
5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body,
we are absent from the Lord:
5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be
present with the Lord.
5:9 Therefore we labor, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.
5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may
receive the things done in his body, according to that he has done, whether it be good or
bad.
5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made
manifest to God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
5:12 For we commend not ourselves again to you, but give you occasion to glory on our
behalf, that you may have somewhat to answer those who glory in appearance, and not in
heart.
5:13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for
your cause.
5:14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all,
then were all dead:
5:15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not any more live to themselves,
but to him which died for them, and rose again.
5:16 Therefore from now on we know no man after the flesh: yes, though we have known
Christ after the flesh, yet from now on know we him no more.
5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away;
behold, all things have become new.
5:18 And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and has
given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
5:19 That is, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their
trespasses to them; and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ; as though God did beseech you by us, we
pray you in Christ's stead: be reconciled to God.
5:21 For he has made him who knew no sin to be sin for us; that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him.
Chapter 6
6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the
grace of God in vain.
6:2 (For he says, I have heard you in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I
helped you: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
6:3 Giving no offense in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
6:4 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in
afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
6:5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
6:6 By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Spirit, by
love unfeigned,
6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the
right hand and on the left,
6:8 By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
6:9 As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and
not killed;
6:10 As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having
nothing, and yet possessing all things.
6:11 O you Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our heart is enlarged.
6:12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your own affections.
6:13 Now for a recompense in the same, (I speak as to my children,) be you also
enlarged.
6:14 Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has
righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion has light with darkness?
6:15 And what concord has Christ with Belial? or what part has he that believes with an
infidel?
6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of
the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their
God, and they shall be my people.
6:17 Therefore come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and touch not
the unclean thing; and I will receive you.
6:18 And will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord
Almighty.
Chapter 7
7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all
filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
7:2 Receive us; we have wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded
no man.
7:3 I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that you are in our hearts to
die and live with you.
7:4 Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled
with comfort, I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation.
7:5 For, when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled
on every side; outside were fightings, within were fears.
7:6 Nevertheless God, that comforts those that are cast down, comforted us by the
coming of Titus;
7:7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation with which he was comforted in
you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me;
so that I rejoiced the more.
7:8 For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I
perceive that the same epistle has made you sorry, though it were but for a season.
7:9 Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you sorrowed to repentance: for
you were made sorry after a godly manner, that you might receive damage by us in
nothing.
7:10 For godly sorrow works repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the
sorrow of the world works death.
7:11 For behold this very same thing, that you sorrowed after a godly sort, what
carefulness it wrought in you, yes, what clearing of yourselves, yes, what indignation,
yes, what fear, yes, what vehement desire, yes, what zeal, yes, what revenge! In all things
you have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.
7:12 Therefore, though I wrote to you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong,
nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might
appear to you.
7:13 Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yes, and exceedingly the more we
rejoiced for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.
7:14 For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spoke all
things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
7:15 And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, while he remembers the
obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling you received him.
7:16 I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.
Chapter 8
8:1 Moreover, brothers, we do you to know of the grace of God bestowed on the
churches of Macedonia;
8:2 That in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty
abounded to the riches of their liberality.
8:3 For to their power, I bear record, yes, and beyond their power they were willing of
themselves;
8:4 Praying us with much entreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the
fellowship of the ministering to the saints.
8:5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and to
us by the will of God.
8:6 Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you
the same grace also.
8:7 Therefore, as you abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and
in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that you abound in this grace also.
8:8 I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to
prove the sincerity of your love.
8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for
your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich.
8:10 And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before,
not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.
8:11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there
may be a performance also out of that which you have.
8:12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man has, and
not according to that he has not.
8:13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and you burdened:
8:14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their
want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be
equality:
8:15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had
gathered little had no lack.
8:16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for
you.
8:17 For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord
he went to you.
8:18 And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all
the churches;
8:19 And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with
this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of
your ready mind:
8:20 Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered
by us:
8:21 Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of
men.
8:22 And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent
in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in
you.
8:23 Whether any do inquire of Titus, he is my partner and fellow helper concerning you:
or our brothers be inquired of, they are the messengers of the churches, and the glory of
Christ.
8:24 Therefore show you to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of
our boasting on your behalf.
Chapter 9
9:1 For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:
9:2 For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of
Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal has provoked very many.
9:3 yet have I sent the brothers, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf;
that, as I said, you may be ready:
9:4 Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we
say not, you) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.
9:5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brothers, that they would go before to
you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof you had notice before, that the same
might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
9:6 But this I say, He which sows sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which sows
bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
9:7 Every man according as he purposes in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or
of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver.
9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all
sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
9:9 (As it is written, He has dispersed abroad; he has given to the poor: his righteousness
remains forever.
9:10 Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and
multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
9:11 Being enriched in everything to all bountifulness, which causes through us
thanksgiving to God.
9:12 For the administration of this service not only supplies the want of the saints, but is
abundant also by many thanksgivings to God;
9:13 Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed
subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution to them, and to all
men;
9:14 And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in
you.
9:15 Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.
Chapter 10
10:1 Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in
presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
10:2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence,
with which I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according
to the flesh.
10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the
pulling down of strongholds;)
10:5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the
knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
10:6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is
fulfilled.
10:7 Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself
that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are
we Christ's.
10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has
given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:
10:9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.
10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak,
and his speech contemptible.
10:11 Let such a one think this, that, such as we are in word by letters when we are
absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present.
10:12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some
that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing
themselves among themselves, are not wise.
10:13 But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure
of the rule which God has distributed to us, a measure to reach even to you.
10:14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not to you:
for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the gospel of Christ:
10:15 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labors; but
having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to
our rule abundantly,
10:16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's
line of things made ready to our hand.
10:17 But he that glories, let him glory in the Lord.
10:18 For not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
Chapter 11
11:1 Would to God you could bear with me a little in my folly: and do bear with me.
11:2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one
husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
11:3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his trickery, so
your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
11:4 For if he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if you
receive another spirit, which you have not received, or another gospel, which you have
not accepted, you might well bear with him.
11:5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
11:6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been thoroughly
made manifest among you in all things.
11:7 Have I committed an offense in abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I
have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
11:9 And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that
which was lacking to me the brothers which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all
things I have kept myself from being burdensome to you, and so will I keep myself.
11:10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions
of Achaia.
11:11 Why? because I love you not? God knows.
11:12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire
occasion; that in which they glory, they may be found just as we.
11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the
apostles of Christ.
11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
11:15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of
righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
11:16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that
I may boast myself a little.
11:17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this
confidence of boasting.
11:18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.
11:19 For you tolerate fools gladly, seeing you yourselves are wise.
11:20 For you suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take
of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man strike you on the face.
11:21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit in
whichsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
11:22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed
of Abraham? so am I.
11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more
abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.
11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes less one.
11:25 Three times was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, three times I suffered
shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
11:26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by my own
countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in
perils in the sea, in perils among false brothers;
11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings
often, in cold and nakedness.
11:28 Beside those things that are outside, that which comes upon me daily, the care of
all the churches.
11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
11:30 If I must glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.
11:31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore,
knows that I lie not.
11:32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes
with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
11:33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his
hands.
Chapter 12
12:1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations
of the Lord.
12:2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell;
or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows;) such a one caught up to the third
heaven.
12:3 And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God
knows;)
12:4 That he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not
lawful for a man to utter.
12:5 Of such a one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in my infirmities.
12:6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but
now I hold back, lest any man should think of me above that which he sees me to be, or
that he hears of me.
12:7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the
revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet
me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
12:8 For this thing I asked the Lord three times, that it might depart from me.
12:9 And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you: for my strength is made perfect in
weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of
Christ may rest upon me.
12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in
persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; you have compelled me: for I ought to have been
commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be
nothing.
12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and
wonders, and mighty deeds.
12:13 For what is it in which you were inferior to other churches, except it be that I
myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.
12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to
you: for I seek not yours but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but
the parents for the children.
12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I
love you, the less I be loved.
12:16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with
guile.
12:17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent to you?
12:18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you?
walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
12:19 Again, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? we speak before God in
Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
12:20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall
be found to you such as you would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes,
backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall
bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and
fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Chapter 13
13:1 This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses
shall every word be established.
13:2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being
absent now I write to those who heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come
again, I will not spare:
13:3 Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but
is mighty in you.
13:4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God.
For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
13:5 Examine yourselves, whether you be in the faith; prove your own selves. Do you
not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you be reprobates?
13:6 But I trust that you shall know that we are not reprobates.
13:7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that
you should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
13:8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.
13:9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, even
your perfection.
13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use
sharpness, according to the power which the Lord has given me to edification, and not to
destruction.
13:11 Finally, brothers, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live
in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
13:12 Greet one another with a holy kiss.
13:13 All the saints salute you.
13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the
Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Galatians
Galatians
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the
Father, who raised him from the dead;)
1:2 And all the brothers which are with me, to the churches of Galatia:
1:3 Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world,
according to the will of God and our Father:
1:5 To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
1:6 I marvel that you are so soon removed from him who called you into the grace of
Christ, to another gospel:
1:7 Which is not another; but there are some who trouble you, and would pervert the
gospel of Christ.
1:8 But should we, or an angel from heaven, preach any gospel to you other than that
which we have preached to you, let him be accursed.
1:9 As we said before, so I now say again, if anyone preaches any gospel to you other
than that which you have received, let him be accursed.
1:10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or am I seeking to please men? for if I still
pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
1:11 But I certify to you, brothers, that the gospel which was preached by me is not after
man.
1:12 For I neither received it from man, neither was I taught it, but rather by the
revelation of Jesus Christ.
1:13 For you have heard of my manner of life in times past in the Jews' religion, that
beyond measure I used to persecute the church of God, and tried to destroy it:
1:14 And was advancing in the Jews' religion above many of my equals in my own
nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me
by his grace,
1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; immediately I
conferred not with flesh and blood:
1:17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went
into Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
1:18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and stayed with him
fifteen days.
1:19 But others of the apostles saw I none, except James the Lord's brother.
1:20 Now the things which I am writing to you, behold, before God, I am not lying.
1:21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;
1:22 And was unknown by face to the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:
1:23 But all they had heard was, He who persecuted us in times past now preaches the
faith which he once tried to destroy.
1:24 And they glorified God in me.
Chapter 2
2:1 Then fourteen years later, I went up once again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took
Titus with me also.
2:2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach
among the Gentiles, but privately to those who were of reputation, lest by any means I
should run, or had run, in vain.
2:3 But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be
circumcised:
2:4 And that I bring up because of false brothers secretly brought in, who snuck in to spy
out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
2:5 To whom we gave way in subjection not even for an hour; that the truth of the gospel
might continue with you.
2:6 But regarding these who seemed to be something, (what they were, it makes no
difference to me: God accepts no man's personage:) for they who seemed to be something
in conference added nothing to me:
2:7 But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcision was
committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcision was to Peter;
2:8 (For he that wrought effectively in Peter to the apostleship for the circumcision, the
same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace
that was given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship; that we
should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
2:10 Only they desired that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was
eager to do.
2:11 But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to
be blamed.
2:12 For before certain ones had come from James, he would eat with the Gentiles: but
when they had come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the
circumcision.
2:13 And the other Jews joined him in hypocrisy; to the extent that Barnabas also was
carried away with their hypocrisy.
2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I
said to Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and
not as the Jews, why do you compel the Gentiles to live like the Jews?
2:15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus
Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of
Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be
justified.
2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners,
is therefore Christ the minister of sin? By no means.
2:18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
2:19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live to God.
2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me.
And the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me, and gave himself for me.
2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness comes by the law, then
Christ is dead in vain.
Chapter 3
3:1 O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth,
before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
3:2 This only would I learn of you, Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or
by the hearing of faith?
3:3 Are you so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are you now made perfect by the
flesh?
3:4 Have you suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
3:5 He therefore that ministers to you the Spirit, and works miracles among you, does he
do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
3:6 Just as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
3:7 Know therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith,
preached in advance the gospel to Abraham, saying, In you shall all nations be blessed.
3:9 So then they which are of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written,
Cursed is every one that continues not in all things which are written in the book of the
law to do them.
3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, "The
just shall live by faith."
3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, "The man that does them shall live in them."
3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is
written, "Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree: "
3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that
we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
3:15 Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man's covenant, yet if
it be confirmed, no man disannulls, or adds to it.
3:16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He says not, "And to
seeds," as of many; but as of one, "And to your seed," which is Christ.
3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the
law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make
the promise of no effect.
3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to
Abraham by promise.
3:19 How then serves the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed
should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand
of a mediator.
3:20 Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
3:21 Is the law then against the promises of God? By no means: for if there had been a
law given which could have given life, then certainly righteousness would have been by
the law.
3:22 But the scripture has concluded all under sin, so that the promise by faith of Jesus
Christ might be given to them that believe.
3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which
should afterwards be revealed.
3:24 Therefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be
justified by faith.
3:25 But after faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
3:26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
3:27 For as many of you that are baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male
nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
3:29 And if you be Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the
promise.
Chapter 4
4:1 Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differs nothing from a servant,
though he be lord of all,
4:2 But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed by the father.
4:3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the
world:
4:4 But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a
woman, made under the law,
4:5 To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
4:6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts,
crying, abba, Father.
4:7 Therefore you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God
through Christ.
4:8 Howbeit then, when you did not know God, you did service unto those who by nature
are no gods.
4:9 But now, after you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again
to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto you desire again to be in bondage?
4:10 You observe days, and months, and times, and years.
4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain.
4:12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have not injured me at
all.
4:13 You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the
first.
4:14 And my temptation which was in my flesh you looked down upon not, nor rejected;
but received me as an angel of God, just as Christ Jesus.
4:15 Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had
been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.
4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
4:17 They zealously affect you, but not well; yes, they would exclude you, that you might
affect them.
4:18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I
am present with you.
4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of
you.
4:21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a
freewoman.
4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the
freewoman was by promise.
4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the
mount Sinai, which genders to bondage, which is Agar.
4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to Jerusalem which now is, and
is in bondage with her children.
4:26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
4:27 For it is written, Rejoice, you barren that bear not; break forth and cry, you that
travail not: for the desolate has many more children than she which has a husband.
4:28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
4:29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the
Spirit, even so it is now.
4:30 Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for
the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.
4:31 So then, brothers, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
Chapter 5
5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not
entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you
nothing.
5:3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole
law.
5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law;
you are fallen from grace.
5:5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; but
faith which works by love.
5:7 You did run well; who did hinder you that you should not obey the truth?
5:8 This persuasion comes not of him that calls you.
5:9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump.
5:10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded:
but he that troubles you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
5:11 And I, brothers, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then
is the offense of the cross ceased.
5:12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
5:13 For, brothers, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion
to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.
5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed one of
another.
5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are
contrary the one to the other: so that you cannot do the things that you would.
5:18 But if you be led of the Spirit, you are not under the law.
5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness,
5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you
before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God.
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith,
5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
5:25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
5:26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Chapter 6
6:1 Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in
the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.
6:2 Bear you one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
6:3 For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
6:4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself
alone, and not in another.
6:5 For every man shall bear his own burden.
6:6 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teaches in all good
things.
6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also
reap.
6:8 For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the
Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we do not
quit.
6:10 As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially to them
who are of the household of faith.
6:11 You see how large a letter I have written unto you with my own hand.
6:12 As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they constrain you to be
circumcised; only so they will not suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have
you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
6:14 But may it never be that I should glory, unless in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ,
by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto the world.
6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but to
be a new creature.
6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon
the Israel of God.
6:17 From now on let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord
Jesus.
6:18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians
Ephesians
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus,
and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
1:4 According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we
should be holy and without blame before him in love:
1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will,
1:6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he has made us accepted in the
beloved.
1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to
the riches of his grace;
1:8 In which he has abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
1:9 Having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure
which he has purposed in himself:
1:10 That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one,all
things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
1:11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the
purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will:
1:12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
1:13 In whom you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation: in whom also after you believed, you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of
promise,
1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession, to the praise of his glory.
1:15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love toward all the
saints,
1:16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit
of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the
hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according
to the working of his mighty power,
1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his
own right hand in the heavenly places,
1:21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that
is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
1:22 And has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to
the church,
1:23 Which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all.
Chapter 2
2:1 And you he has made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2:2 In which in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to
the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of
disobedience:
2:3 Among whom also we all had our conduct in times past in the lusts of our flesh,
fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of
wrath, just as others.
2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, has made us alive together with Christ, (by grace
you are saved;)
2:6 And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ
Jesus:
2:7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his
kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
2:8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of
God:
2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has
before ordained that we should walk in them.
2:11 Therefore remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are
called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by
hands;
2:12 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the
world:
2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near by the
blood of Christ.
2:14 For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall
of partition between us;
2:15 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained
in ordinances; for to make in himself out of two one new man, so making peace;
2:16 And that he might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the
enmity thereby:
2:17 And came and preached peace to you who were afar off, and to them that were near.
2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
2:19 Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with
the saints, and of the household of God;
2:20 And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner stone;
2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto a holy temple in the Lord:
2:22 In whom you also are built together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.
Chapter 3
3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
3:2 If you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me toward
you:
3:3 That by revelation he made known to me the mystery; (as I wrote before in few
words,
3:4 Whereby, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of
Christ)
3:5 Which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to
his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
3:6 That the Gentiles should be fellow heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his
promise in Christ by the gospel:
3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me
by the effective working of his power.
3:8 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should
preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the
beginning of the world has been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
3:10 To the intent that now to the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be
known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
3:13 Therefore I desire that you faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
3:14 For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
3:15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened
with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted and grounded
in love,
3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and
depth, and height;
3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passes knowledge, that you might be filled
with all the fullness of God.
3:20 Now to him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works in us,
3:21 To him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without
end. Amen.
Chapter 4
4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the
vocation with which you are called,
4:2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
4:3 Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, just as you are called in one hope of your calling;
4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
4:8 Therefore he says, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave
gifts to men.
4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts
of the earth?
4:10 He who descended is the same also who ascended up far above all heavens, that he
might fill all things.)
4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some,
pastors and teachers;
4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the
body of Christ:
4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ:
4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with
every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in
wait to deceive;
4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the
head, even Christ:
4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which
every joint supplies, according to the effective working in the measure of every part,
makes increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you from now on walk not as other
Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through
the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all
uncleanness with greediness.
4:20 But you have not so learned Christ;
4:21 If so be that you have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in
Jesus:
4:22 That you put off concerning the former conduct the old man, which is corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts;
4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
4:24 And that you put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and
true holiness.
4:25 Therefore putting away lying, speak every one truth with his neighbor: for we are
members one of another.
4:26 Be angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down on your wrath:
4:27 Neither give place to the devil.
4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the
thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needs it.
4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but only that which is
good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace to the hearers.
4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed until the day of
redemption.
4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and denigrating, be put away
from you, along with all malice:
4:32 And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God for
Christ's sake has forgiven you.
Chapter 5
5:1 Be therefore imitators of God, as dear children;
5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and given himself for us as an offering
and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour.
5:3 But fornication, along with all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named
among you, as is becoming to saints;
5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not fitting: but rather
giving of thanks.
5:5 For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous person, who
is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
5:6 Let no one deceive you with vain words: it is because of these things the wrath of
God is coming upon the children of disobedience.
5:7 Be not therefore partakers with them.
5:8 For you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord: walk as
children of light:
5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
5:10 Proving what is acceptable in the eyes of the Lord.
5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove
them.
5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
5:13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever does
make manifest is light.
5:14 Therefore he says, "Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall
give you light."
5:15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
5:16 Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
5:17 Therefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
5:18 And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
5:19 Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and
making melody in your heart to the Lord;
5:20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ;
5:21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
5:22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as unto the Lord.
5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the church: and
he is the saviour of the body.
5:24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own
husbands in everything.
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself
for it;
5:26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or
any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves
himself.
5:29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the
Lord the church:
5:30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
5:31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his
wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
5:33 Nevertheless let every one of you so love his own wife just as himself; and the wife
see that she reverence her husband.
Chapter 6
6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
6:2 honor your father and mother; which is the first commandment with a promise;
6:3 That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.
6:4 And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord.
6:5 Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear
and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as if to Christ;
6:6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of
God from the heart;
6:7 With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:
6:8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man does, the same shall he receive from
the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
6:9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening: knowing that
your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.
6:10 Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of
the devil.
6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in
high places.
6:13 Therefore take to yourself the whole armour of God, that you may be able to
withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girded around with truth, and having on the
breastplate of righteousness;
6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, with which you shall be able to quench all the
fiery darts of the wicked.
6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of
God:
6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto
with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
6:19 And for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to
make known the mystery of the gospel,
6:20 For which I am an ambassador in chains: that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to
speak.
6:21 But so you also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother
and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:
6:22 Whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that you might know our affairs, and
that he might comfort your hearts.
6:23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord
Jesus Christ.
6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians
Philippians
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus
which are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
1:2 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
1:4 Always in every prayer of my for you all making request with joy,
1:5 For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;
1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will
perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
1:7 Just as it is suitable for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart;
inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all
are partakers of my grace.
1:8 For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all with the affection of Jesus
Christ.
1:9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in
all judgment;
1:10 That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without
offense till the day of Christ.
1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the
glory and praise of God.
1:12 But I would you should understand, brothers, that the things which happened to me
have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;
1:13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;
1:14 And many of the brothers in the Lord, growing confident by my bonds, are much
more bold to speak the word without fear.
1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
1:16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my
bonds:
1:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defense of the gospel.
1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretense, or in truth, Christ is
preached; and I in it do rejoice, yes, and will rejoice.
1:19 For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply
of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,
1:20 According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be
ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in
my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
1:22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor: yet what I shall choose I know
not.
1:23 For I am in a tight place between the two, having a desire to depart, an to be with
Christ; which is far better:
1:24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needed by you.
1:25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for
your furtherance and joy of faith;
1:26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to
you again.
1:27 Only let your conduct be as it becomes the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and
see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit,
with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
1:28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of
perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also
to suffer for his sake;
1:30 Having the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.
Chapter 2
2:1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any
fellowship of the Spirit, if any tenderness and mercies,
2:2 Fulfill you my joy, that you be likeminded, having the same love, being of one
accord, of one mind.
2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each
esteem other better than themselves.
2:4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 2:6 Who, being in the form
of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was
made in the likeness of men:
2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross.
2:9 Therefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above
every name:
2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in
earth, and things under the earth;
2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.
2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but
now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
2:13 For it is God which works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
2:15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the
midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world;
2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not
run in vain, neither labored in vain.
2:17 Yes, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and
rejoice with you all.
2:18 For the same cause also do you joy, and rejoice with me.
2:19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be
of good comfort, when I know your state.
2:20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.
2:21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
2:22 But you know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he has served with me
in the gospel.
2:23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
2:24 But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.
2:25 Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and
companion in labor, and fellow soldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my
wants.
2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that you had heard
that he had been sick.
2:27 For indeed he was sick close unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him
only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
2:28 I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when you see him again, you may
rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.
2:29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:
2:30 Because for the work of Christ he was close unto death, not regarding his life, to
supply your lack of service toward me.
Chapter 3
3:1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me
indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
3:3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ
Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he
has whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew
of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
3:6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the
law, blameless.
3:7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
3:8 Yes doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of
Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them
but dung, that I may win Christ,
3:9 And be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that
which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
3:10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his
sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
3:11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
3:12 Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after,
if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting
those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
3:15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing you be
otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.
3:16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us
mind the same thing.
3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark those who walk so as you have us
for an example.
3:18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping,
that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
3:19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their
shame, who mind earthly things.)
3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven; from where also we look for the Saviour, the Lord
Jesus Christ:
3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious
body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Chapter 4
4:1 Therefore, my brothers dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand
fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.
4:2 I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
4:3 And I entreat you also, true yokefellow, help those women which labored with me in
the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow laborers, whose names are in the
book of life.
4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
4:6 Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
4:7 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and
minds through Christ Jesus.
4:8 Finally, brothers, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,
think on these things.
4:9 Those things, which you have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me,
do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
4:10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me has flourished
again; in which you were also anxious, but you lacked opportunity.
4:11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am,
therewith to be content.
4:12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all
things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
4:13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
4:14 Notwithstanding you have well done, that you did communicate with my affliction.
4:15 Now you Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed
from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving,
but you only.
4:16 For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again unto my necessity.
4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.
4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things
which were sent from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing
to God.
4:19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ
Jesus.
4:20 Now unto God and our Father be glory forever and ever. Amen.
4:21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers which are with me greet you.
4:22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians
Colossians
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
1:2 To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ which are at Colossae: Grace be to you,
and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for
you,
1:4 Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have to all the
saints,
1:5 For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, of which you heard before in the
word of the truth of the gospel;
1:6 Which is come to you, as it is in all the world; and brings forth fruit, as it does also in
you, since the day you heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:
1:7 As you also learned of Epaphras our dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful
minister of Christ;
1:8 Who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.
1:9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to
desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual
understanding;
1:10 That you might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every
good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
1:11 Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, to all patience and
longsuffering with joyfulness;
1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance
of the saints in light:
1:13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the
kingdom of his dear Son:
1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:
1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible
and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers- all
things were created by him, and for him:
1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from
the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;
1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all
things to himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
1:21 And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind bcause of wicked
works, yet now he has reconciled
1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and
unreproveable in his sight:
1:23 If you continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the
hope of the gospel, which you have heard, and which was preached to every creature
which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
1:24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and in my flesh I am completing what is
lacking of the afflictions of Christ for his body's sake, which is the church:
1:25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given
to me for you, to fulfill the word of God;
1:26 Even the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but is
now made manifest to his saints:
1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
1:28 Whom we preach, warning every person, and teaching every person in all wisdom;
that we may present every person perfect in Christ Jesus:
1:29 Toward this I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me
mightily.
Chapter 2
2:1 For I wish you knew what a great struggle I have for you, and for those at Laodicea,
and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
2:2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, even toward all
riches of the full assurance of understanding, toward the knowledge of the mystery of
God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
2:3 In whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
2:4 And this I say, so that no one will beguile you with enticing words.
2:5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, enjoying and
beholding your orderly procedure, and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
2:6 As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him:
2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as you have been taught,
abounding in it with thanksgiving.
2:8 Beware lest anyone spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition
of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
2:9 For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
2:10 And you are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
2:11 In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in
putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
2:12 Buried with him in baptism, in which also you are risen with him through the faith
of the operation of God, who has raised him from the dead.
2:13 And you, who were dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, to you
he has given life together with him, having forgiven you all your trespasses;
2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary
to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;
2:15 And having disarmed principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly,
triumphing over them in it.
2:16 Let no one therefore judge you in the matter of food, or drink, or with respect to a
holy day, or the new moon, or the Sabbath days:
2:17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
2:18 Let no one beguile you of your reward in a false humility and worshipping of
angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly
mind,
2:19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having
nourishment ministered, and knit together, increases with the increase of God.
2:20 Therefore if you are now dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as
though living in the world, are you subject to ordinances,
2:21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
2:22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of
men?
2:23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in self-imposed servitude, and
humiliation, and severity to the body: with no value for the placating of the flesh.
Chapter 3
3:1 Since then you are risen together with Christ, seek those things which are above,
where Christ sits on the right hand of God.
3:2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3:3 For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in
glory.
3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness,
inordinate affection, evil sexual desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience:
3:7 In which you also in time past walked, when you lived in them.
3:8 But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, denigrating, filthy
communication out of your mouth.
3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds;
3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of
him that created him:
3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian,
Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
3:12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, tender hearts, kindness,
humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another if anyone has a quarrel against
any: just as Christ forgave you, so also you do.
3:14 And above all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond.
3:15 And let the peace of God be the umpire in your hearts, to which also you are called
in one body; and be thankful.
3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing
one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to
the Lord.
3:17 And whatsoever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving
thanks to God and the Father by him.
3:18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as it is fitting in the Lord.
3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
3:20 Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
3:21 Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.
3:22 Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice,
as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart fearing God;
3:23 And whatsoever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not to people;
3:24 Knowing that from the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for you
serve the Lord Christ.
3:25 But he that does wrong shall receive for the wrong which he has done: and there is
no respect for classes.
Chapter 4
4:1 Masters, give to your servants what is just and equitable; knowing that you also have
a Master in heaven.
4:2 Continue always in prayer, keeping alert therein with thanksgiving;
4:3 Meanwhile praying also for us, that God would open to us a door of utterance, to
speak the mystery of Christ, for the sake of which I am also in chains:
4:4 That I may make it plain, as I ought to speak.
4:5 Walk in wisdom before them that are outside, redeeming the time.
4:6 Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how
you ought to answer each individual person.
4:7 All my situation Tychicus will make known to you, who is a beloved brother, and a
faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord:
4:8 Whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that he might know your situation,
and comfort your hearts;
4:9 Along with Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall
make known to you all things which are done here.
4:10 Aristarchus my fellow prisoner salutes you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas,
(touching whom you received instructions: if he comes to you, receive him;)
4:11 And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my
fellow workers for the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort to me.
4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always laboring
fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of
God.
4:13 For I bear him record, that he has a great zeal for you, and those that are in
Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.
4:14 Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
4:15 Salute the brothers which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in
his house.
4:16 And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of
the Laodiceans; and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.
4:17 And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the
Lord, that you fulfill it.
4:18 The salutation is by the hand of me, Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with
you. Amen.
The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians
1 Thessalonians
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians which is in God
the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our
Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:2 We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;
1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of
hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1:4 Knowing, brothers beloved, your election of God.
1:5 For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy
Spirit, and in much assurance; as you know what manner of men we were among you for
your sake.
1:6 And you became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much
affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit.
1:7 So that you were examples to all who believe in Macedonia and Achaia.
1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia,
but also in every place your faith toward God is spread abroad; so that we need not to
speak any thing.
1:9 For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and
how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
1:10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, which is Jesus,
which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Chapter 2
2:1 For you yourselves, brothers, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
2:2 But even after we had suffered before, and were shamefully treated, as you know, at
Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak to you the gospel of God with much
contention.
2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
2:4 But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak;
not as pleasing men, but God, which tries our hearts.
2:5 For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor a cloak of
covetousness; God is witness:
2:6 Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have
been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.
2:7 But we were gentle among you, just as a nurse cherishes her children:
2:8 So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you,
not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because you were dear to us.
2:9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail: for laboring night and day,
because we wanted not to be a burden to any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of
God.
2:10 You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and unblameably we
behaved ourselves among you that believe:
2:11 As you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a
father does his children,
2:12 That you would walk worthy of God, who has called you unto his kingdom and
glory.
2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you received the
word of God which you heard from us, you received it not as the word of men, but as it is
in truth, the word of God, which effectively works also in you that believe.
2:14 For you, brothers, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in
Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered similar things from your own countrymen, just as
they have from the Jews:
2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us;
and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to theThessalonians
2:16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins
always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
2:17 But we, brothers, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart,
endeavored the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.
2:18 Therefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan
hindered us.
2:19 For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even you in the
presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
2:20 For you are our glory and joy.
Chapter 3
3:1 Therefore when we could no longer hold back, we thought it good to be left at Athens
alone;
3:2 And sent Timothy, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow laborer in the
gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
3:3 That no man should be moved by these afflictions: for you yourselves know that we
are appointed unto them.
3:4 For indeed, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer
tribulation; just as it came to pass, and you know.
3:5 For this cause, when I could no longer hold back, I sent to know your faith, lest by
some means the tempter may have tempted you, and our labor be in vain.
3:6 But now when Timothy came from you to us, and brought us good tidings of your
faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see
us, as we also to see you:
3:7 Therefore, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by
your faith:
3:8 For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy with which we
joy for your sakes before our God;
3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect
that which is lacking in your faith?
3:11 Now may God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way
unto you.
3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and
toward all men, just as we do toward you:
3:13 To the end he may establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even
our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.
Chapter 4
4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as
you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound
more and more.
4:2 For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from
fornication:
4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and
honor;
4:5 Not in the lust of sexual desire, just as the Gentiles which know not God:
4:6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord
is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
4:7 For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.
4:8 He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given to us his
Holy Spirit.
4:9 But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write to you: for you yourselves
are taught from God to love one another.
4:10 And indeed you do it toward all the brothers which are in all Macedonia: but we
beseech you, brothers, that you increase more and more;
The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to theThessalonians
4:11 And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your
own hands, as we commanded you;
4:12 That you may walk honestly toward them that are outside, and that you may have
lack of nothing.
4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are asleep,
that you sorrow not, as others which have no hope.
4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in
Jesus will God bring with him.
4:15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain
unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.
4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Chapter 5
5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that I write unto you.
5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the
night.
5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them,
as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
5:4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5:5 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night,
nor of darkness.
5:6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
5:7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the
night.
5:8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love;
and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
5:9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus
Christ,
5:10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
5:11 Therefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, just as also you do.
5:12 And we beseech you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over
you in the Lord, and admonish you;
5:13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace
among yourselves.
5:14 Now we exhort you, brothers, warn them that are unruly, comfort the fainthearted,
support the weak, be patient toward all men.
5:15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good,
both among yourselves, and to all men.
5:16 Rejoice evermore.
5:17 Pray without ceasing.
5:18 In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
5:20 Despise not prophesyings.
5:21 Test all things; hold fast that which is good.
5:22 Abstain from every form of evil.
5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit
and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
5:24 Faithful is he that calls you, who also will do it.
5:25 Brethren, pray for us.
5:26 Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
5:27 I charge you by the Lord that this letter be read unto all the holy brothers.
5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
The Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:
1:2 Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brothers, as it is suitable, because that
your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other
abounds;
1:4 So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith
in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure:
1:5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted
worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer:
1:6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble
you;
1:7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from
heaven with his mighty angels,
1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord,
and from the glory of his power;
1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that
believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
1:11 Therefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this
calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with
power:
1:12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in him,
according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Chapter 2
2:1 Now we beseech you, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and
our gathering together unto him,
2:2 That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word,
nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, unless there come
a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
2:4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped;
so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
2:5 Remember you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
2:6 And now you know what restrains that he might be revealed in his time.
2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness does already work: only he that398 now restrains will
restrain, until he is taken out of the way.
2:8 And then shall that Wicked One be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the
spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
2:9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and
lying wonders,
2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they
received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie:
2:12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness.
2:13 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the
Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification
of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
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The Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians
2:14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
2:15 Therefore, brothers, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught,
whether by word, or our epistle.
2:16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which has loved us,
and has given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
2:17 Comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.
Chapter 3
3:1 Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be
glorified, just as it is with you:
3:2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have
not faith.
3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.
3:4 And we have confidence in the Lord regarding you, that you both do and will do the
things which we command you.
3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for
Christ.
3:6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you
withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and not after the tradition
which he received of us.
3:7 For yourselves know how you ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves
disorderly among you;
3:8 Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but wrought with labor and travail
night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
3:9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an example unto you to
follow us.
3:10 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not
work, neither should he eat.
3:11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at
all, but are busybodies.
3:12 Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with
quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
3:13 But you, brothers, be not weary in well doing.
3:14 And if any man obey not our word by this letter, note that man, and have no
company with him, that he may be ashamed.
3:15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
3:16 Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be
with you all.
3:17 The salutation of Paul with my own hand, which is the token in every letter: so I
write.
The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy
1 Timothy
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord
Jesus Christ, which is our hope;
1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our
Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.
1:3 As I asked you to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that you might
charge some that they teach no other doctrine,
1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather
than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
1:5 Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good
conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
1:6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;
1:7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof
they affirm.
1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
1:9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and
disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of
fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
1:10 For fornicators, for homosexuals, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and
if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
1:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my
trust.
1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has enabled me, for that he counted me
faithful, putting me into the ministry;
1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained
mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which is in
Christ Jesus.
1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
1:16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show
forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to those who should hereafter believe on him to life
everlasting.
1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and
glory forever and ever. Amen.
1:18 This charge I commit unto you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which
went before on you, that you by them might war a good warfare;
1:19 Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith
have made shipwreck:
1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that
they may learn not to blaspheme.
Chapter 2
2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of
thanks, be made for all men;
2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life
in all godliness and honesty.
2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2:5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
2:6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and
lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
2:8 I will therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and
doubting.
2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with
shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;
2:10 But (which becomes women professing godliness) with good works.
2:11 Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
2:12 But I permit not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in
silence.
2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the
transgression.
2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and
love and holiness with sobriety.
Chapter 3
3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire to oversee, he desires a good work.
3:2 An overseer then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good
behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not
covetous;
3:4 One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
3:5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the
church of God?)
3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the
devil.
3:7 Moreover he must have a good report of those who are outside; lest he fall into
reproach and the snare of the devil.
3:8 Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine,
not greedy of filthy lucre;
3:9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
3:10 And let these also first be tested; then let them use the office of a deacon, being
found blameless.
3:11 Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
3:12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own
houses well.
3:13 For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good
degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
3:14 These things write I unto you, hoping to come unto you shortly:
3:15 But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the
house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the
flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the
world, received up into glory.
Chapter 4
4:1 Now the Spirit speaks expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God has created
to be received with thanksgiving of those who believe and know the truth.
4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with
thanksgiving:
4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
4:6 If you put the brothers in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister
of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto you
have attained.
4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself rather unto godliness.
4:8 For bodily exercise profits little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having
promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
4:9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
4:10 For therefore we both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God,
who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
4:11 These things command and teach.
4:12 Let no man despise your youth; but be an example of the believers, in word, in
conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
4:13 Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy, with the laying
on of the hands of the presbytery.
4:15 Meditate upon these things; give yourself wholly to them; that your profiting may
appear to all.
4:16 Take heed unto yourself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this
you shall both save yourself, and them that hear you.
Chapter 5
5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but entreat him as a father; and the younger men as brothers;
5:2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
5:3 Honor widows that are widows indeed.
5:4 But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to show piety at
home, and to repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
5:5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in
supplications and prayers night and day.
5:6 But she that lives in pleasure is dead while she lives.
5:7 And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.
5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has
denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
5:9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under sixty years old, having been the wife
of one man.
5:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged
strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have
diligently followed every good work.
5:11 But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to grow wanton against
Christ, they will marry;
5:12 Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.
5:13 And beside this they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not
only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
5:14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give
none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
5:15 For some are already turned aside after Satan.
5:16 If any man or woman that believes have widows, let them relieve them, and let not
the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.
5:17 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially they who
labor in the word and doctrine.
5:18 For the scripture says, You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the corn. And,
The laborer is worthy of his reward.
5:19 Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
5:20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
5:21 I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you
observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
5:22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep
yourself pure.
5:23 Drink no longer only water, but use a little wine for your stomach's sake and your
often infirmities.
5:24 Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men,
they follow after.
5:25 Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are
otherwise cannot be hidden.
Chapter 6
6:1 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all
honor, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
6:2 And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are
brothers; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of
the benefit. These things teach and exhort.
6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of
our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words,
whereof comes envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that
gain is godliness: from such withdraw yourself.
6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
6:7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
6:8 And having food and clothing let us be therewith content.
6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and
hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which while some coveted after,
they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
6:11 But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness,
faith, love, patience, meekness.
6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto you are also called,
and have professed a good profession before many witnesses.
6:13 I give you charge in the sight of God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ
Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
6:14 That you keep this commandment without spot, unrebukable, until the appearing of
our Lord Jesus Christ:
6:15 Which in his times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of
kings, and Lord of lords;
6:16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto;
whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen.
6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, nor trust in
uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;
6:18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to
communicate;
6:19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that
they may lay hold on eternal life.
6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to your trust, avoiding profane and vain
babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
6:21 Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you.
Amen.
The Second Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy
2 Timothy
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life
which is in Christ Jesus,
1:2 To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father
and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without
ceasing I have remembrance of you in my prayers night and day;
1:4 Greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy;
1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in you, which dwelled first in
your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in you also.
1:6 Therefore I put you in remembrance that you stir up the gift of God, which is in you
by the putting on of my hands.
1:7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound
mind.
1:8 Be not you therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner:
but be you partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
1:9 Who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but
according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the
world began,
1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who has
abolished death, and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
1:11 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I
know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have
committed unto him against that day.
1:13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which you have heard of me, in faith and love
which is in Christ Jesus.
1:14 That good thing which was committed unto you keep by the Holy Spirit which
dwells in us.
1:15 This you know, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom
are Phygellus and Hermogenes.
1:16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he often refreshed me, and
was not ashamed of my chain:
1:17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.
1:18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how
many things he ministered to me at Ephesus, you know very well.
Chapter 2
2:1 You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
2:2 And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit
you to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
2:3 You therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
2:4 No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please
him who has chosen him to be a soldier.
2:5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, unless he strive
lawfully.
2:6 The husbandman that labors must be first partaker of the fruits.
2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give you understanding in all things.
2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according
to my gospel:
2:9 For which I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is
not bound.
2:10 Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sakes, that they may also obtain the
salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
2:11 It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:
2:12 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:
2:13 If we believe not, yet he abides faithful: he cannot deny himself.
2:14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they
strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
2:15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2:16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.
2:17 And their word will eat as does a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already;
and overthrow the faith of some.
2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows
them that are his. And, Let every one that names the name of Christ depart from
iniquity.
2:20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood
and of earth; and some to honor, and some to dishonor.
2:21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor,
sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that
call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2:23 But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach,
patient,
2:25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God perhaps will give them
repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
2:26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken
captive by him at his will.
Chapter 3
3:1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers
of those that are good,
3:4 Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it: from such turn away.
3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden
with sins, led away with different lusts,
3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of
corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as
theirs also was.
3:10 But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering,
love, patience,
3:11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what
persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
3:12 Yes, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
3:13 But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse, deceiving, and being
deceived.
3:14 But continue you in the things which you have learned and have been assured of,
knowing of whom you have learned them;
3:15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make
you wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Chapter 4
4:1 I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the
quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all
longsuffering and doctrine.
4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own
lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
4:5 But watch you in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make
full proof of your ministry.
4:6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that
love his appearing.
4:9 Do your diligence to come shortly to me:
4:10 For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto
Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
4:11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with you: for he is profitable to
me for the ministry.
4:12 And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.
4:13 The cloak that I left in Troy with Carpus, when you come, bring with you, and the
books, but especially the parchments.
4:14 Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his
works:
4:15 Of whom be you ware also; for he has greatly withstood our words.
4:16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it
may not be laid to their charge.
4:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the
preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered
out of the mouth of the lion.
4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his
heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
4:19 Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.
4:20 Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.
4:21 Do your diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greets you, and Pudens, and
Linus, and Claudia, and all the brothers.
4:22 The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Titus
Titus
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's
elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began;
1:3 But has in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed to
me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
1:4 To Titus, my own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God
the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.
1:5 For this cause left I you in Crete, that you should set in order the things that are
wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you:
1:6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of
riot or unruly.
1:7 For an overseer must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self willed, not soon
angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
1:8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
1:9 Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able by sound
doctrine both to exhort and to convince the opponents.
1:10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the
circumcision:
1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things they
ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
1:12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretans are always liars,
evil beasts, slow bellies.
1:13 This witness is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the
faith;
1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the
truth.
1:15 To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing
is pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable,
and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Chapter 2
2:1 But speak the things which befit sound doctrine:
2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience.
2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not false
accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
2:4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love
their children,
2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that
the word of God be not blasphemed.
2:6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
2:7 In all things showing yourself a pattern of good works: in doctrine showing
uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
2:8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be
ashamed, having no evil thing to say about you.
2:9 Exhort servants to be obedient to their own masters, and to please them well in all
things; not talking back;
2:10 Not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God
our Saviour in all things.
2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared unto all men,
2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly,
righteously, and godly in this present world;
2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our great God and
Saviour Jesus Christ;
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2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto
himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works.
2:15 These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise
you.
Chapter 3
3:1 Put them in mind to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey magistrates, to be
ready for every good work,
3:2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, showing all meekness unto all
men.
3:3 For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts
and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
3:4 But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he
saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Spirit;
3:6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of
eternal life.
3:8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I wish that you affirm constantly, that they
which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are
good and profitable to men.
3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the
law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
3:10 A divisive person after the first and second admonition reject;
3:11 Knowing that this kind of person is perverted and sinning, being self-condemned.
3:12 When I shall send Artemas unto you, or Tychicus, be diligent to come to me to
Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.
3:13 Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that they lack
nothing.
3:14 And let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they
be not unfruitful.
3:15 All who are with me salute you. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be
with you all. Amen.
The Epistle of Paul to Philemon
Philemon
Chapter 1
1:1 Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly
beloved, and fellow laborer,
1:2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in
your house:
1:3 Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1:4 I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers,
1:5 Hearing of your love and faith, which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all
saints;
1:6 That the communication of your faith may become effective by the acknowledging of
every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.
1:7 For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the hearts of the saints
are refreshed by you, brother.
1:8 Therefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin you that which is fitting,
1:9 yet for love's sake I rather beseech you, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now
also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
1:10 I beseech you for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds:
1:11 Which in time past was to you unprofitable, but now profitable to you and to me:
1:12 Whom I have sent again: you therefore receive him, my very heart:
1:13 Whom I would have retained with me, that in your stead he might have ministered
to me in the bonds of the gospel:
1:14 But without your mind would I do nothing; that your benefit should not be as it were
of necessity, but willingly.
1:15 For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that you should receive him forever;
1:16 Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but
how much more unto you, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
1:17 If you count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.
1:18 If he has wronged you, or owes you anything, put that on mine account;
1:19 I Paul have written it with my own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to you
how you owe to me even your own self besides.
1:20 Yes, brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: refresh my heart in the Lord.
1:21 Having confidence in your obedience I wrote unto you, knowing that you will also
do more than I say.
1:22 But meanwhile prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I
shall be given unto you.
1:23 There salute you Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;
1:24 Marcus, aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellow laborers.
1:25 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
The Epistle to the Hebrews
Hebrews
Chapter 1
1:1 God, who at various times and in diverse manners spoke in time past unto the fathers
by the prophets,
1:2 Has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all
things, by whom also he made the worlds;
1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
1:4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more
excellent name than they.
1:5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I
begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
1:6 And again, when he brings in the first-begotten into the world, he says, and let all the
angels of God worship him.
1:7 And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of
fire.
1:8 But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of
righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.
1:9 You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even your God, has
anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
1:10 And, You, Lord, in the beginning have laid the foundation of the earth; and the
heavens are the works of your hands:
1:11 They shall perish; but you remain; and they all shall become old as does a garment;
1:12 And as a vesture shall you fold them up, and they shall be changed: but you are the
same, and your years shall not fail.
1:13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make
your enemies your footstool?
1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs
of salvation?
Chapter 2
2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard,
lest at any time we should let them slip.
2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and
disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be
spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
2:4 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with different
miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?
2:5 For unto the angels has he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.
2:6 But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that you are mindful of him?
or the son of man that you visit him?
2:7 You made him a little while lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and
honor, and set him over the works of your hands:
2:8 You have put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in
subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet
see all things put under him.
2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of
death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for
every man.
2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing
many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
2:11 For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which
reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
2:12 Saying, I will declare your name unto my brothers, in the midst of the congregation
will I sing praise unto you.
2:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which
God has given me.
2:14 Since the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took
part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death,
that is, the devil;
2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to
bondage.
2:16 For surely it is not angels he helps; but the seed of Abraham.
2:17 Therefore in all things it was proper for him to be made like unto his brothers, that
he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make
reconciliation for the sins of the people.
2:18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help them that are
tempted.
Chapter 3
3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and
High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
3:2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his
house.
3:3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has
built the house has more honor than the house.
3:4 For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.
3:5 And Moses was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things
which were to be spoken after;
3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the
confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
3:7 Therefore (as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear his voice,
3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the
wilderness:
3:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
3:10 Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their
heart; and they have not known my ways.
3:11 So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
3:12 Take heed, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing
from the living God.
3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened
through the deceitfulness of sin.
3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence
steadfast unto the end;
3:15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the
provocation.
3:16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt
by Moses.
3:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned,
whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
3:18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that
believed not?
3:19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Chapter 4
4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you
should seem to come short of it.
4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as to them: but the word preached did
not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
4:3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, as I have sworn in my
wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the
foundation of the world.
4:4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, and God did rest the
seventh day from all his works.
4:5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
4:6 Seeing therefore it remains that some must enter in it, and they to whom it was first
preached entered not in because of unbelief:
4:7 Again, he limits a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is
said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.
4:8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another
day.
4:9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.
4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God
did from his.
4:11 Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example
of unbelief.
4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword,
piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and
is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked
and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
4:14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus
the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
4:15 For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities; but was in all points tempted just as we are, yet without sin.
4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy,
and find grace to help in time of need.
Chapter 5
5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining
to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:
5:2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for
that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
5:3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.
5:4 And no man takes this honor unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made a high priest; but he that said unto
him, You are my Son, today have I begotten you.
5:6 As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order of
Melchisedek.
5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with
strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in
that he feared;
5:8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey him;
5:10 Called of God a high priest after the order of Melchisedek.
5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing you are dull of
hearing.
5:12 For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you
again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and have become such as have
need of milk, and not of strong food.
5:13 For every one that uses milk is unskillfully in the word of righteousness: for he is a
babe.
5:14 But strong food belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of
use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Chapter 6
6:1 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection;
not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,
6:2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the
dead, and of eternal judgment.
6:3 And this will we do, if God permit.
6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the
heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
6:5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6:6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to
themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
6:7 For the earth which drinks in the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth herbs
suitable for them by whom it is dressed, receives blessing from God:
6:8 But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is close unto cursing; whose
end is to be burned.
6:9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany
salvation, though we thus speak.
6:10 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which you have
shown toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
6:11 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full
assurance of hope unto the end:
6:12 That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience
inherit the promises.
6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he
swore by himself,
6:14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.
6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
6:16 For men swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all
strife.
6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the
immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might
have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before
us:
6:19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which
enters into that within the veil;
6:20 Where the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after
the order of Melchisedek.
Chapter 7
7:1 For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham
returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
7:2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of
righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;
7:3 Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days,
nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abides a priest continually.
7:4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave
the tenth of the spoils.
7:5 And they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a
commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers,
though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
7:6 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and
blessed him that had the promises.
7:7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better.
7:8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is
witnessed that he lives.
7:9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
7:10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedek met him.
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7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people
received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the
order of Melchisedek, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the
law.
7:13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertains to another tribe, of which no man
gave attendance at the altar.
7:14 For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spoke
nothing concerning priesthood.
7:15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedek there
arises another priest,
7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an
endless life.
7:17 For he testifies, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchisedek.
7:18 For there is an annulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and
unprofitableness of it.
7:19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the
which we draw close unto God.
7:20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
7:21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said
unto him, The Lord swore and will not repent, You are a priest forever after the order of
Melchisedek:)
7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
7:23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not permitted to continue by
reason of death:
7:24 But this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
7:25 Therefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him,
seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them.
7:26 For such a high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from
sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
7:27 Who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own
sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
7:28 For the law makes men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath,
which was since the law, makes the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
Chapter 8
8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such a high priest,
who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and
not man.
8:3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: therefore it is of
necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.
8:4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that
offer gifts according to the law:
8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was
admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you
make all things according to the pattern shown to you in the mount.
8:6 But now has he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the
mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought
for the second.
8:8 For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I
will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took
them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my
covenant, and I regarded them not, says the Lord.
8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,
says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will
be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
8:12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will
I remember no more.
8:13 In that he says, a new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays
and grows old is ready to vanish away.
Chapter 9
9:1 So then the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly
sanctuary.
9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, in which was the candlestick, and the table,
and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary.
9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with
gold, in which was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the
tables of the covenant;
9:5 And over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot
now speak particularly.
9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first
tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood,
which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
9:8 The Holy Spirit this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made
manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9:9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and
sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the
conscience;
9:10 Which stood only in foods and drinks, and different washings, and carnal
ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
9:11 But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more
perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
9:12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once
into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
9:13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the
unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh:
9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living
God?
9:15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death,
for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which
are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all
while the testator lives.
9:18 Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
9:19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he
took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and
sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
9:20 Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God has enjoined unto you.
9:21 Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the
ministry.
9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of
blood is no remission.
9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be
purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
9:24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures
of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
9:25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy
place every year with blood of others;
9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now
once in the end of the world has he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
9:27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:
9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for him
shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Chapter 10
10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the
things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make
the comers thereunto perfect.
10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshipers
once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
10:5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you would
not, but a body have you prepared me:
10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure.
10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do your
will, O God.
10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin
you would not, neither had pleasure in it; which are offered by the law;
10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he
may establish the second.
10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all.
10:11 And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the
right hand of God;
10:13 From now on expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
10:14 For by one offering he has perfected forever them that are sanctified.
10:15 Whereof the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I
will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
10:17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
10:19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
10:20 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is
to say, his flesh;
10:21 And having a high priest over the house of God;
10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts
sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our hope without wavering; (for he is faithful that
promised;)
10:24 And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but
exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.
10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there
remains no more sacrifice for sins,
10:27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall
devour the adversaries.
10:28 He that disregarded Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
10:29 Of how much more severe punishment, do you suppose, shall he be thought
worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the
covenant, with which he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the
Spirit of grace?
10:30 For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs to me, I will recompense, says
the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
10:32 But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated,
you endured a great fight of afflictions;
10:33 Partly, while you were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and
partly, while you became companions of them that were so used.
10:34 For you had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the plundering of
your goods, knowing in yourselves that you have in heaven a better and an enduring
substance.
10:35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has great recompense of reward.
10:36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might
receive the promise.
10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no
pleasure in him.
10:39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to
the saving of the soul.
Chapter 11
11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so
that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
11:4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he
obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it though he is
dead still speaks.
11:5 By faith Enoch was translated such that he not see death; and was found no more,
because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he
pleased God.
11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that comes to God must
believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
11:7 By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear,
prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and
became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after
receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing to where he went.
11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in
tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
11:10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
11:11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was
delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had
promised.
11:12 Therefore there sprang even from one, and him as good as dead, so many
descendants as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore
innumerable.
11:13 These all died in faith, without receiving the things promised but having seen them
afar off, and they were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
11:14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
11:15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from where they came out, they
might have had opportunity to have returned.
11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: therefore God is not
ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.
11:17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received
the promises offered up his only begotten son,
11:18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall your seed be called:
11:19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence
also he received him in a figure.
11:20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
11:21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and
worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of
Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because
they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter;
11:25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the
pleasures of sin for a season;
11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he
had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as
seeing him who is invisible.
11:28 Through faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that
destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians
assaying to do were drowned.
11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven
days.
11:31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had
taken in the spies with peace.
11:32 And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of
Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:
11:33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises,
stopped the mouths of lions.
11:34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness
were made strong, grown valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
11:35 Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not
accepting deliverance; so they might obtain a better resurrection:
11:36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of bonds and
imprisonment:
11:37 They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the
sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted,
tormented;
11:38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserted places, and in
mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
11:39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the
promise:
11:40 God having provided something better for us, such that without us they would not
be made complete.
Chapter 12
12:1 Therefore seeing we also are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay
aside every weight, and the sin which does so easily beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us,
12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of
the throne of God.
12:3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest you
be wearied and faint in your minds.
12:4 You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
12:5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My
son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:
12:6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.
12:7 If you are enduring chastening, God is dealing with you as with sons; for what son is
he whom the father does not chasten?
12:8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards,
and not sons.
12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we gave them
respect: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
12:10 For they for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them; but He for our profit,
that we might be partakers of his holiness.
12:11 Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless
afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto those who are exercised
thereby.
12:12 Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
12:13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the
way; but let it rather be healed.
12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness
springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of
food sold his birthright.
12:17 For you know that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was
rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it anxiously with tears.
12:18 For you are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with
fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard
entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
12:20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, and if so much as a beast
touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
12:22 But you are come to mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly
Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven,
and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that
speaks better things that that of Abel.
12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him
that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that
speaks from heaven:
12:26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he has promised, saying, yet once more
I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
12:27 And this word, yet once more, signifies the removing of those things that are
shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
12:28 Therefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace,
whereby we may serve God acceptably with respect and godly fear:
12:29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Chapter 13
13:1 Let brotherly love continue.
13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels
unawares.
13:3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer
adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers
God will judge.
13:5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you
have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.
13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man
shall do to me.
13:7 Remember those who have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word
of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conduct.
13:8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
13:9 Be not carried about with different and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing
that the heart be established with grace; not with foods, which have not profited them that
have been occupied in it.
13:10 We have an altar, from which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle.
13:11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the
high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
13:12 Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood,
suffered outside the gate.
13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him outside the camp, bearing his reproach.
13:14 For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the
fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
13:16 But to do good and to share, forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well
pleased.
13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for
your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with
grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live
honestly.
13:19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
13:20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great
shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is
well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory forever and ever.
Amen.
13:22 And I beseech you, brothers, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a
letter unto you in few words.
13:23 Know you that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come
shortly, I will see you.
13:24 Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute
you.
13:25 Grace be with you all. Amen.
The General Epistle of James
The Epistle of
James
Chapter 1
¹James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are in the
Diaspora, Greetings. ²Consider it pure joy, my brethren, when you fall into all sorts of
trials, ³because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. ⁴But you
must allow endurance its finished job to the end so you will be complete and faultless,
deficient in nothing.
⁵And if any of you lacks wisdom, he should request it from God, who gives to
everyone cheerfully without complication or lecturing, and it will be given to him.
⁶Only he must ask with faith, not doubting at all. For he who doubts is like a wave of
the sea driven back and forth by the wind. ⁷That kind of person should most certainly
stop thinking he will receive anything from the Lord. ⁸A double-minded man is
unstable in all his ways.
⁹And the brother of the lower class should boast about his lifting up, ¹⁰and the rich
one about his lowering, how like a flower of the grass he will drop. ¹¹For the sun has
come up, with scorching heat to dry the grass, and the flower of it has fallen off, and the
glory of its face has perished. So also the rich in their goings will be faded in
importance.
¹²The man is blessed who withstands temptation, for when he has stood the test, he
will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
¹³No one who is being tempted should say, "I am being tempted by God." For God is
unskilled in the bad and he does not tempt anyone. ¹⁴Rather each person is tempted
through his own desires, which get lured out and enticed; ¹⁵and then after the desire is
fertilized, it gives birth to a sin, and the sin when finished developing produces death.
¹⁶Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.
¹⁷All good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father
of lights, with whom there is no varying or shadow from turning. ¹⁸According to his
will he gave birth to us through the word of truth, planning for us to be of his creations a
kind of firstfruits.
¹⁹You know this, my beloved brethren, but all persons should be quick to listen, slow
to speak, and slow to anger. ²⁰For the anger of a man does not accomplish the
righteousness of God. ²¹Therefore, having put away all the moral uncleanness and bad
things that are prevalent, you must welcome with humility the implanted word, which is
able to save your souls. ²²Only be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving
your own selves. ²³For if someone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a
man who was contemplating his born face in the mirror: ²⁴for that he took note of
himself, and went away, and immediately forgot what kind of man he was. ²⁵But he
who focuses intently into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and stays with it, not being a
forgetful hearer but a doer of the deed, this person will be blessed in his deed that he will
do.
²⁶If anyone considers himself to be religious but does not bridle his tongue, he is
fooling his own heart. Such religion is worthless. ²⁷Here is a religiousness from our
God and Father that is pure and simple: to look after the orphan and the widow during
their hard times, and to keep oneself untainted by the world.
Chapter 2
¹My brethren, you should not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with
partiality to personages. ²For if a man with gold rings on his fingers enters your
meeting, dressed in bright clothes, and a poor man also enters, dressed in dirty clothes,
³and you look over the one wearing the bright clothes and say, "You take this good seat
here," and to the poor one you say, "You stand there," or, "Sit here below my footstool,"
⁴are you not then discriminating between each other, and become judges with evil
thoughts? ⁵Listen my beloved brethren: has not God chosen those who are poor to the
world to be rich in faith and called for the kingdom he has prepared for those who love
him? ⁶You though have devalued the poor. Is it not the rich who trouble you, and they
who summon you into courts? ⁷Do they not defame the good name by which you are
known? ⁸If you really keep the royal law according to that scripture, "Love your
neighbor as yourself," you are doing well. ⁹But if you show partiality to personages,
you are committing a sin, convicted by that law as violators. ¹⁰Now whoever keeps the
whole rest of the law, and only violates in one matter, he has become guilty of all of it.
¹¹For that which says "Do not commit adultery" also says "Do not commit murder." So
if you do not commit adultery, but you commit murder, you have become a violator of
the law. ¹²Speak this way and act this way: as if you are about to be judged according to
the law of liberty. ¹³For judgment without mercy comes to those who act without
mercy. Triumphant though is mercy over judgment.
¹⁴What good is it, my brethren, when someone claims to have faith, but he has no
works? Is such a faith really able to save him? ¹⁵If a brother or sister has no coat and
they are lacking daily food, ¹⁶and one of you says to them, "Go with peace, be warmed
and fed," but you don't give to them the basic needs of the body, what good is it? ¹⁷So
this kind of faith by itself, when not having works, is dead. ¹⁸Someone will indeed say,
"You have faith, and I have works. Show me that faith of yours apart from works, and I
will show you my faith by means of my works." ¹⁹You believe that there is only one
God. You are doing well. The demons also believe that, and tremble. ²⁰But are you
convinced, foolish person, that faith without works is useless? ²¹Our father Abraham,
was he not justified by means of works, when he offered his son Isaac up on the altar?
²²See how faith was working together with his works, and through his works his faith was
made complete? ²³Thus also was completed the scripture which says, "And Abraham
believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." And he was called a friend
of God. ²⁴You should see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
²⁵And in the same way Rahab the prostitute, was she not also justified by works, when
she sheltered the messengers and sent them out by another way? ²⁶For just as a body
without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
Chapter 3
¹Not many should become teachers, my brethren, knowing we will get ourselves
more judgment. ²For we all stumble on many occasions. If someone does not stumble
in speech, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole rest of his body. ³Now if we
place bits in the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we are also steering the whole
rest of their body. ⁴And consider ships. As large as they are and driven by fierce
winds, they are turned around by a small rudder wherever the will of the one steering it
wishes. ⁵In the same way also, our tongue is a small member, and boasts great feats.
See how a small flame sets ablaze such a large forest. ⁶The tongue also is a flame, a
world of damage. The tongue is situated among our members as contaminator of the
entire body, and sets on fire the circular racetrack of our existence, and is itself set on fire
by Gehenna. ⁷Indeed every race of beast, even of birds, reptiles and marine life, is being
tamed or has been tamed by the human race. ⁸But no one can tame the tongue. It is a
volatile menace, replete with fatal venom. ⁹With it we praise our Lord and Father, and
with it we curse human beings created in the image of God. ¹⁰Out of the same mouth
come both praise and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. ¹¹Does a
spring from the same opening well up both sweet water and bitter? ¹²It is not possible,
my brethren, for a fig tree to produce olives, or a grapevine figs; neither for a bitter spring
to produce water that is sweet.
¹³Who is wise and learned among you? Let him show his works from good
conduct: with the humility that comes from wisdom. ¹⁴But if you have bitter jealousy
and rivalry in your hearts, do not make yourselves superior to the truth and lie against it.
¹⁵This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, natural, of the devil.
¹⁶For where there is jealousy and rivalry, there is disorder and every thing that is evil.
¹⁷But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, persuadable, replete
with compassion and other good fruits, impartial, sincere. ¹⁸And a harvest of justice is
planted, with peace, for those who make peace.
Chapter 4
¹Where do battles and quarrels between you come from? Is it not from this: your
pleasures that are making war inside your members? ²You covet, yet you do not have.
You kill and strive for, and cannot obtain. You keep on quarreling and battling. You
do not have, because you do not ask. ³And you ask, and do not receive, because you ask
badly, so you may spend it in your pleasures. ⁴You adulteresses, do you not know that
love of the world means the enmity of God? Whoever chooses to be a friend of the
world therefore is rendered an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you think the scripture says for no
reason, "The Spirit whom God made to dwell in us craves possession of us, approaching
envy"? ⁶But he gives more grace. Accordingly it says, "God opposes the proud, but
gives grace to the humble." ⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Fight against the
devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸Move closer to God, and he will move closer to you.
Cleanse your hands, O sinners, and purify your hearts, O double-minded. ⁹Be distressed
and mourn and wail. Change your laughter into lamentation, and your joy into gloom.
¹⁰Lower yourselves down before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
¹¹Do not denigrate each other, brethren. Someone who denigrates a brother or
condemns his brother is denigrating the law and condemning the law. Now if you are
condemning the law, you are not being a doer of the law, but a judge instead. ¹²There is
only one lawmaker and judge who is able to save or to damn. Who then are you,
condemning your neighbor?
¹³Come now, you who say, "We will travel today and tomorrow to that particular
city, and spend a year there, and do business and make a profit," ¹⁴you who have no solid
knowledge of tomorrow. What is your life? You are a vapor that appears for a little
while and then is gone. ¹⁵The thing for you to say instead is, "If the Lord wills, we will
even be alive and do this or that." ¹⁶But as it is you are vaunting your own selves with
your presumptuous words. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷So, he who has learned the
good to do and does not do it, for him it is sin.
Chapter 5
¹Come now you wealthy people, weep with loud wailing over the hard times which
are coming for you. ²Your wealth is become corrupt, and your clothes are moth-eaten.
³Your gold and silver are tarnished, and their corrosion will be a testimony to you, and
eat your bodies like fire. You have stored it up in the last days. ⁴Behold, the wage is
crying out, which was for the laborers who sickled your fields, which you deprived them
of. And the cries of those who worked the harvest have gone into the ears of the Lord of
Armies. ⁵You have lived in luxury and excessive comfort on the earth. You have
fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter. ⁶You have passed sentence on, you have
killed the righteous. He does not resist you.
⁷Patiently endure therefore brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the
farmer expects the valuable fruit of the earth, waiting patiently on it until it gets the early
and the latter rain. ⁸You must be patient as well, make your hearts steadfast, because
the coming of the Lord is approaching. ⁹Do not grumble against one another, brethren,
lest you be judged. Behold, the judge stands almost at the door. ¹⁰Receive for use as a
pattern, brethren, the suffering of ill treatment and the patience of the prophets who spoke
in the name of the Lord. ¹¹Behold we consider fortunate those who patiently endure.
You have heard about the patience of Job, and seen the Lord's result, how the Lord is full
of compassion and merciful.
¹²But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven, or by the earth, or any
other oath. Rather, your "Yes" should be "Yes" and your "No" be "No," or you may fall
under judgment. ¹³Is anyone among you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone
cheerful? He should sing praises. ¹⁴Is anyone among you ill? He should call the
elders of the church to him, and they should pray over him, anointing him with oil in the
name of the Lord. ¹⁵And the prayer of faith will heal the ailing, and the Lord will raise
him. And if he has committed sin, it will be forgiven him. ¹⁶Confess your sins then
one to another, and pray for one another, so you may be healed. The fully operating
prayer of a righteous person is able to accomplish much. ¹⁷Elijah was a human, subject
to the same frailties as we are. And he prayed the prayer for it not to rain, and no rain
fell on the land for a period of three years and six months. ¹⁸And he prayed again, and
the sky gave rain, and the land sprouted up its fruit.
¹⁹My brethren, if any among you wanders away from the truth and someone turns
him back around, ²⁰he should know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way
will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.
The First Epistle General of Peter
1 Peter
Chapter 1
1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect who are sojourners of the Diaspora in
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia,
1:2 elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by sanctification of the
Spirit for obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ; may grace and peace
be multiplied to you.
1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to the
greatness of his mercy has given us second birth, into the hope of salvation, because of
the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1:4 into an inheritance that is incorruptible, unimpaired, and unfailing, reserved in
heaven for you,
1:5 who are being guarded by the power of God, through faith, for the salvation made
ready to be revealed in the end time,
1:6 in which you exult, though you still have distress for a little while if necessary in
various trials,
1:7 which happen so that the testing of your faith, much more valuable than gold which
perishes, but is tested through fire, may be found out to result in praise and glory and
honor when Jesus Christ is revealed,
1:8 whom you love without having seen; in whom you believe, still not having looked
upon; yet you exult with a joy that is indescribable and full of glory,
1:9 obtaining for yourselves the goal of your faith: the salvation of your souls.
1:10 About which salvation the prophets, who prophesied about the grace that was
coming to your benefit, sought out and researched,
1:11 trying to find out exactly which time or what kind of time the spirit of Christ in
them was indicating, when he testified beforehand to the sufferings of Christ and these
glorious things that come after.
1:12 It was shown to them it was not for themselves but for you they were being
stewards of these things, which have now been announced to you through those who
evangelized you in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Which things the angels wish they
could look into.
1:13 Therefore, girding up the loins of your mind, be perfectly sober, and place your
hope on the grace being brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1:14 Like obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the longings you had in your
former ignorance,
1:15 but rather, in accordance with the holy one who called you, you must become holy
as well, in all your conduct,
1:16 because it is written: "You shall be holy, because I am holy."
1:17 And if you invoke as Father him who without respect to faces judges the work of
each person, spend this time of your sojourning in fear,
1:18 knowing it was not with corruptible things, silver or gold, that you were redeemed
from the futile way of life passed on to you from your ancestors,
1:19 but rather with blood very dear, as of a lamb without blemish or defect, the blood
of Christ,
1:20 foreknown before the foundation of the world, but manifested in the latter of times
for your sakes,
1:21 who by way of him are believers in God, the one who has raised him from the dead
and given him glory. So your faith and hope are in God.
1:22 Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth toward brotherly love, love
one another earnestly from a pure heart,
1:23 having been regenerated, not by corruptible seed but by incorruptible, through the
living and abiding word of God;
1:24 because all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass
dries up, and its flower falls off,
1:25 but the word of the Lord abides for ever. And this is the word that was announced
to you.
Chapter 2
2:1 Putting away therefore all malice, and all guile and pretenses, and envies and all
slanders,
2:2 as newborn babes, desire the pure spiritual milk, so you may grow by it to salvation,
2:3 since you have tasted that the Lord indeed is good.
2:4 To whom approaching, a living stone, by humans on the one hand rejected, on the
other hand chosen by God as precious,
2:5 you yourselves also as living stones are being built as a spiritual house for a holy
priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ;
2:6 because it is contained in scripture: "Behold I lay in Zion a chosen precious corner
foundation stone, and the person believing on it will by no means be disappointed."
2:7 To you therefore who believe, value, but to those refusing to believe, it is a stone the
builders rejected. This one turns out to be for the head of the corner,
2:8 yet also a stone of stumbling, and a rock of downfall for those who stumble at the
word by disobeying, to which in fact they were appointed.
2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a treasured
possession, so you may proclaim the virtues of him who called you out of darkness into
his marvelous light;
2:10 who were not ever a people, but now are a people of God; ones who were not
pitied, but now are pitied.
2:11 Brethren, I exhort you: as sojourners and aliens, abstain from fleshly lusts, which
war against the soul;
2:12 having your conduct good among the gentiles, in order that while they denounce
you as evil-doers, by observing your good works they may glorify God in the day of
visitation.
2:13 Submit to every human authority for the Lord’s sake, whether to a king as he is
highly placed,
2:14 or to governors; as they are the Lord’s agent for vengeance on evil-doers and
praise of well-doers;
2:15 because so is the will of God: by doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish
people;
2:16 as free, yet not having the freedom for a pretext for wrongdoing, but for being
servants of God.
2:17 Honor all persons, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.
2:18 House servants, submit yourselves in all fear to your masters, not only to good and
forbearing ones but also to the harsh.
2:19 For this gains favor if because of consciousness of God anyone bears up under
griefs they are suffering unjustly.
2:20 For what glory is it if when sinning and buffeted for it you endure? But if when
doing good and suffering for it you endure, this gains favor with God.
2:21 For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered, on your behalf, leaving
for you an example that you should follow in his steps;
2:22 he who did no sin, neither was any guile found in his mouth;
2:23 who when being insulted, did not insult in return; who when suffering
mistreatment made no threat, but committed himself over to him who judges righteously;
2:24 who himself in his body carried our sins up onto a tree, in order that by dying to
sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose bruise you have been healed.
2:25 For you were like sheep wandering astray, but now you have returned to the
shepherd and overseer of your souls.
Chapter 3
3:1 Likewise wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, in order that even if any
of them disobeys the word, they will be gained without a word by the conduct of their
wives,
3:2 when they see your pure conduct, mixed with reverence for them.
3:3 Whose adornment let it not be the outward, of the plaiting of hair, wearing of gold
ornaments, or decoration of putting on clothing,
3:4 but rather of the hidden person of the heart, adorned with the incorruptible beauty of
a gentle and quiet spirit, which adornment in the eyes of God is very high priced.
3:5 For indeed that is how holy women hoping in God have always adorned themselves,
submitting to their own husbands;
3:6 like how Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him master. Whose daughters you have
become, doing good, and not fearing any terror.
3:7 Likewise husbands, dwelling together according to knowledge: as to a more delicate
vessel, assigning to the woman a special care, and like you are co-heirs of the gracious
privilege of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.
3:8 Finally, everyone, be all of one mind, sympathetic, loving the brethren,
compassionate, humble-minded,
3:9 not returning evil for evil, or insult for insult, but instead blessing, because to this
you were called, so you might inherit blessing.
3:10 For "He who wants to love life and see good days must restrain his tongue from
evil, and his lips, to speak no guile;
3:11 and he must turn aside from evil, and do good, and seek peace, and pursue it.
3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears open to their petition;
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil."
3:13 And who is going to harm you if you become devotees of good?
3:14 But, if you do suffer indeed because of righteousness, you become blessed
ones. And do not fear their intimidations, or be troubled.
3:15 Instead, dedicate in your hearts Christ as Lord, always prepared for a speech in
response to anyone who asks you the reason for the hope that is in you;
3:16 only with humility and respect, having a good conscience, in order that while you
are spoken against, the ones abusing you may be shamed by your good conduct in Christ.
3:17 For it is better while doing good to suffer, if the will of God wills, than while doing
evil.
3:18 Because indeed Christ died once for sins, the righteous on behalf of the
unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made
alive in the spirit,
3:19 in which also he preached, when he went to the spirits that were in prison,
3:20 to people who disobeyed long ago when the patience of God was waiting in the
days of Noah while an ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were
saved through water.
3:21 Which is a shadow of the baptism that saves us now also, not the removing of dirt
off the flesh, but the response toward God of a good conscience, through the resurrection
of Jesus Christ,
3:22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, with angels and
authorities and powers made subordinate to him.
Chapter 4
4:1 Therefore Christ having suffered in the flesh, you also arm yourselves of the same
mind, that someone who has suffered in the flesh is finished with sin,
4:2 to the result that, the time he still has left in the flesh he lives not for human desires
any longer, but rather for the will of God.
4:3 For enough is the time lost away for you to have carried out the goal of the Gentiles,
having gone on in promiscuity, lusts, debaucheries, carousals, drinking bouts, and serving
idols.
4:4 In which since you are not joining them running in the same excess of indulgence,
they think it strange, denigrating you.
4:5 They will have to give an explanation to the one that is about to judge the living and
the dead.
4:6 It is for that reason as well the gospel is preached to the dead. On the one hand so
they might be judged according to humans in the flesh; on the other hand in the hope they
might live according to God in the Spirit.
4:7 Now the end of all things has drawn near. Be soberminded therefore, and be sober
for prayers.
4:8 Above all else have fervent love between each another, because love covers a
multitude of sins.
4:9 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.
4:10 According to how each person has received a gift, minister it to each other as good
stewards of the manifold grace of God:
4:11 if anyone speaks, as the oracles of God; if anyone serves, as by the power that God
supplies; such that in everything God will be glorified, through Jesus Christ, whose is the
glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
4:12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial happening with you to test you, as if
it is an odd co-incidence,
4:13 but rather rejoice; insofar as you are sharing in the sufferings of Christ in order that
you may also rejoice in the revelation of his glory, exulting.
4:14 If you are reproached because of the name of Christ, blessed are you. That means
the glory and the Spirit of God rest upon you!
4:15 Certainly none of you should be suffering as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer, or
as a pryer into other people's business;
4:16 but if it is for being a Christian, let him not be downcast, but praise God because of
this.
4:17 Because the time has come for judgment to begin, starting with the household of
God. And if firstly with us, what will be the fate of those disobeying the gospel of God?
4:18 And if the righteous person is barely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner
appear?
4:19 So then those suffering according to the will of God should commit their souls
over to a faithful creator, all the while doing good.
Chapter 5
5:1 Being a co-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a sharer also of the
glory about to be revealed, the elders among you therefore I exhort:
5:2 shepherd the flock of God among you, overseeing not from compulsion, but
voluntarily for God, not out of greed for money, but out of amateur zeal;
5:3 not as exercising lordship over your charges, but being examples for the flock.
5:4 And when the chief shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of
glory.
5:5 Likewise, young people, submit yourselves to the older people. And everyone, tie
on the apron of humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud and gives
grace to the humble.
5:6 Be humbled therefore under the mighty hand of God, so he may exalt you in his
time,
5:7 casting every worry of yours onto him, because it matters to him about you.
5:8 Be sober, be alert. Your adversary, the devil, is like a lion walking about, seeking
someone to devour;
5:9 whom you resist firmly in the faith, knowing that the same kind of suffering is being
imposed upon your brethren in the world.
5:10 But the God of all grace, who called you into his eternal glory in Christ, he himself
whenever you suffer a little will adjust you, confirm, strengthen, found you.
5:11 The power is with him for ever. Amen.
5:12 It was by way of Silvanus, a brother who is faithful by my reckoning, that I have
written to you with a few words, exhorting you, and bearing witness that this grace in
which you stand is the true grace of God.
5:13 The church of fellow chosen ones in Babylon greets you, and also Mark my son.
5:14 Greet one another with a kiss of “agape” love. Peace be unto you, all who are in
Christ.
The Second Epistle General of Peter
2 Peter
Chapter 1
¹Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained
along with us equally precious faith by means of the righteousness of our God and Savior
Jesus Christ, ²grace and peace be multiplied to you, through the knowledge of God and of
Jesus our Lord, ³as his divine power has given to us all things pertaining to life and
godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and virtue,
⁴through which he has given to us precious and very great promises, in order that through
these you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that
is in the world from lust.
⁵But especially for that very reason, bringing to bear all diligence, add to your faith
virtue, and to virtue knowledge, ⁶and to knowledge self-control, and to self-control
endurance, and to endurance godliness, ⁷and to godliness brotherly friendship, and to
brotherly friendship add love. ⁸For these things abounding in you make you not barren
or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹For someone in whom these
things are not present is blind, being short-sighted, forgetful of receiving the cleansing of
his sins in the past. ¹⁰Therefore instead, brethren, be diligent to make your calling and
choice firm, for by doing these things you will never fail. ¹¹For so will be richly
supplied to you entry into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.
¹²Wherefore I intend to remind you always about these things, even though you
know them and are confirmed in the truth that has come. ¹³And I deem it right, as long
as I am in this tent, to rouse you by a reminder, ¹⁴knowing that soon is the putting off of
my tent, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me, ¹⁵but I will strive to have
you also after my departure always make mention of these reminders.
¹⁶For it is not after the fashion of skillfully fabricated stories we have made known to
you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eye-witnesses of that
majesty. ¹⁷For after receiving honor and glory from God the Father, what a voice was
brought for him by that majestic glory: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well
pleased.” ¹⁸And we heard this voice, produced from heaven, when we were with him on
the holy mountain. ¹⁹And we have a more sure word of prophecy, to which you would
do well to take heed, as to a lamp shining in a dismal place, until the daylight shines
through, and the Light Bearer dawns in your hearts, ²⁰knowing this first of all, that no
prophecy of scripture arises from personal illumination, ²¹for no prophecy was ever
brought by the will of a human being, but rather men spoke from God as they were
carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Chapter 2
¹But false prophets have also arisen among the people, as there will be false teachers
among you as well. Such people will introduce destructive personal beliefs, and
contradicting the master who purchased them, bring upon themselves swift damnation.
²And many will follow their loose ways, because of whom, the way of truth will be
disparaged. ³And through materialism they will defraud you with baseless teachings.
Whose sentence from of old was never idle, nor is their damnation sleeping.
⁴For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but transferred them down to
Tartarus, kept in chains of deep darkness for judgment day, ⁵and the ancient world he did
not spare, when he brought a flood upon a world full of wicked people, except for Noah,
one of eight he protected, heralder of righteousness, ⁶and the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah he condemned to ruin, reducing them to ashes, setting them as an example to
those wanting to be ungodly, ⁷and rescued righteous Lot, who was overwhelmed by the
behavior of them unrestrained in sensuality, ⁸(for that righteous man, though he lived
among them, seeing and hearing day after day their lawless acts grated on his righteous
soul) ⁹the Lord certainly knows how to deliver the godly out of trial, but store up the
unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment, ¹⁰and especially those running after
the flesh in defiling lust, and who despise authority. Bold, over-bearing, they do not
tremble as they insult higher powers, ¹¹whereas angels who are much more able and
powerful do not bring against them an accusation that is disparaging.
¹²But these, like unreasoning beasts of instinct, are born for capture and death:
hurling invective about things in which they are not knowledgeable. In the manner of
their demise, these also will be destroyed, ¹³suffering injury as the wages of doing injury.
When they eat a communal meal with you, they are blights and sores, in their delusion,
reveling, thinking it is partying in the daytime for pleasure; ¹⁴having eyes full of adultery,
and who cannot cease from sin, enticing unsure souls, having a heart trained in
materialism, inheritors of doom. ¹⁵Leaving the right path, they have gone astray,
following in the path of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the payment from
unrighteousness,399 ¹⁶but received a rebuke for his transgression. A donkey, that has
not speech, reigned in the madness of the prophet, speaking up in a human voice.
¹⁷These are springs without water and clouds driven away by a storm, for whom the
absolute blackness of darkness is reserved. ¹⁸For by uttering high sounding but
worthless words they entice through the untempered desires of the flesh those just
escaping the ones who live in error, ¹⁹promising them freedom, themselves being slaves
of seduction. For by whatever someone has been defeated, to that he has become a
slave.
²⁰For if after having escaped the moral corruptions of the world through the
knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ they are but again entangled, defeated by
them, their latter state has become worse for them than their former. ²¹For it would
have been better for them not to have known the path of righteousness, than though
knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them. ²²The
definition of that true proverb is met in them: “A dog returns to its vomit, and a sow after
washing herself to rolling in the filth.”
Chapter 3
¹This now, beloved, is the second epistle I write to you in which I rouse your sincere
minds by a reminder, ²to recall the statements spoken in the past by the holy prophets,
and the direction from the Lord and Savior through your apostles, ³knowing this first of
all, that there will come in the last days mockers, conducting themselves according to
their own desires, ⁴and saying with scorn, “Where is the promise of his coming?
Because from the time our fathers passed away, everything continues like it was from the
beginning of creation.”
⁵For this escapes them on purpose, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth
from water and through water was put together by the word of God, ⁶by which also the
then world perished when it was flooded with water; 400 ⁷and the present heavens and
earth by the same word are reserved for fire, kept until the day of judgment and
destruction of ungodly people.
⁸But this one thing must not escape you, beloved, that with the Lord, one day is like
a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. ⁹The Lord of that promise is not
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2:15c The elders of Moab and Midian were offering to pay a fee, (Numbers 22:7) or payment, an “honor”
(24:11) to be paid to Baalam if he would curse the Israelites. Balaam inquired of God, and God told him not to
go with the men, and not to curse Israel. But Balaam kept re-inquiring of God, in prayer that is wicked,
(wicked prayer, because he already had received the answer, but did not like the answer), Balaam kept inquiring
of God, even looking for omens (24:1) by sacrificing at different places, apparently hoping that God might
change his mind, and then Balaam could earn the fee after all. Certainly, that would be a payment from
unrighteousness. The thing to note is, that Balaam was a true prophet of Yahweh, and he rightly spoke only
what Yahweh told him to speak; yet he is eternally damned because of his heart, because his heart kept hoping
to earn some money that was wrong to earn. Motives count to God, not just deeds. Balaam’s heart loved
money too much.
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3:6b Peter is saying the scoffers know perfectly well that everything has not stayed the same way it was at
the beginning of creation. They are intentionally passing over how the earth was radically changed by the
flood.
loitering, as some consider loitering. Instead, he is being very patient toward us, not
wanting anyone to perish, but rather all to come to repentance. ¹⁰But the day of the
Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the
elements be dissolved by burning up, and the earth and the works in it will be found no
more.
¹¹Since all these things are being dissolved, what kind of people is it requisite to be,
in holy ways of life, and godliness, ¹²looking forward to and cheering on the arrival of
the day of God, by which it is all melted, the heavens to be dissolved by fire and the
elements by burning up? ¹³And we are looking forward, according to his promise, to a
new heaven and a new earth, in which righteousness is at home.
¹⁴Wherefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by
him at peace, from being pure and blameless. ¹⁵And consider the patience of our Lord
to be salvation,401 just as also our beloved brother Paul has written to you according to
the wisdom given to him, ¹⁶as also in all his epistles, talking in them about these things,
in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable persons
distort, as they do also the rest of the scriptures, to their own destruction.
¹⁷You therefore, beloved, knowing this ahead of time, guard yourselves so that you
not be led away by the error of unprincipled persons and fall from your own firm
conviction, ¹⁸but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our lord and savior Jesus Christ.
To him be glory both now and for ever. [Amen.]
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3:15b Romans 2:4
The First Epistle General of John
1 John
Chapter 1
¹That which existed from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen
with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have examined, talking about the
word of life, ²even that life has been revealed, and we have seen it, and we are bearing
witness and announcing to you eternal life, which was with the Father and has been
revealed to us. ³What we have seen and heard we are declaring to you also, so you too
may have fellowship with us. And that fellowship of ours is with the Father, and with
his son Jesus Christ. ⁴And these things we write, so our mutual joy may be full.
⁵And this is the message that we have heard from him and announce to you: that
God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ⁶If we say we are in fellowship with him,
and are walking in darkness, we are lying, and not doing the truth. ⁷If we walk in the
light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. ⁸If we say we have no sin, we deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰If we say we have not
sinned, we are calling him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Chapter 2
¹My children, these things I am writing to you so that you will not sin. And if
anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; ²and he is
the appeasement for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole
world.
³And by this we know that we have known him: if we keep his commandments.
⁴Someone who says, “I know him,” and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and
the truth is not in him. ⁵But whoever keeps his word, that is the person in whom the
love of God really is accomplished. By this we know that we are in him. ⁶Someone
who claims to abide in him ought also to walk just as he walked.
⁷Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment,
that you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have
heard. ⁸Yet, it is a new commandment I am writing to you, which is true in him and in
you, since the darkness passes away and the true light keeps shining even now. 402
⁹Someone who claims to be in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness as of now.
¹⁰Someone who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and there is no cause of
stumbling in him. ¹¹But someone who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in
the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his
eyes.
¹²To you children, I write: “Your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.”
¹³To you fathers, I write: “You know him who existed from the beginning.”
To you young men, I write: “You have overcome the evil one.”
¹⁴I have written to you children that you have known the Father. I have written to
you fathers that you have known him who existed from the beginning. I have written to
you young men that you are strong and the word of God abides in you and you have
overcome the evil one.
¹⁵Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If someone loves the
world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶Because all that is in the world, the lust of
the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of possessions, is not of the Father, but is
of the world. ¹⁷And the world passes away, along with the lust of it, but whoever who
does the will of God abides for ever.
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2:8 The point that the light keeps shining even now, is that it puts new light on the old commandment; thus
he can say that he is writing to us a commandment that is both old and new.
¹⁸Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming,
even now many antichrists have arisen; for which reason we know it is the last hour.
¹⁹They went out from us, but were not of us. For had they been of us, they would have
remained with us. But they went out so that they would be made apparent, that none of
them are of us. ²⁰And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and know all. 403 404
²¹I have not written to you that you don’t know the truth, but that you do know it. And
that every lie is not of the truth.
²²Who is the liar, if not someone denying as follows, “Jesus is not the Anointed
One”? This is antichrist, someone denying the Father and the Son. 405 ²³Everyone who
denies the Son, does not have the Father either. Someone who confesses the Son, has
the Father as well.
²⁴You, what you have heard from the beginning, let it abide in you. If what you
heard from the beginning abides in you, you also in the Son and in the Father will abide.
²⁵And this is the message that He announced to us: eternal life. ²⁶These things I have
written to you because of those deceiving you.
²⁷And you, the anointing that you received from him, it abides in you, and you have
no need that someone teach you. But rather, as that anointing from him has taught you
concerning all things, and is true and is not a lie, so also, just as it has taught you, you
abide in him. ²⁸And now, children, abide in him, so that when he is revealed, we may
have confidence, and not feel ashamed because of him at his coming. ²⁹If you know
that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
Chapter 3
¹Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called
children of God. And we are! The reason the world does not know us is this: it has
not known him. ²Beloved, now we are children of God, though it is not yet revealed
what exactly we will be. We do know that when he is revealed, we will be like him.
For we will see him just as he is. ³And everyone who has this hope on Him purifies
himself, just as that one is pure.
⁴Everyone practicing sin is also practicing lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
⁵And you know that he was revealed so that sins be taken away, and there is no sin in
him. ⁶Everyone abiding in him does not sin. Everyone who keeps sinning has not
seen him, neither known him.
⁷Children, let no one deceive you: someone who practices righteousness is righteous
just as that one is righteous. ⁸Someone who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil
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2:20a txt "you know all" TR HF RP // "you all know" NA27 {B}. The ECM editors consider the evidence
for reading 1 and reading 2 to be of equal weight. I suspect reading 2 may be an “orthodox corruption,” meant
to prevent a gnostic interpretation, as the UBS textual commentary also discusses.
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2:20b Or, perhaps another rendering may be: "19They came out from us, but were not of us. For had they
been of us, they would have remained with us. But, so they may be made apparent, that they all are not of us,
20you also have an anointing from the Holy One, and know all people." This would be reminiscent of John’s
statement about Jesus in the gospel of John 2:24,25, that Jesus knew all people, and did not need to have
someone testify about a person, because he knew what was in the person. Thus, this is why John here says
“you also have...” because Jesus did, and you also have it. The apostles did, and you also have it. But, the
traditional rendering of this is an ellipsis [BDF § 448(7)] as follows: "but, they went out from us, so that they
might be exposed that they all are not of us. And you have an anointing from the Holy One and know all
things." (There are no actual words in the Greek for the English words I put in italics here.) It isn't any
harder to "know all people" than to "know all things." Indeed, there are fewer people than there are things.
In the previous verse, v. 19, again the word "all" is problematic: "but so they may be made apparent, that they
all are not of us." What good does "going out" do as a sign, if only some of them are thereby shown to be "not
of us"? How still would you know who is who? For that "leaving" to be valuable, you would have to render
this, "that they be made apparent, that NONE of them are of us." Is this saying that ANYONE who leaves us
is not of us? If so, what of Jesus' warning to the disciples that just because someone does not "follow along
with us," does not mean they are not with us? (Luke 9:49,50 etc.)
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2:22 An example of such a denial is found in the Qu’ran: [9.30] And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah;
and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the
saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away! [9.31] They have
taken their doctors of law and their monks for lords besides Allah, and (also) the Messiah son of Marium and
they were enjoined that they should serve one God only, there is no god but He; far from His glory be what they
set up (with Him).
has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the son of God has been
revealed: to destroy the works of the devil. ⁹Everyone born of God does not practice
sin, because His seed abides in him, and it is not able to sin, because it is born from
God.406 ¹⁰By this the children of God are evident versus the children of the devil:
everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, and also someone who does
not love his brother.
¹¹Because this is the message which you have heard from the beginning: that we
should love one another. ¹²Not like Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his
brother. And what was the reason he killed him? Because his own works were evil,
and those of his brother were righteous.
¹³Do not marvel, brethren, if the world hates you. ¹⁴We know that we have crossed
over out of death into life, because we love the brethren. Someone who does not love
his brother still abides in death. ¹⁵Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and
you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. ¹⁶By this we know love:
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3:9 It is a problem here for most Bibles, which say that a person born of God is not able to sin. The above
is the only sensible and possible rendering of the Greek of this verse. John is in unity with Paul, in that he
teaches there is a new man in us and an old man. Also in unity with Paul that we must continually make the
decision to "put off the old man, and put on the new." The new is that part that came from the Father, just as
we physically were born from our earthly father's sperm. That sperm was wholly our father, and not us. That
sperm, that seed, was no part of us, but is from outside us. It cannot sin. Our old man can. BUT, do not
think that I am saying that a Christian can be addicted to the same sin every day for the rest of their life, as long
as they repent every day. Not so. Anyone who has NOT been born again, and who does NOT have the
Spirit, even they could do that. There is no evidence of the miracle of new birth in such a person. (John in 1
John 3:6 says "Everyone abiding in him does not sin. Everyone who keeps sinning has not seen him, neither
known him.") In fact, if someone gets saved, and overcomes sin in their life for a few months or years right
after they were saved, but then falls back into addiction to a sin, the apostle Peter says in 2 Peter 2:20,21: ²⁰For
if after having escaped the moral corruptions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ they are but again entangled, defeated by them, their latter state has become worse for them than their
former. ²¹For it would have been better for them not to have known the path of righteousness, than though
knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was delivered to them." Jesus himself said that a
servant who did not know the will of God and disobeyed, will receive few lashes, so to speak. But the servant
who knew the will of God, and disobeyed, will receive many more lashes. Jesus also said in John 15:1-8 that
he is the vine, we are the branches. If a branch that is in Me (a Christian who received the gospel, was born
again, and received the Holy Spirit) does not bear fruit, he will cut off that branch and throw it in the fire. If
we do not remain in the Spirit, walking in the Spirit, bearing fruit in the Spirit, we will bear no fruit and we will
wither, and we will GO TO HELL, the fire, and be burned! For a Christian who backslides, the punishment in
hell will be worse than for someone who was never a Christian! It is also like the parable of the 10 virgins.
They all ten believed in the Lord, and were waiting for his return. But some did not get extra oil, and their
lamp did not last all the way until the end. When they knocked on the Groom's door, the groom said "Go
away, I do not know you." Jesus also said of the hypocrites, they have their inheritance in outer darkness.
Who is a hypocrite? Someone living a double life. By most appearances, they are a Christian. But unknown
to people, they have an addiction to their prevailing sin, with no victory over it, they are not an overcomer.
These people GO TO HELL. Do not let that be you. And do not think that I teach Once Saved Always
Saved. We are not fully saved until Jesus returns. Even the apostle Paul was afraid; he said he was severe
with his body, keeping it in subjection, lest after preaching to others, he himself be disqualified. Yes, the
Apostle Paul was afraid of being disqualified, afraid of running the race in vain. Yes you see, it is possible to
run the race in vain. In another place, he said, "knowing therefore the terror of the Lord..." Friend, do you
know the terror of the Lord? Jesus said, Fear the one who has the power to cast both soul and body into
Gehenna, the lake of fire. Yes, I tell you, fear him." Hell is real, and it is worse than we can imagine. Sin
should be a rare thing in a Christian's life. John here in his first epistle says, "But if anyone does sin, we have
an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous." But practicing sin, doing the same sin the rest of
your life, no. That is not at all something found in a Christian. Not a Christian that is going to enter heaven.
Such a Christian will go to hell. If you still have an addiction to a sin, then stop everything, quit your job if
you must! Fast and pray and seek the Lord, and mourn and wail, until you find the power of the Spirit and
victory over your sin, and make sure you love your brother and your neighbor, and love God and seek him with
all your heart, and offer the sacrifice of praise daily to God. Root out all bitterness as well, forgive everyone
you have a grudge against, reconcile with everyone as much as possible. If you do not forgive others their
sins, neither will your Father forgive you your sins. Jesus Christ the son of God said that, and Jesus Christ is
as SERIOUS as HELL about his words! God is love. God is light. Unforgiveness is darkness. No person
carrying darkness will enter Heaven. No person who is not characterized by holiness will enter heaven. No
one who is a friend of the world will enter heaven. Be unspotted by the world. Jesus said, "My sheep hear
my voice." Do you hear his voice, and do what he tells you to do? Paul said, "As many as are led by the
Spirit of God, THEY are the sons of God." Does Jesus Christ know you? Is he directing your life, and not
your natural human desires directing your life, like everyone in the world? These things are oil in your lamp.
Be found doing these things when He returns, and definitely be not found defeated by a sin. Oh No, NO, be
not found defeated by a sin when He returns.
because He laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the
brethren.
¹⁷Now whoever has the substance of the world, and sees his brother having need of
it, and closes off his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
¹⁸Children, we should love, not in word or tongue, but in action and truth, ¹⁹and by this
we will know that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before him ²⁰that when
our heart accuses, that God is greater than our heart, and he knows all. ²¹Beloved, when
our heart does not accuse us, we have confidence with God, ²²and whatever we ask, we
receive from him, because we are keeping his commandments, and doing the things that
are pleasing in his sight.
²³And this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his son Jesus Christ,
and that we love one another, just as he gave us commandment. ²⁴And someone
keeping his commandments is abiding in Him, and He in that person. And by this we
know that we abide in him: by the Spirit which he has given to us.
Chapter 4
¹Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God;
because many false prophets have gone out into the world. ²By this you know the spirit
of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, is of God, ³and
every spirit that does not confess Jesus [Christ has come in the flesh], is not of God.
And this is antichrist, which you have heard that he 407 was coming, and now is in the
world already. ⁴You are of God, children, and have overcome him, because greater is
he that is in you than he that is in the world. ⁵They are of the world; therefore speak
they of the world, and the world hears them. ⁶We are of God. Someone who knows
God hears us; someone who is not of of God does not hear us. From this we recognize
the spirit of truth versus the spirit of error.
⁷Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born
of God, and knows God. ⁸Someone who does not love has not known God, for God is
love. ⁹To us the love of God was made known in this: that God sent his only begotten
son into the world so we might be saved through him. ¹⁰Herein is love, not that we
loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the appeasement for our sins.
¹¹Beloved, if that is how God loved us, we ought also to love one another. ¹²No one
has ever seen God. When we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is
accomplished in us. ¹³By this we know that we are abiding in him and he in us: because
he has given to us of his Spirit.
¹⁴And we have seen, and we bear witness, that the Father has sent the Son as savior
of the world. ¹⁵Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God, God abides in that
person, and that person in God. ¹⁶And we have known and believed the love that God
has in us. God is love; and someone who abides in love is abiding in God, and God in
him. ¹⁷In this, love is accomplished with us, so that in the day of judgment we may have
confidence that just as that one is, we in this world also are. ¹⁸There is no fear in love,
but perfect love casts out fear. Because fear has to do with punishment, and someone
who is afraid is not accomplished in love. ¹⁹We can love, because he first loved us.
²⁰If anyone says, “I love God,” and he hates his brother, he is a liar. For someone
who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
²¹And this commandment we have from him: that he who loves God must also love his
brother.
Chapter 5
¹Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Anointed One is born of God, and everyone
who loves the one who begat will also love someone begotten from him. ²By this we
know that we love the children of God: when we love God and are doing his
commandments. ³For this is love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his
commandments are not heavy to bear, ⁴because everyone who has been born of God
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4:3b Like the beast of Revelation, this spirit of antichrist is both an “it” and a “him.”
overcomes the world. And this is the victory that overcomes the world: our faith.
⁵Who is overcomer of the world, except someone who believes that Jesus is the Son of
God?
⁶He is the one who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ. Not only by water,
but by water and blood. And the Spirit is one bearing witness, because the Spirit is
truth. ⁷For there are three that bear witness, 408 ⁸the Spirit and the water and the blood,
and these three agree.409 ⁹If we accept the witness of human beings, the witness of God
is greater. For this is the witness of God that he has testified concerning his Son.
¹⁰Someone who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself. But someone
who does not trust in God has called him a liar, because he has not trusted the testimony
that God has testified concerning his Son. ¹¹And this is the testimony: God has given
to us eternal life, and that life is in his Son. ¹²Someone who has the Son of God has life.
Someone who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
¹³I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so
that you will know you have eternal life. ¹⁴And this is the confidence that we have with
him, that, if we ask for something that is in accordance with his will, he hears us. ¹⁵And
if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we
have asked of him.
¹⁶If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not to death, he shall ask, and God will give
him life, for those not sinning to death. There is sin to death; I am not saying to ask
about that. ¹⁷All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not to death. ¹⁸We know that
everyone born of God does not practice sin, but instead what was generated of God keeps
itself, and the evil one does not touch him.410
¹⁹We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies captive in the evil one.
²⁰And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us the understanding to
know the truth. And we are in the truth, in his son Jesus Christ. He is the true God,
and eternal life.
²¹Children, keep yourselves from idols.
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5:7-8 txt omit "in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, and these three are
one. And there are three that bear witness on earth," virtually all Greek witnesses.
See the notes in my edition of 1 John: http://www.bibletranslation.ws/trans/1john.pdf
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5:8 The point is that "by the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter must be established."
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5:18 Or, “does not touch it.” This is along the lines of Paul’s teaching in Romans 7:15-25, that when I sin,
it is not “I” who is sinning, but sin that dwells within me. Thus the idea that the new man, the new creation,
the new generation in me born from God, does not sin, but the former man does, and is still present in me,
trying to control my body, at war with the new man in me that was generated by God. The new generation,
that part of me that was born from God cannot sin; everything born of God does not sin. It is correct to expect
the two different apostles to be in harmony with each other in their teachings, since they had the same teacher
and the one and the same Holy Spirit. As in fact they are.
The Second Epistle General of John
2 John
Chapter 1
¹The Elder, to the elect lady, and to her children; whom I love in the truth; and not
only I, but also everyone who knows assuredly the truth, ²by means of the truth that is
dwelling within us, and will stay with us for eternity. ³Grace and mercy and peace shall
follow us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.
⁴It cheered me greatly that I have found children of yours walking in the truth, in
accordance with the commandment we received from the Father. ⁵And now, I beseech
you, Lady, not as writing a new commandment to you, but one which we have had from
the beginning: that we should love one another. ⁶And this is love: that we walk
according to his commandments. This commandment is just as you have heard from the
beginning, so that you would walk in it.
⁷For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess Jesus Christ
as coming in the flesh. This is the Deceiver and Antichrist. ⁸Watch yourselves, so that
you not lose the things we have worked for, but receive your full reward.
⁹Anyone going beyond, and not staying in the teaching of Christ, does not have God.
Someone staying in the teaching, that person has both the Father and the Son. ¹⁰If
anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house
and do not say 'Welcome' to him. ¹¹For someone who says 'Welcome' to him takes part
in his evil works.
¹²Though I have many things to write to you, I did not want to do it by paper and ink,
but instead hope to come to you and talk face to face, so our joy may be full.
¹³The children of your elect sister greet you.
The Third Epistle General of John
3 John
Chapter 1
¹The Elder, to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.
²Dear friend, I wish for you to prosper and be healthy in every regard, just as your
soul is prospering. ³For it cheered me greatly when some brothers came, bearing
witness to your truth, how you are walking in the truth. ⁴I have no greater joy than this,
hearing that my children are walking in the truth.
⁵Dear friend, you do commendably whatever you labor at for the brothers, that is, for
those travelers, ⁶who have testified before the church about your love. Whom you will
do well to supply for their journeys in a manner worthy of God. ⁷Because, you see, for
the sake of the Name they have gone forth, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.
⁸We therefore ought to take them who are like this under our roof, so we will
become co-laborers with them in the truth. ⁹Which I have written to your church; but
Diotrephes, who wishes to be the leader over them,411 does not welcome us. ¹⁰For
which reason when I come, I will bring up the works that he has been doing, making
frivolous charges against us with oppressive words. And not satisfied with this, neither
does he welcome those brothers. And the ones that try to, he prevents, even throws
them out of the church.
¹¹Dear friend, do not imitate the bad, but rather the good. Someone practicing the
good is of God. Someone practicing the bad, has not seen God.
¹²Demetrius is borne witness to by all, and by the truth itself. And we also bear
witness, and you know that our testimony is true.
¹³I had many things to write to you, but do not wish to write to you by paper and ink.
¹⁴Instead I hope to see you soon, and we will talk face to face.
¹⁵Peace to you. The friends here greet you. Greet the friends there each by name.
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v. 9b This is the first example of the error of the idea of one leader who is over all the other leaders. This
idea is contrary to the teachings of the apostles, who deliberately appointed multiple, co-equal pastors in each
church. The apostles as well, were co-equal to each other. In fact, I think the primary purpose of this third
epistle of John is to combat the arising error of Diotrephes, the error of the idea of one supreme leader.
The General Epistle of Jude
Jude
Chapter 1
¹Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called,
beloved to God the Father, and kept by Jesus Christ, ²mercy, peace and love be multiplied
to you.
³Beloved, as I was making all speed to write to you concerning our shared salvation,
I felt a need to write to you exhorting that you earnestly contend for the faith that was
once delivered to the saints. ⁴For a certain type have crept in, already designated for
this fate, ungodly people, turning the grace of our God into licentiousness, and thus
contradicting our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
⁵But I want to remind you, though you have known all this at one time, how even
though Jesus delivered the people from the land of Egypt, he later nevertheless destroyed
the ones who did not believe. ⁶And the angels that did not preserve their high position,
but deserted their proper home, those he has held under heavy darkness with eternal
chains, for the judgment of the great day. ⁷In the same way, Sodom and Gomorra and
the surrounding towns, who engaged in sexual debauchery and went after abnormal flesh,
they are set forth as an example of people undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
⁸Yet despite all that, these people, deluded, not only defile the flesh, but discount
authorities, and insult higher powers. ⁹In contrast Michael the archangel, during a
dispute with the Devil, when he was arguing over the body of Moses, he dared not make
a disparaging accusation, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." ¹⁰But this type, what things
they don't understand, they denigrate, and things instinctive, like what unreasoning
animals understand, by those things they are destroyed.
¹¹Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, for a payment rushed
headlong in the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.
¹²This type are the unseen obstacles in your communal meals, feasting without
reverence; shepherding only themselves, clouds without water, driven on by the winds;
trees turned color without fruiting, doubly dead, uprooted; ¹³wild waves of the sea
frothing up their disgrace; planets off course; for whom absolute blackness of darkness is
reserved for ever.
¹⁴But even Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied these things, saying, "Behold,
the Lord has come, with myriads of his holy ones, ¹⁵to pass judgment against all, and to
convict all the ungodly412 concerning all their ungodly acts which they have godlessly
done, and concerning all the harsh words which ungodly sinners have spoken against
him." ¹⁶These are grumblers, blamers, proceeding according to their own desires, yet
their mouth speaks swelling things admiring important people to gain favor.
¹⁷But you, beloved, recall the matters foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus
Christ, ¹⁸how they told you that in latter times there would be imitators, who proceed
according to their own impious desires. ¹⁹These are the separators; natural, not having
the Spirit.
²⁰But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the
Holy Spirit, ²¹keep yourselves in the love of God, anticipating the mercy of our Lord
Jesus Christ, into eternal life.
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Jude 15: "Every soul" or "all the ungodly"? In the passage Jude is quoting, Enoch 1:2-9, everyone, all
people, even the Watchers, tremble in fear at his coming, and the judgment that follows, includes judgment
upon the righteous. Enoch 1.5 “And all will be afraid, and the Watchers will shake, and fear and great
trembling will seize them, up to the ends of the earth.” Enoch 1.7 “And the earth will sink, and everything that
is on the earth will be destroyed, and there will be judgment upon all, and upon all the righteous.” Then v. 9 is
where it says, “And behold! He comes with ten thousand Holy Ones; to execute judgment upon them and to
destroy the impious, and to contend with all flesh concerning everything that the sinners and the impious have
done and wrought against Him.” Quotation of Enoch is from A Modern English Translation of the Ethiopian
Book of Enoch with introduction and notes by Andy McCracken.
The General Epistle of Jude
²²And on some you should have mercy, who are doubting; ²³others, save like
snatching them from the fire; and others, have the mercy with fear, hating even the
garment defiled by their flesh.
²⁴Now to Him who has the power to keep you from stumbling, and to stand you in
the presence of his glory blameless and exulting, ²⁵to the only God our savior through
Jesus Christ our Lord, to him be glory, majesty, dominion and power, in all ages before,
and now, and into all the ages to come. Amen.
The Revelation of John
Revelation
Chapter 1
Prologue
1TheRevelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to show to his servants what
things must soon take place, and which he communicated when he sent it via his angel to
his servant John, 2who has confirmed as the word of God and the testimony of Jesus
Christ, what all things he saw.
3Blessed are the one reading and those listening to the words of this prophecy, and
keeping the things written herein, for the time is near.

4John, to the seven churches in Asia, grace to you, and peace, from Him who is, and
who was, and who is to come, and from the seven spirits before his throne, 5and from
Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and ruler over the kings of
the earth. To him who loves us, and freed us from 413 our sins with414 his blood, 6and
made us into a kingdom of priests for his God and Father– to him be glory and power, for
ever and ever. Amen.
7Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye shall see him, including of
those who pierced him. And all the peoples of the earth shall beat their breasts over
him.415 Let it be so, amen.
8"I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "the one who is, and who was,
and who is to come, the Almighty."
Someone Like a Son of Man

9I,
John, your brother and fellow in the oppression and kingdom and endurance in
Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony of
Jesus.416 10I was in the Spirit during the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice,
like of a trumpet, 11saying, "What you see, write in a book, and send it to the seven
churches– to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis,
and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."
12And I turned around to see the voice that was speaking with me. And when I
turned, I saw seven golden lampstands, 13and in among the lampstands was someone like
a son of man,417 dressed in a cloak reaching down to his feet, and gird around at the pecs
with a golden sash, 14except his head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as
snow, and his eyes like flames of fire, 15and his feet like bronze as if made to glow in a
furnace, and his voice like the sound of many waters, 16and he was holding in his right
hand seven stars, and out of his mouth was coming a sharp two-edged sword, and his face
was like the sun shining in the strength of it.
17And when I saw him, I fell down by his feet as though dead. And he placed his
right hand on me, saying, "Do not fear. I am the First and the Last, 18and the Living
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txt "freed us from" NA27 {A} // "washed us from" TR HF RP. The "freed" reading is reminiscent of
Isaiah 40:2, and it fits better with the preposition "en," see next footnote.
414
This is a Hebraistic use of the preposition "en" meaning "with" in the sense of what item or money you use
to pay for something. For example, "I bought the camera with the money you gave me." Jesus' blood was the
thing of value exchanged for our freedom. This use of this preposition is a pointer in favor of the "freed"
reading versus the "washed" reading, according to the Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament.
That copyists, not understanding this, thought that "washed in" made more sense than "freed in."
415
Beating their breasts over something means a sign of great consternation and mourning because of what is
happening.
416
Or, “because of the witness about Jesus.”
417
It is customary to render this phrase “like a Son of Man,” so that it reminds the reader of this phrase in the
prophets Ezekiel and Daniel. But it would be more accurate to translate it as "like a human," because that is
what seems to be the emphasis here in contrast to later given non-human traits. John first gives traits of him
that are human, and then he begins verse 14 with "but," and proceeds in the next several verses to tell us traits
that are not human.
One, and I was dead, and behold, living for ever and ever, and I have the keys of death
and of Hades.
19"Write therefore what things you see and what things are now, and also what
things are about to take place after these things. 20The mystery of the seven stars which
you see upon my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the
angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
Chapter 2
To the Church in Ephesus
1"To the angel of the church in Ephesus, write: 'These things says He who grips the
seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands: 2"I know
your works, and your toil and endurance, and how you are not able to tolerate evil people,
and have put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not and have found
them to be liars; 3and you have endurance, and have held up for the sake of my name, and
not become weary.
4“But I have against you that you have left your first love. 5Remember therefore
from where you have fallen, and repent and do your first works; otherwise I am coming
to you and will remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
6“But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
7He who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To him
who overcomes, I will grant to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
To the Church in Smyrna

8"And to the angel of the church in Smyrna, write: 'These things says the First and
the Last, who was dead and came alive again: 9'I know your affliction and your poverty
(but you are rich) and the blasphemy of those claiming to be Jews and are not but are a
synagogue of Satan. 10Don't be afraid of any of the things you are about to suffer.
Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, so that you may be tried, and
you will have affliction for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the
crown of life. 11He who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit is saying to the
churches. He who overcomes will certainly not be harmed by the second death.
To the Church in Pergamum

12"And to the angel of the church in Pergamum, write: 'These things says He who
has the sharp two-edged sword: 13I know where you live, where Satan's throne is; yet you
hold fast to my law and have not denied my faith, even in the days of Antipas my faithful
witness who was put to death near you, where Satan lives.
14“But I have a few things against you, that you have some there who hold to the
teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of
Israel, to eat idol sacrifices and to commit sexual immorality. 15So also in the same way
you have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16Repent therefore.
Otherwise I am coming to you soon, and will fight against them with the sword of my
mouth.
17“He who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. He
who overcomes, I will give to him from the hidden manna, and I will also give him a
white stone, and on the stone a new name is written, which no one knows except the one
receiving it.
To the Church in Thyatira

18"And to the angel of the church in Thyatira, write: 'These things says the Son of
God, he who has his eyes like flames of fire and his feet like glowing bronze: 19I know
your works and love and faith and service, and your perseverance, how your last works
are greater than your first.
20“But I have against you that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a
prophetess and teaches, and leads my servants astray, to commit sexual immorality and to
eat things sacrificed to idols. 21And I have given her time to repent, and she is not
willing to repent of her sexual immorality. 22Behold, I am casting her onto a bed, along
with the ones committing adultery with her, for an affliction of great magnitude, unless
they repent of her works. 23And her children I will destroy in death; and all the
churches will know that I am He who searches minds 418 and hearts, and that I will pay to
each of you according to your works.
24“And to the rest of you in Thyatira I say, as many as do not hold to these
teachings– the ones who have not known 'the deep things of Satan,' as they say, I am not
laying any further burden upon you. 25Except what things you have, hold on to them
until I come. 26And he who overcomes and keeps my works to the end, I will give him
authority over the nations, 27and he will rule them with a rod of iron, shattering them to
pieces like pots of clay, 28even as I also have received from my Father; and I will give to
him the morning star.
29“He who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."
Chapter 3
To the Church in Sardis
1"And to the angel of the church in Sardis, write: 'These things says He who has the
seven spirits of God and the seven stars: "I know your works, how you have the name
that you are living, and you are dead. 2Be watchful, and strengthen the things that
remain, which are about to die. For I have not found your works complete before my
God. 3Remember therefore how you received and how you heard, and maintain that,
and repent. Now then, if you are not watchful, I will come like a thief, and you will not
know at what hour I will come upon you.
4“But you have a few names in Sardis who have not defiled their garments, and they
will walk with me in white,419 because they are worthy. 5He who overcomes in this
way shall be dressed in garments of white, and I will never wipe his name out of the book
of life, and I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. 6He who
has an ear should listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches."
To the Church in Philadelphia

7"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: ‘These things says the Holy
One, the True One, the one holding the key of David, who opens and no one closes, and
closes and no one opens: 8‘I know your works, (behold, before you I have provided an
open door, which no one is able to close) how you have little power, yet have kept my
word, and have not denied my name.
9“Behold I will bring of the synagogue of Satan, of those claiming to be Jews and are
not, but are lying; behold, I will make them such that they will come and fall down before
your feet and know that I have loved you.
10“Because you have kept my word about endurance, I also will keep you from the
hour of trial which is about to come upon the whole inhabited earth, to try those dwelling
on the earth.
11“I am coming quickly. Hold fast to what you have, so that no one takes away
your reward. 12He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God,
418
The Greek says kidneys. Different languages and cultures use varying body parts for designating the seat
of desire and affection. This use of "kidneys" isn't any less reasonable than how we use the heart for some
things. The heart of course is really just a muscle. The tribe I was raised with in Papua New Guinea used
several body organs. They would say, "God cleansed my stomach, and came in to live in my liver." This use
of the kidneys came from the Hebrew culture, and the King James Version and older English translations render
it "reins." (When you look at a picture in a medical book of the tubes coming down from the kidneys to the
bladder, it does look like reins on a horse.) And according to Diodorus, the kidneys and the heart were the
only organs left in the body cavity by Egyptian embalmers. See also Jeremiah 11:20; 17:10; 20:12.
419
Or “in brightness.” Compare Daniel 12:3; Mark 9:3; Matt. 28:3; Luke 9:29; I Timothy 6:16;
and he will never depart outside anymore, and I will write on him the name of my God
and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of
heaven from my God, and also my new name.
13“He who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
To the Church in Laodicea

14"And to the angel of the church in Laodicea, write, ‘These things says the Amen,
the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God: 15'I know your works,
that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were either hot or cold. 16Thus,
because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am about to spew you out of my
mouth.
17“Because you say 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and have need of nothing,' and
do not know that you are wretched and pitiful and poor and blind and naked, 18I counsel
you to purchase from me gold purified by fire so you will be rich, and white garments so
you will be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your
eyes so you will see. 19All whom I love, I punish and discipline. Be zealous therefore,
and repent.
20“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the
door, I will come in to him and dine with him and he with me. 21To him who
overcomes, I will grant to sit with me on my throne, just as I also overcame and sat with
my Father on his throne. 22He who has an ear should listen to what the Spirit is saying
to the churches.”
Chapter 4
The Throne in Heaven
1After these things I looked, and behold, an open door in heaven, and a voice
speaking with me, the voice like a trumpet I had heard at first; and it was saying, "Come
up here, and I will show you what things must take place after this." 2Immediately I
was in the Spirit; and behold, there was situated in heaven a throne, and on the throne
someone sitting, 3like jasper stone and carnelian 420 in appearance. And an aura 421
encircles the throne, like emerald in appearance. 4And in a circle around the throne are
twenty-four thrones, and on those thrones, twenty-four elders dressed in white, and on
their heads crowns of gold. 5And from the throne come flashes and sounds and
thunderings.422 And there are seven flaming torches burning before the throne, which
are the seven spirits of God, 6and in front of the throne is like a sea of glass, like crystal.
And in between the throne and the circle around the throne are four living beings, 423
full of eyes, front and back. 7And the first being is like a lion, and the second being like
an ox, and the third being has a human face, and the fourth being is like an eagle in flight.
8And the four beings, every one of them has six wings each, which are covered
completely around with eyes, even inward. And they take no rest day or night,
continually saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and
who is to come." 9And whenever the beings give glory and honor and thanks to the One
sitting on the throne, to Him who lives for ever and ever, 10the twenty-four elders will
420
Greek, sardion. Some also render this as Sardius. The English word carnelian is derived from the Latin
root carn, from which we get carnal and carnivore and carne, and was named that because the stone was flesh-
colored. The Oxford dictionary defines carnelian as a flesh-colored, deep red, or reddish-white variety of
chalcedony.
421
This is from the Greek word "iris," which can mean rainbow or halo. Webster's second definition of aura
is: "a luminous radiation: Nimbus." I didn't like rainbow, since the rainbow by definition includes the whole
spectrum of colors, whereas this phenomenon is only green. Halo is possibly suitable; it's just that the English
reader is accustomed to it being only something around the heads of holy people or saints in art. But halo is
also used in astronomy.
422
Many phrase this as "flashes of lightning and peals of thunder." Compare Exodus 19:16
423
The Greek word rendered "living being" is zōion, which is defined in the BAGD lexicon as follows:
"Living thing or being, to denote beings that are not human and yet not really animals of the usual kind."
fall down before the One sitting on the throne, and worship Him who lives for ever and
ever, and they will place their crowns before the throne, saying, 11"You are worthy, our
Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and
for your purpose they exist and were created."
Chapter 5
Who is Worthy to Open the Scroll?
1And I saw upon the right hand of the One sitting on the throne a scroll, written on,
inside and back,424 sealed up with seven seals. 2And I saw a powerful angel, heralding
in a loud voice: "Who is worthy to open the scroll, and to break the seals of it?"
3And no one was able, not in heaven nor on the earth nor under the earth, to open the
scroll, or even to look at it. 4And I was weeping greatly, that no one worthy was found,
to open the scroll, or even to look at it. 5Then one of the elders is saying to me, "Do not
weep. Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, he has overcome, so as
to open the scroll and the seven seals of it."
6And I saw in between the throne and the four living beings and the elders, a lamb,
postured as though slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits
of God sent forth into all the earth.425 7And he went and took the scroll from the right
hand of the One sitting on the throne. 8And when he had taken the scroll, the four living
beings and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a lyre 426
and a golden bowl filled with incenses, which are the prayers of the saints,
9and they began singing a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, and
to open the seals of it, because you were slain, and thereby purchased some for God with
your blood out of every tribe and language and people and nation!" 10"And you made
them into a kingdom and priesthood for our God, and they will reign on the earth."
11And I looked, and I heard the voices of many angels circled around the throne, and
of the living beings and of the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten
thousand and thousands upon thousands, 12saying with a very great voice, "Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and
glory and blessing!"
13And every creature that was in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and
in the sea, and all the things that were in them, I heard saying, "Blessing and honor, glory
and power, be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, for ever and ever!"
14And the four beings were saying "Amen." And the elders fell down and
worshiped.
Chapter 6
The Seven Seals
1AndI watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. And I heard one of
the four living beings saying in a thunderous voice, "Come." 2And I looked, and
behold, a white horse, and the one sitting on it holding a bow and arrow, and to him was
given a crown, and he went out conquering and to conquer.
424
txt "inside and on the back" TR NA27 {\} // "inside and outside" HF RP PK. The UBS textual
commentary says that after codices came to be used, the terminology for scrolls seemed strange, thus the later
change to the Majority Text reading.
425
Zechariah 4:10
426
The Greek word is "kithara," which with that era's pronunciation would sound to us as "gitarra," like the
Spanish word for guitar. The Online Encyclopedia Britannica defines it as follows: "Large lyre of Classical
antiquity, the principal stringed instrument of the Greeks and later of the Romans. It had a box-shaped
resonating body from which extended two parallel arms connected by a crossbar to which 3–12 strings were
attached. It was held vertically and plucked with a plectrum; the left hand was used to stop and damp the
strings. It was played by singers of the Greek epics, as well as by later professional accompanists and
soloists." The lyre was an intermediate transition step from the harp to the guitar and viol which have finger
boards. The English word "harp" is no more accurate a rendering here than guitar, since a harp today is
usually a 6 foot tall instrument mainly used with orchestras, whereas a guitar is a portable, personal instrument,
more like here in Revelation than is a harp.
3Andwhen the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the voice of the second being
saying, "Come." 4And another horse came, a red one, and the one sitting on it, to him
the order was given to take peace away from the earth, that is, so that they slaughter one
another. And to him was given a large sword.
5And when the third seal was opened, I heard the voice of the third being saying,
"Come." And I looked, and behold, a black horse, and the one sitting on it holding a
pair of scales in his hands. 6And I heard a voice as if in the midst of the four living
beings, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wage, or three barley loaves for a day's
wage. And don't you damage the oil or the wine."
7And when the fourth seal was opened, I heard the voice of the fourth being saying,
"Come." 8And I looked, and behold, a pale green horse, and the one who is sitting on it,
his name is Death, and Hades is trailing after him; and authority is given them over one
fourth of the earth, to kill them with war, and famine, and death, and by the wild animals
of the earth.
9And when the fifth seal was opened, I saw beneath the altar, the souls of those slain
for the word of God and for the witness that they were bearing. 10And they cried out
with a loud voice, saying, "Until when, O Master, holy and true, are you refraining from
adjudicating and avenging our blood from those who dwell on the earth?"
11And they were given each a white robe, and it was prescribed for them that they
would take rest a little while longer, until the number of their fellow-servants and
brethren was also complete, those about to be killed even as they.
The Sixth Seal

12AndI watched as he opened the sixth seal, and a mighty earthquake took place,
and the sun became black like animal hair sack-cloth, and the full moon became like
blood, 13and the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree shaken by a strong wind
casts its unripe figs, 14and the sky retreated like a scroll being rolled up, and every
mountain and island was removed from its place.
15And the kings of the earth, and the great and the generals and the rich and the
powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in caverns, and among the rocks
of the mountains, 16and they are saying to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us,
and hide us from the face of the One sitting on the throne, and from the wrath of the
Lamb; 17for the great day of their wrath has come, and who will be able to stand?"427
Chapter 7
The 144,000 Sealed
1After this I saw four angels standing at the four points of the earth, holding back the
four winds of the earth, so that no wind would blow upon the earth, or upon the sea or
upon any tree.
2And I saw another angel rising up from the east, holding the seal of the living God,
and he cried out in a very great voice toward the four angels to whom the orders had been
given to harm the earth and the sea, 3saying, "Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees
until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads."
4And I heard the number of the ones sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the
sons of Israel: 5from the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of
Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand, 6from the tribe of Asher
twelve thousand, from the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, from the tribe of
Manasseh428 twelve thousand, 7from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe
of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand, 8from the tribe of
427
Malachi 3:2; Zephaniah 1:18; 2:3
428
Note that Joseph is represented here twice, as his own name in verse 8 and as his son Manasseh here in
verse 6. Israel only had 12 sons, so if Joseph is here twice, that means that one of the other sons of Israel is
missing. Dan is missing. See my endnote at the end of my separate Revelation document which explains
this.
Zebulun twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, from the tribe of
Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed.
The Multitude out of the Tribulation

9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no one could
count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing before the throne
and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and palm branches in their hands; 10and
they are shouting out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation is with our God who sits on
the throne, and with the Lamb!"
11And all the angels had stood in a circle around the throne and around the elders and
the four living beings, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
12saying, "Amen. Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and
strength to our God for ever and ever. Amen."
13And one of the elders responded saying to me, "These wearing the white robes,
who are they, and where did they come from?"
14And I spoke429 to him, "My lord, you know."
And he said to me, "These are those coming out of the great tribulation, and they
have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15Because of
this they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple,
and the One sitting on the throne will spread his tent over them. 16No longer will they
hunger, neither will they thirst any more, nor will the sun attack them nor any scorching
heat. 17For the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them, and he will
lead them to the springs of the waters of life; and God will wipe away every tear from
their eyes."430
Chapter 8
The 7th Seal: the Seven Trumpets
1And when he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an
hour. 2And I saw the seven angels which stand before God, and seven trumpets were
given to them. 3And another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer,
and many incenses were given to him so that he might present the prayers of all the saints
at the golden altar which is before the throne. 4And the smoke of the incenses went up
before God from the hand of the angel mingled with the prayers of the saints. 5And the
angel took the censer and filled it with the burning incense, and he hurled it to the earth;
and there came rumblings and voices and peals of thunder, and an earthquake. 6And the
seven angels who had the seven trumpets readied themselves to play.
7And the first one sounded his trumpet; and there came hail and fire mixed with
blood, and it was rained on the earth. And one third of the earth was burned up, and one
third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
8And the second angel sounded his trumpet; and something like a huge mountain
burning with fire was hurled into the sea. And one third of the sea was turned to blood,
9and one third of the creatures that have lives in the sea died, and one third of the ships
were destroyed.
10And the third angel sounded his trumpet; and a huge star fell from heaven, burning
like a lamp, and it fell on a third of the rivers, and on the sources of the waters. 11And
the name of the star means "Wormwood." And a third of the waters were turned into
bitterness, and many of the people died from the waters because they were made bitter.
12And the fourth angel sounded his trumpet; and a third of the sun was struck, and a
third of the moon and a third of the stars, such that one third of their light was darkened431
and a third of the daylight would not be shined, and the same with the night.
429
This is the first time John speaks. He has been spoken to many times before this, but he had not
responded verbally until now.
430
Isaiah 49:10, 13; Isaiah 25:8
431
Compare Isaiah 13:10; Ezekiel 32:7; Joel 3:15
13And I looked, and I heard an eagle flying at zenith saying with a very loud voice,
"Woe, woe, woe to those dwelling on the earth, because of the remaining sounds of the
trumpet from the three angels about to sound!"
Chapter 9
The Fifth Trumpet
1And the fifth angel sounded his trumpet; and I saw a fallen star, 432 fallen out of
heaven onto earth, and the key to the bottomless pit had been given to him. 2And he
opened the bottomless pit, and smoke ascended from the pit like smoke from a giant
furnace. And the sun and the sky became dark from the smoke of the pit. 3And from
the smoke, locusts went out over the earth, and they were given a power like the power
that the scorpions of Earth have.
4And it was commanded them that they not harm the grass of the earth or anything
green or any tree, but only humans who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5And orders were given them that they not kill them, but that they be tormented for five
months. And their torment will be like the pain of a scorpion when it strikes a person.
6And during those days the people will seek death, and will not find it. Yes, they will
long earnestly to die, and death will elude them.
7And the appearance of the locusts was like horses outfitted for war, and on their
heads something like golden crowns, and their faces like human faces, 8and they had hair
like the hair of women, and their teeth were like lions' teeth, 9and they had thoraxes like
breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of many chariot
horses rushing to battle. 10And they have tails like scorpions, and stingers, and in their
tails their power to do harm to humans for five months. 11They have as king over them
the angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddōn, and in Greek he has the name
Apollyōn.
12The first woe has passed. Behold, even after all this, two woes still are coming.
13And the sixth angel sounded his trumpet. And I heard a voice from the horns of
the golden altar before God, 14saying to the sixth angel, the one holding the trumpet,
"Release the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates." 15And he released
the four angels, held ready for that hour and day and month and year in order to kill one
third of humanity. 16And the number of their mounted troops was 200,000,000. I
heard the number of them.
17And this is how I saw the horses in the vision, and those sitting on them: Having
breastplates like fire, that is, dusky red and sulphur colored; and the heads of the horses
like heads of lions, and from their mouths comes fire and smoke and sulphur. 18By
these three plagues, of the fire and smoke and sulphur coming from their mouths, one
third of humanity was killed. 19Now the power of the horses is in their mouths and in
their tails; for their tails are like snakes, having heads, and with these they do harm.
20And the rest of humanity, those who were not killed by these plagues, they did not
repent, neither of the works of their hands, such that they worship demons and idols made
of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor
walk, 21and neither did they repent of their murders, nor their sorceries, nor their sexual
immorality, nor their thefts.
432
That is, a fallen angel. Angels are called stars also in Judges 5:20; Job 38:7; Isaiah 14:13; Daniel 8:10 /
Rev. 12:4; Rev. 1:20. In this verse in Revelation, it is a "fallen star," which is another way to refer to a demon;
one of the 1/3 of the angels that Satan took with him when he was expelled from heaven.
Chapter 10
The Prophet's Bitter Burden
1And I saw another powerful angel coming down out of heaven, wrapped in a cloud,
and a nimbus433 above his head, and his face like the sun, and his legs like columns of
fire, 2and holding in his hands a little scroll that was opened. And he placed his right
foot upon the sea, and his left upon the land, 3and cried out with a great voice, like a lion
roaring. And when he had cried out, the seven thunders spoke with their sounds.434
4And when the seven thunders had spoken, I was about to write, and I heard a voice
from heaven saying, "Seal up what things the seven thunders have spoken, and do not
write them."
5And the angel which I had seen standing on the sea and on the land, he lifted his
right hand to heaven, 6and swore by Him who lives for ever and ever, He who gave birth
to the heaven and the things in it, and to the earth and the things in it, and to the sea and
the things in it, he swore that there shall be no more time, 7but that in the days of the blast
of the seventh angel, whenever he is about to sound his trumpet, even then will be
brought to completion the mystery of God, as he has announced it to his servants the
prophets.
8And the voice that I had heard from heaven, it spoke with me again, and said, "Go
take the scroll that is opened in the hand of the angel standing on the sea and on the
land."
9And I went over to the angel, asking him to give me the little scroll. And he says
to me, "Take it and eat it, and it will make your stomach bitter, though in your mouth it
will be sweet like honey." 10And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel, and I
ate it, and in my mouth it was sweet like honey. And after I had eaten it, my stomach
was made bitter.
11And they are saying to me, "You must again prophesy concerning many peoples
and nations and languages and kings."
Chapter 11
The Two Witnesses
1And a reed was given to me, like a measuring rod, as he 435 was saying, "Get up,
and measure the temple of God along with the altar and those worshiping in it. 2And
the outer courtyard of the temple you shall exclude, and not measure it, for it has been
given to the Gentiles, and they will trample on the holy city for forty-two months. 3And
I will give authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days clothed
in sackcloth."
4These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands which stand before the Lord of
the earth.436 5And if anyone wants to harm them, fire comes from their mouth and
consumes their enemies. And if anyone would want to harm them, this is how he ought
to be killed. 6These have the authority to shut up the sky so that no rain will fall during
the days of their prophesying, and they have authority over the waters to turn them into
blood, and to strike the earth with any kind of plague as often as they wish. 7And when
they complete their witness, the beast coming up out of the bottomless pit will make war
with them, and will conquer them and kill them.
433
Or, halo, or aura. Halo is an astronomical term meaning any bright-colored circle surrounding another
body, like the lunar rainbow. This is the Greek word Iris, which originally was the messenger going back and
forth between the gods.
434
Or, “with their voices.”
435
A singular masculine subject; it must be God speaking, because later in v. 3 the speaker says, "I will give
authority to my two witnesses."
436
Zechariah 4:3, 14 These two lampstands are Elijah and Enoch, the two human beings who never died.
Their flames never went out; they are witnesses who have never slept in the grave, eyes that have never closed.
8And their corpses lie on the boulevard of the great city which is spiritually named
437
Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9And from peoples and
tribes and languages and nations they see their corpses for three and a half days. And
they are not allowing their corpses to be placed in a grave. 10And those dwelling on the
earth rejoice over them, and celebrate, and will send gifts to one another. For these two
prophets had tormented those dwelling on the earth.
11And after three and a half days, the breath of life from God went into them, and
they stood up on their feet. And great fear fell over those watching them. 12And they
heard a great voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here." And they went up
into heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. 13And in that hour a great
earthquake took place, and one tenth of the city collapsed, and 7,000 people were killed.
And the survivors were terrified, and they gave glory to the God of heaven.
14The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe comes quickly.
The Last Trumpet

15And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet; and there were great voices in heaven,
saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his
Christ!438 And he shall reign for ever and ever!"
16And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces
and worshiped God, 17saying, "We thank you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was,
that you have taken that great power of yours and begun to reign. 18And the nations
have become angry, and your anger also has come, and the time for the dead to be
judged, and reward to be given to your servants the prophets and to the saints and to those
fearing your name, both small and great, and to destroy the ones destroying the earth."
19And the temple of God in heaven opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen in
his temple; and there came peals of thunder, and voices and rumblings and an earthquake,
and large hailstones.
Chapter 12
The Woman, Her Seed, and the Dragon
1And a great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon
under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars, 2and being with child, and crying
out with contractions and anguish to deliver.
3And another sign was seen in heaven, and behold, a great red dragon, having seven
heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns,439 4and his tail is pulling one third
of the stars440 from heaven; and it threw them to the earth. And the dragon took his
stand in front of the woman who was about to deliver, so that he might devour the child
whenever it was born.
5And she bore a son, a male child, who was destined to shepherd all the nations with
a rod of iron. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. 6And the
woman fled to the desert, to where she has a place prepared there by God, so that there
they might take care of her for 1,260 days.
7And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels must make war with the
dragon. And the dragon made war, and his angels also, 8and he was not strong enough,
neither was their place found anymore in heaven. 9And the great dragon was thrown
437
Isaiah 1:9, 10, 28
438
That is, his Anointed.
439
Greek, diadems; whereas the Greek word for the crowns of 12:1 is stephanos. The diadem is of Persian
origin, signifying royalty; and the stephanos originally had more the meaning of a prize or trophy or reward. It
was originally a wreath, as well.
440
That is, one third of the angels. We know of only three archangels: the being who is now Satan, and
Michael, and Gabriel. Therefore it is reasonable to conclude that each archangel ruled one third of the angels.
When Satan was cast out of heaven, he took the one third of the angels with him. See for example 12:7, where
it says "Michael and HIS angels." Jesus said in Luke 10:18, "I was watching as Satan fell from heaven like
lightning."
out, that ancient serpent, which is called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole
world, he was thrown to the earth, and his angels thrown along with him.
10And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, "Now has come the salvation and
power and kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our
brethren has been thrown out, the one accusing them before our God day and night, 11and
these have overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony,
and they did not love their lives even unto death.
12“Rejoice over this, O heaven,441 and you who dwell therein! Woe to the earth
and the sea! For the devil has come down to you with great fury, because he knows that
he has but little time."
13And when the dragon saw that he was thrown to the earth, he went after the
woman that bore the male child. 14And she was given the two wings of a great eagle to
fly to the desert to that place of hers, where she gets taken care of for a time, times, and
half a time,442 away from the face of the serpent.
15And the serpent poured water from his mouth like a river after the woman, to cause
her to be swept away by a flood, 16and the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened
its mouth and swallowed the flood that the dragon had poured from his mouth.
17And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went off to make war with the
rest of her seed, those keeping the commandments of God and bearing the witness of
Jesus. 18And he443 stood at the shore of the sea.
Chapter 13
The First Beast, out of the Sea
1AndI saw a beast coming up from the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, and on
its horns ten crowns, and on its heads a name that is blasphemy. 2And the beast which I
saw was like a leopard, and the feet of it like a bear's, and his mouth like the mouth of a
lion. And the dragon gave his power to him, and his throne, and great authority. 3And
one of his heads was as good as slain444 to death, and the fatal wound was healed. And
the whole earth was filled with wonder and followed after the beast, 4and they worshiped
the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast,
saying, "Who is like the beast, and who is able to wage war with him?"
5And there was given to him a mouth speaking big things and blasphemies, and
authority was given to him to act for forty-two months. 6And he opened his mouth in
441
The plural of "heavens" is a Semitism, and does not translate to a plural in English, so BDF § 141(1) and §
4(2).
442
The expression "a time, times, and half a time" no doubt means "for three and a half years." We know
this because that is essentially what the 1,260 days of Rev. 11:2,3; 12:6 add up to. And compare Daniel 12:7.
443
txt "it/he stood" NA27 {B} // "I stood" TR HF RP PK. This textual difference about
who or what was standing at the shore of the sea, is what determines whether a Greek
New Testament edition places this sentence here as verse 18 in this context, or places
this sentence in Chapter 13:1. Thus, since the TR, HF and RP editions follow the
second reading, they place this sentence in 13:1, with John the one standing rather than
the dragon. The UBS textual commentary says, "The latter reading appears to have
arisen when copyists accommodated 'he stood' to the first person of the following 'I
saw.' " In addition, it is attractive to make it John the one standing on the shore of the
sea, since the next thing he does is observe a beast rising out of the sea. But it also
makes perfect sense that the dragon stood at the shore of the sea, because it was
expecting or bringing up the beast out of the sea. It has just said in the previous verse
that the dragon went to make war with the woman's seed, and this is how he made war:
he brought up the beast, which later in 13:7 of this chapter makes war on the saints and
conquers them.
444
It is important to keep the word in the same form as when referring to the Lamb that was slain, since this
beast is a pseudo-christ.
blasphemies toward God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, those tabernacling in
heaven.445 7And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to conquer them,
and authority was given to him over every tribe and people and language and nation.
8And they worship him, all those dwelling on the earth, every one whose name is not
written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.
9If anyone has an ear, hear. 10If anyone is to be taken captive, into captivity he is
going. If anyone is to be killed with the sword, with the sword he will be killed. Here
is the endurance and faith of the saints.446
The Second Beast, out of the Earth

11And I saw another beast, coming up from the earth, and it had two horns like a
lamb, and it spoke as the dragon. 12And all the authority of the first beast it exercises
before him. And he causes the earth and those dwelling in it to worship the first beast,
whose mortal wound had been healed. 13And he performs great signs, such that he even
causes fire to come down from heaven to earth before the people. 14And he deceives
those dwelling on the earth by means of the signs which were given him to do before the
beast, telling those dwelling on the earth to make an image to the beast which has the
wound of the sword and yet has lived. 15And it was given to him to give breath to the
image of the beast, such that the image of the beast can even talk, and also to cause
anyone who does not worship the image of the beast to be put to death.
16And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free
and the slave, to provide447 themselves a mark448 on their right hand449 or on their
forehead, 17and makes it so that no one is able to buy or sell without having the mark
the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18Here is wisdom: he who has the
understanding should calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a human
being; and his450 number is 666.
Chapter 14
The Lamb and the 144,000
1And
I looked, and behold, the Lamb is standing on Mount Zion, and with him the
144,000 who have his name and the name of his father written on their foreheads. 2And
445
God's people, along with his Son, ARE the tabernacle. See Eph 2:20-22; 1 Peter 2:5; Rev. 21:14 etc.
446
Daniel 11:33- And they that are wise among the people shall instruct many; yet they shall fall by the sword
and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, many days.
447
txt (3rd pl aor subj act ind act of "give") PK NA27 {\} // (3rd pl fut act ind act of "give") HF RP // (3rd sg
aor subj act ind of "give") TR. The difference between the NA27 and HF/RP readings is only in form and not
much in meaning (subj v. fut). It is possible that this is an “Aramaism” and means “he causes all to be given a
mark.” Yet, the bottom line is that one must obtain it for oneself, because God will hold you accountable for
having it, and if it was forced upon you against your will, God could not.
448
The Greek word translated "mark" here is charagma, the literal meaning of which is a poke into the flesh.
(Note: some manuscripts have this word in the plural in v. 16, but all have singular in v. 17, leading me to
believe that the plural in v. 16 if valid is a distributive plural.) It also had the meaning of an etching, branding,
carving, engraving or stamp. Slaves had a poke in the flesh of their ear to show ownership. So here also, the
mark of the beast will show one's voluntary allegiance to the beast and submission to the ownership of the
beast. I get the impression from translating this passage that this mark will be self-arranged; that is, people
will be told to do it, but nevertheless they ultimately do it voluntarily. They themselves are responsible for
making sure they have it, if they want to buy or sell. In other words, it need not be mandatory by law, but life
will be extremely hard without it. How could a government give it to 10 billion people by force? On the
other hand, economic incentives have historically worked very well. Most people serve Mammon anyway, so
it will be a no-brainer for most people to get the mark. It will be a blessing on the other hand, for God's
people, in that those who are serving Mammon will repent of that, and truly be content with their daily bread
from God, and truly live by faith. The exciting life. Exciting to see how God will feed them each day. This
book says that many or most of God's people will die or be killed during those days.
449
The Greek word is χείρ, and meant the entire limb/arm, including the hand all the way up to the shoulder, as
so also the word for foot can mean the whole leg; compare Revelation 10:1, where the Greek word is πόδες
(feet, sg. πούς), but can and does mean there, the entire leg or limb. This is true also in many of the languages
where I was raised – the word for hand or foot can mean the entire extremity. Thus here, this mark could be
anywhere from the hand on up.
450
Or, "its number"
I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud
thunder. The sound which I heard was also like lyre players playing their lyres. 3And
they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living beings and the elders.
And no one is able to learn the song except the 144,000, the ones purchased from the
earth. 4These are men who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins.
These are the ones following the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from
humanity as a firstfruits to God and to the Lamb, 5and in their mouths no falsehood has
been found.451 They are blameless.
The Three Angels

6And I saw another angel flying at zenith, having an eternal gospel to herald above
those dwelling on the earth, even over every nation and tribe and language and people,
7saying in a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has
come; and worship him who created the heaven and the earth and the sea and the sources
of waters."
8And another angel, a second one, followed, saying, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the
great, which had given all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom.
"
9And another angel, a third one, followed those, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone
worships the beast and his image, and takes the mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10he
shall himself also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, mixed undiluted in the cup of his
anger,452 and he shall be tormented with fire and sulfur before the holy angels and before
the Lamb. 11And the smoke of their torture goes up for ever and ever, and they have no
relief day or night, those who worship the beast and the image of him, and anyone who
takes the mark of his name."
12Here is the endurance of the saints, those keeping the commandments of God and
the faith of Jesus. 13And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write, 'Blessed are the
dead, those dying in the Lord from now on.'"
"Yes," says the Spirit, "in that they shall rest from their labors, with their works, you
see, following right with them."453
The Angels Harvest the Earth

14And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and someone like a son of man sitting on
the cloud, having a crown of gold on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand. 15And
another angel came, from the temple, calling out in a loud voice toward the one sitting on
the cloud, "Send out your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come, since the harvest
has become dry."454
16And the one sitting on the cloud launched his sickle over the earth, and the earth
was harvested.
17And another angel came from the temple that is in heaven, he also holding a sharp
sickle.
18And another angel came from the altar, who had authority over the fire, and he
called out in a loud voice to the one holding the sharp sickle, saying, "Send out your
sharp sickle, and collect the clusters of the vine of the earth, for its grapes have peaked."
19And the angel launched his sickle onto the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and
he cast it into the great winepress of God's wrath. 20And the winepress outside the city
was trampled, and the blood went out from the winepress as deep as the bridles of the
horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.455
451
Zeph. 3:13; Isaiah 53:9; Psalm 32:2
452
In Hebraistic terminology, the cup signifies destiny. See for example Psalm 11:6.
453
Compare I Timothy 5:24-25
454
Grain is ready to harvest when it is dry and the seed is no longer green.
455
One stadion was 607 feet or 185 meters, so 1,600 stadia would be 184 miles or 296 kilometers.
Chapter 15
The Seven Bowls Full of Wrath
1And I saw another sign in heaven, great and awesome: seven angels having the
seven last plagues, for456 with them is completed the wrath of God. 2And I saw like a
sea of glass mixed with fire, and the ones overcoming of the beast and of his image and
of the number of his name were standing on the glassy sea, holding lyres of God. 3And
they are singing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, as
follows,
"Great and marvelous are your deeds,

O Lord God Almighty.
Just and true are your ways,
O king of the nations.457
4Who shall not fear, O Lord,
and glorify your name?
Because you alone are pure.
For all the nations will come,
and will worship before you,
because your righteous judgments
have been revealed."
5And after these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of testimony was
opened in heaven, 6and out of the temple came the seven angels who had the seven
plagues, dressed in clean bright linen and gird around the chest with golden sashes.
7And one of the four living beings handed to the seven angels seven bowls made of gold,
which were becoming full of the wrath of God, who lives for ever and ever. 8And the
temple was filled with smoke, from the glory of God and from his power, and no one is
able to go into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels are carried out.
Chapter 16
1And I heard a great voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour
out the seven bowls of the wrath of God onto the earth."
2And the first one went and poured out his bowl onto the earth. And there came a
nasty and painful ulcer on the people who had the mark of the beast and on those
worshiping his image.
3And the second angel poured out his bowl onto the sea. And it became blood like
of the dead, and every living soul died, the ones in the sea.
4And the third angel poured out his bowl onto the rivers and the sources of the
waters. And they became blood.
5And I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, you who are and
who was, O holy one, that you have judged these things, 6for they poured out the blood
of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve it."
7And I heard the altar saying, "Agreed, 458 Lord God Almighty, your punishments
are true and just."
456
This "for" explains why the last plagues are called the "last" plagues.
457
txt "nations" HF RP PK NA27 {B} // "saints" TR. The UBS textual comentary says: "The reading of the
Textus Receptus, which has only the slenderest support in Greek witnesses (296 2049, neither of which was
available when the Textus Receptus was formed) appears to have arisen from confusion of the Latin compendia
for sanctorum (sctorum) and saeculorum (sclorum); "saint" is also read by several Latin writers, including
Victorinus-Pettau, Tyconius, apringius, and Cassidorus." H. C. Hoskier says that both the manuscripts given
above in support of the Textus Receptus, 57 (296) and 141 (2049), are the Textus Receptus. He says in Text 1
on pp. 179-180 that ms. 57 (296) is a handwritten copy of Colinaeus' printed edition, that is, a copy of a printed
Greek NT, published in 1534. And at the bottom of Text 1 p. 615, Hoskier says, "This MS 187 with 57 and
141 must not be accorded any weight whatsoever. They are brought into the record because of their very
connection with the printed text." Thus they are both 16th century copies made from various editions of the
Textus Receptus. The bottom line is that there is no Greek manuscript support for the TR reading of "saints."
8And the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun. And it was given to the sun
to scorch the people by fire. 9And the people were burned a very bad burn, and they
cursed the name of God, the one having authority over these plagues, yet they did not
repent to give him glory.
10And the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast. And his
kingdom became covered in darkness. And they were biting their tongues in pain, 11and
they cursed the God of heaven, because of their pains 459 and because of their ulcers, yet
they did not repent of their works.
12And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates. And it
caused its water to dry up, so that a route was prepared for the kings from the east.
13And I saw coming from the mouth of the dragon, and from the mouth of the beast, and
from the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, like frogs; 14for they are spirits
of demons performing miracles, which are going out to the kings of the whole world, to
gather them together for the war of the great day of God Almighty. 15(Behold, I am
coming like a thief. Blessed are those keeping vigilant and guarding their garments, so
they are not walking around naked and people seeing their private parts.) 16And He
gathered them together at the place called in Hebrew Harmagedōn.460
17And the seventh angel poured out his bowl onto the air. And there came from the
temple461 a loud voice by authority of the throne, saying, "It is done!" 18And there were
lightnings and sounds and thunderings, and a powerful earthquake occurred, such as has
not happened since humankind existed on the earth, so great an earthquake it was.
19And the great city was split into three, and the cities of the Gentiles collapsed. And
Babylon the Great, it was remembered in the presence of God to give her the cup of the
wine of the fury of God's wrath. 20And every island vanished away, and no mountains
were found. 21And huge hailstones, about 100 pounds in weight, came down on the
people out of heaven; and the people cursed God because of the plague of hail. For
severe is the blow of it, extremely.
Chapter 17
The Mysterious Prostitute
1Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me,
saying, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many
waters, 2with whom the kings of the earth have fornicated. And those dwelling on the
earth have become intoxicated from the wine of her sexual immorality."
3And he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting
on a scarlet beast that had seven heads and ten horns, which was full of blasphemous
names. 4And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and covered with gold and
precious stones and pearls, holding a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and the
uncleanness of her prostitution. 5And on her forehead a title was written:
A Mystery
Babylon the Great,
the mother of prostitutes
and of the abominations of the earth.
6And I saw the woman drunk from the blood of the saints and from the blood of Jesus'
witnesses. And I was astonished when I saw her, with a great astonishment.
7And the angel said to me, "Why are you astonished? I will declare to you the
mystery of the woman, and of the beast carrying her which has the seven heads and ten
458
This is the principle of "every matter must be established by the agreement of two or three witnesses."
459
Pains from previous scorpion stings, flame thrown from the mouths of beasts, ulcers, severe sunburns.
460
txt Harmagedon RP PK NA27 {\} // Harmageddon TR // Magedon HF. The Hebrew word from which it
comes is not certain, but probably from what means “the mountain of Megiddo.”
461
txt "temple" NA27 {A} // "temple of heaven" TR HF RP PK
horns. 8The beast which you saw, was, and now is not, and in the future is to rise again
from the Abyss, and then is going to destruction. And those dwelling on the earth will
be amazed when they see the beast, anyone whose name has not been written in the book
of life since the foundation of the world, for it was, and is not, and will be.462
9"Consider this, O mind having wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains,
where the woman sits upon them. They are also seven kings. 10Five have fallen, one
is, the other has not yet appeared, and when he appears, he must continue a little while.
11And the beast which was and is not, he also is an eighth king, and from the seven he is,
and to destruction he is going.
12"And the ten horns which you saw, they are ten kings who have not yet received
kingship; they only receive authority as kings for one hour with the beast. 13These have
one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast. 14These will make
war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is lord of lords, and
king of kings, and those with him are the called, and elect, and faithful."
15And he says to me, "The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, they are
peoples and populaces, and ethnic groups and languages. 16And the ten horns which
you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and they will lay her waste, and
bare, and eat her flesh, and burn her up with fire. 17For God has given it into their
hearts, to carry out that purpose of His, even to accomplish one single purpose, and that is
to give their kingdoms to the beast, until the words of God are accomplished. 18And the
woman which you saw is that great city that has rule over the kings of the earth."
Chapter 18
Fallen Is Babylon the Great
1After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great
authority, and the earth was lit up from his glory. 2And he cried out in a powerful voice,
saying, "Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great, and has become the dwelling place of
demons and the haunt of every unclean spirit and the haunt of every unclean bird, and the
haunt of every unclean and detestable beast,463 3because every nation has drunk of the
wine of the wrath of her prostitution, and the kings of the earth have fornicated with her,
and the merchants of the earth by virtue of her luxury have become rich."
4And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Get out, O my people, out of her,
so that you not be parties to her sins, and not receive of her plagues. 5For her sins are
piled all the way up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes. 6Deal back to her
even as she dealt out, and pay to her double, as befits her deeds. In the cup in which she
had mixed, mix her a double. 7As much as she glorified herself and experienced luxury,
that much suffering and mourning deal to her. For she says in her heart, 'I sit as a
queen, and no widow am I, and mourning I will never see.' 464 8Because of this, her
blows will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be
consumed by fire. For able is the Lord God who sentenced her."
9And the kings of the earth when they see the smoke of her burning, shall weep and
beat their breasts over her, they who had fornicated and experienced luxury with her,
10standing a long distance away, for the horror of her torment, saying, "Alas, alas, great
city! Babylon, strong city! For in a single hour your doom has come!"
11And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys
their cargo anymore, 12cargo of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls, and of linen, silk,
462
txt "and will be present" HF RP PK NA27 {\} // "though is present" TR. H. C. Hoskier says there is only
one Greek ms that reads as the TR, ms 141 (now known as 2049), which he says is merely a copy of the TR
(probably of Erasmus’ 3rd or 4th edition). Thus, the TR has no Greek manuscript support for this reading, and
no versional or Patristic support either. And on page 1:615, Hoskier says, "This MS 187 with 57 and 141 must
not be accorded any weight whatsoever. They are brought into the record because of their very connection
with the printed text." Hoskier further states this plainly in Text Volume 2, p. 156, lines 26,27, where he
says "...57 et 141 ex ed. typ. exscripti." This means 57 and 141 are "copied from printed edition."
463
Isaiah 13:21,22; 34:11
464
The word horáō here means to see in the sense of to experience something.
purple and scarlet cloth, and every aromatic wood, 465 and every item of ivory, and every
article of expensive wood, copper, iron, and marble, 13and cinnamon and cardamom, and
incenses, myrrh and frankincense, and wine, olive oil, finest flour and wheat, and cattle,
sheep and horses, and carriages, and the bodies and souls of human beings.
14And your fruit, what your soul had lusted for, has left you; yes, all the luxuries and
the splendor, have vanished from you, and never shall people find them again.
15Those merchants who became rich from her will stand afar off for the horror of her
torment, weeping and mourning, 16saying, "Alas, alas, great city dressed in fine linen and
purple and scarlet, and gilded in gold and precious stone and pearl! 17That this kind of
wealth has been ruined in one hour!"
And every pilot and everyone sailing toward the place, and mariners and such as
work the sea, stood afar off, 18and cried out, watching the smoke of her fire, saying,
"What city is like the great city?" 19And they threw dust above their heads and cried out
weeping and mourning, saying, "Alas, alas, great city, through whom all those owning
ships on the sea became rich from her Priceyness.466 How has she been laid waste in
one hour?"
20Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets! For God
has adjudicated your redress from her. 467 21And a powerful angel lifted up a stone, like
a giant millstone, and threw it into the sea, saying, "With such violence will that great
city Babylon be thrown down, and never more be found."
22"And the sound of guitarists and musicians and flutists and trumpeters will never
more be heard in you, nor will any craftsman of any skill be found in you anymore, nor
the sound of a factory be heard in you anymore, 23and the light of a lamp will will not
shine in you anymore, and the sound of bridegroom and bride will not be heard in you
anymore. For your traders were the lords 468 of the earth, in that by your sorceries all
nations were deceived. 24And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints,
indeed of all the slain upon the earth.
Chapter 19
Hallelujah!
1After these things I heard something like the sound of a very large multitude in
heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! The salvation and glory and power of our God! 2How
true and right are his judgments! For he has judged the great prostitute who was
destroying the earth with her prostitution, and has avenged the blood of his servants
spilled by her hand."
3And a second time they said, "Hallelujah! And the smoke from her ascends for
ever and ever."
4And the twenty-four elders and the four living beings fell down and worshiped God,
the one sitting on the throne, saying, "Amen. Hallelujah!"
5And there came a voice from the throne, saying, "Praise our God, all you his
servants, and you who fear him, both small and great."
6And I heard like the sound of a great multitude, and like the sound of many waters
and like the sound of powerful thunderclaps, saying, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God
the Almighty has begun to reign. 7Let us rejoice and exult, and give glory to him, for
the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.” 8And it was
given to her that she be dressed in fine linen bright and clean, for the fine linen is the
righteous acts of the saints.
465
Woods used for burning sacrifices.
466
This Greek word timioteetos actually was sometimes used as a title of respectful address to a rich person.
"Your Priceyness," or, "Your Preciousness." In this passage, the logic is that the traders and merchants would
miss her because of her high prices, for where would you rather take your wares, to where they are accustomed
to high prices, or where they have low prices?
467
Compare Luke 18:3, 7.
468
Greek: "megistanes"; compare Daniel 5:23, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 4:7, 10:24;
9And he says to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding
banquet of the Lamb.' " And he says to me, "These are true words from God."
10And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he says to me, "Watch out!
I am your fellow servant, and one of your brothers in having the testimony of Jesus.
Worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."
Behold a White Horse

11And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and the one sitting on it
called faithful and true, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. 12And his eyes
are like flames of fire, and on his head many diadems, having a name written on them
which no one knows but himself, 13and he is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and called
by the name "the Word of God."
14And the armies that are in heaven are following him on white horses, dressed in
bright, clean linen. 15And from his mouth goes out a sharp sword, so that with it he
might strike the nations, and then he himself will shepherd them with a rod of iron; and
he himself will tread the press of the wine of the passion of the wrath of God the
Almighty. 16And he has a name written on his robe and on his thigh: King of Kings and
Lord of Lords.
17And I saw an angel standing on the sun, and he cried out in a very great voice,
saying, "To all the birds flying in mid-air, Come, gather toward the great feast of God,
18that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of generals, and the flesh of the
mighty, and the flesh of horses and of those riding on them; even the flesh of every sort,
both free and slave, both the small and the great."
19And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together
to make war with the one sitting on the horse and with his army. 20And the beast was
arrested, and with him the false prophet who did the wonders before him by which he
deceived those receiving the mark of the beast and worshiping his image. The two were
thrown while living into the lake of fire burning with sulfur. 21And the rest were killed
by the sword which goes out from the mouth of the one sitting on the horse. And all the
birds got fat off their flesh.
Chapter 20
The One Thousand Years
1And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key to the abyss and a
giant chain in his hand. 2And he captured the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is the
Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, 3and cast him into the abyss, and
closed and sealed it over him, so that he could no longer deceive the nations, until the end
of the thousand years; after them he must be released for a short time.
4And I saw thrones, and they took their seat on them, and judgeship was given to
them, that is, the souls of those beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because
of the word of God, and who did not worship the beast, neither the image of him, and did
not take the mark on their forehead or on their hand. And they came to life, and reigned
with Christ a thousand years. 5(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the
thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection. 6Blessed and holy is he
who takes part in the first resurrection; over such, the second death has no power, but
instead they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand
years.
The Last War

7And
when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be released from his prison,
8andhe shall go forth to deceive the nations which are in the four points of the earth, Gōg
and Magōg,469 to gather them together for war, the number of them being as the sand of
469
Ezekiel 38, 39
the seashore. 9And they rose up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the
company of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from heaven and
consumed them. 10And the Devil, the deceiver of them, was cast into the lake of fire
and sulfur, where also the beast and false prophet were, and they shall be tormented day
and night, for ever and ever.
The Great White Throne of Judgement

11And I saw a great white throne, and the one sitting on it, from whose face the earth
and the heaven fled away, and their place was found no more. 12And I saw the dead, the
great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book
was also opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged from what was
written in the books, according to their works. 13And the sea gave up the dead which
were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them, and each person
was judged according to their works. 14And Death and Hades were cast into the lake of
fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15And if anyone was not found written
in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
Chapter 21
The New Jerusalem
1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and first earth had
vanished away, and the sea does not exist anymore. 2And I saw the holy city, the new
Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride made beautiful for
her husband. 3And I heard a great voice from the throne saying, "Behold, God's tent is
with humanity. And he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and he shall
be their God; 4and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. And death shall no
longer exist, neither sadness, nor crying, nor pain, shall exist anymore. The former
things have passed away."
5And the One sitting on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things anew."
And he says, "Write, 'These words are trustworthy and true.' "
6And he said to me, "They are accomplished. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
beginning and the end. To him who is thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the
water of life. 7He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be to him his God
and he will be to me a son. 8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable 470
and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers 471 and idolaters and all liars, their
inheritance is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
The Bride and Wife of the Lamb

9Andone of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues
came, and he spoke with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the
Lamb."472 10And he carried me away in the Spirit onto a great and high mountain, and
showed me the holy city Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11having the
glory of God. Her radiance was similar to a precious gemstone, like a jasper stone
shimmering as crystal; 12having a wall, great and high, with twelve gates, and at the gates
twelve angels, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the
470
Abhorrent, repugnant, extremely filthy and polluted, unclean ritually, all these are part of the history of the
word.
471
This Greek word pharmakos or pharmakeus (they mean pretty much the same) means in the Bible
primarily a person who uses drugs and poisons to practice magic or sorcery. The drugger aspect can be clearly
seen in the word itself, "pharmakos." The word in some classical literature also meant drug seller, though with
the connotation of the medicinal v. pejorative meaning of drugs.
472
This is significant that both the words wife and bride are used. Israel has been called the wife, and the
church the bride, and here in the New Jerusalem we see both of them built into one. The twelve gates are the
twelve tribes of Israel, and the twelve foundations are the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. Is it a co-incidence
that there are twenty-four elders?
473
sons of Israel; 13from the east three gates, and from the north three gates, and from the
south three gates, and from the west three gates; 14with the wall of the city having twelve
foundations, and on them twelve names, of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
15And the one speaking with me had a measuring rod of gold, to measure the city,
and its gates and its wall. 16And the city lies foursquare, that is, its length is as great as
the width. And with the rod, he measured the city at 12,000 stadia.474 The length and
width and height of it are the same. 17And he measured the wall of it, 475 144
forearms,476 the dimension of a man, which is the angel's.477
18And the material of its wall is jasper, and the city is pure gold, clear like crystal.
19The foundations of the walls of the city are adorned with every precious stone; the first
foundation with jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
20the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth
topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh hyacinth, the twelfth amethyst. 21And the
twelve gates are twelve pearls; each one of the gates was made out of one pearl. And
the streets of the city are pure gold, transparent as glass.
22And I did not see a temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, and the
Lamb. 23And the city has no need of either a sun or a moon to shine in it, for the glory
of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24And the nations will walk by its
light; and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it; 25and its gates are never closed
by day; in fact, night will not exist there; 26and they will bring the glory and honor of the
nations into it. 27And nothing unclean or anyone who practices abomination or
falsehood will ever go into it– only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
Chapter 22
The River of Living Water
1And he showed me the river of the water of life, bright like crystal, flowing from
the throne of God and of the Lamb 2in the middle of its boulevard. And on either side
of the river, the tree of life producing twelve fruits, according to the month each one
yielding its fruit, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. 3And every
accursed thing will no longer exist. And the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in
it, and his servants will serve him, 4and they will look upon his face,478 and his name will
be on their foreheads. 5And night will no longer exist, and they have no need for the
light of a lamp or the light of a sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they
will reign for ever and ever.
6And he said to me, "These words are trustworthy and true. Yes, the Lord, the God
of the spirits of the prophets, he has sent his angel to show his servants what things must
soon take place."
7"And behold, I am coming soon. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the
prophecy of this book."
473
The gates are named after the direction you are coming from when entering them, the way winds are
named.
474
A stadion was 6 plethra, one plethra being 100 Greek feet, so 600 Greek feet, 625 Roman feet (⅛ of a
Roman mile), 606¾ English feet, 185 metres. This comes to 1,379 miles or 2,220 kilometres. As the crow
flies, this is about the distance of San Diego to Kansas City, or San Diego to Kamloops, or Buenos Aires to La
Paz, or Sydney to Cooktown, or Brisbane to Port Moresby, or Perth to Lake Torrens, or Seoul to Hong Kong, or
Nairobi to Harare, or Lagos to Bissau, or Cairo to Tehran, Tehran to Ahmadabad, or Calcutta to Kabul, or
Banda Aceh to Surabaya.
475
This must be the thickness of the wall, since we already know from v. 16 that the height of the wall is
12,000 stadia.
476
About 200 feet or 60 meters.
477
This phrase is ambiguous; it could either be saying that the angel in the context here measuring, has the
same dimensions of his fore-arm as a man has, or it could be saying that angels in general use the same
measurements as human beings, which was cubits. The former seems more likely, than that angels will always
use cubits.
478
Or possibly, with "see his face" as a Hebraism, "and they will have access to Him." But the Son of Man,
having a face, is the expression of God for the rest of eternity.
8And I, John, was the hearer and the seer of these things. And when I heard and I
saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who had been showing them to
me. 9And he says to me, "Watch out! I am a fellow servant of yours and of your
brothers the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this book. Worship God."
10And he says to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the
time is near. 11He who is doing wrong, let him continue to do wrong, and the unclean
continue to be unclean, and he who is doing good continue to do good, and the holy
continue to be holy."
Behold, I am Coming Soon

12"Behold, I am coming soon, and the repayment from me along with me, to pay
back to each one such as his work truly is. 13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first
and the last, the beginning and the end.
14"Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that access to the tree of life will be
theirs, and to the gates, so they may go into the city. 15Outside are dogs, and sorcerers,
and fornicators and murderers and idolaters and anyone who loves or does falsehood.
16"I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things to you regarding the churches.
I am the root and line of David, the bright and morning star.
17And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And he who is hearing this should say
"Come." And he who is thirsty, should come. Whoever wants to, get the water of life
without cost.
18I testify to everyone who is hearing these words of the prophecy of this book: if
anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19and
if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his
share of the tree of life and of the holy city, of what is written in this book.
20The one who is testifying these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon." Amen;
come, Lord Jesus.
21The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints.

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The Cost of Following Jesus

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The Legion of Demons Near Gadara

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